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Anna May is not anime, not matter how much they sound alike.  She’s a cargo boat, sometimes carrying horses over to Mackinac Island. Here she is at the St Ignace dock.

And the 906 Express . . . she’s AF’s

landing craft mail boat, Mackinac Island’s version of the supply boat Ojibway or the mail boat Westcott, aka zip code 48222.

Laura Ann is one of the fish tugs bringing in wild catch for Massey Fish.

 

Farther west and over by Grays Reef, some sort of research boat is at work.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who in real time is hours away from getting back in these waters down bound from Chicago by the time this posts.

 

 

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Here are the previous posts.

The 1980 Innisfree works the Chicago River, but it has New England roots.

The rest of the boats in this post work in the waters around Mackinac Island.  Anna May is Wisconsin-built, 1947.

Felicity is a Shepler’s Ferry boats.  For a history of the business, click here.

Straits of Mackinac II is a 1969 Blount product. The Arnold family has been in the ferry business here since 1878.

LaSalle dates from 1983.

Huron is Erie PA built, 1955, and the oldest vessel working for the Arnold fleet.

Joliet dates from 1993.   For many more Michigan ferries, click here.

And to close out today, we’re back at Innisfree, maybe named for the W. B. Yeats poem.   Here Innisfree passes the footprint-gone-wild for the now-dead Spire project.

 

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.