M A R L I N B R E E - BREE'S BLOG: In The Wake of the Fitzgerald

On the northern track, the Big Fitz fights her way up the north shore and past Isle Royale.

The Fitzgerald hurries to her doom as she finds an unchartered reef.

The mystery of the sinking of the Fitzgerald has become a national obsession. Read Broken Seas.(Click on painting to enlarge it).

At anchor, Persistence rocks gently as author Marlin Bree emerges from a boat cover he built himself. The opening is velcroed shut when needed but opens up for fresh air below.

The Island of Doom lies on the northern shores of Lake Superior and has many legends as the author discovered when one day he sailed too close. Article is in the Nov.-Dec. issue of Small Craft Advisor magazine.

At the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Marlin Bree takes a rest beside some of the big boats featured at the world's biggest boat show. He was at this international boating event to pick up a Boating Writer's International Grand Prize -- for writing about small boat adventures.

Persistence is towed behind the 1992 Suzuki Sidekick. Here Loris and I are on are way to Grand Portage, MN, along Superior's north shore.I'll be sailing Superior's northernmost arc, where I encountered the near fatal "storm of the century." This adventure became Wake of the Green Storm.

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BREE'S BLOG: In The Wake of the Fitzgerald

There are bodies down there

October 12, 2017

Tags: shipwrecks, Lake Superior, the Emperor, Edmund Fitzgerald, track of the Fitzgerald, Two Harbors, Minn., waterfront, Scuba diving on Superior.

Night came. Down on the waterfront, where I was tied up with my boat Persistence, lights on the ore docks blurred in fog. It was chill and eerie as I made my way up the hill away from the misty dock. "Glad to see you tonight," the security guard Bill Burke said. "I heard Read More

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The Edmund Fitzgerald: A blog on the final voyage

August 29, 2017

Tags: Edmund Fitzgerald, Capt. McSorley, November 10, 1975, shipwrecks, Lake Superior, storms, high waves, loss of life, Six Fathom Shoals

Just 17 miles from Whitefish Point and safety, the embattled Edmund Fitzgerald sank Nov. 10, 1975, so suddenly no one had time to cry out for help. What actually happened? This blog will examine the enduring maritime mystery.

Up north, the big lake is freshening with a sense of urgency that fall is approaching. Go out beyond the breakwaters and you know you have a force of nature beneath you. Careful, mariner! The countdown is beginning now for the annual observance of the last voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I know something Read More

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