[Public-List] Alden 32 now upper Michigan Rendevous

[Gordon Laco]

Thanks - I guess it is important that I know that - I am a Director of the
Great Lakes Shipwreck Society at Whitefish Point; I go there for board
meetings every few months next will be mid January.  Whitefish is the most
savage beautiful place in winter!!

Cheers - Gord



> Gord,
>  
> Oh......That is Michigan speak for the Upper Peninsula.  Sometimes folk refer
> to residents up there as "Yupers".  This tradition goes way back, as the
> Yupers would rather be a part of Wisconsin than the lower peninsula of
> Michigan.   Yupers usually refer to anyone else as from "down below".
>  
> Our family owned and kept residence in the UP for 50 plus years and we were
> always referred to as the folks from "down below".  The Yupers were not
> pleased when the Mackinaw Bridge was completed, cuz more folks from down below
> would be coming up.
>  
> Fact is that from 1957 when the bridge opened til now I believe that the
> population of the UP has actually decreased, perhaps an exaggeration, but
> there was no great increase in population as was originally feared.  Once in
> the UP it is a different world..................Brian's boat name 'Manana'
> says it all, hee, hee.
>  
> The UP is actually a sanctuary from all that is wrong with the rest of the
> world, and the Yupers know it. It is a place very dear to my soul.
> 
> Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> Hello Michael - 
> 
> What is the UP? 
> 
> G
> 
> 
>> Dan,
>> St Ignace is in the UP just North of the Straits of Machinaw, Hilton Beach is
>> on St, Joseph's Channel, the western end of the north channel, CANADA. Brian
>> will have to tell you where the others places are, as I don't know. The USA
>> and Canada.
>> Michael
>> 
>> dan walker wrote:
>> so which country are all these locations?
>> 
>> Brian Zinser wrote: Dave, Mike, John and others
>> 
>> I think we should have an upper lakes Alberg 30 rendezvous next summer.
>> St. Ignace has a brand new marina, or if you all wanted to come a little
>> further north, we could meet at Hilton Beach. Or, if nobody needs
>> services, we could do something in a protected anchorage like Harbor
>> Island, Portlatch Harbor, Long Pt. Cove.
>> 
>> Brian Zinser
>> #134 Manana
>> 
>> ________________________________________
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