Boatnerd

The boatnerd corporation is a registered not for profit corporation that circulates information about vessels that ply the North American Great Lakes.[1][2] The organization maintains an office in Port Huron, Michigan, overlooking the confluence of the St Clair and Black Rivers.[3][4]

Boatnerd's website went online in 2003 and became a registered not for profit corporation in 2006 under the name Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online.[2] The site gets over 20 million page views a month.[5]

Boatnerd holds annual festivals, at sites of interest to those interested in maritime commerce on the Great Lakes.

The organization provides prizes through fund-raising raffles.[6] At one time lake freighters were built with an "owner's suite", which are rarely used today. Boatnerd has convinced shipping companies to make cruises on board a working lake freighter in the owner's suite available to donors. 76 donors have won Great Lake freighter cruises.

References

  1. ↑ Jeff Jones (2013-03-13). "Boat nerd reveals childhood obsession". Fort Wayne Daily News. Archived from the original on 2013-11-20. BoatNerd.com is a Web site created by people who know everything there is to know about the freighters sailing on the Great Lakes.
  2. 1 2 "Campaign for boatnerd". Boatnerd. Archived from the original on 2013-05-09.
  3. ↑ "Visit the Maritime Center at Vantage Point!". Acheson Ventures. Archived from the original on 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2013-11-21. It is the most widely-used website for Great Lakes maritime information.
  4. ↑ "World Headquarters at Vantage Point, Port Huron, Michigan". Boatnerd. Archived from the original on 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2013-11-21. BoatNerd.com drops out of cyberspace and takes up a physical presence in Port Huron, Michigan. Our World Headquarters is based in Port Huron on the St. Clair River where it meets the Black River.
  5. ↑ Patrick White (2008-09-26). "Nerds ahoy". Port Colborne, Ontario: Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2013-11-21. To one of the 30,000 people who call up Boatnerd.com every day, this scrapyard is a museum in a state of perpetual self-destruction.
  6. ↑ "Cruise the Great Lakes on a Working Freighter". Boatnerd. Archived from the original on 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2013-11-21.

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