Posts Tagged ‘boats’
2019 Boat Parade of Lights on the Cuyahoga River
All boaters are welcome to participate in the ninth annual Whiskey Island Boat Club Parade of Lights on the Cuyahoga River. The 2019 parade will begin a 9 p.m. in the west basin of the Cleveland Harbor at proceed up the river to Irishtown Bend and back. Prizes will be awarded for the best decorated…
Read MoreAshtabula Blessing of the Fleet 2019
Join in this historic tradition by land or sea. An informal blessing on boaters in the 1930s began when a priest at Mother of Sorrows Church decided to give some local sailors a special blessing before they set sail for a season of shipping on the Great Lakes. In 1949 the blessing of the boats…
Read MoreWhat not to do on the Cuyahoga River
We get it. The Cuyahoga River is pure joy on a sunny summer day, a smooth spot for cruising, whether you’re on a jet ski, kayak or stand-up paddleboard. But the river is still a federal shipping channel. And those giant freighters have very little room to maneuver. So play it safe. Here’s what not…
Read MoreSummer’s over, and it’s fall haul-out time for boats
Summer skidded to a halt this weekend, just in time to haul out boats. Here’s what that looks like at the Cleveland Metroparks Emerald Necklace Marina. See the full story at cleveland.com. Share:
Read MoreLake Erie Ohio fishing report Sept. 20-23
Lake Erie anglers are targeting walleye, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, and panfish, and inland lake/pond anglers are primarily pursuing largemouth bass, channel catfish and panfish, according to the weekly Cleveland Metroparks fish report by aquatic biologist Mike Durkalec. Early steelhead first show up around off the rocks at Edgewater Park and East 55th Street Marina,…
Read MoreI tried wake surfing on Lake Erie
Call it the surf smile. When you get up surfing behind Jason Hand’s Malibu Wakesetter on Lake Erie, you can’t help but grin. “That smile, the undeniable energy,” said Hand, 49, who spends his summer weekends in a camper at Bay Point Resort. “Like your mouth hurts when you get off this boat,” said fellow…
Read MoreCleveland’s iconic Holiday party boat is back in the water
The Holiday has been a fixture in Cleveland for decades. The 65-foot party boat has hosted weddings, escorted scuba divers to shipwrecks and ferried anglers to fishing hotspots across Lake Erie. And now she’s back in the water, after eight months of U.S. Coast Guard inspections, work on the dry dock and fresh paint. “It’s…
Read MorePropellers rule on Lake Erie: Who boats on Lake Erie?
Sailboats make up 2 percent of the boats registered on Lake Erie. Or at least 2 percent of all registered boats say the propulsion type is sail. Perhaps some of them are registered as propeller, since they have an engine to putter out of the marina and back again? RocktheLake analyzed Ohio Department of Natural…
Read MoreSea Ray makes the most boats in Ohio waters of Lake Erie: Who boats in Lake Erie?
The world’s largest boat manufacturer, Sea Ray, is also the biggest manufacturer of boats in the Ohio waters of Lake Erie. Sea Ray made 4,281 of the nearly 59,000 boats registered within the Ohio boundaries of our Great Lake. Second was Bombardier. Although the stats aren’t perfect. Sea Doo and Seadoo are listed separately, each…
Read MoreHow bad is the Norfolk Southern bridge this summer?
Seven times last weekend, the Goodtime III idled for more than 20 minutes, waiting for the Norfolk Southern railroad bridge to lift over the Cuyahoga River. That waiting added up to more than a third of guests’ total time on the cruise ship, said Captain Jordan Kit. But more concerning than inconveniencing passengers, Kit said,…
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