The Mackinaw is a US Coast Guard Icebreaker ship commissioned in 1944 and retired in 2006. It is now moored in the harbor in Mackinaw City and open for tours. We never thought of how important passage through the Great Lakes was during World War II - for steel production. The Mackinaw was the largest icebreaker in the fleet that broke up ice, usually January through March. A tough job for the crewman - cold, loud, long shifts and away from their families for months.
My mother's brother, Uncle Paul, passed away this week so we came back down to lower Michigan to attend his funeral on Thursday. We will leave the motorhome in a campground in Grayling and drive the car to Jackson. Hope to kayak on the
Au Sable River when we return.
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