Manistee, MI, is on the Manistee River on the Lake Michigan shore. It's another quaint town, very proud of its heritage. The river channel with smaller boats on both sides isn't very wide.
One afternoon while sitting on the sundeck, chatting with our neighbor, we looked up
to see this "hu-mongus" freighter coming up the river! He barely had room and we know that he had VERY LITTLE water under him because chart depths showed in the low 20's.
It was a 580 foot freighter hauling coal. It was a sight to see how the Captain maneuvered the huge boat around the bend with little clearance and then under the lift bridge. Note the small boat in the 2nd photo to get a perspective on how narrow the channel was!
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