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Michigan Dreaming: Cruising on a tall ship

Newlyweds Noah and Allison Dobos take the wheel of the tall ship Manitou on an evening cruise around Grand Traverse Bay. Sailing on a tall ship was voted by readers as No. 3 on the Bridge Michigan summer bucket list. (Photo: Scott Harmsen/courtesy of Bridge Michigan)
Newlyweds Noah and Allison Dobos take the wheel of the tall ship Manitou on an evening cruise around Grand Traverse Bay. Sailing on a tall ship was voted by readers as No. 3 on the Bridge Michigan summer bucket list. (Photo: Scott Harmsen/courtesy of Bridge Michigan)
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There are a handful of traditional sailing vessels that depart from the shores of Michigan. These boats are wind-powered and look like relics of the past.

Sailing on one of them was voted No. 3 on the Michigan Dreaming bucket list, which the nonprofit news organization Bridge Michigan put together with reader suggestions.

Bridge Michigan’s Laura Herberg boarded one of them — Manitou, a schooner run by Traverse Tall Ship Company— and sends us this account.


The episode was produced by Bridge Michigan and contains music by Joystock - https://www.joystock.org

Laura Herberg comes to Bridge from Outlier Media, where she worked as a Civic Life Reporter. Her journalism career took off at WDET, where she produced daily talk shows, created audio vignettes for galleries, anchored the news and hosted podcasts. Known for her sound-rich feature stories, Laura has won several awards and was named the Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter for Radio Broadcasting four times.