Marina and Boating Activity Study: very interesting

Dear readers,
Check out this excellent and interesting study of marinas on Lake Superior from Grand Marais on the North Shore to Ashland, Wis. on the South Shore. You will learn a lot of things, such as declining boat activity in recent years; how a 250-slip marina would make Grand Marais one of the largest on the lake; demographics of boat owners (mostly urban, middle-to-retirement age), increasing costs of motorized boat travel; and favored locations for boaters (the Apostle Islands on the South Shore).
Consultant Doug McEneany talked to every marina owner about fees, costs and marketing only, so he did not address other issues like environmental assessments, impacts on bird migration and local land use.
McEneany points the way to asking the right questions before the city of Grand Marais embarks on what could be a flop like the marina in Silver Bay.
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