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Saugatuck Chain Ferry. Coordinates: 42.6584°N 86.2058°W. Saugatuck Chain Ferry in 2009. The Saugatuck Chain Ferry is a hand-cranked chain ferry that crosses the Kalamazoo River in Saugatuck, Michigan. [1][2] It connects downtown Saugatuck to Mount Baldhead Park and Oval Beach. [1][3][4] It is the only operational hand-cranked chain ferry in ...
The Star of Saugatuck, a large paddle-wheel boat, gives daily tours of the Kalamazoo River and Lake Michigan. The Saugatuck Chain Ferry, a hand-cranked vessel, departs from Wick's Park and takes tourists from the town side of the river to the other shore for a walk to the beach, the historical museum or to climb the stairs at Mt. Baldhead. In ...
The reaction ferry uses the power of the river to tack across the current; the powered cable ferry uses engines or electric motors (e.g., the Canby Ferry in the U.S. State of Oregon) to wind itself across; or is hand-operated, such as the Stratford-upon-Avon chain ferry in the UK and the Saugatuck Chain Ferry in Saugatuck, Michigan, United States.
Blue Water Ferry Company (1946-1957) using converted military landing craft as passenger only ferries and reusing the older ship's names. City of Sarnia; City of Port Huron; Rail ferries served Sarnia, Ontario to Port Huron, Michigan from 1859 to 1890. The earliest ferry was a chain ferry on a 1000-foot chain across the river in the 1860s. The ...
The Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harbor consist of two piers, 200 feet apart and parallel, flanking the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. The North Pier is 2,778 feet long and the South Pier is 2,514 feet long. Lights are located on the end of each pier. The extreme outer portions of the piers are stone filled timber cribs, each 24 feet wide ...
White's Ferry. Whitehaven Ferry. Woodland Ferry. Categories: Cable ferries. Ferries of the United States.
When a Washington state ferry lost its power during an April 15 roundtrip from Bremerton to Seattle, stranding over 600 passengers and crew for what would turn out to be about 10 hours, wedding ...
Saugatuck Chain Ferry. Sombra–Marine City (Bluewater) Ferry. SS Spartan.