Lifesaving gift ideas for boaters
Need gift ideas for your favorite boater? Give the gift of life – here are a few ideas that may end up ensuring your boater is around for the holidays next year.
First on your list should be a comfortable Coast Guard approved life jacket designed for the intended use of the boater on your list. You may have heard that specific Type classifications previously used to describe the performance...
Coast Guard set for annual re-enactment, delivery of 1,200 Christmas trees for deserving families
CHICAGO – The Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, serving once again as this year’s “Christmas Ship” and loaded with more than 1,200 Christmas trees, is returning to Chicago on Dec. 6, at 8:30 a.m., for a two-day event re-enacting an annual Chicago tradition in the late 1800s and early 1900’s.
The Christmas trees, purchased by the Chicago’s Christmas Ship Committee, will be offloaded on the morning...
Coast Guard crew set to load more than 1,200 Christmas trees onto Mackinaw for historic transit to Chicago
CHEBOYGAN, Mich. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw is scheduled to load 1,220 Christmas trees onto the ship at its homeport of Cheboygan, Mich., on Nov. 25, in preparation for the 2013 Christmas Ship celebration.
The trees will then be transported to Chicago where they will be offloaded on the morning of Dec.7 following a public ceremony at Navy Pier. The trees will be given to nonprofit...
