The Neebish Island News

The TC Record-Eagle has a story about getting ready for winter: Closing the Cottage

Labels: cottage, how-to

The Les Cheneaux Island area is well known as a wood boat haven - a classic area for the beautiful old Chris Crafts and obviously the host of the world's largest antique wooden boat show.

Now the area has one of the four wooden boat building schools in the U.S.

See MyNorth: Learn Wooden Boat Building in the Great Lakes

Official site: Great Lakes Boat Building School

Labels: boat, how-to

Everyone who drives on Neebish Island's gravel roads is familiar with the washboarding phenomenon. Turns out the physics involved are similar to stone skipping. See: Scientists explore the physics of bumpy roads

There is also a Mythbusters episode where they confirmed that driving at a higher speed over washboard roads results in a smoother ride because the car's wheels "travel over just the ridges and not into the troughs, allowing for a relatively smoother ride."

I've found that driving at around 35 mph on Neebish's gravel roads results in the smoothest ride in my car.

Labels: how-to

Here are a couple of different ways to remove a fish hook from your flesh; which if you fish often is not a question of "if" you'll get hooked but "when".

Wired: Remove a Fishhook From a Buddy

Labels: emergencies, fishing, how-to