This is the Isle Royale Queen III, which makes the trip from Copper Harbor, MI to Isle Royale's Rock Harbor twice per week. Kayaks and canoes ride outside on the top deck. The first time we left the dock, we turned around and went   back to port just as ferry.jpg (33838 bytes)   we were leaving the shelter of Copper Harbor. A passing freighter radioed us that there were 12 ft waves on the open waters of Lake Superior. We  launched again, this time successfully, about 5 hrs later. The waves were still at about 6 ft.

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