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Ruby Ann fish tug is hauled out for winter on Beaver Island, 2010

Also Ruby on Rails · Kenwabikise fish tug Ruby Ann

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TypeEvent
Date2010-11
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2010-11
Kind
Transportation
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Bud and Nathan Martin used Beaver Island’s old marine ways to haul the ten-ton Kenwabikise fish tug Ruby Ann out of the lake for winter.

Evidence limits

The newspaper account does not establish the tug’s full ownership history, marine-ways construction history, or later preservation status.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, November 2010, "Ruby on Rails."
    Reports that Bud Martin and his son Nathan used the old marine ways to pull the ten-ton Kenwabikise fish tug Ruby Ann out of the lake for winter. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the haul-out report and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-11_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Ruby Ann fish tug is hauled out for winter on Beaver Island, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ruby-ann-winter-haul-out-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2010, "Ruby on Rails." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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