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After 12 years owning this 22 I am selling. I placed an ad in the for sale column. 2004 CD 22 Michigan fresh water boat. Will be downsizing to an inland fishing boat, have a couple of minor health issues and the next year will see us move farther from the big lakes. So greetings from the third coast, and remember Michigan has more coastline than any state except Alaska.

Mark
 
Actually Florida and Louisiana have over twice the coast line of Michigan--which comes in at 8th state with 3,224 miles of coastline.

Good luck selling the boat--always a c Brat.
 
Well depends how you measure I guess, Bob. Next thing you know you will tell me that Appalachicola is a real place.
Regards, who knows may see you this fall.
Mark

"Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline in the US and the second longest coast line in the US next to Alaska. World Book Encyclopedia (v.13, p.500 of the 2000 edition) states that Michigan's shoreline, at 3,288 miles is "more than any other state except Alaska."
 
The State of Michigan also is #2 for most registered boats in the country; CA now
#1 robbing MI of the #1 spot it had for decades.

In Michigan, there are 11K inland lakes over 5 acres in size never more than 6
miles away and you are never more than 85 miles away from one of the Great
Lakes which has some of the cleanest clearest unsalted water on the planet.

Oh, did you know your 'fresh water only' boat is worth about 15% more when you
sell it?

Go Blue!

Aye.
 
NOAA does not agree with your world book:
Alaska: 33,904 mi
Florida: 8,436 mi
Louisiana: 7,721mi
Maine: 3,478 mi
N, Carolina: 3,375
Texas: 3,359 mi.
Virginia: 3,315 mi
Michigan: 3,224 mi

Number of boats United States Boating Statistics 2015: Different states have different criteria for "registration". Also documented vessels have to be counted.
NMMA's stats for most recent surveys also agree--Michigan has been decreasing in number of registered boats...Don't know why. But there are a lot more of the smaller boats in some of the inland states. At one point MI did have the largest number of boats, but not by most recent surveys.
Florida: 889,350 all motor boats
Minnesota: 808,627 all craft
Michigan: 787,637 all craft
California: 772,542, including all sailboats over 8' in length.
By sales data (NMMA)--Florida, Texas, California, N. Carolina--Michigan was 9th.
 
I think you two should be using total water area in square miles as the true measure, because that's where we are running our boats after all. Total water area represent the sum of inland and coastal water and the Great Lakes in each state. Under this metric, according to the USGS, Alaska is first, Michigan is second at 40,175 square miles) and Florida is a distant third at 12,133. Source: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wetstates.html
 
Great group, great boating country. A couple of points - as wonderful as the Great Lakes are there is only one ocean. So on that list Michigan doesn't show up at all. On every list of shoreline measurement AK is number one. If you count fresh water and you measure only general shoreline (does not include tidal inlets) then Michigan is number two. I recommend that you buy my boat and visit them all. :D
 
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to be on the water where most of the boats
are in the country. The reason for being on the water in the first place is to
'get away from it all'. If I want crowds, I go to a stadium or stand in line at the
local Walmart on Black Friday :twisted: .

Being 'biggest', having 'the most', being 'the best', 'fastest' or 'smartest' or
proving you are 'right' and another 'wrong' is no more than feeding your own
insatiable ego.

Aye.
Grandma used to say, "Ego. Little word. Big problem."
 
Not For Hire":1zuubv7i said:
After 12 years owning this 22 I am selling. I placed an ad in the for sale column. 2004 CD 22 Michigan fresh water boat. Will be downsizing to an inland fishing boat, have a couple of minor health issues and the next year will see us move farther from the big lakes. So greetings from the third coast, and remember Michigan has more coastline than any state except Alaska.

Mark
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Say it ain't so, Mark.
Al
 
I've always found the "shoreline miles" calculations to be difficult to understand. Washington has only 3,000 according to NOAA, but I have no idea what they are counting. The Columbia River has over 700 river miles in Washington. Do they count both shores of the river (1,400 miles)? And of course the reservoirs on the Columbia add a lot. Lake Roosevelt has 600 miles of shoreline in a little more that 60 river miles on the Columbia. All of the sloughs at the mouth of the River would also triple the shoreline calculation. So just the Columbia River drainage probably has more than 3,000 navigable miles of freshwater shoreline in Washington.

Then there's the "navigable waters" definition. NOAA doesn't count some shallow tidal areas less than 100 feet wide as shoreline. That's where I spend a lot of time. A sea kayak probably has twice as much shoreline to explore than a 40' trawler, with the CD 16 somewhere in between. And shallow water is where the exciting stuff happens, both good and bad.

Mark
 
I had to spend time in Oklahoma city for work a decade ago or so. Not a very memorable trip, but one thing I do remember is Oklahomans are very proud of a claim that Oklahoma has the most shoreline than any other state. Something like 55,000 linear miles if I remember right.

I have no clue if that is true or not, just putting it out there that lots of states have a claims to fame that might be dubious
 
The boat is sold, sigh. Nice couple based on Lake Huron bought it the first day I had viewers come. They sold their 36 foot trawler that they used to complete the great loop. I gave them the contacts of a few others that wanted a C-Dory - just in case the switch seems too drastic for them. Great people though and very knowledgeable boaters.
Best wishes, Mark
 
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