The Phantom Rigging of the Keweenaw
A retired laker recalls a blind run through Lake Superior fog, an impossible voice on the radio, and the schooner that kept him off the rocks.
Captain Otis Clifford looks back on a harrowing November morning off the Keweenaw Peninsula, where thick fog, a phantom schooner, and an echo from the past kept a tug from breaking on the reef.
Captain Oat
October 9, 2026
8 min