- Dates
- 2011-06-04 – 2011-06-25
- Kind
- Public access issue
- Where
- place/st-james
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimetourisminfrastructurecommunitycommunication
- Within
- place/st-james
Summary
In June 2011, a visiting sailing group used the Beaver Island Forum to seek reservations for a planned cruise involving multiple boats and a 5–7-day stay. The group reported that it could not reserve space at the St. James public marina and later said it would skip Beaver Island that season. Forum replies provided contact information and directed the visitors toward the private marina.
Evidence limits
This record preserves a contemporaneous access complaint and its reported effect on one visiting group. It does not establish the marina’s official reservation policy, available capacity, or whether the difficulty resulted from the marina, its website, telephone contact, or timing.
Sources
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Sources
- The Chamber of Commerce stated that the Beaver Island Municipal Marina was operating a reservation system in August 2012, while a separate participant debated the cost and public funding of the related web-based system. This later first-party community statement shows that a reservation system was operating by then, but does not resolve the 2011 visitor's earlier difficulty or establish its technical operation.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005324
- A visiting sailing group reported that it could not obtain reservations at the public marina for a planned multi-boat Lake Michigan cruise and ultimately said it would pass up Beaver Island. Replies supplied public-marina contact information and suggested the private marina. This is an individual visitor account and community response, not proof of the marina's formal reservation policy, capacity, or the reason contact attempts failed.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003532
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Visiting sailors report difficulty reserving St. James public marina space, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-public-marina-reservation-issue-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “computers at municipal marina,” August 7–8, 2012. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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