1810 sailing ship replica open for tours, rides at Muskegon’s Heritage Landing
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By Robert C. Burns | Source: Muskegon Chronicle
The Friends Good Will, a replica of an 1810 square topsail sloop once used as a Great Lakes merchant ship is open for free dockside tours 6-8 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
If, after that, you are left with the feeling that sailing really is in your blood, and always has been, the ship sets sail at 8:30 p.m. Tickets for the two-hour sail are available at the dock site for $40.
Afternoon sails lasting 1-1/2 hours are available as well on Saturday. They leave at 1:15 and 5:15 p.m. and tickets are priced at $30.
At 11:15 a.m. Saturday, they’ll hoist the Jolly Roger for a special Pirate Cruise for children 3-12 years old.
The kids will learn how to sword fight, spot and track down the enemy and offer a toast to old Neptune, but must be accompanied by an adult.
… The ship was built in 2004 for the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven, and has been a regular visitor to Muskegon.
The original was chartered for service by the U.S. government in the War of 1812. It was captured by the British and renamed the Little Belt, but it was later recaptured by the Americans in the Battle of Lake Erie.
