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WEEKEND AWAY; Destination: Sturgeon Bay, Wis.(TRAVEL)
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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August 21, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Iric Nathanson
Special to the Star Tribune
Sturgeon Bay may have more boutiques and B&Bs per square mile in its old-fashioned downtown than any place else in northern Wisconsin. But there's another B word here that supersedes them all, and that's "boats." This Door County commercial center, sandwiched between Lake Michigan and Green Bay, is built around a huge shipyard and a bay filled with boats of all kinds - everything from tough little tugboats to big bruising ore boats - waiting to be get buffed up.
Making way for all those waterway vehicles is a towering lift bridge, which straddles the canal that runs through town. On do-nothing afternoons, I like ...
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