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A single-masted sailboat with its white mainsail and jib raised, gliding past the red Big Red lighthouse at a Lake Michigan beach channel

OPE Sailboats

You want a real adrenaline rush? Try hoisting up a mainsail.

A lone rider on a yellow jet ski idling in the water off a busy Great Lakes beach, rocks in the foreground

NOPE Jet Skis

Fun for about two seconds, then you realize there’s nowhere to really go with it.

Ope or Nope · August 3, 2026

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A crowded sandy Great Lakes beach with a No Swimming sign, a blue sun shelter and people wading in the shallow water on a hot day

NOPE

Beach Days

Kayaks, a sailboard and small boats stacked on a rental rack beside a calm inland lake under a partly cloudy sky, with a boats-for-rent sign

OPE

Lake Days

The towering white hull of the Detroit Princess riverboat with its large blue-and-orange logo painted across the side

NOPE

Detroit Princess

The red-and-white Bavarian Belle paddlewheel riverboat cruising the Cass River in Frankenmuth on a sunny autumn day

OPE

Bavarian Belle