This site contains posts regarding Jim and Lori Sprague’s experiences with the Perseverance.

​AKA “our Up North Mobile Cabin” AKA the “Yooper Yacht,” the Perseverance is a unique 49’ steel trawler hand built in 1993 by the Ness Family of Escanaba in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. The Perseverance, our first and last powerboat, was discovered on-line by our youngest, and purchased during a period of pandemic induced insanity. Curiously, we haven’t regretted it. Please read on to see why.