lake boat

noun, a boat or ship designed for sailing on the Great Lakes (COD); see also laker, lake freighter, lake ship

“Did they have their own sailing boat, or they used one of the lake boats?”

“Yeah. All the big lake boats, that’s the way they come down through and go up, whatever.”

“I know Tom, what used to be one of the captains on there, and Tom had sailed the lakes, and he said that he got deathly sick if it was a severe storm, and he said right to the day he got off the lake boats, if he got into a severe storm he would still get sick.”

“He also had the pilot boat for awhile that would put the pilots on and off the lake boats.”