Paddlers jockeying for position at the start of the AuSable Canoe Marathon, a 120-mile overnight race that has been contested since 1947.
Michiganites take their canoe racing very seriously, even erecting a canoers monument in the town of Oscoda on Lake Huron.
Mounted on a stone base that resembles a military memorial, 2 crossed paddles salute the men and…