Great lake boats, a good video

[jjeff]

What is the pole on the bow of lake boat used for?? This fellow talks about its use in his video. I didn't know!View attachment 715372

Valley camp is a great museum ship did the tour twice once as a kid, much later took my kids to it. They actually have a torn apart lifeboat on display from the Fitzgerald wreck.

 

[5030]

Never knew that but was always too embarrassed to ask a dumb question.

 

[BravoXray]

Valley camp is a great museum ship did the tour twice once as a kid, much later took my kids to it. They actually have a torn apart lifeboat on display from the Fitzgerald wreck.

Yep, been there a couple of times. Also been to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on Whitefish Point. Well worth the trip.

 

[Frankenkubota]

On average, they only freeze completely over every 10 years or so. Here we are standing on shove ice which was over 20ft tall. Had big rocks in it as well. Shove ice is what gets pushed up from wind over the winter. Some of the bumps seen in this photo, might be 40ft above the water..... View attachment 715381

i think it was 1979, lake michigan froze all the way across which they said was unusual.

That's when i thought, you can shove all this ice right where the sun don't shine and i headed south!

 

[jjeff]

Valley camp is a great museum ship did the tour twice once as a kid, much later took my kids to it. They actually have a torn apart lifeboat on display from the Fitzgerald wreck.

Yep, been there a couple of times. Also been to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on Whitefish Point. Well worth the trip.

Yep, been there a couple of times. Also been to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on Whitefish Point. Well worth the trip.

Very humbling to see the Big Fitz's Bell on display up at White fish point.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is a nice video, but with a rather slow start about whale back boats of the great lakes. There is one as a museum in Superior we've toured through.

 

[ArlyA]

Off of boat nerd.com. I wish I had a 18ft variable pitch prop in my garage.
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Propeller installed on Mark W. Barker The controllable pitch propeller has been installed on our 639-foot Great Lakes freighter being built at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding. The massive four-blade propeller has a diameter of 18 feet and can make 120 revolutions per minute (RPM). Made of nickel, aluminum and bronze, the propeller weighs 13.4 tons. Interlake Steamship Co Scrap tow nears for veteran Mississagi Sarnia, ON – The tug Pride was employed Tuesday to paint yellow towing stripes on the bow of Mississagi, laid up at Sarnia, ON. A tow to Sault Ste. Marie, ON, and the Purvis Marine scrapyard could…

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[ArlyA]

MISSISSAGI's final Voyage - Upbound On The St. Clair River From Sarnia, Ontario Passing Under The International Blue Water Bridges Past Port Huron, Michigan into Lake Huron one last time heading for the ship breaker in Soo St. Marie, Ontario.

 

[5030]

As much as I hate to see any ship headed to the scrap yard, now is really a good time to break her as steel is way, way up, like 60% higher than it was a year ago. so it's probably expedient to break her now.

 

[MossRoad]

Bummer. Built in 1942-43. Active until this year.