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dlucier
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Initially Posted - 01/10/2007 : 09:00:03

A friend sent me this...

A little taste of the seafaring life on the Inland Seas!

These photographs were taken last month (Dec 2006) aboard Misener Steamships MV Selkirk Settler as she transitted Lake Superior in typical November weather.

Don Lucier

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jerlim
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 09:05:17

OMG

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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 09:26:01

remember Edmund Fitzgerald?
"Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!"
if memory serves right from grad school, that water's below 40deg. to boot.

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 10:26:07

Interesting. I just received the same photos from a friend and was going to post them.

Even in summer the water temp is around 55 degrees. When asked if we wear life jackets, the common responce is.."what for? All it will do is make it easier for the Coast Guard to find your corps". Most of us wear them most of the time though.

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dblitz
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 13:01:07

How low do you think she rides when she's fully loaded?
Wouldn't want to be the sailor that has to go forward to check why the bow light is out.

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djn
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 13:35:03

My daughter is dating a young man who attending the Maritime Academy in Traverse city Michigan. I guess this is what he will be dealing with from time to time. Cheers.

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saribella
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 16:03:11

Actually the photos were from an Atlantic crossing....

http://www.sailinganarchy.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46631&hl=

Although there are some photos of a bulk carrier on Lake Superior within that link.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 20:46:50

In 1970 I served on HMS Bulwark (British Royal navy Rotary Wing Aircraft Carrier). We left port in south Africa for excercises in the far east, problem was a hurricane was in the way. However, because 'we ruled the waves'

we ploughed through the hurricane, literrally! One of our gun sponsons (1" thick steel plate) was bent up at a severe angle, and other areas of the ship were damaged to a lessor extent. We had the bow burried in water at times, and the front of the hull out of the water at others, it was really ugly. We did arrive on time though. It's not nice looking up at waves when you are on an Aircraft Carrier! So I take my hat of to folks that plough the 'lakes', nuts or guts, whatever!

Paul

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/10/2007 : 22:01:12

Apparently it was the Atlantic...

http://pics.boatnerd.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album2419

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Andy_334
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Response Posted - 02/25/2007 : 14:39:44

I guess the news that these photos are from the Atlantic and not Superior, will make my wife a little less concerned about my participation in the Trans this year!

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 02/25/2007 : 18:50:36

To be honest I don't care where they were taken. That last photo is flat out scarey!

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tinob
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Response Posted - 02/26/2007 : 11:45:46

Randy, none of those pictures inspire confidence, bearing as they do, a resemblance to the conditions that the Edmund Fitzgerald reportedly encountered on her last voyage.

I wonder what seamen on board there do? Methinks that the old saw about there being NO atheists in foxholes is appicable even to seamen under such conditions. OUR FATHER WHO...etc.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT, #3936, Patchogue, N.Y.

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