Winter Storage of your Com Pac.

[Craig Weis]

How do you skippers store the boat for the winter?
The BayShip boys in town built ten of these 1000 foot oar [ore ... thanx crazycarl] carriers at the rate of one a year for ten years back in the seventies. 

[Tim Gardner]

My 19 remains in the water behind my house on Smith Mountain Lake.  The admiral and I generally sail on Jan 1, if the weather isn't too uncooperative.

TG

[crazycarl]

1000' oars?

How big where those boats?

[Tim Gardner]

One of my college classmates, Rich Wills,'73,  is the only surviving crewmember of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He was hospitalized with appendicitis the morning the ship left port for the last time.
Oarable indeed, but lucky for him
TG

[Craig Weis]

" Rich Wills,'73,  is the only surviving crewmember of the Edmund Fitzgerald. "

My recently deceased neighbor 'SunShine' was a shipyard boiler maker and his wife's brother went down with the Edmund Fitzgerald.

I worked on a BayShip crew that was tasked with removing and replacing the damaged bottom plates of the old 'Anderson' ... the closest vessel to the Fitzgerald where she sank. The Anderson scrapped her bottom in thin water on Lake Superior and the ABS required new plates.

I don't know who took these, but they are appropriate for this time of month.


Craig Weis

[Craig Weis]

Old Bethlehem steel plant in Lackawanna on lake Erie is burning this morning

https://www.facebook.com/2onyourside/videos/10154554426155359/

Craig Weis