Cruise All Five Lakes with Ric Mixter!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Gohagantravel.com has your trip of a lifetime aboard a luxury yacht sailing all of the lakes and featuring the most dynamic maritime speaker on freshwater. Ric Mixter takes you through the Soo Locks and into the history of the most famous ships to sail the inland seas. Amazing food and everyone gets an outdoor balcony to see the Great Lakes this fall. Sept 18-Oct 2 (two trips Toronto to Milwaukee or Milwaukee to Toronto)
This would be absolutely AWESOME.
Ric, I ordered your book last year and read it along with Schumacher's 'Mighty Fitz.' I've recently been going through them again and, though I've read my share on marine disasters and wrecks, I'm no expert on ship building or engineering.
In analyzing the 3D model of the underwater wreck of the 'Fitz' by Lucas Gustaffson (which I find amazing; see below), a question kind of dawned on me- what are the criteria or what makes a ship designer decide to put the pilot house in the bow versus the stern of a ship? Are there advantages to having the one over the other, or is it simply negligible or a minor trifle just based on the ship builder's choice? I ask because, I've noticed some of these large carriers have both!
Thanks again Ric!
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Hi Ed! Great observations from our unique Great Lakes design of freighters. They've evolved from saltwater designs because of our unique loading facilities- the ships that could fit under the docks would load faster and be more profitable. The cargo gets the majority of space, and the earliest designs put the pilothouse forward with the berths for the command crew, wheelsmen and watchmen. Today's innovations with bow thrusters for maneuvering allow for just a lookout (usually mate) to be foreward when required and the pilothouse and all quarters are all aft.
I wouldn't draw too much from the 3d link you sent. It certainly makes your jaw drop to see such a unique angle on the damage- but it has about as much accuracy as the Coast Guard drawings. The damage to the bow is all wrong, the angle of hatch 8 is too pronounced, the hatch at 5 or 6 is way to protruded, the hatch crane is missing and the combings for 9-11 are too far from the wreck. The 'jungle' described by my book is also too clean aft of the stern. It's a fantastic illustration, but likely mostly from the model created by Richard Sullivan. He's passed on now, as has Fred Shannon, but my guess is they collaborated for his model that is now at Manitowoc .. and there just isn't enough video to give an artist complete detail of the wrecksite.
@Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Rescues Thanks! I understand better now on the pilot houses. Also, I was wondering just how accurate that 3D graphic could actually be. I'll take it from one of the few to have been there to see for themselves. Thanks again Ric!