Behind-the-scenes on Canada's biggest Great Lakes passenger ship
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- My thanks to the team at OSTC for inviting me aboard, in honour of the Chi-Cheemaun's 50th anniversary. If you ride the ship this season, please grab a copy of This Is Manitoulin Magazine and look for my story about this ship!
The Chi-Cheemaun (meaning 'Big Canoe' in Anishinaabemowin) is Canada's largest Great Lakes passenger ship. It serves as a ferry link of Ontario Highway 6 between Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula.
Most winters, it ties up in the harbour in Owen Sound, Ont. There, crews upgrade old systems, perform intensive maintenance and make sure the ship is ready for its warm-weather sailing season across Georgian Bay.
Join Kerry Adams, the director of operations for the Owen Sound Transportation Company, for an exclusive tour into parts of the ship that most people never get to see.
Music credits (all licensed under CC-BY or CC0):
Koi Discovery - Chemical Collapse
Mr. Smith - Bada$5
Mr. Smith - Strutting
Monplaisir - Old Battle Theme 2
Mr. Smith - Americana
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Meet Kerry Adams
1:00 The car deck
1:43 Into the engine room
2:55 The bilge pump
3:17 Watertight compartments
3:45 The propeller shafts
4:17 Water treatment
4:39 Control room
5:14 Electrical systems
5:57 Stabilizer fins
6:16 Crew quarters
7:10 Officers' quarters, safety gear
7:44 Captain's quarters
8:11 The bridge
9:18 Farewell and thanks 
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She's an icon for Manitoulin and the Bruce Peninsula. Ridden on her many times but never have had the opportunity to see all these forbidden areas. Thank you.
That was a great tour. Nothing held back.
Rode on her back in 1986. Glad to see she is still going strong.
That was a great tour, so cool to see the inner workings. Really liked seeing the crew quarters, I didn't realize crew stayed on board. Fascinating insight, Warren. Well done! 👍👍
Always happy to see a new Video from Warren - and on one of my favorite topics, no less? Awesome. Hope to ride Chi-Cheemaun one of these days...
This is absolutely amazing, I love learning about the inner workings of everyday workhorses. Manitoulin is on my list of places to visit so now I know how I'm getting there! Another great video Warren
Thank you! I'm the same way, the whole reason I got into journalism was to have a legitimate excuse to ask for behind-the-scenes access to places, and through this channel I'm finally getting to do it more!
Hard to believe she's that old. I was on one of her early voyages to Manitoulin. Wow. I recall the wooden crate she replaced!
Ehhhh, I'm coming back to Ontario for vacation from South Korea with my new Korean family. We're gonna take the boat to my parent's house on the island next month! This is so cool, thanks.
I didn't know that she was used in the off seasons!! Thanks, Warren!
Only for upgrades and maintenance for the summer months, but there's certainly people aboard working hard during the winters!
@@WarrenTheReporter Ah. No winter cruises? LOL Thanks for clearing that up. She is a lovely od ship, for sure!
Filmed in Snowin’ Sound!! ❤️
Just before visiting your folks!
I hooked into a massive salmon when this boat was docked in Owensound and she ran for this ship and when it went underneath it caught something and my line snapped. I did get a good look at it before it took off and Likely a trophy sized salmon for Georgian Bay.
Love how you said there is hardly any oil left after it filters from the bilge pump and its so clean it can be pumped right back into the lake. I'd like to think that no oil at all would be the standard for pumping bilge water back into a lake
Valid point! That was the way I wrote it in the script so it didn't get too bogged down and technical. I've just reviewed my interview files, and Kerry told me the ship's oil-water separator system gets it down to at least 5 parts per million. That's the legal limit for ships in Canada's inland waters, per federal law. In the ocean, ships are allowed to discharge wastewater up to 15 parts per million, so three times higher. Thank you for watching and for your comment!
That was a great tour, so cool to see the inner workings. Really liked seeing the crew quarters, I didn't realize crew stayed on board. Fascinating insight, Warren. Well done! 👍👍
Thank you Daryl! I was quite amazed to learn that people lived and worked on board.