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As with her sister ship, Milwaukee (sunk with all hands 1929) flooding occurred in the flicker (on these ferries, the very aft compartment), the engine room crew quarters. No one has been able to determine the cause of the leak. It is speculated that eventually the car deck flooded up to the coal h...

As with her sister ship, Milwaukee (sunk with all hands 1929) flooding occurred in the flicker (on these ferries, the very aft compartment), the engine room crew quarters. No one has been able to determine the cause of the leak. It is speculated that eventually the car deck flooded up to the coal ha...

Guest wrote: ↑July 29, 2023, 9:21 pm She was stripped of useful parts for the Badger with everything that was cannibalized warehoused several years ago. What's left that they'd be salvaging?

They are stripping everything else out, up to and including the kitchen sink.

Guest wrote: ↑August 1, 2023, 2:41 pm I didn't see either the SPARTAN or the TECUMSEH in the last video. Are those boats already in Port Colborn

Neither is at Pt Colborn and the Tecumseh is the only one confirmed to be going there.

LMC just made the announcement that due to extensive repairs required for the apron the rest of the season has been cancelled.

Convert the Badger to a barge? No.

After Castro took over Cuba, ferry service from Florida ended. The Grand Haven was sold and came back thru the St Lawrence to run steel coils from Cleveland to Port Burwell and Port Stanley in 1965. Due to issues in Canada she only made a few trips and was laid up, eventually being sold for scrap in...

The photo is of the original Grand Trunk ferry 'Grand Haven'. It shows her with an altered pilothouse; the original was removed when she was moved off the lakes. She had spent the better part of the 1930s laid up before she was sold for off lake use. She departed the lakes via Chicago SHip & San...

Not enough work, especially being limited to one dock the way she is. Her fitout has been pushed out a couple of times now. There is a real possibility she may not sail at all this year.

Anything by Wes Oleszewski

Their schedule shows that they will be doing nighttime sailings from June 10 to Sept 5 this year. But during that time frame most rooms are booked by the general public and would not be available for a group function. The Boatnerd Badger gatherings have in the past been done outside of that window,...

Pilothouse electronics would have been destroyed by the fire. I imagine the boom would have been warped by the heat from the belts burning. Not much may be salvageable in the after end due to fire and heat damage.

Guest wrote:A Canadian company could use footers to replace the boats providing ore to the Canadian mills at the Essar SOO and Dofasco Hamilton. Plus could use them for transshipments.

How are they going to get a footer to Hamilton?

Guest wrote:What would Walter J McCarthy be doing in Milwaukee?

An injured crewman was taken off.

As in the Derbyshire incident, the true facts would end the controversy.. What true facts are you talking about? The true (unknown) facts of what actually happened instead of the yearly assumptions and guessed theories that people keep insisting on endlessly going on about year after year after year.

badger wrote:i agree, enough is enough give it a rest, live in the present not 50 yra ago

A-men to that!

Did you see all the news reports of 16-20 foot waves on Lake Michigan?

Is GLMI still operating? Their website link hasn't worked for a while now. and can't find anything with an internet search.

It is still scheduled but the forecast is 50% chance of rain

I don't mean to be picky, but as I understand it the "uniflow" is a type of steam engine. Skinner's own version was the "Unaflow" [with a capital U and a letter "a"]. So it is quite correct to call the engine a uniflow, but when calling it a Skinner, it could also be c...