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Name: thamilton01atsnet.net
Location: Deep River CT USA
Email: thamilton01atsnet.net
Date: 12/30/2002
Time: 6:15:20 PM
Remote Name: 64.252.173.170

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Name: julie fletcher
Location: thorold
Email: julie.fletcheratsympatico.ca
Date: 12/26/2002
Time: 4:26:38 PM
Remote Name: 216.221.81.98

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Neil, I got a phone call this morning (Dec 26th) that someone is looking for me on boatnerd.com Do you know who??? Happy new Year to you.


Name: Bob Bennett
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Email: zapf_bennettatsympatico.ca
Date: 12/22/2002
Time: 5:08:44 PM
Remote Name: 216.209.141.86

Comments

great site looking forword to see your tug Wendy B on it


Name: Bill VanSickler
Location: Carrollton, Texas
Email: billvansickleratfarmersbranch.info
Date: 12/21/2002
Time: 12:26:08 PM
Remote Name: 208.29.86.68

Comments

In October 2003, my wife and I are planning a 7-10 day trip from Traverse City, up to Sault Ste Marie, over to Split Rock Lighthouse and back to Traverse City. I have found several lighthouses (including trip to Mackinac Island) to vist. For the purpose of not seeing too many (if there is such a thing) what is the best trip to take? Thanks for any information.


Name: Richard & Sharon Greenway
Location: Forest Bay, (cottage) Port Hope, Huron County.
Email: rgreenwaatinghamisd.org
Date: 12/20/2002
Time: 11:02:13 AM
Remote Name: 35.12.133.118

Comments

We have been looking for a site like this as we love to watch the lake traffic from the cottage but lack the ability to identify who they are.


Name: jim forss
Location: sandusky ohio
Email: jamesjforssatcros.net
Date: 12/20/2002
Time: 10:31:56 AM
Remote Name: 63.236.245.103

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i love this site becouse my father worked on the lake on ship and i love going down bye the lake watching the ships go though


Name: mike stark
Location: Wisconsin
Email: mikie_55athotmail.com
Date: 12/19/2002
Time: 4:43:24 AM
Remote Name: 64.33.152.99

Comments

A very good friend of mine Robert Stansky (BOB) used to sail on the Thomas A. Milsop and I would love for anyone that sailed with him to e-mail me so you can get in touch with him, he is very eager to meet past sailors he has met!


Name: Tim Reynolds
Location: Richmond, VA
Email: TReyn39823ataol.com
Date: 12/15/2002
Time: 9:45:17 AM
Remote Name: 64.12.96.14

Comments

Great website. Grew up in Escanaba. My brother works on the boats and put me on to this website.


Name: Dick Edstrom
Location: Muskegon, Mi.
Email: dcedstrom1atcs.com
Date: 12/14/2002
Time: 4:37:31 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.96.14

Comments

I would like to locate Pete Caesar, a Great Lakes Researcher, living somewhere on the shores of Lake Michigan. Thanks


Name: Nicole
Location:
Email: mary.b.smithatalltel.com
Date: 12/12/2002
Time: 7:54:29 PM
Remote Name: 24.144.17.194

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I am doing a report for my social studies class on my ancestors and I was wondering if anyone has any information on the lighthouse keeper named Charles W. Bavry. Any information would be of great help. Thank you.


Name: Phyllis Hewitt
Location: Port Colborne, Ontario
Email: smartdartathotmail.com
Date: 12/10/2002
Time: 1:34:49 PM
Remote Name: 24.150.65.181

Comments

This is a great site keep up the good work. I have been around the boats for nearly fifty years. My parents sailed for years. I met my husband when he was sailing, he is retired now after working on the boats since 1953. this site keeps me up to date on the news around the lakes and i really enjoy it.


Name: Marvin R Lewis
Location: Louisville, kentucky
Email: marvo2ataol.com
Date: 12/9/2002
Time: 8:51:09 AM
Remote Name: 65.207.221.18

Comments

Great Web Site


Name: Rosemary
Location: Dowagiac
Email: rkrysinskiatbeanstalk.net
Date: 12/8/2002
Time: 8:41:37 PM
Remote Name: 12.162.39.54

Comments

Looking for articals on Janis Sanders. She was last seen July 21, 1975 in Niles Michigan


Name: John R. Nickelsen
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Email: hbppbpatexecpc.com
Date: 12/7/2002
Time: 8:26:18 PM
Remote Name: 169.207.115.85

Comments

I am pleased to say that I just saw the Stewart J. Cort, decked out in Christmas lights, heading south off Racine. It was quite a sight.


Name: Thomas Mahan
Location: Forked River New Jersey
Email: tommatcsionline.net
Date: 12/6/2002
Time: 10:53:47 PM
Remote Name: 63.149.88.224

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Trying to locate an old US Coast Guard buddy, Robert D. June. Comes from Northern Michigan.


Name: Cliffsman
Location: Saginaw
Email: Cliffsman65atboatnerd.com
Date: 12/6/2002
Time: 3:07:55 PM
Remote Name: 24.247.110.225

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Long live Cleveland Cliffs. ( If they where still around ).


Name: Cliffsman
Location: Sa
Email:
Date: 12/6/2002
Time: 3:06:18 PM
Remote Name: 24.247.110.225

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Name: Marty Paul
Location: Houston, Texas (orig Detroit)
Email: cmpaulathouston.rr.com
Date: 12/4/2002
Time: 3:12:19 PM
Remote Name: 152.121.100.100

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Regarding Terry Weiss's log book entry of 11/19/02...Yes, even the 1,000 footers are called "boats" or "ore boats". A carry-over from what the traditional fore/aft house-designed lake freighters are/were called.


Name: Marc Williams
Location: Winter Park, FL
Email: salth2oatearthlink.net
Date: 12/2/2002
Time: 10:00:50 PM
Remote Name: 65.40.15.73

Comments

Spent summers growing up on Lake Michigan at Grand Haven


Name: Lelah D. Inscho
Location: Sparta, Wisconsin
Email: lelah_anglemyerathotmail.com
Date: 12/1/2002
Time: 6:32:44 PM
Remote Name: 68.115.49.238

Comments

I lived in Superior, Wisconsin.


Name: Dorothy Melick
Location: Hamilton
Email: fdmelickatispnet.ca
Date: 11/30/2002
Time: 9:13:50 AM
Remote Name: 24.215.47.139

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My husband found this site but when I am looking at it with him it brings back my childhood memories and memories of my dad, Thomas McEwan. He was a chief engineer for many years with Upper Lake Shipping and prior to that with Westdale shipping. I remember sailing with him as a child and as a teenager. During my teen years I was pretty impressed with the deck hands as they were closer to my age and some quite cute! I told my dad once that I wanted to work on the ships and his response was "Over my dead body"! But from my experiences with him it has given me a love for the water and being on the water. When I need to bring myself back to focus I go to the water. His father before him sailed out of Scotland around the world as a ships carpenter. That is where my father started as a young boy also and then came to Canada. Some of the ships he sailed on in the Lakes were, Canadian Leader, Meaford, Pinedale, Ferndale, Seaway Queen and many others. I appreciate your site and all the work that went and is ongoing, into it. Thank you.


Name: Floyd Melick
Location: Hamilton
Email: fdmelickatispnet.ca
Date: 11/30/2002
Time: 9:02:30 AM
Remote Name: 24.215.47.139

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I have worked the last twenty some odd years on loading and unloading salties. I find your site is an excellent resource and a very interesting place to hang out. Keep up the good work.


Name: RICK
Location: Port Huron
Email: rts58atmsn.com
Date: 11/26/2002
Time: 8:31:22 AM
Remote Name: 67.192.61.160

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I grew up on the St. Clair River watching the freightors, no place I'd rather be. This web site is a great sorce of information for the great lakes shipping.


Name: Anne Morrissey
Location: Florida/formerly Ashtabula OH
Email:
Date: 11/23/2002
Time: 8:15:30 PM
Remote Name: 24.170.137.6

Comments

Great site/reminds of growing up on Lake Erie watching the boats coming to harbor. My brother Billy has worked on the Conrail dock for 20 yrs, formerly New York Central RR dock pushing coal


Name: Becky Hickey
Location: Muskegon,Michigan
Email: blhickeyatoceana.net
Date: 11/21/2002
Time: 10:17:42 PM
Remote Name: 198.77.50.234

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I really loved this web site...Keep up the good work


Name: Larry Wetzel
Location: Maple Rarids, Mi.
Email: chevynascarfan_53atyahoo.com
Date: 11/20/2002
Time: 3:10:20 PM
Remote Name: 216.234.127.62

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This web site is the most interesting and informative I've seen on Great Lakes shipping. Keep up the Great work!!!!


Name: Larry Wetzel
Location: Maple Rarids, Mi.
Email: chevynascarfanatyahoo.com
Date: 11/20/2002
Time: 3:08:31 PM
Remote Name: 216.234.127.62

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This web site is the most interesting and informative I've seen on Great Lakes shipping. Keep up the Great work!!!!


Name: Terry Weiss
Location: Niles, MI
Email: weissterryattriton.net
Date: 11/19/2002
Time: 1:34:16 AM
Remote Name: 216.65.167.106

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This is a wonderfully fascinating web site. I retired from USN in 1977 as Radioman 1st, and I rode eight ships during that twenty years. I was practically born on Lake Michigan in 1938, and even "did" the sea-scouts when I was a boy. Toward the end of this September, my wife and I took another trip up to Sault Ste. Marie so I could watch the ships (no way are those 1000-footers boats) pass through the locks, and I'm telling you, I wanted to hop aboard one of them (the converted USN oiler, 62 years old, that saw action in WW II is the one I preferred) and tell the old man to drop me off in Cleveland. Even Toledo would have been okay. -- I'm also really enjoying the other posts in this log book. -- Thanks again for maintaining my favorite web site. Terry Weiss


Name: James MacKinnon
Location: Williamsburg, Michigan
Email:
Date: 11/9/2002
Time: 8:40:33 AM
Remote Name: 205.188.209.170

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This is an outstanding web site. I've learned a great deal about great lakes shipping over the last year. I enjoy the web cams. My two year old son demands that we check the Soo locks almost hourly!!!!


Name: Bob Dygert
Location: Winter Haven, Fl.
Email: carolrob2atjuno.com
Date: 11/9/2002
Time: 12:53:51 AM
Remote Name: 65.58.196.92

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Love the website. Being here in Florida it's hard to see any shipping at all. Closest to me is Tampa, but don't get there often. I used to live in upstate N.Y., always went up to the 1,ooo Island region for vacation. Made trips to Massena to locks. Used to go to welland canal for visits. Now all I have is what I see on net. Wish there was a way to give you a hand with daily news when things get tough with work and all. Keep up the great job, it makes me feel at home at times.


Name: John Nickelsen
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Email: hbppbpatexecpc.com
Date: 11/6/2002
Time: 9:54:04 PM
Remote Name: 169.207.90.136

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Congratulations on 7 years of reporting news of the lakes. I am happy to say that I have been with you since January, 1996, accessing your site almost daily -- great work. Thanks so very much.


Name: Brent Westwood
Location: Martinsville, Va. (orig. from Saginaw)
Email: bwesatkimbanet.com
Date: 10/28/2002
Time: 9:11:05 AM
Remote Name: 208.28.222.215

Comments

Simply the best nautical-site on the internet. Neil, keep up the great work that you are doing. I enjoy your lighthouse section, also.


Name: Marty Paul
Location: Houston, Texas (orig Detroit)
Email: cmpaulathouston.rr.com
Date: 10/24/2002
Time: 12:18:09 PM
Remote Name: 152.121.100.100

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My favorite site. I have a lot of family, as well as professional heritage/history up on the Lakes--> the only place where you can correctly call a ship a boat. My dad, Capt Frank Paul Jr, sailed with American Steamship for many years before becoming a pilot on the "salties" coming into the Lakes. He later left the Lakes to become a Panama Canal pilot. My uncle, Capt John Vondran, sailed 30+ years with US Steel. As a kid, I remember sailing with him on these large ore boats. Impressions of a lifetime that led to my calling to follow my dad's, uncle's and grandfather's footsteps in the maritime field. I work for the CG and was a marine inspector out of a marine inspection office in Sturgeon Bay, WI. I've seen these freighters up close & personal, including crawling the length of 1,000-footers' double bottom ballast tanks! Talk about "boat watching"... Anyway, I ended up on the Gulf and am kind of surprised I didn't end up on the Lakes. I have many fond memories and visit up there regularly (Detroit & Muskegon, MI). I miss the Lakes (but not the winters!). Anyone who knows of me and/or my family, please feel free to drop me an e-mail.


Name: Bob Baxter
Location: M/V Joseph L. Block
Email: Chief_65atmsn.com
Date: 10/21/2002
Time: 8:39:04 PM
Remote Name: 67.241.69.134

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I am 67 years old and still sailing! Sure I like it! Bob


Name: Tom Chabot
Location: North Mich.
Email: beyesatiwon.com
Date: 10/21/2002
Time: 12:01:09 PM
Remote Name: 63.137.232.35

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Just wondering if anyone knows where my old seadog freind Kent Ralston is nowdays. We both quit sailing about the same time.


Name: mugu
Location: london
Email: mugulondonatyahoo.com
Date: 10/16/2002
Time: 8:45:46 AM
Remote Name: 80.88.139.229

Comments

i love this site.


Name: Dennis Widdows
Location: Tucson, Az.
Email: dennisw_55_2000atyahoo.com
Date: 10/15/2002
Time: 3:18:40 PM
Remote Name: 209.203.88.98

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Worked for Lorain Electronics Corp. 17 yrs. as a radio & radar technician. Spent a lot of time on most all the lakers. Enjoyed the experiences. Great site!


Name: Jodi Blach
Location: Waite Park , MN
Email: metrouble35athotmail.com
Date: 10/14/2002
Time: 1:10:43 AM
Remote Name: 63.21.83.67

Comments

Thanks for having this site. It helps to stay on top of things. Love the Duluth MN area.


Name: fred Ajudua
Location: N.Y
Email: fredajudua419athotmail.com
Date: 10/13/2002
Time: 11:19:36 AM
Remote Name: 216.139.169.144

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love your site. Keep it up. MUGU


Name: Steve Hill
Location: Medina, Ohio
Email: stevefunguy36atyahoo.com
Date: 10/12/2002
Time: 10:30:43 PM
Remote Name: 24.154.154.200

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...My Grandfather was a cook on the Aquarama around 1962 0r 1963...Thanks for any info..Steve


Name: Phil Canning
Location: St. John's NF
Email: Phil_Canningathotmail.com
Date: 10/7/2002
Time: 9:04:18 PM
Remote Name: 142.163.155.98

Comments

COOL!!


Name: louis stein
Location: jackson, mi.
Email: lterdherderathotmail.com
Date: 10/6/2002
Time: 12:11:12 PM
Remote Name: 64.108.157.133

Comments

just been into the site fir a few minutes, and really enjoying it.


Name: THOMAS CLAPSADLE
Location: PLANO TEXAS
Email: CLAPSADLEatworldnet.att.net
Date: 10/2/2002
Time: 10:33:04 PM
Remote Name: 12.86.208.22

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DAWES MARINE TUG & BARGE,NORTH TONAWANDA,NY.. To much to get into here..Just an adventure for me to work with my brother in law (married my sister)..Capt TOM DAWES jr. is a great man he has let me do something that the average person just will never have the option to do,and I thank him..UNCLE TOM


Name: John J. Bausch
Location: Worcester, MA
Email: jjbauschatultranet.com
Date: 10/1/2002
Time: 1:29:09 PM
Remote Name: 66.189.34.197

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I am writting as a former engineer on the S.S. Harry Colby, the J.L. Mauthe, the Elton Hoyt 2nd, the Mesabi Miner, and my favorite, the M.V. Presque Isle, it was wonderful to come across your site. My wife, and the call of family took me away from a full time sailing life, and I frequently reflect on many wonderful memories. Now that my children are older, the call of the wild has awakened old feelings enough to buy a small sailboat, and re-habilitate my sea legs so that my family can have a taste of the sea going life. They have had a steady diet of sea stories over the years, and have taken to sailing as fish to water. I wanted to see which ships were still sailing. Thank you for such a well maintained site. I would love to hear stories from any of my former crew mates. I was lucky enough to start my sailing career at the end of the steam ship era. The Harry Colby still had the original steam piston steering gear when I was aboard her (from about 1906). yt, JJB


Name: Lucy
Location:
Email: tiderunnerathotmail.com
Date: 10/1/2002
Time: 1:17:55 PM
Remote Name: 207.66.162.156

Comments

Would love to know about any kyak tours in the lakes, locks or seaway....live in the Northwest and love the water anywhere. Had a taste of Lake Michigan on a recent visit to Chicago and appetite has been whetted. Love your site. My dad was a sea captain so must be the reason the sea is in my blood.


Name: Jeremy Martin
Location: Anoka, MN
Email: macdodge93atyahoo
Date: 10/1/2002
Time: 12:28:20 PM
Remote Name: 63.231.167.136

Comments

Love the site keep up the good work


Name: frank mcclinton
Location: dayton ohio
Email: frankmcclintonathotmail.com
Date: 9/27/2002
Time: 9:56:19 AM
Remote Name: 172.157.30.198

Comments

greatsite


Name: frank mcclinton
Location: dayton ohio
Email: frankmcclintonathotmail.com
Date: 9/27/2002
Time: 9:54:07 AM
Remote Name: 172.157.30.198

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greatsite


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Location:
Email:
Date: 9/19/2002
Time: 1:25:14 PM
Remote Name: 62.56.189.94

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Name: Capt. Richard N. Carl
Location: Indian River, DE
Email: captrnc9atmchsi.com
Date: 9/18/2002
Time: 7:01:17 PM
Remote Name: 12.219.86.161

Comments

I read the article on "Great site for boaters" in the Power Squadron Mag. I enjoyed vewing the various pages. I use to live in Buffalo, NY from 1938 to 1948. Keep up the good work.


Name: Cory Gottschalk
Location: Eugene OR
Email: salamander97402athotmail.com
Date: 9/17/2002
Time: 4:55:13 PM
Remote Name: 140.211.82.5

Comments

Looking for a frieghting job I`ve been a commercial fisherman for most of the last 9 years. + fabricating


Name: Hawley Alcorn
Location: Bay City, Michigan
Email: halcoenattm.net
Date: 9/12/2002
Time: 4:02:14 PM
Remote Name: 64.7.163.16

Comments

Looking for area guys intrested in Saginaw Bay Lore, and the Saginaw River, boats, builders, etc. Write me anytime..lets have coffee..


Name: Nick Onufer
Location: Charleroi PA
Email:
Date: 9/8/2002
Time: 6:56:27 PM
Remote Name: 12.226.117.175

Comments

This is THE best site on the net. I check it every day. Great Job


Name: Stanley Klemecky
Location: Manitoba,canada
Email: stashiiatboatnerd.com
Date: 9/8/2002
Time: 11:45:34 AM
Remote Name: 205.200.47.74

Comments

Its been a couple of years since i bought this computer and found the info sites.It saved my life.Since my wife passed away i have lived alone in my "prarie home".I sailed from1950 till the 70s. and every day almost i can go back 50 years or so to reminice.Thanks Neil.


Name: P.J. Kelly
Location: South Carolina
Email: pkelly549ataol.com
Date: 9/8/2002
Time: 10:46:06 AM
Remote Name: 64.12.96.14

Comments

Discovered your site when looking for information at the time of the sinking of the J.W.Westcott and have been regular visitor to your very interesting and well done site since. I was born and raised in Amherstburg ON. My father was lighthouse keeper on the Livingston Channel Upper Entry Light and managed the Westcott office there. The E.J. Kulas knocked the lighthouse off its crib in September 1951. Westcott continued to operate from a shore office and the lighthouse was replaced by an automatic lighthouse. I left the area in '58, my father died in '60. Livingston Channel lighthouse was the greatest location for "boat watching".


Name: jefferson modesto
Location: Paranagua - Brazil
Email: jef-lilatuol.com.br
Date: 8/31/2002
Time: 5:29:15 PM
Remote Name: 200.192.208.44

Comments

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Name: Scott McKinley
Location: Ludington, MI.
Email: mckinleyataltelco.net
Date: 8/30/2002
Time: 8:35:21 PM
Remote Name: 206.150.119.89

Comments

Love the site keep up the good work


Name: Terry MacLennan
Location: Illinois
Email: terrynglendaatinsightbb.com
Date: 8/27/2002
Time: 1:13:34 PM
Remote Name: 12.221.152.75

Comments

This is a really terrific site with a wealth of information. A lot of hard work went into the creation of this site and the gahering of the information. Nice job.


Name: Gene Clrk
Location: Sault, MI
Email: gclarkatadvancedtech.com
Date: 8/26/2002
Time: 4:59:17 PM
Remote Name: 204.194.63.181

Comments

Was on the DM Clemson for one season in 1968. Rode the Edmund Fitzgerald from the Sault to Lorain, OH to catch the DM Clemson.


Name: Karenina
Location: United Arab Emirates
Email: chinkninaatyahoo.com
Date: 8/24/2002
Time: 2:20:33 AM
Remote Name: 213.42.1.165

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Name: Jim Hill
Location: Ohio
Email: SRA516atameritech.net
Date: 8/15/2002
Time: 9:02:53 PM
Remote Name: 64.108.84.135

Comments

Need answers on USCGC Duane in October 1962. Where was she and any information on her would be appreciated.


Name: Jim Pawlusiak
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Email: jmp48127ataol.com
Date: 8/13/2002
Time: 11:24:24 AM
Remote Name: 64.12.102.174

Comments

Terrific site. I will be back.


Name: James Rosito
Location: Montreal,Quebec, Canada
Email: jrositoathotmail.com
Date: 8/12/2002
Time: 4:49:23 PM
Remote Name: 207.253.204.73

Comments

Not sure how I found this site, but it is very interesting. Worked many years in the steamship and freight forwarder areas and this site brings back many memories of visits to ships during the course of my business. Also did take 1 trip from Montreal to the entrance of the Welland Canal. Got off there and returned to Montreal by train. The Great Lakes and Thousand Islands area are extremely scenic and interesting, especially from the view of a Norwegian tanker, with my wife and daughter. Thank you for the time and energy it must take to keep this site updated. best regards, James


Name: Deborah Evans Tisdel
Location: Rawley Point Light Station
Email: debbie.tisdelate-mail
Date: 8/4/2002
Time: 9:42:20 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.189.170

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Name: Blake K.
Location: Ohio
Email: ferrarikid14athotmail.com
Date: 8/2/2002
Time: 9:02:16 PM
Remote Name: 216.127.1.204

Comments

I'm a student and an artist, and for years I've been fascinated with the Lakes freighters and have several times tried to capture their determined look in my sketches. This site is well-organized and is a virtual well of information. During a recent visit to the Soo Locks, I watched several ships come through: the Herbert C. Jackson, Cason J. Callaway, Joseph Block, and Paul R. Tregurtha (wow!). I knew of each boat the moment I read its name (sometimes before), and I give this site most of the credit for that. I hope to continue soaking up freighter information and to add color to my future sketches, and boatnerd.com will be my resource!


Name: angeline panti
Location: philippines
Email: apayumo_pantiatyahoo.com
Date: 8/1/2002
Time: 12:09:02 AM
Remote Name: 202.81.160.23

Comments

i really hard to find the vessel m/v noble ace


Name: D. Hansen
Location: Collingwood Canada
Email: smallvanitiesatgeorgian.net
Date: 7/30/2002
Time: 2:56:33 PM
Remote Name: 207.61.218.213

Comments

I attended an auction here in Collingwood about a month ago and picked up some memorabilia from CSL (Canada Steamship Lines) including 6 large photos of the Hamonic while burning in 1945 near Sarnia. Did not know about the Hamonic (and other Great Lake Passenger Steamers) but now I do. Thanks.


Name: MICHAEL WARRICK
Location: FELIXSTOWE, ENGLAND
Email:
Date: 7/28/2002
Time: 10:45:14 AM
Remote Name: 195.93.50.167

Comments

I JUST WISH WE HAS THE GREAT LAKE BULKERS OVER HERE. I WATCHED ONE GOING THROUGH THE WELLAND CANAL ON MY VISIT TO CANADA, IT WAS A GREAT SITE.


Name: Susan McManaway
Location: Near Chicago
Email: womofmysataol.com
Date: 7/27/2002
Time: 11:24:25 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.209.170

Comments

Just checking out ship passages - since I spend time at the Lake Michigan shore and often would like to know which ships I see. Love the site. Thank you!


Name: Bill & Sue Majewski
Location: Duluth, Minnesota
Email: BSMAJEWSKIatAOL.COM
Date: 7/27/2002
Time: 9:28:06 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.189.104

Comments

Enjoying your website - so much information. We took a week-long trip with another couple on the John G. Munson in July. FABULOUS!! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Went from Duluth, Minnesota to Lorain, Ohio to unload taconite, then loaded coal in Sandusky, and unloaded coal in Ontanagon, Michigan. Highlights were the great crew, wonderful food, 4th of July fireworks on river in St. Clair, Michigan and fascination with the workings of the Munson. Thanks to all who made this great trip possible!


Name: Jim Angel
Location: "Grand Haven, Mi
Email:
Date: 7/26/2002
Time: 12:55:10 PM
Remote Name: 24.247.96.140

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Name: Patrick Bostwick
Location: Gwinn, MI
Email: evilratmonkeyathotmail.com
Date: 7/25/2002
Time: 5:39:01 PM
Remote Name: 24.247.33.250

Comments

Nice site, very interesting business. Shipping is cool and the boats are awesome.


Name: Bruce Wasbotten
Location: Minneapolis
Email: bruce.wasbottenatnwa.com
Date: 7/23/2002
Time: 2:26:04 PM
Remote Name: 216.160.63.202

Comments

I love that SOO Locks web cam!


Name: Debbie
Location: Florida
Email:
Date: 7/21/2002
Time: 9:51:35 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.209.170

Comments

GREAT SITE! Just go on to check one thing and end up browsing for hours.


Name: Vince Smith
Location: Florida
Email: vgs23atwebtv.net
Date: 7/19/2002
Time: 5:44:09 PM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.132

Comments

Just browsing ;


Name: tammy turner
Location: dayton,ohio
Email: cyber_girlatprodigy.net
Date: 7/18/2002
Time: 5:01:56 AM
Remote Name: 65.57.44.163

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Name: paul bikowski
Location: wisconsin
Email: brookwoodshoresatmsn.com
Date: 7/16/2002
Time: 10:57:57 PM
Remote Name: 216.145.172.156

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Name: rbe
Location: wisconsin
Email: rbe411
Date: 7/16/2002
Time: 10:48:43 PM
Remote Name: 216.145.172.156

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Name: Marvin R Lewis
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Email: marvo2ataol.com
Date: 7/16/2002
Time: 6:38:53 AM
Remote Name: 65.207.221.18

Comments

Great web Site!!


Name: Kenneth J. Fountain
Location: Biloxi, MS
Email:
Date: 7/14/2002
Time: 8:45:52 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.96.14

Comments

Sailed for Cleveland Cliffs - years 1948 through 1953 - wound up Great Lakes career as 3rd Mate on the Steamer Joliet - wife's orders. Also sailed on Steamers Michigan, Pontiac, Frontenac, Chacornac, and Negaunee.


Name: Marty Hayes
Location: MT. PLEASANT, MI.
Email: butchhayes0069ataol.com
Date: 7/10/2002
Time: 11:50:29 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.189.170

Comments

what a great website. i love the live cams and the weather maps.


Name: vinny j madison
Location: home
Email: vj1473mj
Date: 7/8/2002
Time: 8:15:39 PM
Remote Name: 172.140.38.82

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Name: vinny j madison
Location: home
Email: vj1473mj
Date: 7/8/2002
Time: 8:15:36 PM
Remote Name: 172.140.38.82

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Name: Julie vanLoon-Anderson
Location: Milwaukee
Email:
Date: 7/8/2002
Time: 4:25:47 PM
Remote Name: 63.189.64.114

Comments

My boyfriend sails as an AB deckhand, watchman and wheelsman for Interlake Steamship, and this website is just the cat's meow! He introduced me to it last year, and now I visit every couple of days and think it's just fantastic! It's addictive! Keep up the good work and we'll keep checking out your site--thank you for creating it!


Name: Julie vanLoon-Anderson
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Email: thelangstore05atearthlink.net
Date: 7/8/2002
Time: 4:12:03 PM
Remote Name: 63.189.64.114

Comments

I'm really enjoying this wonderful and informative web site. The shipping industry is very interesting and fun, and I've decided that the James R. Barker and the Herbert C. Jackson are the best boats. Please let me know what your favorite boats are!


Name: Jeffrey L. Berge
Location: Neenah WI
Email: jeffrey.l.bergeatlawrence.edu
Date: 7/1/2002
Time: 10:02:20 AM
Remote Name: 63.156.9.129

Comments

I had a blast on the "boatnerd cruise", just thought I'd let you know that I had a wonderful expierience. Allready making plans for next year, see you then!!!


Name: Dan Burkman
Location: Tucson, AZ
Email: burkman2atjuno.com
Date: 6/17/2002
Time: 9:21:42 PM
Remote Name: 66.53.73.249

Comments

I sailed for Inland Steel and on the International in the 1970's. I was a wiper, oiler and fireman. It was a good time and a great learning experience.


Name: Dan Burkman
Location: Tucson, AZ
Email: burkman2atjuno.com
Date: 6/17/2002
Time: 9:16:32 PM
Remote Name: 66.53.73.249

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Name: Kevin VonRiedel
Location: Marine on St. Croix, MN
Email: vinvon2000athotmail.com
Date: 6/13/2002
Time: 5:00:34 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.193.41

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Name: George Walton
Location: Easton, PA
Email: gwalton45atearthlink.net
Date: 6/5/2002
Time: 11:07:49 AM
Remote Name: 155.91.6.72

Comments

Looking for any old shipmates from Columbia. Sailed 1971-74 on the Ashland, Sylvania, Sensibar,Middletown, Tomlinson. Any one around?


Name: chuck jakway
Location: Fort Lauderdale Florida
Email: shipslogflataol.com
Date: 6/2/2002
Time: 10:48:43 AM
Remote Name: 67.32.222.254

Comments

I sailed aboard the U.S.Steel ore freighter Cason J. Callaway during the Summer of 1971 as an ordinary seaman-wiper on the 12 - 4 watch. I enjoyed my experiences on the lakes and like to keep up with shipping on the great lakes from time to time.


Name: Jim Arvin
Location: Belleville, Michigan
Email: j_arv_mi_1athotmail.com
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 11:50:12 PM
Remote Name: 68.42.25.73

Comments

This site is awesome!!! A friend from Great Lakes Charter told me about this site and I thank him for it. As a boater and future Captain I look forward to spending more time at this site. And I have passed on this site to my friends. Please keep up the GREAT JOB!!


Name: Dennis Hale
Location: Ashtabula, OH
Email: dennishaleatalltel.net
Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 11:21:51 AM
Remote Name: 166.102.225.213

Comments

I am the sole survivor of the shipwreck Daniel J. Morrell in November, 1966. If you're interested in my story or me giving a presentation, contact me through my email address.


Name: Paul Zink
Location: Wichita, KS
Email: pzinkatatt.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:25:14 PM
Remote Name: 63.30.132.161

Comments

I sailed the EMFord in 1970 as a deckhand (college kid)... loved it even though it was the last "hand-stoked" coal burner on the Lakes.. fond memories of that time, (and I ate a lot of cement...) Anyone around who sailed that year?


Name: Brent
Location: Columbus, OH
Email: rbe0611ataol.com
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 12:57:55 PM
Remote Name: 167.239.213.229

Comments

Very interesting site. My dad, Ronald Evans, spent years sailing for Columbia Transportation. I spent many hours around the docks waiting to see him when I was a kid. My first job after high school was as a coalpasser on the old G A Thomlinson. This site brings back a lot of memories.


Name: Pete Winkler
Location: Menominee,Michigan
Email: sweetwateratalphacomm.net
Date: 5/15/2002
Time: 10:29:41 PM
Remote Name: 198.69.163.177

Comments

Enjoyed the sight greatly and hope to visit often.


Name: Paula Lietzau
Location: Warren, MI
Email: pjaulaataol.com
Date: 5/14/2002
Time: 11:06:27 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.201.187

Comments

I first seen this sight at the parents of someone I was dating. I am a lighthouse collector/lover and I have heritege in the U.P (Escanaba). Freighters have always interested me as well. What a great site. I hope to soon submit some of the photos I have collected.


Name: MICHAEL LANEY
Location: SANDY HOOK, KY
Email:
Date: 5/13/2002
Time: 2:45:37 PM
Remote Name: 205.204.242.21

Comments

THIS WEB SITE KICK'S.. I FOUND A LOT OF INFO ON THE FREIGHTER THAT SAILS THE GREAT LAKES, AND I THINK THAT IS VERY INTERESTING


Name: Anna
Location: ON, Canada
Email: jwmercedes450slathotmail.com
Date: 5/11/2002
Time: 9:12:23 PM
Remote Name: 216.209.76.22

Comments

Your site was very interesting and enlightening. Thanks for all the info. Does anyone have any interest in a poster from the S.S. Aquarama? I have one I purchased from the ship when it was docked in my city on tour. Would be interested in selling it to someone who might get some enjoyment out of it. Email me with any offers.


Name: Ray Laurich
Location: Lake Linden Mi
Email: rjlauratup.net
Date: 5/11/2002
Time: 2:22:08 PM
Remote Name: 205.242.56.60

Comments

Great site. Sailed for Hanna from 1953 to 1964. Any old Hanna sailors out there?


Name: Ray Laurich
Location: Lake Linden Mi
Email: rjlauratup.net
Date: 5/9/2002
Time: 12:36:33 PM
Remote Name: 205.242.56.60

Comments

Good site for an old sailor. Made a few contacts.


Name: laura elizabeth
Location: holland christian middle school
Email:
Date: 5/1/2002
Time: 12:44:59 PM
Remote Name: 207.74.24.182

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Name: Tim Reetz
Location: Beverly Hills Michigan
Email: Treetzataol.com
Date: 4/30/2002
Time: 1:26:14 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.206.199

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Name: Todd Cooling
Location: Lyle,MN
Email: tacoolinatsmig.net
Date: 4/27/2002
Time: 6:45:03 PM
Remote Name: 216.188.193.17

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Name: James
Location: Glennie MI
Email: abwatchmanataol.com
Date: 4/24/2002
Time: 6:25:57 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.197.46

Comments

Looking for anyone who sailed with the Gregory J Busch a Great Lakes Tug Boat! Looking for pictures and conversation. I was what the guys called me, The Chief Engineer,(not Lic.)I trained all new engineers in 1988.I would like to talk to anyone who has worked from 1987 through 1989 and befor and after.Sure would like to swap some stories.Thanks all,and hope to hear from you.The Chief !


Name: Dr. Alfred Gerald Davison Ph.D.
Location: Denmark
Email: gerryatmarlab.dk
Date: 4/23/2002
Time: 5:12:48 PM
Remote Name: 62.79.25.198

Comments

Back in 1974/1975 I sailed as ERO on the "MV Bel Hudson". Does anyone know what happened to her ?


Name: Jim Marsden
Location: Stepehnville, NF
Email: jim.marsdenatnorthatlantic.nf.ca
Date: 4/19/2002
Time: 12:31:03 PM
Remote Name: 209.128.21.217

Comments

In 1980/81 I sailed with a guy by the name of Joe Hillier. We both sailed on the SILVER ISLE - now the ALGOISLE. He was originally from Harbour Breton, NF. Does anyone out there know where he is or what ever happened to him. Mail me!


Name: Charles Wieseckel
Location: McKees Rocks Pa.
Email: cwieseckelathotmail.com
Date: 4/17/2002
Time: 9:41:16 PM
Remote Name: 63.113.39.149

Comments

This is the greatest site I have found. I spend hours going through everything,most enjoyable. I hope to buy and build a ore carrier this summer. Thanks again for a fabulous site.


Name: Rogers Padgett
Location: Tampa
Email:
Date: 4/17/2002
Time: 1:46:13 PM
Remote Name: 64.244.182.174

Comments

I'm looking forward to the return of the regular Welland Canal vessel passage site. This official thing that's on there now is no fun! I loke to know where the ships are coming from and where they're going and their cargoes. I wish more sites displayed that info.


Name: Arnold Overby
Location: Beaver Bay, MN
Email: azago77athotmail.com
Date: 4/17/2002
Time: 12:35:00 AM
Remote Name: 216.70.3.3

Comments

Great web site. Article in Duluth paper today about the Algowood mentioned Boatnerd. My Dad worked on the ore docks in Two Harbors for 30 years and helped load many of the USS boats with iron ore.


Name: Diane
Location: Waterbury Ct.
Email:
Date: 4/13/2002
Time: 8:16:07 PM
Remote Name: 24.49.183.188

Comments

Love this site. Found it last summer after returning from a trip to the Inn at Lock Seven. Will continue to visit often.


Name: Jeff
Location: Crete, IL
Email: oldcoastie6468atyahoo.com
Date: 4/9/2002
Time: 10:46:18 AM
Remote Name: 65.58.40.40

Comments

Nice site. I was in the Coast Guard in Charlevoix, MI, in the mid-sixties, when lights such as White Shoal and Lansing Shoal were manned during the shipping season.


Name: Jeff
Location: Crete, IL
Email: oldcoastie6468atyahoo.com
Date: 4/9/2002
Time: 9:04:48 AM
Remote Name: 65.58.40.40

Comments

Nice site. I was in the Coast Guard in Charlevoix, MI, in the mid-sixties, when lights such as White Shoal and Lansing Shoal were manned during the shipping season.


Name: Rovergirl5000
Location: Kentucky
Email: shyme45atyahoo.com
Date: 4/8/2002
Time: 5:40:08 PM
Remote Name: 172.144.243.211

Comments

tys tuggins for recommending this site. I found it very interesting and will return.


Name: tom (marek) garrigan
Location: meriden, ct
Email: irishdiver69atnetscape.net
Date: 4/6/2002
Time: 9:45:14 PM
Remote Name: 68.14.9.96

Comments

grew up in manitowoc and saw nearly every boat that harbored there including the METEOR, the NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAS excursion ships, the coal carriers (REISS boats notably), and the car ferries. my grandfather DALE GARRIGAN worked the boats after WWII, but i never found out which ones he sailed on. maybe there's an "old timer" out there who might have known him...any info will be greatly appreciated!


Name: Laura S.
Location: Sheboygan, WI
Email: shipart at bytehead.com
Date: 4/3/2002
Time: 11:52:56 AM
Remote Name: 66.162.63.31

Comments

Hi, have been diving into this site for awhile now, finally got a computer to view it at home, I am absolutely nuts about what floats, just became US Coast Guaard artist so I have a year to get my stuff to NY. Nautical and maritime seascape acrylic paintings, commissions taken, so much canvas, so little time! I remember the Reiss boats here, painted the John A. Kling. I love your site, I love your site, it's absolutely fabulous.


Name: Bob Levy
Location: Ypsilanti,Mich
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 4/3/2002
Time: 8:15:36 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

Looking For Crew Position-Totaly relieble crewman available.Three years Coat Guard experience on 41 UTB's.One year tugs and tour boats.Completed USMA Fire School in Toledo.Does not smoke,drink or use drugs and always on time ready to work. Thank you Bob


Name: Bob Levy
Location: Ypsilanti,Mich
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 4/3/2002
Time: 8:14:50 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

Looking For Crew Position-Totaly relieble crewman available.Three years Coat Guard experience on 41 UTB's.One year tugs and tour boats.Completed USMA Fire School in Toledo.Does not smoke,drink or use drugs and always on time ready to work. Thank you Bob


Name: David A. Carson
Location: Wyandotte Yacht Club
Email: nuredfanataol.com
Date: 4/2/2002
Time: 2:52:15 PM
Remote Name: 209.130.208.18

Comments

Stop by for a Vist on the Beautiful Detroit River.


Name: jean-guy martin
Location: summerstown ontario
Email: buddymegatyahoo.ca
Date: 3/29/2002
Time: 12:58:52 PM
Remote Name: 216.254.192.14

Comments

love your news channel


Name: Jim & Sandy Wilson
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Email: crustycrewatattbi.com
Date: 3/27/2002
Time: 8:50:03 PM
Remote Name: 24.131.114.204

Comments

I've always loved this web site...looked at it every day at work for quite a few years now...now I've got my husband checking it out every day from home!! Keep up the good work!


Name: Lee
Location: Marblehead, Ohio
Email: traverseatcros.net
Date: 3/26/2002
Time: 6:16:20 PM
Remote Name: 216.206.238.86

Comments

This is a wonderful websight. I've spent quite a fews hours checking on all you have to offer. I'm lucky to have met my husband in '78' in Traverse City Michigan where he graduated from College. He is a Marine Engineer and has worked on many freighters since then. Untill meeting him I'd never paid much attention to the "big ships". I have been blessed with enjoying many wonderful trips aboard the ships he has worked on. Being his wife and he an Officer they allow you to travel 2 weeks a year! It's a wonderful trip to take, it's very relaxing and it's fun and amazing to watch how they bring tho's "big ships" in and dock them to load or unload. We have 2 beautiful children who have enjoyed going aboard to visit there dad and we have enjoyed alot of very good meals in the Officers Dining room. When you have had shipping in your life for more than 24 years the crew and all who work on them become part of your extended family. They watch your children grow up and you watch and hear about there family's as well. I wouldn't trade my life in for anything else even tho when your married to someone who is gone alot of time you do get lonely but with our children around all the time and the phone calls and letters we receive from him when he is away helps a great deal when he can not be at home with us. He worked on the " Richard Riess" for over 21 years. It's owned by Erie Sand and steamship company. They are not running that ship this year so he is now on the Burns Harbor. He has enjoyed fitting it out as Milwaukee is a wonderful city to enjoy when you are not at work. Thanks for this wonderful websight, It's great to see so many people who are interested in the Lakes and the "Big ships" that sail on them every year. May God bless all who work on them!


Name: bob foulis
Location: sarnia ontario
Email:
Date: 3/26/2002
Time: 1:22:49 PM
Remote Name: 64.228.197.124

Comments

love your site.loaded with hard to find history about the queens of the lakes.


Name: Charlie Bancroft
Location: Memphis, TN
Email: bancroftataglease.com
Date: 3/26/2002
Time: 10:28:22 AM
Remote Name: 209.214.193.81

Comments

Really enjoy your website. Came across is when I was researching for a story about the George A. Sloan. During the summers of 1952-53, when I was in college at Univ. Michigan..during the summers I was a deckhand on the Sloan. Have been searching for vintage pictures of the ship (1950)CREW LISTS,Ships log etc. Happy to find that she is still sailing the lakes allbeit now a self unloader, hauling most everything but iron ore like she used to.


Name: Chuck
Location: Holt, Michigan
Email: clay324ataol.com
Date: 3/19/2002
Time: 8:59:34 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.194.194

Comments

What a great site. I've been on for hours and will return. Thank you.


Name: Sandra
Location: Barrie ON
Email:
Date: 3/19/2002
Time: 1:45:36 PM
Remote Name: 209.212.58.199

Comments

Happened upon this site today and have been reminiscing about summer boat trips, when I was a child and my dad was a chief engineer on the lakes. Lots of fond memories of trips through the canal, identifying the boats we passed by their smoke stacks, blowing bubbles on the deck and the food!


Name: JOHN COLE
Location: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Email: JCOLE2atudc.state.utah.us
Date: 3/18/2002
Time: 3:17:07 PM
Remote Name: 168.178.73.6

Comments

I REALLY ENJOY YOUR WEBSITE. I LOOK AT IT EVERYDAY WHILE AT WORK.


Name: Mike
Location: London ON
Email: mwoodwardatodyssey.on.ca
Date: 3/17/2002
Time: 7:22:37 PM
Remote Name: 199.166.6.10

Comments

A wonderful site for someone who has had a lifelong love affair with the Lakes. I check it every day and download pics that grab my heart and memory. I painted pictures of lakers as a kid.. rode the London and Port Stanley Railway to the lakefront to gaze upon wonders like my first self-unloader, the BAYANNA. Grew up to do TV news and public affairs reports on gillnetters, research vessels, drillships, flat deckers and self-unloaders. Sailed as a photojournalist on J. N. MCWATTERS, JOHN A. FRANCE and CANADIAN PROGRESS. Would rather have a deck under my feet than the clouds of Paradise. A question: does anyone know what became of the steam tug HERCULES? She was, in the late forties, part of the Canadian Department of Public Works fleet, as companion to the steam dredge PWD #17, which wrecked at Port Stanley. Part of the dredge machinery is still on the harbour bed. HERCULES survived. She had a 3-cylinder double compound main engine, and even used a steam donkey for steering. I last heard of her off the Labrador coast. Can anyone help?


Name:
Location:
Email:
Date: 3/17/2002
Time: 7:05:40 PM
Remote Name: 199.166.6.10

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Name: Wendy Crawford
Location: Schaumburg, IL
Email: duluthmn79athotmail.com
Date: 3/17/2002
Time: 2:51:43 PM
Remote Name: 208.40.47.21

Comments

terrific website-held my interest for hours. will definitely visit again soon.


Name: Wendy
Location:
Email:
Date: 3/17/2002
Time: 2:49:48 PM
Remote Name: 208.40.47.21

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Name: Richard G. Pennycook
Location: Cross Plains,Tn.
Email: cnrpennatmsn.com
Date: 3/16/2002
Time: 3:44:36 PM
Remote Name: 65.135.140.172

Comments

Great Site ! Worked on the lakes for 59 60 61 62 with Bethlehem Trans.Corp. on Stmrs Bethlehem Johnstown Sparrows Point Arthur B.Homer. Grand Father George was Chief Engr.on the Edward Y.Townsend for 60 yrs.!


Name: Richard G. Pennycook
Location: Cross Plains,Tn.
Email: cnrpennatmsn.com
Date: 3/16/2002
Time: 3:41:24 PM
Remote Name: 65.135.140.172

Comments

Great Site ! Worked on the lakes for 59 60 61 with Bethlehem Trans.Corp. on StmrsBethlehem Johnstown Sparrows Point Arthur B.Homer.Grand Father George was Chief Engr.on the Edward Y. Townsend for 60 yrs.!


Name: kenneth jones
Location: skanee, mi.
Email: logger_2001atyahoo.com
Date: 3/12/2002
Time: 10:07:25 PM
Remote Name: 205.242.56.60

Comments

great site. my grandfather was a lightkeeper at detour for many years. my dad sailed for a while on the ralph h. watson.


Name: richard buckler
Location: montreal
Email: packrat108athotmail.com
Date: 3/11/2002
Time: 7:48:26 PM
Remote Name: 64.228.247.167

Comments

i am looking for photos from people that might have photos of ships owned by buckport shipping co in the early 60s. i have photos of sum from great lakes vessels index.


Name: richard buckler
Location: montreal
Email: packrat108athotmail.com
Date: 3/8/2002
Time: 9:34:24 PM
Remote Name: 64.228.250.147

Comments

i am looking for info. on ships owned by buckport shipping co. of montreal. the names are island king,new york news, outarde,lynn b,boyle , bullpulp.any info. would be of help


Name: JIM BODINE
Location: NEWPORT MI.
Email: walleyeguy77athotmail.com
Date: 3/8/2002
Time: 2:16:20 PM
Remote Name: 64.152.157.40

Comments

GREAT SITE ! LIVEING ON LAKE ERIE ALL MY LIFE I HAVE ALLWAYS LOVED WATCHING AND EVEN TAKEING MY BOAT UP CLOSE TO THESE MONSTERS. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF WE COULD ACTUALY RIDE ON ONE ? IF SO PLEASE E MAIL ME ITS MY ALTIMATE DREAM !!!


Name: Heidi Ehret
Location: Columbus, OH
Email: heidiattheoec.org
Date: 3/6/2002
Time: 11:29:38 AM
Remote Name: 65.24.108.37

Comments

Hi, my name is Heidi Ehret and I work on air quality issues on behalf of the Ohio Environmental Council. One of the issues that we focus on is climate change and I am trying to get in contact with business people, government officials, water recreators, marina owners, and individuals within the shipping industry who are concerned about the issue of global warming and how it could impact Great Lakes water levels. I was wondering if you, or someone you know, fits into one of those categories and might be interested in working with me on this issue. If so, please let me know. Thanks! Heidi Ehret Clean Air Coordinator Ohio Environmental Council 1207 Grandview Ave, Suite 201 Columbus, OH 43212-3449 PH: (614) 487-7506


Name: D.Paavola
Location: Copper Country
Email: dpaavolaatup.net
Date: 3/5/2002
Time: 10:42:56 PM
Remote Name: 205.242.56.60

Comments

What a wonderfull site! My father in law Captain Friendly Bob Adams who worked hard to get the tug races back on the Detroit River would sure be impressed.


Name: Donald Binkowski
Location: Ashland & Wausau
Email: flowergrlatcenturytel.netFLOWERGRLatCENTURYTEL.NET
Date: 3/5/2002
Time: 4:25:02 AM
Remote Name: 209.206.151.253

Comments

Have retired and was looking to find some of my co-workers, email me here and i will write asp Don (Bink) Binkowski


Name: Austin
Location: Alvin Texas
Email: createdin9minataol.com
Date: 3/4/2002
Time: 6:34:50 PM
Remote Name: 68.82.43.197

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Name: J.C. "Pete" McIntyre
Location: Cable, Wisconsin
Email: McIntyreatcheqnet.net
Date: 3/4/2002
Time: 2:32:49 PM
Remote Name: 64.33.183.28

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Name: randall kuehnle
Location: durand mich
Email: randygumpataol.com
Date: 3/3/2002
Time: 2:23:04 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.107.168

Comments

HAVE BEEN WATCHING FREIGHTERS FOR YEARS, JUST WISH THERE WAS MORE OF THE OLDER STYLE BOATS STILL AROUND.


Name: Bud Schroder
Location: Pinckney,MI.
Email: Schroderbatdteenergy.com
Date: 3/1/2002
Time: 3:32:27 AM
Remote Name: 65.215.68.202

Comments

Great site. Would like to here from any old friends from my days on the Adam E. and buffalo. Hey bosun Bill mulchaey, remember the lay-up party for the adam in superior,WI?


Name: James R Garrity
Location: Branford, Fl
Email: jaspat79athotmail.com
Date: 2/27/2002
Time: 4:22:32 PM
Remote Name: 65.229.37.227

Comments

Worked on the D&C LINES, Kelly Island Sand, Moore McMorcomick and the USCE as a seaman and purser...would like to hear from any one interest in this area. Great site. Jim


Name: Julie Fletcher
Location: Thorold, Ont.
Email: julie.fletcheratsympatico.ca
Date: 2/23/2002
Time: 11:48:31 AM
Remote Name: 216.209.140.78

Comments

wonderful sight. After 15 years of sailing,and a father who sailed for 44 years it's definatley in the blood. I knew when I was a 10 year old kid that I too, would sail as did my brother and sister. Even Mother has a discharge book and discharge.I have thousands of photos of my own and my Dad's. Maybe you could use one for photo of the week.


Name: Julie Fletcher
Location: Thorold, Ont.
Email: julie.fletcheratsympatico.ca
Date: 2/23/2002
Time: 11:47:59 AM
Remote Name: 216.209.140.78

Comments

wonderful sight. After 15 years of sailing,and a father who sailed for 44 years it's definatley in the blood. I knew when I was a 10 year old kid that I too, would sail as did my brother and sister. Even Mother has a discharge book and discharge.I have thousands of photos of my own and my Dad's. Maybe you could use one for photo of the week.


Name: Doris Blackburn Morley
Location: CA
Email: ddacresatdirectcon.net
Date: 2/22/2002
Time: 6:05:30 PM
Remote Name: 209.233.107.114

Comments

My grgrandfather, Martin Blackburn, was owner and Captain of several ships on the Great Lakes (two of them were the Roscius and the San Jacinto). I have a copy of his obituary which was printed in the Evanston Index on 4 Aug, 1897. He figured in the attempted rescue of the schooner Arab. There was quite a long article naming the above ships, plus the tug Protection and the steamer Ackley. I will be happy to share a copy of the article to anyone who is interested.


Name: Thomas Hughes
Location: Ft Worth, Texas
Email: m.l.hughesatcharter.net
Date: 2/15/02
Time: 5:53:48 PM
Remote Name: 66.169.167.148

Comments

When I lived in the Chicago area I used to love to vist the U.P. and Soo locks. This site is a great way to keep in touch with that area now that I am so far away.


Name: ray
Location: port huron mich.
Email: madrayatboatnerd.com
Date: 2/14/02
Time: 6:46:47 PM
Remote Name: 216.115.93.124

Comments

am looking for information and picture of old tugboat john brice.can anyone help?


Name: tammy alkire
Location: Manistee , Michigan
Email: michigan49660atmsn.com
Date: 2/14/02
Time: 5:24:39 AM
Remote Name: 216.109.206.217

Comments

i like watch the fright come in and out of manistee and to watch the sunset to over lake michigan to.


Name: Frank Johnson
Location: Liverpool, NY
Email: kiowa1atprodigy.net
Date: 2/10/02
Time: 9:46:36 PM
Remote Name: 24.97.118.135

Comments

What a wonderful site, Thank you


Name: Donald Dicke
Location: Sheboygan Falls, WI
Email: tnytrsratbytehead.com
Date: 2/10/02
Time: 5:46:12 PM
Remote Name: 66.162.63.175

Comments


Name: Sharon Cameron Walla
Location: Bayfield, Wisc.
Email: flowergrlatcenturytel.net
Date: 2/5/02
Time: 12:02:49 AM
Remote Name: 209.206.151.153

Comments

I have been on the Indiana Harbor in Ashland, also have been on the William R Roesch. Made a trip to Drummond Island to see how the inside of the ore boats works when loading and unloading stone. Memories that I'll always cherish.


Name: Sharon Cameron Walla
Location: Bayfield, Wisc.
Email: flowergrlatcenturytel.net
Date: 2/4/02
Time: 11:55:24 PM
Remote Name: 209.206.151.153

Comments

In my family, most of my uncles have sailed the Great Lakes and also a few friends I've lost contact with: Raymond Jurkovich, Andy Anderson, Donald Binkowski, Steve Peterson William Arseneau. This is a great web site. Sincerely, Sharon


Name: Sharon Cameron Walla
Location: Bayfield, Wisc.
Email: flowergrlatcenturytel.net
Date: 2/4/02
Time: 11:55:15 PM
Remote Name: 209.206.151.153

Comments

In my family, most of my uncles have sailed the Great Lakes and also a few friends I've lost contact with: Raymond Jurkovich, Andy Anderson, Donald Binkowski, Steve Peterson William Arseneau. This is a great web site. Sincerely, Sharon


Name: Edward Thuning
Location: Sandusky, Ohio
Email: thuningataol.com
Date: 1/28/02
Time: 10:29:50 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.106.28

Comments


Name: Edward thuning
Location: Sandusky, Ohio
Email: ETHomephoneatboatnerd.com
Date: 1/28/02
Time: 10:28:45 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.106.28

Comments


Name: steve ellery
Location: midland,ontario.ca
Email: ships_innathotmail.com
Date: 1/27/02
Time: 1:22:19 PM
Remote Name: 64.231.234.112

Comments

I just had to repost again,love all the wonderfull comments i've on read sailing here,i for 1 and along with many others have it in there blood.Even though i only have done longshore work,mostly wintergang stuff,my family have long history of sailing and growing up in what was once a main port of call for these ships, i see very few now so it is a great throw back for me,also as light houses go i have a friend who grew up on hope island and parents ran the light house,some may look for a video and book i believe is called "lighthouses along the bay" you will enjoy very much,once again great site!


Name: steve ellery
Location: midland
Email: ships_innathotmail.com
Date: 1/27/02
Time: 12:55:52 PM
Remote Name: 64.231.234.112

Comments

Good site, keep up the great work,1st time visitor,i have many relatives that sailed,my own father Earl Ellery was a wheelsman for years,my uncle Dick Leaney..capt,and eventually commodore of CSL and # of others as well,this site brings back memmories thank you!


Name: Ron.Marofsky
Location: Warren Mich.
Email: PsychodadXXataol.com
Date: 1/27/02
Time: 12:13:12 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.102.34

Comments

Great site ---- The news channel is Superior.


Name: J Dean
Location: Cayuga Ont Ca
Email: lrgatinterlynx.net
Date: 1/20/02
Time: 7:46:17 AM
Remote Name: 209.183.16.1

Comments

Great site!!!


Name: al bilsland
Location: newport,mi
Email: albilslandatnetscap.com
Date: 1/18/02
Time: 1:51:52 AM
Remote Name: 24.247.52.188

Comments


Name: dorothy
Location: U of DMercy Law School
Email: cooperdfatudmercy.edu
Date: 1/17/02
Time: 10:11:38 AM
Remote Name: 198.109.27.14

Comments

terrific web page!!


Name: alan
Location: lapeer,MI
Email: bclinksatmuxlow.ton
Date: 1/15/02
Time: 1:19:42 PM
Remote Name: 204.39.231.62

Comments

I also would very much like to ride on a Great Lakes frieghter. Please let me on a frieghter sometime. I love frieghters more than anything on Earth!!!


Name: alan mmuxlow
Location: lapeer,MI
Email: blclinksatmuxlow.ton
Date: 1/15/02
Time: 1:15:57 PM
Remote Name: 204.39.231.62

Comments

I have a house on the St. Marys River just pass the rock cut on the downbound side of Neebish Island. I draw and paint ships all the time. I use this site all the time every day. I also just love watching the frieghters go by my house.


Name: Hamilton "Moon" Morrison
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Email: hamilton.morrison.vesattcss.net
Date: 1/10/02
Time: 4:53:57 PM
Remote Name: 216.79.38.2

Comments

I sailed on the Enders M. Voorhees in the summer of 1970, right out of high school. Joined the Coast Guard after that. I love this web site, it is so full of great information. Former Coasties, take a look at fredsplace.org for lots of Coasties information.


Name: Bob
Location: Ypsilanti
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 1/10/02
Time: 7:54:34 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

Looking for crew position on tugs in the Detroit/Toledo area.Will work one trip or as needed.Don't mind the cold fowl weather such as snow,sleet and ice.I always work safely and don't drink or use drugs.You will as a tug operator get your moneys worth from me.Lets Go To Work!


Name: Bob
Location: Ypsilanti
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 1/10/02
Time: 7:54:21 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

Looking for crew position on tugs in the Detroit/Toledo area.Will work one trip or as needed.Don't mind the cold fowl weather such as snow,sleet and ice.I always work safely and don't drink or use drugs.You will as a tug operator get your moneys worth from me.Lets Go To Work!


Name: Bob
Location: Ypsilanti
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 1/10/02
Time: 7:54:09 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

Looking for crew position on tugs in the Detroit/Toledo area.Will work one trip or as needed.Don't mind the cold fowl weather such as snow,sleet and ice.I always work safely and don't drink or use drugs.You will as a tug operator get your moneys worth from me.Lets Go To Work!


Name: Bob
Location: Ypsilanti
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 1/10/02
Time: 7:52:52 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

Looking for crew position on tugs in the Detroit/Toledo area.Will work one trip or as needed.Don't mind the cold fowl weather such as snow,sleet and ice.I always work safely and don't drink or use drugs.You will as a tug operator get your moneys worth from me.Lets Go To Work!


Name: Perk
Location: Camano Island, WA
Email: perkatcamano.net
Date: 1/7/02
Time: 8:11:29 PM
Remote Name: 12.18.152.3

Comments

Great site ! I sailed for Cliffs in the 50's and 60's. Mather, Hennepin, Camplain, Cadillac, Frontenac, Michigan (first ship), and EB Green.


Name: drew
Location: ohio
Email: drewatwilliams-net.com
Date: 1/7/02
Time: 12:00:27 AM
Remote Name: 207.19.167.18

Comments

hello all


Name: drew
Location: ohio
Email: drewatwilliams-net.com
Date: 1/7/02
Time: 12:00:19 AM
Remote Name: 207.19.167.18

Comments

hello all


Name: stan
Location: manitoba
Email: staniiathotmail.com
Date: 1/6/02
Time: 10:51:19 PM
Remote Name: 205.200.47.156

Comments

just great


Name: Abby
Location: Wyandotte, MI
Email:
Date: 1/6/02
Time: 10:11:42 PM
Remote Name: 66.73.9.253

Comments

HI!!!!! Pretty Pictures!!!!!!!! :-D i like boats!


Name: Mick Edwards
Location: Illinois
Email: btch247athotmail.com
Date: 1/6/02
Time: 3:32:30 AM
Remote Name: 12.2.232.78

Comments


Name: Patricia L.
Location: Saginaw
Email: plp5662ataol.com
Date: 1/4/02
Time: 8:26:48 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.103.29

Comments

What a geat website. This is my first visit and I will be back here many times. Thank-You to all who work with it.


Name: Mike
Location: Milwaukee
Email: madmikeatwi.rr.com
Date: 1/4/02
Time: 1:36:21 PM
Remote Name: 216.47.251.18

Comments

This is a GREAT site!! I've been fascinated with ships since I was a kid. This site is one of my favorites on the Web


Name: Charlie McCormic
Location: Monticello, MN
Email: charliematglobalcrossing.net
Date: 1/3/02
Time: 11:58:20 AM
Remote Name: 64.24.30.27

Comments

Being a Great Lakes Boater (recreational/power), I find this an interesting site.


Name: Dave Morse
Location: Mackinaw City, MI
Email: davmorsatracc2000.com
Date: 1/2/02
Time: 1:21:19 PM
Remote Name: 207.75.171.229

Comments

Retired Captain of the NOAA Research Vessel SHENEHON


Name: Dave Morse
Location: Mackinaw City, MI
Email: davmorsatracc2000.com
Date: 1/2/02
Time: 1:19:32 PM
Remote Name: 207.75.171.229

Comments


Name: Dave Morse
Location: Mackinaw City, MI
Email: davmorsatracc2000.com
Date: 1/2/02
Time: 1:18:00 PM
Remote Name: 207.75.171.229

Comments


Name: Lionel Munro
Location: Tucson, AZ
Email: lmunrosprintatearthlink.net
Date: 12/26/01
Time: 10:07:07 PM
Remote Name: 66.1.47.145

Comments

Have been monitoring this site for quite some time. Neil does a fantastic job! I sailed for Pittsburgh on the Gary, the Olds, the Avery and a few others from '58 to '71. Never steady always jumping around. It was a good life and made lots of friends.


Name: john w robertson sr
Location: avon lake, ohio
Email: robbie1atnowonline.n
Date: 12/26/01
Time: 8:57:01 PM
Remote Name: 64.208.145.215

Comments

Like the articals in all publications as am a model builder of lighthouses. Have over 60 Models of lake Erie lights including the Canadain side of the lake. All musuem case type , scale. looking for artical on lighthouses of Lake Erie durning the 1800s.


Name: Bill Tolowitzki
Location: Olmsted Township,Ohio
Email: BTolowitzkiatAOL.com
Date: 12/26/01
Time: 7:47:51 PM
Remote Name: 172.171.50.211

Comments


Name: buzz achinger
Location: toledo
Email: achingerataol.com
Date: 12/24/01
Time: 10:14:40 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.207.197

Comments


Name: Bob Alvarez
Location: Lamoine Maine
Email: seameatpanax.com
Date: 12/24/01
Time: 6:56:49 AM
Remote Name: 65.114.190.9

Comments

I build folk art model mostly tugs and am much impressed with this newly discovered site.Thanks for a great resourse Bob


Name: escape artist
Location: sheboygan, WI
Email:
Date: 12/23/01
Time: 6:11:43 PM
Remote Name: 65.31.104.105

Comments

po. 764 Sheboygan WI 53082 marine artist


Name: escape artist
Location: sheboygan, WI
Email:
Date: 12/23/01
Time: 6:11:32 PM
Remote Name: 65.31.104.105

Comments

po. 764 Sheboygan WI 53082 marine artist


Name: escape artist
Location: sheboygan, WI
Email:
Date: 12/23/01
Time: 6:11:18 PM
Remote Name: 65.31.104.105

Comments

po. 764 Sheboygan WI 53082 marine artist


Name: Billy M. Fowler
Location: Alabama
Email: bfowleratblountsville.net
Date: 12/23/01
Time: 8:17:50 AM
Remote Name: 12.150.229.73

Comments

Excellent site. I sailed on the Eugene P. Thomas, 1950, George A. Sloan, 51, 52, 53, Leon Fraser 55 and 56. All ships with Captain C.J. Brinker.


Name:
Location:
Email:
Date: 12/23/01
Time: 12:00:33 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments


Name: Gerry Williams
Location: Richmond, Michigan
Email: gpwillmsatklondyke.net
Date: 12/21/01
Time: 11:47:54 AM
Remote Name: 67.164.186.96

Comments


Name: J.J.JORDAN
Location: Rockaway,N.J.07866
Email: jayko251atyahoo.com
Date: 12/21/01
Time: 12:05:10 AM
Remote Name: 64.157.68.76

Comments

excellent site.


Name: J.J.JORDAN
Location: Rockaway,N.J.07866
Email: jayko251atyahoo.com
Date: 12/21/01
Time: 12:05:02 AM
Remote Name: 64.157.68.76

Comments

excellent site.


Name: c wise
Location: port lambton ont.
Email: wiseriveroneataol.com
Date: 12/6/01
Time: 12:32:24 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.22

Comments

just moved to the river a year ago the ships that go by the house day and night are just great ! keep up the good work boatnerds.


Name: c wise
Location: port lambton ont.
Email: wiseriveroneataol.com
Date: 12/6/01
Time: 12:32:13 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.22

Comments

just moved to the river a year ago the ships that go by the house day and night are just great ! keep up the good work boatnerds.


Name: c wise
Location: port lambton ont.
Email: wiseriveroneataol.com
Date: 12/6/01
Time: 12:17:26 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.22

Comments


Name: Gavin
Location: Burns Harbor, IN
Email: zapatgathotmail.com
Date: 12/2/01
Time: 1:58:57 PM
Remote Name: 4.43.145.107

Comments

Hey all...got a friend who is a merchant mariner on the Richard Reese right now. I've been on great lakes' websites for nearly 2 hrs now just exploring his job...Wow, man, these are some hard workers!


Name: Joy Norton
Location: Las  Vegas,   NV
Email: Joyfulatlvcm.com
Date: 12/2/01
Time: 12:09:34 AM
Remote Name: 24.234.254.211

Comments


Name: Ted Knack
Location: St Paul Park,Mn
Email: tksteamatwebtv.net
Date: 11/29/01
Time: 7:22:15 PM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

I would just like to say who took the pictures by canal park the day of the storm sure did a good job thanks for getting them on the internet.


Name: Jen
Location: Duluth, MN
Email: pixiefixathotmail.com
Date: 11/28/01
Time: 12:22:40 PM
Remote Name: 209.240.226.20

Comments


Name: Jane Barker
Location: Port Perry
Email: janeatinterlinks.net
Date: 11/26/01
Time: 7:40:57 PM
Remote Name: 209.5.79.35

Comments

Sad to learn of the fate of the J.W. Westcott and the folks aboard.


Name:
Location:
Email:
Date: 11/25/01
Time: 4:06:48 PM
Remote Name: 64.228.250.63

Comments


Name: Robert McCartney
Location: Salmon Point Ontario
Email: lorna.bobatsympatico.ca
Date: 11/25/01
Time: 4:04:39 PM
Remote Name: 64.228.250.63

Comments


Name: Patrick Remis
Location: Holmen, WI
Email: GLakesDivrataol.com
Date: 11/25/01
Time: 10:54:10 AM
Remote Name: 64.12.105.34

Comments

Very informative site! We dive Superior and Michigan so I'll be using your site and links for reference often.


Name: Sara Sheehan
Location: Fairmont, West Virginia
Email: Waterside17ataol.com
Date: 11/21/01
Time: 8:13:34 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.193.39

Comments

This is a cool site! Just thought I would say "hi" to my dad Clarke Sheehan. He is a captain with Cleveland Tankers.


Name: John Robertson
Location: Melbourne Australia
Email: macrobatalphalink.com.au
Date: 11/21/01
Time: 6:29:17 AM
Remote Name: 202.161.127.17

Comments

Was at sea a long time ago as an engineer foreign going. First time in and looking around.


Name: Dave  Fixel
Location: Wooster,  Oh.
Email: lexif1atearthlink.net
Date: 11/19/01
Time: 9:06:27 PM
Remote Name: 63.16.252.44

Comments

Am currently a Second Assistant Engineer with the Oglebay Norton Fleet.


Name: Bob Levy
Location: Ypsilanti,Mich
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 11/19/01
Time: 9:45:03 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

CREW POSITITION WANTED (TUGS)-Looking for position out of the the ports of Detroit/ Toledo.Like working in winter and don't mind snow,sleet and cold.Also completed the USMA Fire School and am 96 days from sitting for the A/B exam.Am available from December 8th on.Thanks Bob (734)572-8955 CBLevyatwebtv.net


Name: Bob Levy
Location: Ypsilanti,Mich
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 11/19/01
Time: 9:37:51 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

CREW POSITITION WANTED (TUGS)-Looking for position out of the the ports of Detroit/ Toledo.Like working in winter and don't mind snow,sleet and cold.Also completed the USMA Fire School and am 96 fay from taking the A/B exam.Have "Z" card,don't drink,smoke or use drugs.Available after December 8th.Thanks Bob.(734)572-8955,CBLevyatwebtv.net


Name: thomas a censke
Location: eben jnct MICHIGAN
Email: thomasacenskeattds.net
Date: 11/16/01
Time: 10:21:23 AM
Remote Name: 208.166.200.49

Comments

I really enjoy this site. I worked and lived around lakes most of life. As well have several relatives retired from shipping. This place is so cool it allows access to so many topics, and companies. Thank You Nerds


Name: Russell Davis
Location: Orlando, Fla.
Email: rdavisglobalatcfl.rr.com
Date: 11/13/01
Time: 10:26:05 PM
Remote Name: 65.35.4.140

Comments

Having been a yearly visitor to Neebish Island from the mid 40's and staying at Jim Cummings cabins I would like to speak with anyone that has knowledge of that area. My fathers name was Donald Davis.


Name: Francisco Carballo
Location: Delavan, WI.
Email: usnret20atcharter.net
Date: 11/13/01
Time: 1:23:04 PM
Remote Name: 24.159.248.110

Comments

Like the site a lot.


Name: Jason
Location: knoxville, TN
Email: ogradyj54athotmail.com
Date: 11/12/01
Time: 6:00:30 PM
Remote Name: 24.250.75.219

Comments

What a wonderful site! I just moved to Tennessee after 23 years (my whole life) in Michigan splitting time on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Does anyone have any ideas where I could find some pictures of some good Great Lakes Storms, I'd like to show some of my new buddies what the weather is like on the Lakes in the Gale season.


Name: richard buckler
Location: montreal
Email: packrat108athotmail.com
Date: 11/10/01
Time: 11:50:01 PM
Remote Name: 64.228.250.186

Comments

i like your photos but i would like to see more older freighters under 300 ft. long


Name: Peter J Whitehead
Location: Victoria BC
Email: pejayatshaw.ca
Date: 11/10/01
Time: 1:20:09 AM
Remote Name: 24.70.211.43

Comments

One of these days I would like to sail on the Great Lakes but until then your web site will do me just fine.


Name: Jane Rice
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Email: brian4janeathotmail.com
Date: 11/7/01
Time: 8:47:45 AM
Remote Name: 144.160.0.83

Comments

I worked with Kathy, captain of the Westcott II, at Ameritech during her last year before she retired. We all here are deeply saddened and send our love and sympathy to her family.


Name: Bill Hanrahan
Location: Yoop
Email: hanrahanatchartermi.net
Date: 11/6/01
Time: 8:03:01 AM
Remote Name: 165.83.163.214

Comments

Drop me a line Tom Spratt.


Name: R. H. Breidenich
Location: Mobile Bay, AL
Email: breidenratbellsouth.net
Date: 11/5/01
Time: 4:43:12 PM
Remote Name: 216.78.114.36

Comments

Just keeping up on the happenings while down south for the winter.


Name: Jonathon Lallo
Location: Hartville, Ohio
Email: jonathonlalloatexcite .com
Date: 11/5/01
Time: 1:23:40 PM
Remote Name: 24.166.112.182

Comments

Great Site


Name: Robin Burris
Location: North Bass Island, Lake Erie
Email: mattnrobinatprodigy.net
Date: 11/5/01
Time: 1:20:18 PM
Remote Name: 63.252.146.176

Comments

What a great site. I grew up on North Bass Island in Lake Erie. We have no stores, no restaurants, only grape vineyards. So when the big ships go past our house at night we love to watch them as they have more lights than all of North Bass put together. As long as I can remember they have reminded me of giant Christmas trees all lit up gently floating by.


Name: Wally Grisold
Location: toronto, on
Email: wagrisoldatyahoo.ca
Date: 11/5/01
Time: 9:52:26 AM
Remote Name: 65.92.88.87

Comments

just read the latest Great Laker, brings back memories.


Name: HAROLD RADTKE
Location: SAULT, MI.
Email: HALRADatWEBTV.NET
Date: 11/5/01
Time: 7:04:42 AM
Remote Name: 209.240.222.32

Comments

VERY INFORMATIVE. BRINGS BACK MANY GOOD MEMORIES OF MY STEAMBOAT DAYS


Name: Alf Nurse
Location: St.Lawrence/1000 Islands
Email: Shandaatsympatico.ca
Date: 11/4/01
Time: 3:05:37 PM
Remote Name: 216.209.122.83

Comments

Just visited your site for the first time, it won't be the last!


Name: Tom Chabot
Location: xxxxxxxxxx
Email: xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 11/1/01
Time: 10:43:02 AM
Remote Name: 63.137.232.9

Comments

Hi Tommy Martinson, Yes I remember you.How have you been. It's been alot of years. I'm working in Gaylord now as a Purchasing Agent for Forrest Bro's Inc. Write when you can. Tom.


Name: Denise Murray
Location: spring lake michigan
Email: denisematbarrettboatworks.com
Date: 10/31/01
Time: 3:30:01 PM
Remote Name: 24.247.111.17

Comments

Just found your site. Very informative and I enjoyed it.


Name: Denise Murray
Location: spring lake michigan
Email: denisematbarrettboatworks.com
Date: 10/31/01
Time: 3:29:53 PM
Remote Name: 24.247.111.17

Comments

Just found your site. Very informative and I enjoyed it.


Name: Dusty Walker
Location: Streetsboro, OH
Email: dustychryslerataol.com
Date: 10/29/01
Time: 1:50:48 PM
Remote Name: 204.210.172.38

Comments

Does anyone remember the S.S. Aquarama? Lake Erie day cruise ship/Cleveland to Detroit/1957-1962? I was often aboard as a young girl. Currently in serious disrepair & has not operated for DECADES!!


Name: Frank L. Tabor
Location: St. Clair, MI, on the Big River
Email: taborkz8mataol.com
Date: 10/27/01
Time: 10:30:21 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.195.164

Comments

Boatnerd is a super site. Excellent marine news. A great deal of shipping and port info. I especeally enjoy use of your many, many links to other Great Lakes related activities. Please continue!


Name: Frank L. Tabor
Location: St. Clair, MI, on the Big River
Email: taborkz8mataol.com
Date: 10/27/01
Time: 10:30:14 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.195.164

Comments

Boatnerd is a super site. Excellent marine news. A great deal of shipping and port info. I especeally enjoy use of your many, many links to other Great Lakes related activities. Please continue!


Name: Lonnie Cox
Location: Topeka KS
Email:
Date: 10/24/01
Time: 2:21:56 PM
Remote Name: 198.26.130.36

Comments

Just got back from a few days in Marquette MI. Also drove up to Copper Harbor. Beautiful scenery - saw a few shipe out on Superior. Had 2 that were being loaded in Marquette. Went to Duluth last summer. I'll be going back. Great web site.


Name: Clare Westcott
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Email: torpolcomathotmail.com
Date: 10/24/01
Time: 1:07:52 PM
Remote Name: 65.92.100.125

Comments

Sailed on the (Patterson) Bricoldoc (it seems) 100 years ago - Actually it was in the 30`s one Summer on Lake Huron.


Name: Tom Martinson
Location: Manton, MI
Email: polecat1959athotmail.com
Date: 10/15/01
Time: 3:39:30 PM
Remote Name: 64.7.173.44

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been here before and i like it. Hey Tom Chabot do you remember me? I sailed the cement bosts with you.


Name: Capt. D.L.Hill
Location: Beaufort,N.C.
Email: hill2660atyahoo.com
Date: 10/15/01
Time: 2:10:34 PM
Remote Name: 208.11.172.34

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Name: Magnus Baecklund
Location: Now, Gdansk Poland
Email: magnusatpro.onet.pl
Date: 10/15/01
Time: 10:27:42 AM
Remote Name: 193.219.28.144

Comments

Like your sight. Nevr saild on the lakes but been around the world.


Name: Mark Riley
Location:
Email: st36aratearthlink.com
Date: 10/13/01
Time: 8:57:39 AM
Remote Name: 63.10.187.215

Comments

My great grandfather was captain of a ship that sank and he was drowned. He was born probably around the 1840,s. His name was Mark Grahm. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you


Name: Mark Riley
Location: West Seneca NY 14224
Email:
Date: 10/13/01
Time: 8:52:48 AM
Remote Name: 63.10.187.215

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Name: Stephen C. Sattler
Location: Delaware. Ohio
Email: StSattleratColumbus.rr.com
Date: 10/13/01
Time: 8:21:25 AM
Remote Name: 24.95.79.61

Comments

Thanks for putting so much together for easy access. Love the boats, love the site. Would like to learn of a way that I could identify the vessels passing through the locks at the Soo as they arrive rather than a day or so later. Is that possible?


Name:
Location:
Email:
Date: 10/12/01
Time: 4:32:01 PM
Remote Name: 144.167.23.123

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Name: James MacKinnon
Location: Williamsburg, Michigan
Email:
Date: 10/11/01
Time: 8:26:28 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.103.159

Comments

I have only been a user of the internet for a week. One of the first topics I investigated was great lakes shipping. I stumbled upon your web site and can't seem to leave! Thank you. I really enjoy visiting.


Name: Bob Gallandt
Location: Mid michigan
Email: bobgatsensible-net.com
Date: 10/10/01
Time: 11:28:35 AM
Remote Name: 209.69.140.223

Comments

Really great seeing the Mail boat .. Mr Wescott was my next door neighbor when I was growing up in Detroit.. I shoveled his snow. Got a ride when I was a kid and I still remember it. GREAT PAGE thanks for letting me "stept back to cloverlawn" Pleased to see the "Service continues"


Name: Mary G
Location: Duluth, MN
Email: beach60516ataol.com
Date: 10/9/01
Time: 10:43:30 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.204.62

Comments

Love this site and all the wonderful pictures, etc. Lake Superior is in my back yard. I have grown up here and love boats, any kind of boat. I live on a small island sand spit in Duluth. It doesn't get any better than this spot (in the summer that is!)


Name: peter strbavy
Location: thunder bay ontario
Email: strbavyattbaytel.net
Date: 10/4/01
Time: 9:17:59 PM
Remote Name: 206.186.170.108

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Just played the song from Gordon Lightfoot and wondered the date that the Fitzgerald sank in lake superior. thank you. Peter.


Name: Rick Simonds
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Email: ricksimondsatearthlink.net
Date: 10/1/01
Time: 8:17:04 PM
Remote Name: 63.180.95.38

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GREAT SITE!

I grew up totally surrounded by Great Lakes shipping. My grandfather, William T. Simonds, sailed for the US Steel fleet for 40+ years, retiring as a captain. The last boat he was captain of (the Calloway?) was the first boat my father, William G. Simonds (now deceased), ever got as a captain. Later my father was the first captain of the Edgar Speer when it was launched in 1980. I got the pleasure several times of taking trips aboard. As a boy growing up, I also got rides every summer on many of the boats, the Blough (a wonderful boat for passengers), the Gott, and (my favorites) the older 750 footers like the Calloway and the Frazier. I didn't follow my grandfather and father to the boats, but I did work now and then on the layup crews in Milwaukee and Conneaut. Unfortunately, I also had a high school friend, Karl Peckol, who went down on as a deckhand on the Fitzgerald. I've been away from the Great Lakes for many years now but I sure remember it.

I have to correct one tiny error in your data, however. You list both the Gott and the Speer as 1004' long. The Speer, when it was first launched, had a great deal of difficulty with it's bow thruster. Many weeks were spent in the Lorain shipyard getting it straightend out, mostly just sitting around waiting. With not much to do and way too much time to do it, my father had a 5' section welded into the steering pole at the bow of the Speer. He did so just as "one-upmanship" to the captain of the Gott. If you count the steering pole, the Edgar Speer is, in fact, 5 feet longer than the Gott!

Wandering around your site has been great; tons of recognised names and boats. THANK YOU!


Name: Diane
Location: Milwaukee
Email:
Date: 10/1/01
Time: 8:05:51 PM
Remote Name: 169.207.115.83

Comments

Lighthouses and Great Lakes shipping - what a wonderful combination!!!!!!!!!!!


Name: Joan VanBuskirk Christy
Location: Algonac Michigan
Email: joancati-is.com
Date: 9/30/01
Time: 8:31:08 PM
Remote Name: 209.176.114.176

Comments

My best years were when I was a child and would be able to go with father on ship I remember those days when we would be in the middles of lake on the Benson Ford my father was the captain and made me proud to be his daughter,Those days will never be forgot God bless you Dad and rest in peace.


Name: Bill Forsythe
Location: Rochester, New York
Email: william.forsytheatkodak.com
Date: 9/21/01
Time: 1:15:28 PM
Remote Name: 165.170.128.65

Comments

I too am a Roy A Jodrey fan. I have been researching the self-unloaders career and sinking on again/off again for almost 14 years. Anyone with info, photos, ex-crewmember or "boatnerd" rememberances of the ship is most welcome.


Name: Lorenzo Giangrande
Location: Woodburn, Indiana
Email: lorenzo133atjuno.com
Date: 9/21/01
Time: 10:25:02 AM
Remote Name: 4.54.214.178

Comments

Hey Neil, the site is most impressive. My novel, Debt of Conscience, will be ready in just a few weeks, mid October. You'll be recieving a press kit and book review request at that time.The project looks terriffic. I'll be talking to you soon; Lorenzo


Name: Jib Turner
Location: Little Current
Email: turnersatmanitoulin.net
Date: 9/20/01
Time: 3:08:09 PM
Remote Name: 209.91.163.10

Comments

I am forty two years old and grew up with the Jodry litterally in my front yard loading iron ore. I have always been curious and only latley really understood why she has stayed down. I do also have a museum in our store in Little current and would love any photos of her or any other activity in Little Current as there isn't that much available. Thanks


Name: lloyd (mac) mcallister
Location: mt dora fl.
Email: lloyd785atwebtv.net
Date: 9/15/01
Time: 9:37:59 PM
Remote Name: 209.240.221.59

Comments

sailed on the voorhees,'46.james j hill,'47-'48 and henry phipps, '49-50


Name: Peter Geo. Perham
Location: Ottawa
Email: peter-perhamathotmail.com
Date: 9/15/01
Time: 1:18:39 PM
Remote Name: 24.43.72.87

Comments

Very interesting site. Does anyone know anything about the tug "HILFORD"


Name: Egbert
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Email: EgbertW.Kochatt-online
Date: 9/15/01
Time: 10:44:52 AM
Remote Name: 62.155.184.72

Comments

Wow, this is a great site. Did not know this site. Worth to make it public here in Europe. Congratulations.


Name: K. Fleitz
Location: Toledo, Ohio
Email:
Date: 9/14/01
Time: 11:36:22 PM
Remote Name: 63.27.181.114

Comments

Loved the site!I'm the proud daughter of Capt. Tom of the Mighty Jake.


Name: Dorothy E. Morris
Location: Whitby On.Can
Email: Dotemorrisataol.com
Date: 9/14/01
Time: 5:06:42 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.213.199

Comments

Trying again to sign on. Hope it goes through this time!. This is a great Site.! I did not know it existed. I have been researching my family tree(s) for over 8 years and have been trying to find some information about a ship called Brown Beaver. I was told by my father that he worked on this ship on the St. Lawrence River (now Seaway) I am not sure about the date. I have a record of his that said he was a Point boy for the Toronto Railway Co., 1919, - would they have owned this ship? Does anyone know anything about this ship? Appreciate any replies and information. Dorothy E. Morris Whitby On. Can. ( a Senior "geanalogit")with thanks in advance. may email me direct - if you have any info' >Dotemorrisataol.com> Keep up the info on this great site!


Name: Dorothy E. Morris
Location: Whitby On, Canada
Email: Dotemorrisataol.com
Date: 9/14/01
Time: 5:00:52 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.213.199

Comments

Wow, I did not know this site existed! Great site. Hope that I can find some answers here. I have been researching my family tree(s) for over 8 yrs now. My Father worked as a Pointboy for the Toronto Railway Co. - from 23 April 1919 to 8 Sept 1919. He always mentioned a vessel - Brown Beaver and that he worked on board on the St. Lawrence River. I would like to find out and confirm if the Toronto Railway co. owned such a vessel or if this applied to a job on the Railroad? I know he did work on board the Brown Beaver and any details on that ship would be greatly appreciated. I would just like to add this to my father's history. Thanks in advance. from A "Senior" genealogist - Dorothy E. Morris, Whitby On. A great site!


Name: Dorothy E. Morris
Location: Whitby On, Canada
Email: Dotemorrisataol.com
Date: 9/14/01
Time: 4:45:22 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.213.199

Comments

Wow, I did not know this site existed! Great site. Hope that I can find some answers here. I have been researching my family tree(s) for over 8 yrs now. My Father worked as a Pointboy for the Toronto Railway Co. - from 23 April 1919 to 8 Sept 1919. He always mentioned a vessel - Brown Beaver and that he worked on board on the St. Lawrence River. I would like to find out and confirm if the Toronto Railway co. owned such a vessel or if this applied to a job on the Railroad? I know he did work on board the Brown Beaver and any details on that ship would be greatly appreciated. I would just like to add this to my father's history. Thanks in advance. from A "Senior" genealogist - Dorothy E. Morris, Whitby On. A great site!


Name: Kevin
Location: Rochester, NY
Email: wab3675athotmail.com
Date: 9/14/01
Time: 3:19:38 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.173

Comments

I grew up and still live on the shores of Lake Ontario. All things boat have been my passion since I was a wee lad. All I have right now is a 17 foot ski boat, but I cry at the end of the season.


Name: D.C. Smith
Location: St. John's, NF
Email: u62dbratmun.ca
Date: 9/13/01
Time: 3:50:36 PM
Remote Name: 209.128.34.2

Comments

I'm a 2/O foreign-going currently with Maersk and previously Shell UK. I am trying to find a job in North America, and finding it to be somewhat difficult. Does anyone have any hints or contacts??


Name: Dave Beckwith
Location: Clearwater, Fl
Email: Davmarbeckataol.com
Date: 9/10/01
Time: 8:19:13 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.200.26

Comments

Great Site! Retired after 37 years on the Lakes. At one time,sailing was the greatest of jobs, but glad to be retired now. Things will always change, but not always for the better. This site is a great reference point. Keep up the good work.


Name: Gary Monroe
Location: Owosso Michigan
Email: trainwatcher2001atexcite.com
Date: 9/10/01
Time: 7:26:19 PM
Remote Name: 63.28.192.110

Comments

Glad to see this web site lighthouses are very important to greatlakes shipping. The more update on the lighthouses the safer for shipping. wish all the lighthouses worked. THANKS!!


Name: Brian Kirkwood
Location: Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada
Email: brian.kirkwoodatsympatico.ca
Date: 9/10/01
Time: 2:22:21 PM
Remote Name: 206.172.171.11

Comments

Wonderful site for those of us interested in Great lakes shipping. I'm a retired shipbuilder who worked in the hull drawing offices Harland & Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland then spent 13 years at Collingwood Shipyards, Collingwood before joining the Canadian Government where I was employed as a Ship Surveyor and Inspector for 25 years. Any old associates out there ????

Keep up the good work...


Name:
Location:
Email:
Date: 9/9/01
Time: 8:08:01 PM
Remote Name: 63.127.51.250

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Name: Joe Olig
Location: Madison, WI
Email: jtoligathome.com
Date: 9/9/01
Time: 4:41:18 PM
Remote Name: 24.4.252.118

Comments

I have a new e-mail address, so I thought I should re-sign the Log Book. If anyone is interested I have pictures of the now closed Central Radio & Telegraph (WLC) out of Rodgers City, MI. Nice site Neil!!!!!!!!


Name: Joe Olig
Location: Madison, WI
Email: jtoligathome.com
Date: 9/9/01
Time: 10:38:01 AM
Remote Name: 24.4.252.118

Comments

I now have a new e-mail address, so I thought it was time to re-sign the Log Book. If anyone is interested I have pictures of the now closed Central Radio & Telegraph (WLC)from Rodgers City, MI. Nice site Neil!!!!!!!!!!


Name: Joe Olig
Location: Madison, WI
Email: jtoligathome.com
Date: 9/9/01
Time: 10:37:37 AM
Remote Name: 24.4.252.118

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I now have a new e-mail address, so I thought it was time to re-sign the Log Book. If anyone is interested I have pictures of the now closed Central Radio & Telegraph (WLC)from Rodgers City, MI. Nice site Neil!!!!!!!!!!


Name: Timothy O. Pilcher
Location: Wheaton IL.
Email: top 44 at aol. com
Date: 9/8/01
Time: 10:16:39 AM
Remote Name: 64.12.105.26

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Name: Timothy  O. pILCHER
Location:   
Email:
Date: 9/8/01
Time: 10:15:22 AM
Remote Name: 64.12.105.26

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Name: Rich
Location: Cleveland,OH.
Email: RichnAnn7071ataol.com
Date: 9/7/01
Time: 10:14:05 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.34

Comments

Wow what a web site. My opinion of why she went down is she dragged bottom and took water in the bow and went down upon hitting a big wave. We will always remember the Big Fitz!


Name: Bob
Location: Pgh
Email: lauxatduq.edu
Date: 9/6/01
Time: 12:53:56 PM
Remote Name: 165.190.33.62

Comments

Unbelievable site in terms of quality content and extreme interest level. I sailed on the Lakes a couple summers in college and have never forgotten the experiences. Bookmark the site!


Name: Tim C
Location: Seward Ak
Email: timsitis1atqwest.net
Date: 9/5/01
Time: 11:35:44 PM
Remote Name: 216.160.14.235

Comments

Nice site. First mate aboard Exxon flagg. Nice to see the Great Lakes represented so honorably!


Name: Diane
Location: Milwaukee
Email:
Date: 9/4/01
Time: 7:35:45 PM
Remote Name: 169.207.115.29

Comments

This website takes me to places I can't get to everyday! As a result, I can't get enough of this website!!


Name: Duane Bartlett
Location: North Carolina
Email: sailorbatperigee.net
Date: 9/4/01
Time: 7:24:03 AM
Remote Name: 166.82.201.108

Comments

Thanks for a great site...I found old friends here...I sailed for Columbia for 35 years...17 years on the Joseph H Frantz with Captain Ernest McSorley and John McCarthy for 7 years who were on the Fitz. nickname "BART"...


Name: Tom Kausch
Location: Rochester, NY
Email: tkauschatrochester.rr.com
Date: 9/3/01
Time: 9:13:16 PM
Remote Name: 66.24.74.107

Comments

I live on the Genesee River and the only ship I get to see is the Stephen B. Roman. Boatnerd opens the great lakes world to me.


Name: Maggie Trapasso
Location: Tennessee
Email: mufin2pilotathotmail.com
Date: 8/30/01
Time: 6:23:15 PM
Remote Name: 158.252.95.7

Comments

Boatnerd.com just keeps getting better and better. Thank you to those that keep all the sites going!


Name: Don Stauffer
Location: Minneapolis
Email: staufferatusfamily.net
Date: 8/28/01
Time: 10:31:31 AM
Remote Name: 207.225.145.111

Comments

Actually, since I have a new email address, it is time to resign.

I have a question for you. I am working on an instructional video on making a model laker.

I am using available drawings of a hull that makes the Sam Laud, Buffalo, or Fred White.

I see two photos of Laud, one of Buffalo, one of White in your gallery. Do you have info on credit- who to ask for permission to include these in video?

Don Stauffer.


Name: Ron Holzmiller
Location: Wakeman, OHIO
Email: Grandpas gift
Date: 8/27/01
Time: 9:22:03 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.213.53

Comments

Every year for about 20 years me and my family would go on vacation to Sault Ste. Marie, Mi. Unfortunately we did not make it up there this year because my Father had died from a heartattack. Every year we would stay at Soo Locks camp ground right on the St. Marys river about a half mile east of the Soo Locks. My Dad lived for this. He would enjoyed sitting in his chair, listening to his scanner, watching the boats go by. then when they would go by, we would go down to the locks and watch them go threw. I know he would have loved this website.


Name: Peter Wood
Location: Nelson Bay NSW Australia
Email: seascapeatnelsonbay.com
Date: 8/27/01
Time: 5:43:33 PM
Remote Name: 216.226.198.12

Comments

This is without doubt the best marine site on the net. I have been a regular visitor for over a year and just love reading the news channel to keep up to date on what is happening. Those guys out there reporting and taking photographs do a great job. Keep up the good work.


Name: Bill Hamlin
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY
Email: whamlin435ataol.com
Date: 8/27/01
Time: 2:34:53 PM
Remote Name: 172.128.198.47

Comments

What a nice web site!!! I grew up on the great lakes (Lake Michigan). As a young teenager, I worked part time on comercial fish tugs out of Holland, MI. I worked on the Chambers Bros., the BonJour, and the J.R.Chambers all using gill nets at that time (early fifties). I never get tired of looking at and reading about anything having to do with the Great Lakes lighthouses, shipping etc etc.....keep up the good work!!!!!!


Name: Piet Schot
Location: FLUSHING(NETHERLANDS)
Email: andieatzeelandnet.nl
Date: 8/27/01
Time: 10:26:34 AM
Remote Name: 212.92.88.97

Comments

I am very happy to recieve this site. Many pictures and links !!! Thank you.


Name: Karl Lund
Location: Oak Park (Detroit) Mich
Email: karlatwwnet.com
Date: 8/23/01
Time: 2:52:04 PM
Remote Name: 209.153.176.106

Comments

Just a wonderful site......As a student attending NMU I spent many an hour watching the ore carriers pulling into the Marquette docks to be loaded with local ore. Makes me sad to see photos of my old friends layed-up or being scrapped


Name: William F. Thompson
Location: Bloomdale, Ohio
Email: L Guapo43atAOL.com
Date: 8/22/01
Time: 8:14:28 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.105.57

Comments

GREAT SITE!!! I have been interested in lake freighters for a long time (since I was five).My family and I go up to Paradise,MI. every year for vacation and we go to Whitefish Point and watch the ore boats go by. The Soo Locks is by far my favorite day trip and I always hated leaving knowing it would be another year before I got to go back, but now I can see what is happening there every day. Keep up the GREAT work!


Name: Jack Hughes
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Email: hughesjathome.com
Date: 8/21/01
Time: 12:07:18 PM
Remote Name: 24.112.84.2

Comments

Hi: I noticed that the Algosoo carried a Shepherd boat. Anyone know more about it? Tx JH


Name: renekoiter
Location: chatham.on.
Email: renekoiterathotmail.com
Date: 8/19/01
Time: 9:28:58 PM
Remote Name: 216.8.150.157

Comments

show me more


Name: Sid Goebel
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Email: N/A (work)
Date: 8/17/01
Time: 8:03:49 PM
Remote Name: 198.62.124.245

Comments

EXCELLENT SITE!!! I hate to admit it but I probably spend enough time on it to get myself fired! I'd be lost without the News Channel. Other than our West Michigan ports, this is my favorite spot to boatwatch. Keep up the excellent work!!


Name: j lefaive
Location: midland ont. can.
Email: jplefatthunderstar.net
Date: 8/16/01
Time: 9:45:59 PM
Remote Name: 206.172.172.20

Comments

as a sailor on the lakes for many years,i find this boatnerd site extremely interesting,and spend many hours surfing.


Name: j lefaive
Location: midland ont. can.
Email: jplefatthunderstar.net
Date: 8/16/01
Time: 9:45:05 PM
Remote Name: 206.172.172.20

Comments

as a sailor on the lakes for many years,i find this boatnerd site extremely interesting,and spend many hours surfing.


Name: toby anderson
Location: london ky.
Email: tobyspropsathotmail.com
Date: 8/16/01
Time: 1:15:41 PM
Remote Name: 63.25.248.143

Comments

Very interesting.


Name: Jeff & Sarah Hankinson
Location: Morrice, Michigan
Email: Jsthank8atcs.com
Date: 8/14/01
Time: 3:19:54 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.195.56

Comments

We love this web site! Great Lakes Freighters have been a hobby of mine for many years, and is now my wife's greatest interest. We love the fact that being able to see our favorite Freighter(s) like the: Paul R. Tregurtha, is now just a "click" away. Keep up the GREAT Work!!!


Name: Richard Kramer
Location: Stevensville, Michigan
Email: w8hatatnetzero.net
Date: 8/8/01
Time: 4:04:49 AM
Remote Name: 4.4.39.191

Comments

I thoroughly enjoy watching the boats go through the locks.


Name: Maggie Trapasso
Location: Tennessee
Email: muffin2pilotathotmail.com
Date: 8/7/01
Time: 4:47:27 PM
Remote Name: 158.252.94.176

Comments

Great Site. I grew up in the Soo, and just recently vacationed "up North." Your web site keeps the magic of seeing the freighters. Would love to order some caps, etc from website, but prefer a "secure" rating. Any plans for secure web orders? Thanks again for hosting this fantastic site.


Name: Andrew Wilkinson
Location: Fowlerville,Mich.
Email: bookertbrownathotmail.com
Date: 8/6/01
Time: 1:20:35 AM
Remote Name: 209.14.92.85

Comments

this is an awesome site.I've spent 1 week a summer at DeTour Village on the St. Mary's watching the frieghters go by from 1976 to the present, and still get just as excited as I did as a little boy! Now I can watch my kids get excited like I do. Keep up the great work!


Name: Bob Levy
Location: Detroit/Toledo/Port Huron
Email: CBLevyatwebtv.net
Date: 8/3/01
Time: 4:14:06 PM
Remote Name: 209.240.220.164

Comments

Looking for a position on tugs,yachts or dinner boat.Have 4 years on CG 41 UTB's and one year on tugs and party boats.Have Completed the USMA Marine Fire Fighting Course and working toward my A/B.Have current "Z" card and don't drink,smoke or use drugs. Will be happy to work part,fill in or full time.Thanks Bob


Name: scott moore
Location: bc
Email: arescottemathotmail.com
Date: 8/3/01
Time: 12:25:26 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.102.28

Comments

have spent several hours here since finding this site searching for a ef link the other day. LOTS of memories. great photos. i decked for uls from '74 - 78. was on the wheat king when she ran aground by cornwall in 77. saw the pic of quebecois in the detroit r. she was my first job,anyone remember the mates strike in 74. we were ancoured of sept isles for the duration,i blame that for my insanity


Name: thelma blanks
Location: 948 w 20th st erie pa 16502
Email: mah23atmsn.com
Date: 8/1/01
Time: 9:21:15 PM
Remote Name: 63.25.78.101

Comments

dave hello i got a great new recipe for youcan't beleive you havn't thought of it yourself pls. email back asap to get bye.

ps.tmb


Name: Pam
Location: near Cincinnati
Email: PBond71095ataol.com
Date: 7/18/01
Time: 7:20:46 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.205.49

Comments

I LOVE this site!! Didn't dream there were other "boatnerds" as excited as I am by watching the boats and being around the Great Lakes. We usually go to northern Michigan on vacation, and have spent many hours at the Straits watching and identifying lakers. This website is the next best thing to being there. Keep up the good work!! I'm hooked!!


Name: Utley, J.W.
Location: Nashville, Tn
Email: JOROL82athotmail.com
Date: 7/16/01
Time: 2:30:20 PM
Remote Name: 170.190.4.25

Comments

Would like to hear from some x-coasties that were either in the Honor Guard in 1962-1963, operating out of Curtis Bay(Baltimore), Maryland district, doing details at the White House and at Civilian Special Events, and from anyone that was stationed on the Kukui WAK-186, in Honolulu, Hawaii during 1963-1966. Any pictures to my E-Mail would be appreciated. Thanks...


Name: Borge Melin
Location: Stockholm Sweden
Email: borge_melinathotmail.com
Date: 7/16/01
Time: 7:50:31 AM
Remote Name: 213.89.140.152

Comments

A very interesting web site.Visited the beautiful lakes as 2nd cook on "salties" back 60s.And I would intrested in hearing from anyone from that time period or group of boats.


Name: Olavi Seppala
Location: Cardinal Ontario
Email: oseppalaatsympatico.ca
Date: 7/11/01
Time: 10:04:12 AM
Remote Name: 216.209.122.96

Comments

I was searching for data on the Noronic & Hamonic. I witnessed the burning of the Hamonic in Sarnia. I know the Noronic was deliberately set afire, but how did the Dock fire start in Sarnia? Was it Arson. Does anyone know? Too much of a coincadence.


Name: Dwight Dilling
Location: Alpena, MI
Email: toolmandatexcite.com
Date: 7/10/01
Time: 1:54:57 PM
Remote Name: 198.31.179.49

Comments

Great Site. I'm originally from NC, but have fell in love with Great Lakers since I moved up here back in Feburary. I'm interested in plastic models of Great Lakers, so any suggestions just e-mail me.


Name: CARL KOEPP
Location: ELYRIA  OHIO
Email: ZKOEPPataol.com
Date: 7/9/01
Time: 4:43:14 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.201.79

Comments

Sailed on the lakes VOORHEES 1943.us navy till 1946 BACK ON voorhees,also sailed on H >H ROGERS<Bunsen,GARY.BUFFINGTON,HATFIELD,3RD MATE ON THE WILLIAM A IRVIN.HELLO TO ALL.


Name: Gary Monroe
Location: Owosso, Michigan
Email: trainwatcher2001atexcite.com
Date: 7/8/01
Time: 1:04:59 AM
Remote Name: 63.28.192.14

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Heard about this site from a friend it is great. I watch boats at port huron when i am there. My favorite ship is Edmund Fitzgearald. Thanks!!!!


Name: Bob Nieman
Location: Lincoln Park  MI.
Email: bear813atnetzero.net
Date: 7/4/01
Time: 3:09:25 PM
Remote Name: 64.152.159.250

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Name: Frank DeLano
Location: Grand Rapids Michigan
Email: frdelanoataol.com
Date: 7/3/01
Time: 4:32:42 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.195.42

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Looking for ships built in the 1853 by Lafrenier & Stevenson (Proelle ships). Looking for picture of them.


Name: Robert S. Howard-Wayne
Location:
Email: proteusataltavista.com
Date: 7/2/01
Time: 4:08:22 PM
Remote Name: 204.157.17.144

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I'm interested in seeking "full-time" employment as a boat laborer on a Great Lakes Shipper.

I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan and need to know who, where, and telephone contacts to secure further information about these shippers.

Robert S. Howard-Wayne 1423 Trinidad NW Grand Rapids, Michigan 49544 Tel. 616/453-3454 email: proteusataltavista.com


Name: DAVID E. FELLER
Location: DAVISON,MICHIGAN
Email: HOOVES24NETZERO.NET
Date: