Vessel Sinks

[BmillsSkier]

Dude. I just went down the Zug Island wormhole on youtube. weird shit. Keep poking at it, you'll find freaky shit for sure.

This guy's ok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKdYRf_rXI

Thanks!

Although now between this and the Cavs game, my evening is shot.

[goldengatestinx]

Me too.

Damn. I've never seen a photo of the EF. No wonder it sank. Built like a brick for a freighter plying Superior during storm season.

[BmillsSkier]

Damn. I've never seen a photo of the EF. No wonder it sank. Built like a brick for a freighter plying Superior during storm season.

Lakers are fascinating. This will get you started.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_freighter

[goldengatestinx]

My wife's ex FIL was a Great Lakes freighter officer. I didn't know him but she has a few stories about stuff.

We both grew up near Lake Erie, Welland Canal, etc and I sailed on Erie and Ontario a bunch before moving to CO. I took my J-24 out to the shipping lanes and would surf the bow wake of freighters occasionally.

I'll check that out.

[Groomer Gambler]

My great grandfather rode this across the Atlantic before her way back when she sank!



This thread needs more vessel sinks

[Harry]

I did a Persian Gulf deployment onboard this vessel. A few years later the Navy decided to sink it.

[huckbucket]

The first time I stayed at the Royal Suite at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris, I was astonished to find it had undermount sinks. For $25K a night I expected vessel sinks and told them such. Upon my next visit to the hotel, they had replaced the pedestrian undermount sinks with vessel sinks made from the finest Carrara marble.

That was Hemmingway'esque. Chapeau!

[ill-advised strategy]

Speaking of lakers, and shipping fuckups, here's the Michipicoten almost ramming the pier in Duluth a few years back.



I see that ship a lot here in mqt....It has the same paint scheme as the MV Coho that sails between the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island so it gives me a little memberberry whenever it's in town.

[The AD]

I can't imagine how a sink is going to change my life for the better or make me happier. Now one of those fancy toilet seats that sprays water on your ass and then blows air on it to dry it off--that's an entirely different story!

[hawkgt]

^^^^ don't forget about the seat warmer..... select your comfort level.

[The AD]

Totally. Now we're talkin'!

[KQ]

Man I love a good thread drift - it's like free association! My favorite game!

Did a bit of maritime work back in the day. Container ship got caught in Typhoon Babs in 1998 and lost over 400 containers. The vessel limped into Puget Sound dribbling containers and their contents over the side the whole way. Poor crew was shell shocked. Guess it was a mother of a storm - worse than any of them had seen.



Cargo Nightmare Winner

[old goat]

Don't know who owns it now. When I was there in the early 70's it was the blast furnace division of Great Lakes Steel. Pretty spectacular place to work, smelly, dirty and dangerous. Watching the hot coke get pushed out of the coke plant or the iron coming out of the blast furnace was always exciting. My job was mostly shoveling coal that fell off the conveyor belts back onto the conveyor belts, occasionally I ran belts or loaded coal bins, one summer I greased conveyor belts. Easiest job I ever had, but certainly not a pleasant one. Once four of us were assigned to clean the 8 40 foot high coal bins on top of the #1 coke plant. The ground up coal was plastered on the sides of the bins many feet thick and we would blast it off with compressed air pipes. Then they would empty the dust into the coke oven and we would start over--so were working on top of an operating coke oven, and the two weeks we were doing the job it was 100F and 100% humidity. 40 minutes of company time to shower was not enough.

I don't know about any unusual security--like most industrial sites it's not open to the public. Nothing strange or nefarious going on there--just 19th iron making technology.

[Timberridge]

That was Hemmingway'esque. Chapeau!

Where is our beloved Hemingway? Anyone know?

[BmillsSkier]

Where is our beloved Hemingway? Anyone know?

His last wire said to forward all correspondence to Hotel Staube in the Alps. He sought the solitude wintering offered there as was his usual custom. Alone. And drinking. Coldly.

[Sirshredalot]

^^^^ don't forget about the seat warmer..... select your comfort level.

It's just an expensive seat with built-in bidet and blow dryer. I kind of want to splash out and get one.

[Dantheman]

My great grandfather rode this across the Atlantic before her way back when she sank!

No way, my grandmother did as well. She was a toddler at the time.

[old goat]

Guy around here is a general handyman--although handyman doesn't quite do justice to his skills, restoring an old Bridgeport milling machine for example. One of his clients has a number of 8K Japanese toilets which he has to repeatedly unclog.

[hutash]

Man I love a good thread drift - it's like free association! My favorite game!

Did a bit of maritime work back in the day. Container ship got caught in Typhoon Babs in 1998 and lost over 400 containers. The vessel limped into Puget Sound dribbling containers and their contents over the side the whole way. Poor crew was shell shocked. Guess it was a mother of a storm - worse than any of them had seen.



Cargo Nightmare Winner

Thread drift? It is finally back on topic. Sinking vessels are much more interesting the vessel sinks.

Not a vessel sink or a sinking vessel, but a friend was the harbor pilot at the harbor here, so I went out with him a couple of times to bring ships into port. Pretty fucking amazing to see a car transport ship parallel park using a tiny joy stick. Just walking through that thing was uber cool.

[Art Shirk]

Did someone say sink peeing?

[BmillsSkier]

Did someone say sink peeing?

Is this not TGR forums?

[wooley12]

I spent a year majoring in fraternity in Windsor, Ont. and briefly dated a Canadian lass who worked for a Great Lakes shipping company. She kept track of what ships were where. A sweet girl, her perfume reminded me of fresh of strawberries. I left without saying good by and broke her heart.

[BmillsSkier]

That's the saddest damn thing I've read on TGR all week.

You just made the update.

[abraham]

That's the saddest damn thing I've read on TGR all week.

You just made the update.

I'm impressed you haven't read anything DD posted this week

[iceman]

I spent a year majoring in fraternity in Windsor, Ont. and briefly dated a Canadian lass who worked for a Great Lakes shipping company. She kept track of what ships were where. A sweet girl, her perfume reminded me of fresh of strawberries. I left without saying good by and broke her heart.

You just left? Wow.

When I was a junior in college I had a beautiful girlfriend that I loved who was a senior. She told me repeatedly that when she graduated she was going home to Philly and she was going to marry her high school boyfriend. I didn't care and I didn't really believe her anyways. And then she did it.