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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Nautical Insanity: That's not a leak you're sinking
 
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Fornax Disaster
Apr 11, 2005

If you need me I'll be in Holodeck Four.
A commercial fish tug trawling off the end of Long Point in Lake Erie yanked a 75 foot mast out of a sunken schooner wreck last week. It's sitting on the pier while authorities figure out what to do with the thing. The town museum has a nice collection of shipwreck artifacts but this one won't fit in their building.

The Simcoe Reformer posted:


Captain Glenn Spain of Port Dover and crew mates Gorden Morin and Doug Baguley snagged the relic near the deepest part of Lake Erie southeast of the tip of Long Point. The tug was trawling at about three miles an hour and pulled up the giant hunk of lumber with hardly a stutter.

On Wednesday, Spain said he towed the mast into the harbour to spare additional damage to his gear.

“My only way to get rid of it was to get out my knife and start hacking away,” Spain said. “It would have cost me about $6,000 in net. As it is, my net wasn't too badly damaged. It turned out to be bigger than any of us thought.”

http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2015/05/13/mast-a-blast-from-the-past

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Fornax Disaster
Apr 11, 2005

If you need me I'll be in Holodeck Four.
I took a sightseeing trip on an fully functional coal powered steamboat this summer. RMS Segwun operates on Lake Muskoka out of Gravenhurst, Ontario.



You can hang out on the freight deck next to the cylinder heads and listen to it run.



I didn't get below deck but there are videos on Youtube from inside the engine room. Hull is from 1887, engines and boilers from a 1920's rebuild. It still runs on coal, and has a crewman feeding the boilers with a shovel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgCC_SyUBiU

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Fornax Disaster
Apr 11, 2005

If you need me I'll be in Holodeck Four.

wesleywillis posted:

Hells yeah! Sweet video.

Have a look around the steel mills in Hamilton sometime using Google maps satellite imagery. There’s a whole bunch of similar ships used to build the break walls there with the hull shapes still visible. All those had the superstructures removed, though.

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Fornax Disaster
Apr 11, 2005

If you need me I'll be in Holodeck Four.
I saw an old racing boat at the museum in Gravenhurst that has a 3000 hp Roll Royce Griffon aircraft engine in it. Miss Canada IV. There’s a few poorly filmed videos of it running on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9I3-Fi2quk4&pp=ygUObWlzcyBjYW5hZGEgaXY%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r5VafEIoObQ&pp=ygUOTWlzcyBjYW5hZGEgaXY%3D

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