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Trader Navigation, Bulk Carrier, Great Lakes to Japan, with Scrap metal, and Rolls of Steel back.

Anyone sail on her, I was there 67.

This is on the way to Thousand Islands, some great times up the Lakes,

Alan G

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didnt sail on her Alann but went up Lakes. Great places, Chicago, Toledo,and the scenery was unbeleivable. Thousand Islands one place i could retire to (not in winter though!)
 

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Hi dave.

I used to tell people I had been to Detroit and Chicago on a Ship, and they called me a liar, like you, from the St.Lawrence Seaway all the way down to Toledo, all those locks, and going through the middle of town in some places, and Thousand Islands, we where there on Labour day once and the place was packed with small boats, and who could forget those Laker Boats, with the wheelhouse on the Bow.

Me too had some great times up there.

ALan G
 

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Me too(==D)

Toledo + Duluth (2 Trips) I have shown my wife photos of 1000 Islands on the internet and I have promised her one day I will take her to see them. When you get there (Duluth) you can't go further West. Soo lock @ Sau St Marie (Spelling) is the last on the system and I have a photo (not mine so can't post) of one of the ships I sailed on up the Great Lakes I wasn't on her at the time she was covered in ice I suspect she was hoping to get out before the Freeze.
If I remember rightly there was a friendly competition among British ships to be the first up after the freeze Beaver Boats etc. No doubt I will be corrected.[=P]

Regards Ron
 

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Hi Ron

I have a great map of it all, send me your e.mail, and I will send it to you, it has all the facts and figures, this is one that has amazed me, Atlantic to Duluth, is 2342 miles, thats halfway across the Atlantic again.

ALan
 

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you guys might remember. Where was it that you had to lower a couple of ab's over the side onto the dock to do the ropes, usually middle of night at one of the locks as dont think they wanted to pay for shore side guys at that time of night. Hard to remember after 35 years!! Cheers dave
 

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i went through them on a little finnish ship called fanny hind carrying china clay from cornwal to muscegeon then coke from toledo to norway.
the port we left from was fowey and I found it to be a great little town but hard work going back to the ship with a lot of beer under my belt and trying to walk on wet china clay.
 

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Uruguay flag Coraje http://www.histarmar.com.ar/MarinaMercanteExtr/Uruguay-MMercante/Buques-Coraje.htm
 

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Those posts at the break of the forecastle must be for the jumping booms solely?
I had a bit of bad luck at the wheel just about here. We had a small steel wheel that could be locked with a steel fork. Somebody had neither loosened this completely or pushed it wholly out of the way, so when I wheeled fast with two fingers inside the wheel ring I hit this with one finger and tore off the upper end of a nail. This is a nerve centre and I nearly fainted, which the mate refused to consider possible with such a small wound. Really dangerous in a tight channel.
As others above has said: a truly scenic trip. Regards, Stein.
 

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