Michipicoten About To Leave Thunder Bay!

[@ConnorTenold]

Would you go on the Michipicoten if it was repaired?

[@galewinds7696]

As long as I had a life jacket close by 😅

[@boataxe4605]

Nope

[@Wilhelm-Von-Hohenzollern]

Don't see any reason to not.

[@greatlakesadventures2024]

Yeah

[@XmalD73]

I'd like to hear the answer from a sailor who has worked on a boat like this. That's whose opinion matters to me!

[@Curtis7391-t8q]

Tell them to add a paint job to that boat as well…let’s have a little pride in our ship

[@jeannankeefe845]

I agree, that thing could be freshened up.

[@karlmckinnell2635]

Looks like they are maximizing profits and running them till they sink.

[@larry648]

Lower Lakes/ Grand River/ Rand doesn’t take care of their ships like they used to. Now they run them until they are scrap. I only wound of the future of the ASC boats now that Rand bought them. You never see an Interlake boat look like that.

[@jamesbraun9842]

According to great lakes historian Wes Ozwelski this isn't the first time Michipicoten had cracked. The same thing happened when it was owned by Interlake as Elton Hoyt ii. (Which was sold in 2001). At the time the industry was still healthy so they needed it back as soon as possible. (Many times mid season repairs were half ass jobs and patch work meant to get to the end of the season or short term solutions to keep the boat going.

[@chuckg6039]

This ship developed a hull crack in 1983 on a late season Superior storm.

[@Fortytwowheelman]

Lake Huron

[@jonathanellsworth21]

Looking forward to seeing her in Duluth, and seeing how she does. Hopefully she can come back, or is she can’t that they can use her to repair other ships such as Cuyahoga. I’m guessing they’ll wait for calmer weather to depart, which will likely be early next week, make the trip as easy as possible. But we’ll see.

[@redeyedmongoose2963]

That hulk should’ve been scrapped decades ago even considering putting it back on the water should be brought down by the Maritime workers union. No one should have to serve on that ship.

[@jonathanellsworth21]

@@redeyedmongoose2963 for what reasons? Just because of age? 72 isn’t all that old for a Great Lakes freighter. The oldest hull sailing the lakes is 118 years old right now and still going strong. There are dozens of vessels remaining from the 50s, which for the most part are in great shape and have been upgraded many times in their lifetimes. If the vessel is repairable she very well could sail for decades more and it would be far from unheard of. Many lakers have been through worse than this. The Lakes are not the oceans.

[@jamesbraun9842]

@jonathanellsworth21 Exactly, everyone keeps saying 72 years old, too long, age is the problem, etc. The problem is lack of maintenance. (The Alpena, Kaye E. Barker, Wilfred Sykes, to name a few, are still sailing).

[@JLange642]

My God! The Manitoulin looks in worse shape than the Michipicoten! They sure are rough on the paint on their ships!

[@ConnorTenold]

Lower Lakes Towing really does not care about their ships

[@Skidderoperator]

Paint=$$$$$$

[@dbdouglas]

The Michipicoten's cost of insurance will go way up, no?

[@ralffiedler8501]

if i was a crewman ,i would sleep on deck or at least my cabin door wedged open life jacket nearby.

[@raincoast9010]

"The lake it is said never gives up her dead..."

[@leftseat30]

There's an interview with Red Burgner cook from the Fitzgerald* who said he told the company he was gonna pop the tarp and sleep in a lifeboat. I think he was concerned Captain Mcsorely was too much of a rough weather captain. The video of his interview is embedded in a Ric Mixter presentation. * Red was not the cook when she sank in case that was unclear...

[@leonard7736]

Just curious does anyone know? Is the crack going from Port to Starboard side, or Bow to Stern? tia

[@daleolson3506]

I hate when I irritate my crack

[@lie-berry]

Hopefully you'll have a tube of butthurt cream on hand. Supplies might be running low though, considering how huge Michi's crack is.

[@almirria6753]

Sadly I fear that this is going to be her second to the last voyage, with her last being to the ship breakers in Canada. She is gettin to old to keep repairing and on the lakes. And it will come down to a cost to benefit decision , that is going to do her in. Killed by accountant/s

[@ConnorTenold]

With the way Lower Lakes Towing treats their vessels it wouldn't be a suprise to see another one of their older vessels go to the breakers.

[@parrott350]

@@ConnorTenold Geesh the Manitoulin could use a good coat of paint !

[@Skidderoperator]

INSURANCE

[@RobertBardos]

Hopefully some rich person makes a cabin from the accommodations

[@mirrorblue100]

Can't use her if she's unsafe - the survey will determine that.

[@Wilhelm-Von-Hohenzollern]

I am greatly interested to see how this all turns out.

[@ConnorTenold]

Me too

[@Skidderoperator]

Bet the insurance is cancelled.

[@riverbender9898]

Hope she survives! Thanks.

[@MKHNitro]

Time for that rust bucket to be scrapped Only double hulled ships should be allowed in the Great Lakes for environmental protection

[@chuckg6039]

50 50 she continues on

[@Skidderoperator]

Bet the insurance cancels itself.

[@HahnJames]

I'll stay tuned to see what happens. The old girl is ...ummm, old, though. It would be sad to see another of her kind disappear into the reaches of history.

[@jeannankeefe845]

I trust Frasier ship yard will give them a good assessment of what can be done.

[@ConnorTenold]

I do too

[@Skidderoperator]

Use it for a bridge dolphin.

[@mattharper588]

It will most likely have to have a US Coast Guard inspection after an incident like this.They are the Boss on Great Lakes inspections

[@snowgorilla9789]

Skilled Tradesmen

[@Denny_Lambert]

You have such a good channle

[@ConnorTenold]

Thanks man!

[@jeffmiller3150]

Just think of the adventures to have, running that ship across the oceans to Bangladesh for recycling!!😮

[@johnziegelbauer4999]

Most likely to Port Colborne .

[@leftseat30]

Has it been confirmed... What CAUSED the crack? Metal fatigue or running aground/into an underwater obstacle

[@ConnorTenold]

fatigue

[@ConnorTenold]

Fatigue

[@leftseat30]

@ConnorTenold holy crap. Wasn't the weather decent? I hate to riff on the stereotypical old "gales of November" like someone who's read one Fitzgerald book... BUT I'm a pilot and I hate flying in November because the change in seasons DOES kick up nasty winds And 2. If this ship did sail in a gale I think we could have legitimately had a modern day Bradley or Morrell

[@Skidderoperator]

Scrap, or use it for a bridge dolphin.

[@baratono]

"They may have broke deep and took water"

[@xdude2x]

RIP

[@papabits5721]

I think she's had the bisqu

[@robbob5318]

Little Bondo and paint

[@frankroy9423]

JB weld that Crack with a couple stitch welds and she ready for the high seas😂😂

[@Tiafa230]

Craigslist rebuild. Bondo and dupli- color.😊

[@robbob5318]

@@Tiafa230 .. may need the carb cleaned...

[@Tiafa230]

That's the deelux package.​@@robbob5318

[@FaustoTheBoozehound]

She's razorblades

[@jayhill5982]

Think I'd have to get a hefty bonus to keep sailing on the old girl lol Probably time to retire her,71 yrs. is a long time to be beating around the lakes !