Paul R Tregurtha Tunnel Tour Video 1 - Great Lakes Freighter

[@laurabartoletti6412]

Thanks! Cool tour! She's a huge vessel!! 🚢⚓🌹☀️

[@rodlamont3736]

These freighters are simply majestic and in my opinion a huge part of Michigan history. Beautiful ships❤️

[@detroitboy65]

when I was in college at LSSU in the SOO in the 80s, I used to do my homework on the rail-bridge abutment where the ships would come through to enter the eastbound locks. The ships would pass within 10 feet of me and the sailors would wave and say hello often. When the Russian ships would come through I would bring chocolate bars to throw to the sailors, who were always very friendly and grateful; in fact, twice the Russians threw some Russian confections back to me. Now, with Homeland Security lording over the locks complex and with all of my old haunts behind 10' -high fences, it just ain't the same anymore. Pity.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Interesting tour of a cargo hold of a great lakes freighter. I always wondered what that looks like. Thanks for sharing!

[@themallard1515]

So I have to ask, how did you get a tour on this ship? That would basically be my life‘s dream to tour a boat like this.

[@SabbaticusRex]

Such an ingenious system ! Clearly done by ancient aliens AKA really smart engineers, designers and talented fabricators.

[@xweatherman1]

Great Tour Video!

[@michaelbauers8800]

Too claustrophobic for me, so very happy to see a video of it. I suppose these were paying passengers?

[@Bobby-Love]

Great tour....mouthy guy.

[@bgcombs]

Nothing hotter than a woman who knows her stuff on a ship.

[@robertallen5686]

..'cept one that'll share your bunk..

[@goldenretriever6261]

She's fat.

[@METALITHrevetments]

You may think so but to each his own. I've been dating women like this - dark hair, busty, full figured and vivacious - since I was a teenager and I've been married to one for 26 years. Let me tell you something: a gal like this is built for comfort and she'll give you a hell of a nice ride in the sack. Plus, this one is even mechanically inclined which is a real find!

[@johncholmes643]

@@goldenretriever6261 So is your mother

[@michaelosborn4119]

@@goldenretriever6261 who cares?look further than the exterior smh

[@sleepyjones9625]

Wow she's pretty and knows her shit... my kinda woman

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Engine room tour please

[@marklohmann6267]

Interesting. I would’ve like to have heard more.

[@bryanphillips6666]

Me, too

[@davem3789]

She sounds pretty knowledgeable. But this ship is around 30 years old at the time of this video. That’s the original belt??? Anyway that area is well maintained regardless.

[@bryanphillips6666]

There's coal dust EVERYWHERE. Did you notice how filthy her gloves 🧤 were getting?

[@thatswhattheyis]

The belt is going to be like the axe in grandpa’s shed. The handle has broken and replaced 8x’s and the head replaced 3x’s. In grandpa’s mind it is still the same axe in the shed even though it has been fully replaced 3 times.

[@stonecoldfan3167]

I'll say it the brunette is gorgeous 😍😍😍

[@bryanphillips6666]

@mike schrage I'd enjoy seeing this video in it's entirety

[@hansihansi3413]

She knows what she is talking about

[@garyanddebwi2857]

Who's the tour guide.

[@flargmuffin92]

Is she supposed to be a deckhand or something? Or a bit higher up on the list?

[@deetempleton80]

I think how much my Dad would have loved seeing every tape we've seen fr. Duluth. He was a submariner on diesel boats.during WW II. USS Tilefish thanks for all your work

[@Popesontour]

Now this gal is built! Not the ship!! 😆

[@stephanjames5410]

Good lookin woman for sure.

[@shasha-muse6054]

I wonder if the Edmund Fitzgerald had a similar layout. And if any of the men were in these tunnels and what were the conditions on that fateful night.

[@jordanhoffman2605]

The Fitzgerald was not self-discharging. No conveyer belt.

[@sugaredrat3747]

shasha-muse She had square holds instead of slanted ones. But otherwise, very similar just smaller. I would say there were men in those tunnels because he captain said to not go on deck. The conditions were bad that night, hurricane force winds and 25 foot waves on average, a 40-footer is believed to have sent her down

[@johnwoodworth248]

I see her floatation devices on the front looks fully functional

[@scooped85]

Yes but I wouldn’t mind testing them, just to make sure though!

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

She wouldn't sink....

[@kenolsen1845]

Is that really necessary ? First time seeing a female ?

[@northstarstatepolitics1652]

yeah they would be fun to test out!

[@bryanphillips6666]

@@kenolsen1845 up yourz u looked 2

[@CusterFlux]

Well … this explains a few things …

[@mauriceupton1474]

Interesting. Auckland NZ

[@davidschick6951]

I don't know which is sexier- her accent or the fact that she is so confident in not hitting her head that she is willing to walk backwards in that environment.

[@bulgingbattery2050]

This reminds me of the MV River Boyne.

[@Peoplemvr]

Let her talk!

[@johndennis879]

I thought they kept things clean on the PRT but that stairwell looks horrible

[@Ktallica]

It’s a stairwell, probably a high traffic area. Might get a new coat of paint slapped on it during winter layup but these ships are probably on the clock more than half the calendar year between those layups.

[@johndennis879]

They need to clean that boat look at all the dirt

[@kathygriffin9465]

A working ship, not a cruise ship. What did you expect,? Sheesh.

[@brianparent8901]

I would never go on a freighter EVER. I am terrified of them

[@kathygriffin9465]

Ok, I am not afraid, I just respect the great lakes, especially Lake Superior.

[@ronaldmorrison6013]

Whats my ol lady doing with internet access

[@johnmcrooks]

Some babe don’t have them in N Ireland

[@redrobbo1896]

What you don't like those trashy inner city chicks on the shankill or the falls road? Maybe a hot farm chick out in Tyrone, idk maybe that's an oxymoron.

[@darkefoxx]

Believe me, the dust she was talking of, those fans don't do shit. It's dirty and conveyor men breath that crap in, getting black lung in their later years.

[@chuckhuck2693]

i thought that boat was built in 2000's

[@briancapps9344]

she served in wwii

[@anniebellemiller2986]

@@briancapps9344 That would be the Lee A. Tregurtha. She served as an oil tanker up and down the east coast in WW2 before being converted to an ore boat. She is also owned by Interlake Steamship Company. The Paul R. Tregurtha was built in 1981.

[@jeffmaggard3694]

I would like to be out to sea with her

[@nickpaloubas8897]

What a rust bucket is this Wonder if it passed SS.

[@northstarstatepolitics1652]

u wanna see a rust bucket? live.staticflickr.com/1805/42636835834_ceae11d622_b.jpg

[@huxleybuxley8573]

Now I know while the Capppy was locked up on earlier posts

[@kenolsen1845]

No coal dust, wow.

[@TempoDrift1480]

I wonder if she's fun or be scared of her.