Big Fitz......

[WIMUSKY]

Still gives me chills. There is a shipwreck museum at WHITFISH POINT in Michigan's UP. They're artifacts and stories from various ships, including the Fitz. The bell is the original. A duplicate with all the names of the crew that went down with her are engraved on it as a memorial and sent back down to the ship.....

https://www.facebook.com/rob.chismar...2492066497699/

 

[GA_Boater]

Interesting that the ships bell was replaced with a replica. Also according to Wiki, a body was found during one of the survey dives, but the body wasn't recovered. Maybe that's normal - No idea.

 

[southkogs]

I've been to the museum a few times. Whitefish point is actually one of my favorite places to visit.

Lotsa' neat stories associated with the dives to her.

 

[WIMUSKY]

We just went out there this fall camping. The museum is great. As long as a person likes to read what happened to all the ships they high-lite.....

The Crisp Point lighthouse was cool too. Miles of "trail" to drive to back to it...... They even let you climb to the top. Round and round in a tight spiral staircase......

I wish this turned out better. It was too dark to see how pix came out....

 

[southkogs]

I have half a dozen or so books from my grandfather and great uncle on the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes. There are some fantastic stories - tragic, funny or mysterious - of the wrecks on those lakes. The Great Lakes Shipping Museum in Detroit on Belle Isle is pretty cool too ... except for where you have to go in order to see it ...

The lenses for those lighthouse lights are pretty fantastic aren't they?

 

[GA_Boater]

What's wrong with where Belle Isle is? How else can you get to Windsor easily from the US if you are claustrophobic? :lol:

 

[southkogs]

It's very sad to me ... I remember Belle Isle in a day when you could go spend a day there with your family. It's just not kept that way any longer. Right there in the middle of it is the Museum (the Aquarium and some other stuff too) with the salon from the City of Detroit II as it's entry area.

It's a beautiful mahogany salon ... and no one really sees it anymore. It's very tragic to me.

 

[GA_Boater]

I thought you were meaning the Detroit area in general.

So it's gone downhill? Given Detroit's money problems, it's probably just lucky that it's still open.

 

[southkogs]

I thought you were meaning the Detroit area in general.

... LOL, subconsciously I probably did.

I grew up there. I remember so many wonderful things about that city, and it's current condition is such a loss.

:focus: several hours north, is a beautiful place called Whitefish Point with a really cool shipwreck museum. Sorry Musky.

 

[GA_Boater]

And the museum has the ship's bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald, I heard. Now that's :focus: LOL

 

[RGrew176]

For the record the State Of Michigan has taken over Belle Isle making it a state park and there have been several improvements and they will continue to improve the island.

 

[littlerayray]

Here's a song by Gordon Lightfoot a Canadian folk singer this song is old and I love even though it sends chills down my spine everytime I listen to it https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

 

[southkogs]

For the record the State Of Michigan has taken over Belle Isle making it a state park and there have been several improvements and they will continue to improve the island.

I hope that's true - I mean no disrespect at all. There are a great many things I love about that area. For it to come back would be a VERY good thing.

Here's a song by Gordon Lightfoot a Canadian folk singer this song is old and I love even though it sends chills down my spine everytime I listen to it https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

Musky can tell you if it was true when he went, but I laughed a little when I was up there. This song was playing, and I thought, "cool, I love Lightfoot and this is such a good tune." When it finished, I was kinda' surprised to hear the guitar line crank up again ...

... and then again ...

... and again ...

LOL ... it was the only song they played while I was in the museum.

 

[littlerayray]

Wow its a good tune I wonder if the curator would go insane listening to that over and over again

 

[rogerwa]

The annual lighting of the Split Rock Lighthouse is coming up on the anniversary of the sinking of the Fitz. I've always wanted to go to this to see the light but I seem to be the only one interested..
http://www.northshorestateparks.com/splitrock.htm#special

 

[WIMUSKY]

I hope that's true - I mean no disrespect at all. There are a great many things I love about that area. For it to come back would be a VERY good thing.


Musky can tell you if it was true when he went, but I laughed a little when I was up there. This song was playing, and I thought, "cool, I love Lightfoot and this is such a good tune." When it finished, I was kinda' surprised to hear the guitar line crank up again ...

... and then again ...

... and again ...

LOL ... it was the only song they played while I was in the museum.

It wasn't that bad. We heard the fog horn that they turned on and off outside which made it real spooky inside. They also had a tv screen showing a vid. We heard the song a few times but it was pretty low volume. Doesn't sound like it was anything that you heard.......

Wow its a good tune I wonder if the curator would go insane listening to that over and over again

We talked to the woman who ran the museum part and by the end of the season she had her fill of the song......

The annual lighting of the Split Rock Lighthouse is coming up on the anniversary of the sinking of the Fitz. I've always wanted to go to this to see the light but I seem to be the only one interested..
http://www.northshorestateparks.com/splitrock.htm#special

It will be 40yrs Nov 10th........

 

[WIMUSKY]

40 years ago today she went down with 29 crew members..........

 

[sublauxation]

Interesting that the ships bell was replaced with a replica. Also according to Wiki, a body was found during one of the survey dives, but the body wasn't recovered. Maybe that's normal - No idea.

I have a couple clients who regularly dive Lake Superior wrecks. They've said it's well known which ships have bodies on them and exactly where those bodies are. Out of respect they are left untouched.

For anybody into Porters, Edmund Fitzgerald by Great Lakes Brewing out of Cleveland is a darned good one, I'll be raising one in their honer tonight.

 

[S.A. Baker]

I'll never forget that week in Nov. 1975! Shot one of my biggest bucks on the 10th of that year, (it's on the wall!) ...got divorce papers from the now EX that week...and the Fitz went missing in that nasty storm. Yeah...that was a hellofa week!

 

[RGrew176]

I'll never forget that week in Nov. 1975! Shot one of my biggest bucks on the 10th of that year, (it's on the wall!) ...got divorce papers from the now EX that week...and the Fitz went missing in that nasty storm. Yeah...that was a hellofa week!

Definitely a week to remember for sure.