Drone On.

It is a lovely sunny Michigan Sunday here in Saugatuck and Douglas and we have 12 days until KEEWATIN leaves Lake Kalamazoo after 45 years.  Work is constant here even over the last weekends as there are  still many jobs need doing before we pull away from the grassy shoreline of Tower Marine and head [...]

20/41..The Countdown Continues.. Things are really coming together in the preparation for the move. It is 20 days until Keewatin pulls out of Lake Kalamazoo and 41 days until she reaches the dock in Port McNicoll.   The high wire workers were hard at it and certainly causing the passing cars to slow this week [...]

CLOSER EVERY DAY!   Busy Bees are swarming all over Keewatin this week. Yesterday the company replacing the stays, or guy wires started to put up their scaffolding.  The smoke stack is 45 feet high from the Storm Deck and the masts are 60 feet. Those wires have never been changed in the 45 years [...]

48 days to go…..Yes dear readers it is only 48 days until Keewatin comes home. In fact it is only 26 days until she begins her trip leaving Douglas/ Saugatuck and the picturesque (but shallow) Lake Kalamazoo for the slow pull up Lake Michigan.   The tug Boat Wendy-Anne will be manoeuvring off the west [...]

This is a special addition to the Drone-on.com series on getting KEEWATIN home. I have been a Keewatin fan since I was a teenager, and since I took on the job of bringing the great ship home I have met many others. I’d like to share a few of them with you. There is a [...]

What a great day today is. Not that all days aren’t but today something special happened. Part of what I do with KEEWATIN is give public talks. To do that I have a lap top and a lap top projector and I put together presentations for school visits, Rotary Clubs, Corporations, TV interviews and even [...]

Good day faithful followers..It has been another positive week in getting Keewatin ready to sail. The current target date is Saturday June 2 2012 for embarkation from Douglas Saugatuck. The remaining dredging is being completed in the next week and work on the ship to make her safe is moving right along. We have to [...]

The worst part of any move is in the packing up and preparation for the day! No different with the KEEWATIN. She has sat for 45 years in Lake Kalamazoo where she entered as an empty ship in 1967. Over the years her giant holds that carried 3800 tons of grain on a downward trip [...]

Well, well. All things come to those that wait..well sort of. The Department of Environmental Quality issued a dredging permit to RJ Peterson today. This brings to a close a long and complicated bureaucratic paper trail that was becoming a worry for all of us wanting to extract the SS KEEWATIN from Lake Kalamazoo. However, [...]

Time is certainly moving quickly. It is just 90 days until KEEWATIN is scheduled to come back into Port McNicoll to start another chapter in her amazing life. I haven’t got any exciting news like using the buldozer to push the old girl into deeper water but the latest being that work is still going [...]