Dear readers… As you know we are well into the cruise on the NAUTICA that left last Saturday from Hong Kong and lands 16 days later in Bangkok. I truly have lost all track of time. Never have the Scottish lady and I been so pampered and looked after as we have on the [...]
Well Dear Readers.. There is not a lot to report except that Scott and the team in Port are moving full steam to get the volunteer contact lists ready and handle the continual and most welcome offers of help from individuals and corporations alike. I think we are well over the 200 mark for [...]
The time has certainly flown by, Here it is January 22nd and the Scottish Lady and I have the bags packed and waiting for the limo to the airport. As you all know we are off to South East Asia via a stop- over in London to visit friends and take a cruise. We are [...]
Happy New Year patient readers… It has been a few days, last year in fact that the last entry proclaimed the Keewatin was at last floating. The dredges have now been stored until spring and Keewatin waits at her dock to be freed into the open Great Lakes waters! The plan as it stands now [...]
It was probably the strangest group of spectators to a ship launch ever. Not only was the ship 105 years old, but the age average of those assembled wasn’t far off that. It was bitter cold, but clear and sunny when on the morning of December 19 2011 the mighty KEEWATIN once again felt the [...]
Dave Spencer FOX 17 News http://www.fox17online.com/news/fox17-make-way-for-the-ss-keewatin-30-years-of-sand-pumped-out-of-harbor-20111209,0,4078414.story 8:17 p.m. EST, December 9, 2011 SAUGATUCK, Mich.-— For as long as Candi Skinner can remember the Saugatuck Harbor meant two things, the home of the SS Keewatin and a place too shallow for her fishing boat.”The last time we’ve been out here was probably about two years ago because we [...]
Good morning….Wednesday December 8 2011…DOUGLAS MICHIGAN, Lake Kalamazoo Below are shots from yesterday that show the dredger on site and working..Apparently the lake was deeper than the chart showed so getting to the area to be dredged didn’t take as long as expected… This is the main dredger sitting just off the [...]
Here it is..The BIG news. I can now say that the KEEWATIN is coming home to Canada in June 2012. I have just returned from Douglas / Saugatuck where over three days we closed the deal on KEEWATIN, signed and sealed from the offer in August and we contracted KING CO. to do the dredging..After [...]
This week, dear reader we went to Hamilton Harbour to meet with one of the Great Lakes best ship recovery companies. Many of you might have seen the article concerning two derelict Canadian Navy submarines they collected and brought back to Hamilton to scrap. Tuesday I spent a good amount of time with Richard Heddle [...]
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