There are some areas that might need a boat to get around as more rain is falling again, but this old boat doesn’t look too seaworthy or able to provide much shelter.
Not Seaworthy
Picture of the Day for May 7, 2016
The lakes and rivers have extra activity today as people on the other end of hooks and line are hoping to catch a big fish on the opening day of the fishing season.
Trying to Catch a Fish
Picture of the Day for December 7, 2015
A “date that will live in infamy” is how President Franklin D. Roosevelt described Japanese attacks on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor in a speech to the joint session of Congress on the day after the attack on December 7, 1941. Of the more than 2,400 Americans killed in the attack, almost half of those who died were aboard the USS Arizona. This February, the last surviving officer of the USS Arizona, died at the age of 100 and there are now only eight crewmen from the Arizona still living.
Since I haven’t been to Hawaii to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, I have no pictures of it but this old fishing boat might not seen damage from war, but has been worn down from years of hard work and the icy waters of Lake Superior.
Boat Battling Age
Picture of the Day for February 20, 2014
I don’t think this ‘Ruby’ will be taking her love to town, and I don’t think she will make it out to sea either with the lake frozen. And with a foot of snow coming, she will be buried a little more in her resting place.
Ruby
Picture of the Day for November 25, 2013
No rush hour commute for this boat to make it to work on a Monday morning as “The Eagle” has been retired for a while even though it can see Lake Superior were the fishing boat worked for many years. I haven’t found when it was built but it operated out of Bayfield, WI until 1947 and after a short retirement, it continued working until 1972. The boat is presently sitting ashore at in a village park at Cornucopia, Wisconsin looking over Siskiwit Bay on Lake Superior.
Retired Eagle
Picture of the Day for September 14, 2013
The old train engine from yesterday might be retired, this commercial fishing boat isn’t and as soon as the sea gulls hear the motor start up, they leave their resting spot on the water and flock to the boat, following it out of the harbor in the hope of a snack.
The steel hulled Courtney Sue has seen 65 years of work and still heads out before sunrise in search of fish on Lake Superior. The Courtney Sue is 39.4 feet in length and 4.2 feet in depth which was built by the Hugh Lee Iron Works in Saginaw, Michigan in 1948 for the Halvorson Fisheries in Cornucopia, Wisconsin.
Sea Gulls Chasing the Courtney Sue
Picture of the Day for December 3, 2012
The grey days of November are continuing into December so I might have to do a yellow theme this week just to have some bright colors to help pretend that it is not so cloudy outside. This picture might not have a lot of yellow but does make me think of summer.
The Taylor Falls Princess is 78 feet long and travels the St. Croix River near Taylor Falls, MN. And while the St. Croix River is very deep in some spots like the narrow basalt gorge of the Dalles area, the river does widen out once past the hard rocks and can get very shallow so the loaded draft is only 1.5 feet for the Princess.
Taylor Falls Princess
