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
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
