http://www.metafilter.com/tags/saultstemarie Posts tagged with 'saultstemarie' at MetaFilter. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:55:11 -0800 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:55:11 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/89207/Stubby%2Dand%2Dother%2Dqueens%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dlakes One among many interesting pieces of Great Lakes freighter history: <a href="http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/images/Stubby-rl.jpg">This ship</a> is also <a href="http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/thumb/cort-s.jpg">this ship</a>. <a href="http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/cort.htm">The explanation</a> - and everything else you ever wanted to know about the massive, but largely unknown <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_freighter">freighters of the Great Lakes</a> - is on <a href="http://www.boatnerd.com">Boatnerd</a>. The "lakers" that ply the upper Great Lakes are up to 1,000 feet long - aircraft-carrier length - but they work in such sparsely-populated areas of North America that they hardly factor into the public awareness. Yet anyone who's lived or worked close to them will tell you that you'll hardly find more magnificent creations. Beyond the formerly-stubby Stewart J. Cort (whose bow I once cut across in a motorboat, eliciting a honk that woke the whole city), you might be interested to learn about the <a href="http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/stmaryschallenger.htm">oldest working lake freighter</a> (1906!), the <a href="http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/prtrgrth.htm">largest lake freighter</a>, the most <a href="http://www.glmi.org/fitz/default.htm">infamous lake freighter</a>, and the one that <a href="http://boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/algoportsink.htm">sank last year</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.89207 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:55:11 -0800 boatnerd freighter greatlakes saultstemarie bicyclefish