11-10-1975

Ive been to Whitefish Bay and toured the museum... brings a tear to the eye.

Two weeks after the sinking my idiot neighbor Bob woke me up at midnight... corralled me into driving to Detroit with him and his family to pick up a boat he just bought. I lived in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula at the time.

On the way back I’m snoozing on an air mattress in the truck bed when I sense that I’m sliding towards the tailgate.

I was... Bob was going to launch the boat at St. Ignace and take a ride to Mackinaw Island.. with me, his wife and kid!!! Two weeks after The Big Fitz went down. In five foot seas... in an 18’ I/O!

After putting the boat in the water, he parked the truck and trailer in a parking lot two blocks away, and he returned to the boat ramp only to have me note that he forgot to put the plug in the hull and the boat was sinking with the engine half submerged in water!

I had never seen his *** run so fast as he did to get that trailer back under his boat before it sank into Lake Superior!