....is the day The Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a big storm on Lake Superior, losing all 29 lives aboard. May they never be forgotten.
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!
My old man had a special place he used to put that transom plug so there was no way he could forget to put it in
was it the drain hole on the transom?
That water is so clear. And cold, I'm sure.My mom was in the hospital when the Fitzgerald when down. On the same floor one of the crewmen from the Fitzgerald I don't remember what he was there for. He was supposed to be on board the ship then but he couldn't because of his condition.
My mom said he was so distraught about all his buddies and especially the one who took his place on board. The nurses had to keep an eye on him.
That was a nasty storm I had afternoon classes at the vocational school that was over at 7:00 pm. It was a white out driving home that night in my 2wd 69 Chevy 3/4 ton. It was a butt cinching ride home you could hardly see the road.
That big old lake can be so beautiful, but it can get so ferocious in a short amount of time.
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When we went out on Lake Superior, they said there were over 6000 known ship wrecks in the Great Lakes. Lake Superior has almost half of them.