J Mos it's 34 years experience sir

It's actually the pilot who navigates the boat

@@joehaynes6647 Great Lakes freighters don't use pilots.

Да , корпус уставший .

Almost looks like duct tape 😂

Just a few years ago the 1000 footers were still coming into Muskegon with coal for the power plant. That was quite a site to see. Now the plant is closed and not as much freighter traffic will be moving in and out.

The ship has bow thrusters......

The horn blasts are BEFORE you pass through.

You mean over in 6:51? 😉

I’m sure it didn’t take this long!

You got a really tight canal and your husband is like this ship?

I just noticed that. Can't be very good for steering with all that hull damage.

My guess from winter ice.

Steel on steel at the ore docks and steel on concrete in the locks... some of the boats have like 6in clearance on either side in the locks...

The locks at the soon.

100 lbs of poop in a 5 lb bag Amazing

Ogunquit, Maine has a hand operated draw bridge. When a boat needs it opened they rely on a passerby to open it. It's way cool.

Anonymous there's two bridges he's only gone through the first. Not to add the second bridge is the main bridge.

@@WowImSalty The boat is outbound and has already passed under the Memorial Street bridge. This is the Maple Street bridge and from here it's a clear shot out to Lake Michigan.

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JasmineLindros atta girl =)

It does look as if he heard you, seems to be hanging on to the Boat next to him... :-)

This ship looks like it needs a Frapping lot of body filler .

The ship has Bow thrusters......

Yes

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NattyBumppo48 that is as big as you can get though the wellon canal

NattyBumppo48 she is also halling a light load they normally set lower in the water depending on what they hall

@@donmcmannamy3409 This ship is heading out of the channel towards Lake Michigan. It is mot likely empty. This would account for it riding high in the water.

@@bernie9728 if she was mt she would be setting higher on the water . she isn't loaded full or has a light load. Seen many ships like her and have seen her were o live

More like: we gonna need a bigger channel.

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There are several Factories around Manistee Lake. Freighters offload/load coal, aggregate & rock salt.

@@wdwfan102 There is also one of the Dow Chemical plants as well as DTE Energy

This is the Maple Street bridge, several blocks west of the US31 bridge.

Bow thrusters

jlions72 they unload coal to several factories

Actually, in Manistee, they come in empty and pick up salt. Motorn salt has an underground salt mine in Manistee...

@@jamesspafford5985 Actually, I have a picture of the Manitowoc offloading coal on 11/16/15. Morton is not the only factory back there.

As I said in another comment, there are several factories around Manistee Lake. Freighters offload/load coal, aggregate & rock salt.

@@jamesspafford5985 There are no mines in Manistee. They pump water into underground salt deposits to dissolve the salt, then pump the brine back up to be dehydrated and processed into usable salt products like salt blocks for livestock and water softener pellets

Because the Canadians did not build their locks wide enough for modern ships to go through without damage.

dynodon427 Vessels confined to the Great Lakes , no matter what the size have been called “boats” for decades. Ocean freighters visiting the lakes are “ships”.

RailwayProductions By size, we refer to them as ships. Most of the time, we just call them ‘lakers’ and ‘salties’ when they’re visiting from the ocean.

I've only ever heard the old timers say they worked on "the boats." (This is in Manistee, Ludington, and Frankfort.) Linguistically speaking, this ship/boat debate is an odd thing that English speakers have decided to have. An equivalent debate would be whether we're going to classify chicken and poultry as two different things based on size, where it's from, or where it's eaten.

@@indigodragon0613 try again. Great Lakes vessels are always referred to as boats.

There are several Factories around Manistee Lake where the freighters offload/load coal, aggregate & rock salt.

Actually, by lake standards, she isn't that old. She was launched in 1973 as the Paul Thayer, renamed Earl W. Oglebay in 1994, then Manitowoc in 2008 with Lower Lakes buying her from Wilmington trust. As best I can find, she is still powered by 2 V-16 ALCo diesels producing about 5,600 hp...

@@jamesspafford5985 ALCos = honorary steam locomotives. Blub blub blub blub.

TheKira699 That’s damage from waves I believe. The Great Lakes are not to be underestimated.

Thank you Julia, I wouldn't be surprised if some is from ice as well.

TheKira699 Yeah on the lower portions, that would make sense. We even have ice breaker ships for the Great Lakes XD.

I was supposed to take the SS badger from Milwaukee to Muskegon like eight years ago and they canceled it due to gale warning. The weather Channel said that in the middle of Lake Michigan there were some waves with tips as high as two stories. That’s some serious white tips!

TheKira699 While there are rub rails on the sides of the ship, Great Lakes ships do way more docking and locking than do ocean going ships. Particularly when entering a lock, they put the side of the bow against the pier and drive the ship in. This assumes that they have enough room on the opposite side. This is really important when the ship is a 1000’ er such as the Paul R. Tregurtha.

Shahzad Ajmal probably the bunker fuel that runs the freighter

No, not the fuel. Insufficient air to burn the fuel. Could be turbo-lag, or just crude mechanical fuel injection responding to control inputs for more turns. Consider the obvious vessel age, thus the main engine also.

Likely turbo lag from the captain "spiking the throttle" for quick thrust demands...

@@jacquesblaque7728 tired old engine, those sort of immissions are illegal in Europe, no one seems to care in America!

Shah Zek good ole horsepower, keeps the bugs down

Your lack of local knowledge is laughable. Great Lakes vessels are always referred to as boats. Try doing some research next time so you don"t look like an idiot.