| Posted by MatC |
8/28/2005 9:26 PM | remove |
Funny, that lower picture doesn't make it look very attractive. It looks more like a high school cafeteria than a "real ocean liner."
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/29/2008 7:20 PM | remove |
it wasn't for the oceans... it was for the great lake(s)
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/29/2008 7:21 PM | remove |
meaning, that it was only meant for shorter trips...
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/30/2008 3:58 PM | remove |
its hull was actually designed for ocean transit, hence the problems it had on the lakes
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/30/2008 7:40 PM | remove |
i never did get around to asking what you meant by that. This is the second or third time you mentioned its hull. What is so different about a great lakes hull and an ocean hull?
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/31/2008 1:01 PM | remove |
most great lakes hulls are square boxes designed to fit the locks, they are not designed to cut through waves on the ocean, ocean going vessels when transiting the lake canals create quite large wake wheras a laker can go through the south shore canal and barely stir a dragon boat of people its passing.
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/31/2008 6:59 PM | remove |
oh. ok.
and the people that bought this boat didn't think about that?
dumb people. poor boat.
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
2/1/2008 2:28 AM | remove |
From the web link on the main page:
"The ship's origin as an ocean-going cargo vessel with the corresponding size and power of such a ship created problems for its navigation in the harbor rivers and docking from its first sailing. The ship, never loadedheavily enough to sit appropriately low in the water, behaved like a sailin high winds and trips were delayed or cancelled a number of times dueto wind. The winds and inertial speed of the ship caused it to bang into the Detroit News dock, ram into the seawall in Windsor, and bump into a Navy cruiser in Cleveland. Having only one propeller made manuevering in small spaces challenging. And the enormous wake it left behind even at low speeds swamped numerous boats, causing considerable damage and nearly costing a child its life".
Yeah, dumb people, trying to operate an ocean going ship in a lake environment. It's a shame nobody got us some on-board pictures.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
2/1/2008 6:26 PM | remove |
i watched this ghostly hull pass by my office this summer on its funeral cortege. The wake it was causing was 6-7 feet at some narrow parts of the canal
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| Posted by engel |
12/4/2009 4:24 PM | remove |
Id love to go back, and dress in the style of the era, and do a shoot here....
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| Posted by Snarg |
12/6/2009 8:26 PM | remove |
It would be so easy ... if you own a time machine.
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| Posted by Samurai |
3/15/2010 11:43 PM | remove |
as stated before, this boat is now toyotas or hyundais or something.
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| Posted by Agent Skelly |
3/22/2010 7:24 AM | remove |
I rode the MV Coho ferry between Port Angeles, WA and Victoria, BC recently and the ship built in 1956, and the whole time on board, I kept thinking of the Aquarama and the brochure
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| Posted by Samurai |
4/15/2010 11:32 PM | remove |
you know, this boat has never really escaped me. I regret not seeing it in person.
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