50th Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald's demise

Scott Danforth

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I know people that have piloted ships across the Atlantic and North Sea in winter gales. they all stated, that is a cake walk compared to the great lakes during a storm

waves on the great lakes get the same height however are closer together than in the ocean.
 

racerone

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Lightfoot owned a wooden sailboat himself.---Custom built by Vic Carpenter. Called the---Golden Goose-----I believe it is in EUROPE now.
 
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