What is a Boat Friend? Boat Friends are good people from around the world interested in discussing Great Lakes ships and other fun topics within a positive and stress-free environment.
This channel focuses on the following:
⚓️ Ships in Duluth: I livestream and record videos of ships mostly in Duluth, Minnesota, as they go under the Aerial Lift Bridge. You will see many interesting vessels on Lake Superior and hear periodic updates about relevant maritime news stories and weather reports.
⚓️ Ships while traveling: I livestream and record videos of ships in cool and unique places where I travel, including New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and many other locations.
And when a person sees a ship this size, going through the canal, one thinks of the power of the storm that took the “Fitz” down in 1975, the Great Lakes.are not to be taken lightly.
Hi there Mike! Did you hear about the incident on Lake Superior? They even evacuated some shipstaff (11) for safety! I just wonder if you know what really happened? TC my friend👋
I am **definitely** a nerd for things like bridges, locks, boats & ships, lighthouses...and (of course) weather. Love to see how all these work behind the scenes and learn about their particulars & history! 😊💜😊💜😊
Mike, I have not put enough thought in remembering all the ships especially who owns them. I do remember from time to time you'd rattle off a vessel name and it would be owned by American S.C. or a Canadian company, don't remember the exact Canadian company. I can't put the words together to convey how cool it is that this partnership materialized,. You can probably guess some of the other tubers are going to be a little "Green". All I can say is ASC picked a good partner, and Mike even as good as you are my opinion is you are equally as lucky to have been either picked or the one that got this ball rolling, not sure how it got started but obviously you both are winners. Happy for ya Brother.
What a wonderful comment. Thank you so much for all the positive words. A few months back ASC sent me an email and that’s how this all got started. They enjoy how to put these videos together and they really enjoy the Boat friends. we have a community. The most positive people out there are a part of this channel. There’s no doubt about it. You included. We are gonna have so much fun. In fact, I will be the American century tomorrow morning doing a video. I’ll publish it later this week. Did you see this video from today? ru-vid.comWbehPxCUeBI?si=8XmwOLzVFliF3WZP
This ship is absolutely enormous. You are totally right. I want you to see the live stream from this morning. This is a 1000 foot vessel. Let me know what you think. ru-vid.comWbehPxCUeBI?si=lvX58vB9qiOj7xjQ
With her bow anchors seeming as eyes on a face, she met those waves & spray with a determination to challenge the lake and win her cargo to next port and berth. Outstanding! 😊💜 (How I love to see a working lighthouse in challenging weather, and the lights of the ship's superstructure and shore...and the blowing drizzle on my rain-slicker & cheeks! )
Joe, it’s a pleasure hearing from you on Sunday evening. I checked out your town there in Arizona. It looks very cool. Thank you so much for taking time to check in Boat friends, take a look at the cool town that Joe lives in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Junction,_Arizona
I’m so glad that you watched this video! This reminded me of a calm pond. And we both know this is lake superior, it was surreal. The conditions were such that water on a big body lake could be that still in calm. It was extremely tranquil. Thank you so much for watching it. And I like what you said there, I might use that in the future, talking about ships that are creeping through, tiptoed! All the best my friend. Have a great evening.
There is Laura! Greetings, my friend. I hope you’ve been doing great. It’s wonderful hearing from you. It truly is. Have a wonderful wonderful Sunday evening.
Maybe someday I'll visit Duluth and see these magnificent ships gliding out to the Great Lakes for myself. My Mom is from Minnesota, and my parents lived in Cloquet before I was born. Would be fun to visit!
Another fine video Mike. It's overcast and 56 degrees here at work on the north Oregon coast. I'm keeping up with the Michipicoten situation. As you said, she is safely tied up in Thunder Bay at present. So far no word (that I can find) of what the underwater object is that she struck. 11 crew members were "removed" for safety reasons. The other 11 are presumably still on board to make sure the dewatering pumps and other equipment is running properly.
The ship on water is something that’s very interesting. Chuck sent me a graph that showed her two big buoys in the area. My gut tells me that we’re going to find out the ship accidentally hit one of those buoys. What else could it be in that deep water? There’s no submarines there?
@@vibewithmike after I read your comment I got to thinking about it and I have to concur. I can't believe there's always been something submerged there that has never been hit and I think you're correct about the lack of subs in the area so a buoy makes perfect sense.
English to Spanish comment: Booat friends, a little bit of translation for you from our good friend Jose. “Hermoso Luger” means beautiful place in Spanish. José, muchas gracias por tan lindo comentario. Me alegra que pienses que este lugar es hermoso. Duluth puede hacer frío en invierno pero es hermoso en verano. Es muy divertido ver estos barcos. Nuevamente, gracias por tomarse el tiempo del domingo para observar el barco y también dejar un comentario. Espero que vuelvas y te suscribas. Prometo seguir trayendo amistades con el enfoque positivo de todo. Jose, thank you so much for such a nice comment. I'm glad that you think this place is beautiful. Duluth can be cold in the winter but it's beautiful in the summer. it's really fun watching these ships. Again, thank you for taking time out of your Sunday to watch the ship and to also leave a comment. I hope you come back and subscribe. I promise to keep bringing friendships with the positive approach to everything.
Thank you very much! It ended up being a very nice day in Duluth, especially towards the end of the day. It’s a lot warmer right now. I hope your conditions are fantastic as well.
That was not the only ship that had a problem in the US this last week there was another one that lost writer and trawler something where the controls were stuck in high gear and the captain decided to keep it so he could still couldn’t control it somewhat was going through the something canal, St. Louis can now one of the going out to the ocean. Anyway, I was a foreign ship that had a lot of red flags on it, and for maintenance. Anyway, this was related to steering issues with the engines yet they were able to do some control by the router on the boat, the US Coast Guard had a lot of fun with that one, I forget the name of that ship in any case; they did do a Mayday call to the US Coast Guard was on the East Coast, at least one, the one you’re talking about; Mike is the second ship that I heard about. Sincerely! R.S.V.
RSV, hey, is this the story you were talking about? Is there a different one? maritime-executive.com/article/11-missing-after-trawler-sinks-off-cape-town
My friend from Ontario! It’s a very sad situation about that vessel. However, the silver lining is that the crew is safe. That’s a good thing. I definitely will pass along. What happened when I do hear about it with that vessel. It’s going to be interesting to find out. Again, all the best to you.
There’s not a lot of people that can say they have lived in Duluth. What are the things that you miss or some of the things that you don’t miss about Duluth? I’m sure the ships are something that we’re fun for you.
Good evening Mike from Easton. The WJM Jr. is a huge and hard-working lady of the lakes. Sure, looked like a beautiful day in Duluth. Thanks for another outstanding video, Mike. Hope all our boat friends also are having a grand Sunday wherever they are in this great world of ours. peace to the world.
A wonderful positive message from you, Scott! Thank you so much for the positivity. I’m guessing everybody’s having a great Sunday. It’s part of the weekend so that’s a good thing. The weather actually turned out to be pretty good here in Duluth today. It’s sunny right now as I send this message. It’s around 65°. Pretty nice.
Hey friend! Sounds like a pretty nice day there in Indonesia. The day was someone cloudy that you could see in this video but it turned out to be a pretty nice day, nice amount of sun came out. That’s a good thing. I always enjoy receiving a comment from you. Hearing about your country gives me a mini vacation. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to write a comment, my friend. All the best to you.🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩👍👍👍⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️🙏🙏🙏
No worries about missing the live feed, I ended up going out at the last second. Thank you so much for taking your time to leave a comment. I really appreciate you, my friend. All the best to you. Have a wonderful Sunday night.
How awesome was it to see this ship! The captain did a quick powerful blast. What did your daughter think? How did your dog react? My dog sometimes isn’t too excited when those horns go off.
@@vibewithmike we were there for the Oberstar also just 40 min prior. My daughter was so amazed. to see two ships within an hour was truly incredible. The dog had a little whine going, but not bad. I did a facebook live stream and shared your video next to mine on facebook. /thank you for the video and awesome narrating.
@452Boatman you got so lucky to arrive and have a ship. There are some people that come to Duluth and there’s no ships because of weather or whatever. I am so happy that you were able to see it and your daughter as well. It really makes me happy hearing how it went down. I’ll be down by tomorrow afternoon. Let me know if you’ll be around.
It’s my absolute pleasure showing you these ships. It’s really hard to explain that these ships look like they’re a mile long in person. I know the camera makes them look somewhat big, but they look even bigger in person if you can believe that.
Good looking bike in that photo! I hope you’re able to log the miles during the summer. Have you been to Sturgis before? I hope all is well there in Michigan my friend.
Greensboro, North Carolina! How are you Steve? Both friends, take a look at this awesome city in North Carolina that our friend lives in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina
I am super impressed by the big 1,000 foot ships and the huge cargo they haul navigating the canal with such precision and contributing so much to american commerce. I am a sucker though for the very old freighters of the lake and their sharp axe bow. Maybe its because as a older person, I can relate to their era, speaking of which, tthe Michipicoten a long time favorite by decades in Duluth taking on water and releasing half the crew. Boy, if that dont bring back a chill hearing those very words assocated with the Fitz, an imortal favorite. Glad this time is was ok with no casualities.Guess you dont have to have bad weather for a ship and crew to be in jeopardy on Lake Superior! God bless the Michi, hope she can be repaired, shes a good old girl.Will stay tuned for more info. Nice morning in the port city. .
Carole! Another fantastic comment that is so fun to read. It really was a scary situation yesterday for all of us Boat friends, it made world news. I’m just happy that that crew is safe and I hope we find out exactly what happens so it can be prevented from happening again. Thank goodness everybody came out safe though.
@carolewoolley7017 I really appreciate you using the word ‘friend’ because that’s how I feel about you and everybody else. We all share the same passion and interest in these vessels. It’s a true blessing to have a community where we are all together having fun. And staying positive.
It happens once in a while, but not all the time. The thing that so surprising is there was that boat going through you see it for a split second at about 4:18 in the video. It’s on the other side of the ship going to the opposite direction. I’m not sure why someone would go out in that fog and a little boat.
One of your fans said you always use it to let us know when you are out there, but i haven’t been able to spot it lately. But i have an idea for a drawing… no clues; i will surprise you.
Now this sounds fun and cool! Now you got my attention. This sounds really fun. Please keep me/us posted. I’ll show the drawing to all of our friends. This sounds really cool.🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️
Between work and times zones I am having a hard time keeping up to dated with what’s going on in the boat friends’ community. Good thing I can always come here, sit down and enjoy a great video brought by you! This time that video it will be my good night video. Great video, Mike. I wish we had 67°F but we aimed for very humid 86°F in the Dolomites. The McCarthy is a beautiful vessel indeed. Look at how she’s coming toward you. So majestic! I wonder how amazing it would be to stand on those bridge wings whilst heading to open waters. Dreamy! I’m so very sorry to hear what the Michipicoten had to endure but you said it right, the most important thing is that the crew is safe and sound! Have a great day, Mike and thanks for another very informative video! On day or another I’m going to treat you with a drink at Grandma’s after having watched ships along the piers. 🇺🇸⛴️🗻🌊🇮🇹
There she is, our friend in Italy! Thank you so much for the wonderful comment like always. I find myself always imagining the sites that you saw during the day they’re in Italy. I can imagine mountain range in the distance that you probably seen 10,000 times, however, this guy in Minnesota would be staring at that all day. I watched a few videos recently on the quality of coffee in Europe, especially in Italy. It’s very fascinating. I’m hoping that you take a break during the day to grab some coffee. Always wonderful hearing from you.👍⛴️🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹☕️☕️
Melissa, every time I do these videos, always try to make it feel like you and all of our other friends are with me. We are going to have a lot of fun being on these ships this summer.
I just told a friend of mine about what you just said. They said this back to me, “Now that person is doing it right!” I agree with them! Make it three days in a row
We arrived in Duluth 2 weeks ago today, and we miss it so badly 😢 now that we are back home❤. We had such a great time and we will be back next year for sure. We were sad to hear about the Michipicoton today. That’s one of our favorites, actually it’s hard to find a favorite. We’re thankful everyone is safe. We look for you and your boat every day❤
If you catch any good photos or videos, send me some of them. I’d like to show them to boat friends and I’ll tell them you sent them. mikems1mn@gmail.com 1 = number one
I’m glad you were able to check it out today. Thank you so much for coming back to the channel. It’s always really cool to have a comment from you as well. Nice hearing from you, Tony.
No worries, I actually went out at the last second so I didn’t give anybody notice that I was going live. I’m glad you were able to catch this ship after the fact.
Watching your videos of these big vessels coming and going, brings out the childlike awe in me from my younger years. It's a good feeling. I appreciate what you do. Keep up the good work. God bless you,
Jeff, I want you to know what I appreciate, someone like you and watched the video. It was a nice enough person to actually say these very good things about another person. You are exactly the type of person that I am proud to know and have part of this channel. You could’ve easily watched the video and moved on. Thank you so much.
