Its gotta be a welcoming feeling to see people at the dock as you're returning for the final time of the season. You can tell be the amount of people that come to watch these ships come and go threw out the shipping season. What this commerce means to this area. Its JOBS, Its 💰💰💰 to there families and friends. And even as we watch the end of the shipping season. It's the beginning of another season for a ARMY of fabricators and maintenance workers to start there work and make there 💰💰💰. This is what America is all about, You get good at your skill. You work hard and you'll be rewarded for it. I have a buddy that goes up and lives in Perrysburg, Ohio with 3 other guys that work on ships all winter long in the short lay up season. He's a grain farmer in the spring threw the fall. And a welder and fab. Man in the winter. And makes dam good coin doing so.
very good video out here on the east we watch whales and the fishing fleet come. i get scared of a last hurrah. i think of a last farewell in gordon lightfoot song the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. and the roger Whittier song of a naval battle and the words "you are beautiful" make me feel happy now i am happy it is only a last time for this shipping season and time for routine season of maintenance and repair in preparation of the shipping fleet for next shipping season. very similar to the song of turn turn a season under heaven.....
thanks for the learning ( education) since i have been a land bound flatlander for so long i do not have much of a understanding of your northerly midwest great lakes. out my way i have been to the glouster (sp ?) massechuses ( sp # my memory and my spell checker failed big time) the fishing town home of the some folks of wicked tuna. and some of the folks affected in what turned in to the perfect storm with george clooney and the mass born mark of the walburger clan. that include mark a brawler in high school and now on the big screen fame. donnie of many fames like marrying that former playboy model jenny macharty ( damn my memory and the band of new kids or something like that. didn't donnie star with tom selleck (the original magnum p.i. (i like apple pia. i have learn more about an american past time baseball i have been to emerson college near fenway. i saw the big green any may have been inside fenway once and knowing me as a thrifty dutch born american i probably sat in what the alabama band with a mister randy owens vocals in the cheap seats with tracy laurence reminding about who your friends are. and jim croce and now his baby boy aj croce i got a name i got a name and it is now mr waterschoot and i wear it proudly like my daddy did in my younger days. and now that i am 65 pushing 66. many people call me mr waterschoot and i know it is out of respect but i keep looking over my shoulder to see if my dad is behind me. but most times it is wishful thinking. he has left the planet earth for hopefully went to heaven if god forgave him for chewing my mother out for what now seems the stupid. breakfast is calling and my stomach is growling it must be a burger king kind of morning i am hangry (hungry with a wicked angry stomach. a recess for now and back later.
When she came in it was -8.3C or +17F!!! It's cold no matter where you are!!! Here in the upper Midwest, we are having a serious cold snap! We're expecting 7-10+ days of below zero F lows and teens above zero F for highs! Enjoy your weather!!!
Thanks so much for the videos, that have given me the opportunity to watch something so awesome. I look forward to every one. I hope everyone will be home safe and warm for the season. Stay well. Thanks again.
There should be a best of video for the past year. I've seen some great stuff here. Some incredible sunrises, storms, and scenes like these. I love this channel!
For anyone interested, Zedge has a ringtone of the James R. Barker horn. I just Googled James R Barker horn and it came up. That'll get your attention.
Absolutely beautiful. Love this channel. Cold enough here in Bloomington, MN but can imagine that airs a bit chillier on the lake. See you in the spring
I really enjoy watching these big ships come in and out. I am from the UK and I never even knew this shipping existed on the Great Lakes. That's what is so good about You Tube. You can learn so much from good well produced channels like Duluth Harbor Cam. Reading comments, it is obvious there is a lot I do not know about the world around North America. I am intrigued that we are already nearly half way through meteorological winter and one third through astrological winter, there is ice everywhere, yet only now is the "shipping season" ending. That seems late to me. Love to know more about this.
You’d probably need to talk to someone who works on one of these ships or companies to know for sure… but in this day in age I think the season start and end is determined by the lock system rather than ice, they schedule ten or more weeks for maintenance, and since the ships are completely dependent on those to get around there’s no point in sailing regardless of the weather. Of course if the lakes freeze solid (which is quite rare, they store a lot of heat from summer but can happen) that’s also a problem
Thing were backed up and delayed because your genius president, Biden, didn't allow non union work to unload boats. This is a major contributor to the supply chain crisis happening. Delays mean ships are out on the lakes late into the season. On another note, anyone who doesn't know the great lakes were and are used as major shipping route is seriously uneducated.
Furthermore, the lakes basically never freeze over completely. Last time superior was even close to total freeze over was 1979 at 94% froze. Read an article, it doesn't take long. Average freeze over is 55% covered. The massive volume of water in the great lakes rarely freezes is an understatement. Rarely means, in this case, basically never.
@@JJ-kz7sm 2014 was a pretty good freeze-over, no? That was the year me and a buddy sledded up to Bayfield and checked out the "Ice Caves"... Ice for as far as the eye can see... As far as i know, they we accessible briefly in 2015, and haven't been since...
Surprised you didn't know shipping occured on the Great Lakes.... Ever hear this song? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hgI8bta-7aw.html
Nice to see every homecoming ships sail in for wintervacation! I often sit here in western Sweden and watch and listen to your exotic ships passing by! In this video I got surprised to see a sign at 2:15 with a swedish name on: SOLGLIMT bed n breakfast! There was earlier a B/B in Alingsås 60 km north of Gothenburg, with the same name. Is the owner maybe from Sweden? I thank you for all the lovely videos. Great Work! God bless all the crewmembers onboard!
Given the immense size of that ship it becomes hard to grasp that the cruise ship Symphony of the Seas is 100 feet longer and about 100 feet too tall to fit under the lift bridge.
And don't forget that both of those ships will never cross paths as they both are too big to make it in or out of the entire lock system for the lakes.
I'm told they do maintenance on the bridge all Winter and take it up and down on a fairly regular basis, but not as often as during the shipping season.
I wonder if they keep a skeleton crew on board to keep her warm and running so things don't freeze up onboard like plumbing and stuff. I wonder what winter mode they put the ship into or if any systems work and repair they do over the winter.
Can someone explain to me why they have two horns on every freighter (one that sounds like a train whistle)? I'm assuming it's for redundancy in case the other goes out - just curious!
Lol the second horn is always the same because it’s not on the ships but on the bridge itself! The ship’s first salute the bridge, then the bridge salutes the ship back. Hard to tell sound direction on these videos so totally understandable
@@blackmoom Do you no one's mind has ever been changed by calling them idiot, loser, take meds, jerk etc? People call names because they have a poor self-image.
It’s what makes Duluth/Superior awesome the locals love it. Those aren’t just tourists lined up watching. I watch this for the horns and am disappointed when it’s not on the feed.
