Posted on 11/10/2024 4:19:48 AM PST by OttawaFreeper
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Pictures are Copyrighted to their respected owners.
You can apply this to the big guy:
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping ‘round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winning, when I’m losing again
I get so tense when I hear this song but I refuse to turn it off out of respect for the men lost. And same - we wore Mustang suits and were told if we fell overboard, the temps were such that they only had a few minutes to try to save us from the water and wouldn’t be successful. I have a picture I took as the storm was hitting us. There is a wall of water beside the boat so high you can’t see the sky. The worst part was going over the top of the waves and swells when the ship plunged down.
Great song/poem.
Spent a lot of time on RV Pt. Lobos on Monterey Bay. The boat was 110 ft. long; not much more than the beam of the Edmund Fitzgerald. West winds have a very long fetch and conditions are a lot like open ocean. The Lobos started life as a mud boat on the Louisiana Gulf Coast and had a round bottom and virtually no keel. It was nicknamed the Pt. Puke. Witnessing 45 deg roll waiting for condition ‘turtle’ was scary. Alan Alda videoed a science show (his crew did). He was given the title of sickest ever on the boat based on rail time.
I cannot imagine how the crew of the Fitzgerald felt.
WOW!! What an experience!
Glad you’re still with us.
Those words have to be some of the most haunting words ever sung.
Oh my. Sounds exactly like my Alaska experience. You’d look up and see one swell appearing to touch another. No sky. The spray freezing midair and dropping like pellets. Chipping ice from the bow with hatchets. I was only 20 and by myself a long way from home.
Captain used to let me in the wheelhouse to listen to Browns games on radio Nome.
“Sundown”, IIRC, was written about the woman (Kathy Smith?) who helped John Belushi score his last heroin hit that killed him.
Thank you. I love this song.
Thanks for sharing... I listen to this song on repeat every 11/10 ;-)
That album reminds me of my dad growing up. He played this album over and over.
The badger used to leave from my local harbor just a few blocks from me. Now it goes to Manitowoc about 30 miles south of me. I see it come and go but I have never been on it because I suffer from from sea sickness at the slightest movement. It is old. But there were much older ones. And it was generally overhauled. When ferries left out of our town they could hold about 25 train cars as well as cars and people. It was very cool. But our town is a lot cleaner now. Our harbor is filled with fishing boats and the Army Core of Engineers. It seems every harbor has its specialties. Some do sale boats, others handle cruise ships, and still others are industrial or have a Coast Guard station. When the train stopped transporting ore and logs from the UP by train through Green Bay and out our harbor, we got funding to clean up the harbor and turn the tracks to tails. Now its a sleep little town with world class views.
Love lightfoots lyric...”the witch of November...
Many,many boats have sunk in November in Lake Superior...I am sure the mariners all know about the witch...
bttt
Witch of November..
Wow, he wrote a song about Hillary
I think the Arthur Anderson is still running.
...or driving over the Mackinac bridge - above/in the clouds - and seeing the bridge further ahead disappear into the clouds.
Freaky feeling, even though my rational brain says that the bridge is still there.
Google Mischke Fitzgerald for the best radio interview ever!
Only 3:31 and real, NOT a parody.
I remember watching that news broadcast by Eric Sevareid as it happened.
Bump and thanks for the thread!
The Witch of Forever.
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