“Those Great Lakes ore carriers sure are odd looking vessels.”
I get to see ‘em day in and day out from my office window overlooking the Duluth harbor. The 1000 footers are pretty impressive making their way throught the skinnly little breakwater opening into the harbor.....especially when the waves are hitting around 8 feet!
Militant
throught=through
skinnly=skinny
Duh!!
Militant
My father used to take me up in the Terminal Tower as a child growing up in Cleveland to watch the ore ships (for some reason, we called them ore “boats”, not really correctly) winding their way up the Cuyahoga River to the steel mills (he had worked in Jones and Laughlin). That river has a number of sharp bends in it, and the pilots would guide the ships up the river with about a one foot clearance off the bow and stern, and a foot of clearance amidships on the opposite side.