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My Duluthian Life is a deep dive into an endless array of remarkable but little-known histories,
facts, foibles and fictions revolving around Duluth, Minnesota—explored, relived and irreverently told with a personal twist by a guy who grew up there.

10/05/2024

I first saw this in person when my dad was still sailing the Great Lakes.

02/05/2024
Happy eclipse eve everybody! I can boast of seeing two totals, one of which I filmed for a TV story, in my much younger ...
08/04/2024

Happy eclipse eve everybody! I can boast of seeing two totals, one of which I filmed for a TV story, in my much younger days. Note the welder's goggles at the ready in case I needed to look skyward! Correct me if I have it wrong but I understand it's more dangerous to look at a partial eclipse than when it's total.

That's pretty startling!
04/04/2024

That's pretty startling!

Lighthouses were built to serve at aids to navigation for commercial shipping. The true size of a typical lake freighter is hard to understand until it is compared to a more commonly encountered setting. In this old advertisement from the early 1960s, the CSL steamer Whitefish Bay, at 730 feet long by 75 feet wide by 39 feet deep, is shown as if it was on Montreal's Dorchester Boulevard. The Whitefish Bay shown was launched in 1962 and scrapped in 1993. Its replacement of the same name entered service on the Great Lakes in 2012 and measures 740 feet long by 78 feet wide by 48 feet deep . An even larger class of vessels on the Great Lakes today known as "footers" measure 1000 feet long by 105 feet wide. True behemoths!

When they rebuild the Key Bridge, how about placing the support columns outside the shipping channel, in shallow water, ...
28/03/2024

When they rebuild the Key Bridge, how about placing the support columns outside the shipping channel, in shallow water, behind a hundred feet of this? A ship would be hard aground long before it could reach a bridge column.

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