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A local fish tug breaking the ice
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Jeff
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Registered: June 2001
Location: Great Lakes
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· Date: April-18-2003 · Views: 19085
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Keywords: A local fish tug breaking ice
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duluthboats
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Registered: March 2002
Location: Arlington, WA, USA
Posts: 1,580
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Aren’t these boats a thing of beauty?  LOL!! All function and just enough maintenance to keep them going. Only a handful of them still working on the Superior. I don’t recognize the light house; it must be MI, not WI.
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"The hand feeds the mind."
Weston Farmer
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Jeff
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Location: Great Lakes
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I'm not sure when the boat came from Wisconsin, but it's been here in Michigan for some years now (I don't think the paint was new when it arrived )
It was a neat experience the other day. I've watched the fish boats break the ice before from the beach, but this time I was standing on a wooden dock and the ice had retreated just enough that as the fish bot thrust its bow up onto the plate of ice time after time, a few seconds later I could hear the bubbling and see the swash of water hit the shore behind me, coming from under the ice and emerging where it had melted away. Ducks were walking on the ice, and it was an interesting experience to feel in the dock and hear and see the motion in the water caused by the fish boat 1000 feet away. Seeing it ram and break the ice away hour after hour, it's amazing how much stress these gnarled fishboats can take and still perform for their users.
Maybe the neatest part was when his kids came out on the dock and yelled to their dad 500 feet across the ice "come pick me up daddy"
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