If so, I think we need to get the ban stick warmed up.
+1
Oh come on. Nobody would want a rusted out old ship that tried and failed several times to be put to use on the lake to stay here and rust on our waterfront. That’s nonsense.
The grain elevators, while awesome, would need an INSANE amount of work to fix.
Not to mention the amount of metal scrapped from this ship is probably 100x more valuable than the grain elevators… (one ship, that can be packed up and moved, vs… tons of satellite grain towers.
i just love that the dingies are still hanging on the side right on up through the dismantling
Final anchor weighing
Tribute video - some cool shots of her when she was queen of the lakes, a few of her underway to Turkey. There’s one pic of her in open water after 45 years that is sad.