Oldpirate
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Not sure where to post this but it may be of interest to boatnerds and shipwreck geeks alike, specifically those here on the Great Lakes Wrecking Crew!
"Buckets and belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader" is the newest "must have" book for your Great Lakes maritime library. Authors William Lafferty and Valerie van Heest trace more than a century of innovative technological advancements in the transportation of bulk cargos beginning with the Hennepin's conversion to a self-unloader in 1902 to today's mammoth thousand-foor lakers.
Containing the most comprehensive collection of self-unloader photographs ever published plus dozens of underwater images, this book also explores the lives of the people who designed these vessels, the crewmen who sailed them and those self-unloaders that tragically went to the bottom of the lakes, some taking entire crews with them.
Hundreds of images, an extensive bibliograpy and a complete appendix listing every self-unloader built to sail the Great lakes makes this new book required reading for boat nerds and shipwreck enthusiasts alike.
For details and to order: MSRA - Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates
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ps: MSRA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and all proceeds from this book go to our efforts to research, discover and document shipwrecks so YOU can dive them!
"Buckets and belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader" is the newest "must have" book for your Great Lakes maritime library. Authors William Lafferty and Valerie van Heest trace more than a century of innovative technological advancements in the transportation of bulk cargos beginning with the Hennepin's conversion to a self-unloader in 1902 to today's mammoth thousand-foor lakers.
Containing the most comprehensive collection of self-unloader photographs ever published plus dozens of underwater images, this book also explores the lives of the people who designed these vessels, the crewmen who sailed them and those self-unloaders that tragically went to the bottom of the lakes, some taking entire crews with them.
Hundreds of images, an extensive bibliograpy and a complete appendix listing every self-unloader built to sail the Great lakes makes this new book required reading for boat nerds and shipwreck enthusiasts alike.
For details and to order: MSRA - Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates
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ps: MSRA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and all proceeds from this book go to our efforts to research, discover and document shipwrecks so YOU can dive them!
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