• Sunday-What'sUP September 20 - 10:38 pm

Several times in the past 18 years we have referenced the Tioga, a ship that sank off the shore near Eagle River in 1919. You may have seen it sitting a few feet from M-26 behind a resident's home, serving as his tool shed. Yesterday the Tioga was mentioned on Day in History, and this week the century-old relic was moved up the hill to the new Eagle River Museum. Thanks to Tom Hall for capturing the process, and to all the volunteers in Keweenaw Historical Society for the great job they are doing with the new museum in our home town.

Have a good week :o)

That's so cool!!! Thanks for sharing this!

Hope all continues to go well for the new museum. The pilot house is a neat addition and that's where it should be, rather than housing tools.
Thanks for your info gathering every week, Charlie.

After yesterday's "Day in History", I was
researching all the the ship wrecks close to Eagle
River. I would love to see some satellite or
aerial photography that shows the reef offshore of
Eagle River and Great Sand Bay called "Sawtooth
Reef". It's only a about a mile offshore and only
30 to 40 feet under the surface but I don't know
how long it is. I wonder if Neil Harri has
anything published or that he might share.

Good to preserve a piece of history.

A depth chart tells a good story:

ht
tp://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?
lat=47.12194443&lon=-88.56888580&zoom=8&pin=Hought
on%2c%20MI&rad=1&wxsn=0&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&m
m=0&hur=0

As does Bing Maps aerial....unfortunately, Google
Maps aerial was taken with ICE still on the lake.
;)

http://www.bing.
com/maps/#Y3A9NDcuNDI2MTQ3fi04OC4y
Njc5NDQmbHZsPTE0JnN0eT1oJnRtPSU3QiUyMldlbGNvbWVQYW
5lbFRhc2slMjQlMjQwJTIyJTNBbnVsbCU3RA==

Sorry for the disjointed links....copy and paste the
entire link and it will work, I promise. :)

I lied....the links do NOT work. Sorry. However,
if anyone really wants to view what I tried to post,
I would be happy to try and walk thru the process.

Very cool that years ago someone saved it, even if just for a tool shed for a while. Who knows what would have happened to it if they hadn't taken it, now to be enjoyed everyone who visits the museum.

Steve in IL (Snomonut):
"A depth chart tells a good story:"

Maybe this will help:
Here's a link to a PDF copy of
(click →) NOAA Nautical Chart #14964 Lk Superior Big Bay Point to Redridge Mich.
(Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing.)
You can zoom in and scroll over to Eagle Harbor to check out the Eagle River Shoals and depth information.

P.S.: In order to post a link as shown above, write it like this:

\newurl{URL, text}

… using the formatting codes shown in the Pasty.com formatting instructions.

When your message is posted, the URL will be hidden and the text will become a clickable link, as in this message.

One thing to notice about the nautical chart posted above (thanks FRNash!) is just how quick the bottom drops off from Eagle Harbor. In about 3 miles out, you're in almost 800 ft. of water. What the chart doesn't show is that it is not a steady drop but a series of "stair-steps" going out, with each step representing another basalt flow of the Rift. I do remember it made for some interesting fishing along there as well.

Thanks to everyone. If it weren't for the ice
cover, Google might have the best imagery on
this. After poking around the leads that Steve
gave I ran across this image that is pretty
good. Sawtooth Shoal is only 4 feet below the
surface in one spot. I know I've seen an great
aerial photo from Neil but I can't find it.

http
://preview.tinyurl.com/otvvo9l

I found it when I stumbled across this site:

http
://preview.tinyurl.com/nbzhp74

I followed your instructions FRNash but it
complained there was unallowed formatting
inside my url.

D. A. (Midwested):
"… I followed your instructions FRNash but it complained there was unallowed formatting inside my url."

Aw shucks, I wish I knew what the URL was that you intended to use, I could help with that.

(There are a few little "tricks" that need to be used if there are certain special characters embedded in the URL.)

FRNash:

That's why I used the PREVIEW mode in Tiny URL. It
displays the URL before you click to "go there".

D. A. (Midwested):
"That's why I used the PREVIEW mode in Tiny URL. It displays the URL before you click to 'go there'."

Oopsie! I see what you mean, but I can't tell what character(s) in the URLs may be causing the problem; I'll have to study that in more detail.

(Although I've used TinyURL before, I've never used the preview mode, and didn't pay any attention to the "This TinyURL redirects to:"
I must learn to pay attention! 😉)

However, you can use the two TinyURLS in the \newurl{} construct instead (one of the advantages of TinyURLs!), writing:

1. \newurl{http://preview.tinyurl.com/otvvo9l,TinyURL1}
and
2. \newurl{http://preview.tinyurl.com/nbzhp74,TinyURL2}

… and yielding, respectively:
1. TinyURL1
and
2. TinyURL2

D. A. (Midwested):

Eureka, I may have found it. Thanks for the education!

I copied the URLs shown in the TinyURL previews and "unfolded" them, so each was an unbroken string of text, then inserted each into the \newurl{} construct (although the URL strings appear to be "folded" across multiple lines here, the URLs themselves are not, that's just an artifice of the message display):

1. \newurl{http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=47.427325&lon=-88.280358&z=14.4&r=0&src=mq,URL1}

2. \newurl{https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Keweenaw_Underwater_Preserve&params=47.385_N_88.372_W_type:landmark_region:US-MI_,URL1}

… and yielding clickable links, respectively:

1. URL1

2. URL1

Click 'em, and you'll see! 😉

Thanks FRNash,

I appreciate and respect your sticktoitiveness.

...and I learned some more stuff. Imagine that. At
my age. I make a shortcut to the pasty.com
formatting instructions but it always seems to
disappear when I go looking for it. If I could
only learn not to misplace my bookmarks.