by Denny » May 30, 2017, 8:44 am
Well after some much needed downtime and a break the past week or so, time to get back to the story telling once again for all of you. With this story we start the 1995 boat and shipwatching season of stories and in 1995 it was a very rough, challenging and difficult season for me. Well enough said on that, time to move on to the next story for you all. This one involves Engineer's Day 1995 while at the Soo Locks. They say when it rains it pours and for anyone that has been to the Soo long enough and encountered rain there, then you know what I am talking about! Engineer's Day 1995 the weather wasn't the greatest to start off as it was a little foggy and hazy and the ship traffic got held up until around noon or so if I recall correctly? By then, the Herbert C. Jackson along with the Oglebay Norton both were downbound with the Herbie locking down the Mac and the Oglebay Norton in the Poe. Waiting to head up the Poe was the Walter J. McCarthy Jr. At the time things were going pretty good for me but, this is where I also call this story the "Soo Camera jinx!" As the Oglebay Norton pulled out of the Poe, it started raining naturally and perfect timing right? Well it gets worse trust me boatnerds. The rain kept coming down and harder and heavier and I got caught and trapped in it as I stood out in it waiting for the Wally Mac to go into the Poe. Hey it was Engineer's Day and it comes around only once and I didn't want to miss it no matter the weather. Stupid me of course running out in the rain with my camera, scanners and binoculars and definitely Not thinking about the weather I got drenched and soaked in the rain. So, I ran up to the Visitors Center to try and get warm and lucky for me I didn't get sick or get pneumonia or even worse from that experience. My Dad as you could imagine at the time, almost could have shot and strangled me for being out in those types of weather conditions and getting all of my expensive equipment wet. Well as I was to learn later on, all of the pictures that I took from the E-Day 1995 festivities were shot and ruined and completely lost most likely due to the rain and the camera and film getting all wet. Needless to say I learned a good hard cold lesson that day and that was "Never go out in the rain no matter what boat there is as Nothing is that important to risk your heath along with also getting very expensive equipment wet and possibly ruined as well!" This was the start of the Soo Camera jinx for me in which bad luck happened many times and often at the most and worse time for it to happen. You will find out more on the Soo Camera Jinx later on in more stories to come. Sorry for a long story but hope you all liked this story, enjoyed it and appreciated it as well. More to come!
Well after some much needed downtime and a break the past week or so, time to get back to the story telling once again for all of you. With this story we start the 1995 boat and shipwatching season of stories and in 1995 it was a very rough, challenging and difficult season for me. Well enough said on that, time to move on to the next story for you all. This one involves Engineer's Day 1995 while at the Soo Locks. They say when it rains it pours and for anyone that has been to the Soo long enough and encountered rain there, then you know what I am talking about! Engineer's Day 1995 the weather wasn't the greatest to start off as it was a little foggy and hazy and the ship traffic got held up until around noon or so if I recall correctly? By then, the Herbert C. Jackson along with the Oglebay Norton both were downbound with the Herbie locking down the Mac and the Oglebay Norton in the Poe. Waiting to head up the Poe was the Walter J. McCarthy Jr. At the time things were going pretty good for me but, this is where I also call this story the "Soo Camera jinx!" As the Oglebay Norton pulled out of the Poe, it started raining naturally and perfect timing right? Well it gets worse trust me boatnerds. The rain kept coming down and harder and heavier and I got caught and trapped in it as I stood out in it waiting for the Wally Mac to go into the Poe. Hey it was Engineer's Day and it comes around only once and I didn't want to miss it no matter the weather. Stupid me of course running out in the rain with my camera, scanners and binoculars and definitely Not thinking about the weather I got drenched and soaked in the rain. So, I ran up to the Visitors Center to try and get warm and lucky for me I didn't get sick or get pneumonia or even worse from that experience. My Dad as you could imagine at the time, almost could have shot and strangled me for being out in those types of weather conditions and getting all of my expensive equipment wet. Well as I was to learn later on, all of the pictures that I took from the E-Day 1995 festivities were shot and ruined and completely lost most likely due to the rain and the camera and film getting all wet. Needless to say I learned a good hard cold lesson that day and that was "Never go out in the rain no matter what boat there is as Nothing is that important to risk your heath along with also getting very expensive equipment wet and possibly ruined as well!" This was the start of the Soo Camera jinx for me in which bad luck happened many times and often at the most and worse time for it to happen. You will find out more on the Soo Camera Jinx later on in more stories to come. Sorry for a long story but hope you all liked this story, enjoyed it and appreciated it as well. More to come!