I was looking at my Twitter feed and I noticed a post from one of my favorite authors. He apparently is taking a ride of the Wilfred Sykes. He posted a picture someone took of the Sykes as he was passing Detroit. It looked like it was around the time I was looking at the post, so I took a look at Marine Traffic and saw that she was stopped at railroad bridge on the Rouge River. That made me believe that I could still catch her.
The name of the author is John U. Bacon. He has written a number of books about the University of Michigan football program. He also wrote a book about the Halifax explosion. He is a pretty good writer.
He is currently writing a book about the Edmund Fitzgerald, so apparently this trip is research for that book.
Interestingly enough, the Sykes was one of the last ships to see the Fitzgerald as she was leaving Superior. Her captain at the time wrote a pretty decent book about that night and offered some theories of why she sank.
It was an okay book but would have been better had the author not been a pompous ass.
Anyway, I was happy to go catch the Sykes because I think she is one of the more beautiful ships sailing on the Lakes right now.
She was of course delivering a load of taconite to the steel mill.
Normally, I would head across the street to catch her as she turns into the steel mill but I didn't want to cross a dark street.
So took a couple of pictures of her pilot house.
And I leave you with this picture.
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