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...until seven years ago, in fact-the ice blocked even the biggest ore boats from January to April. The 35-year-old Mac will push 30 miles out into Whitefish and then back down through St. Marys River and the locks of Sault Ste. Marie, clearing the way for downbound ore carriers and for empty ships upbound from the steel mills at Gary, Ind. Each winter the 290-ft. Mac makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through brash, says Hall...
...question may be answered within a couple of years by the U.S. Congress, acting on recommendations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Meanwhile, three downbound boats, led by U.S. Steel's Roger M. Blough (named for the company's former chief), plough past, distant shapes blurred by a sudden snow squall. The Blough is 858 ft. long and very efficient at lugging a payload of taconite pellets in a straight line. Negotiating the harrowing turns of the ice-clogged shipping channel, though, is not the strong suit of the Blough or of any lengthy ore carrier. Shepherding...
...morning brings a fresh set of problems. An ore carrier called the George Stinson is downbound. Known unaffectionately as "Gorgeous George," the Stinson is a recently built 1,000-ft.-long Goliath of the lakes. Gorgeous she isn't; unmanageable she is. Says a company skipper who has been on the lakes since 1936: "Those thousand footers don't belong up here." Hall further defines the problem. "They need a lot of power to avoid getting stuck. But if they come barreling around the turns full bore, they wind up in the trees...
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