Yeah, Steve, you gotta be careful to speak of the Great Lakes with reverence. You almost got mowed down by a couple of superlakers.
A superlaker, by the way, is an ore boat, a thousand feet long by eighty feet wide. They just barely fit in the biggest lock at Sault Ste. Marie, the Soo Locks that join Lake Superior to Lake Huron. The aircraft carrier Enterprise is only a hundred feet longer (but a lot wider). The superlakers don't have the classic lines of the older ore boats, but they sure are big. The Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the biggest ore boats built in the 1950's, was something like 735 feet long.
Just had to put a little lake lore in a Great Lakes thread.
-Joe Offer-