After years of research on the shipwreck, Amos, 72, a retired electrician who operates Trails End Lodge in Tobermory, said he is no closer to identifying the ship, which dates to about the 1850s.
Amos has narrowed the possible list of ship names to two – the Dawn or the Saratoga -- but he can’t say for certain if the wreck is either of these ships. It may turn out to be neither.
He said he is careful not to name a ship until he’s absolutely certain. So, for the past 20 years, the vessel has simply been called “the Port Stanley shipwreck.” (Read the complete article.)
The factory started by a father and
son in Burlington, Ontario is the birthplace
of many keels for sailboats,
including some really extraordinary
ones.
Mars Metal Company, which was started in 1979 by Kevin Milne and his late father, has been finishing off the very bottom of some pretty impressive yachts.
Like a new keel that was refitted
onto the hull of the famous 12-metre
yacht called Courageous, which won
back-to-back America's Cup matches
skippered by Ted Hood in 1974 and by
Ted Turner in 1977. That keel was made
in 2002 after the yacht Courageous was
acquired on behalf of the Museum of
Yachting in Newport, R.I. and was
going through a restoration.
Mars Metal also made the long canting
keel for the specially designed
Open 40 Spirit of Canada, in which skipper
Derek Hatfield competed in 2003 in the
Around Alone race.
The company is about to make
another keel for a new Open 60 yacht
also called Spirit of Canada, once the
weight of the rest of the yacht is determined,
and the final weight of the fin
keel and the lead bulb on the bottom of
the keel can be established.
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