A Draft Model sitting in Duluth, will update as time permits

best viewed in openGL display mode

click for post of wave annimation


draft model, edited 12-2


leaving zug island , passing detroit - (multiple model placemarks added)
filesize 563kb



added net link for Zug Island cranes and download link for Annimation

Download Song

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a lake freighter that sank suddenly during a gale storm on November 10, 1975, while on Lake Superior. The ship went down without a distress signal in 530 feet (162 m) of water at 46�59.9′N 85�6.6′W, in Canadian waters about 17 miles (15 nm; 27 km) from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. All 29 members of the crew perished. Gordon Lightfoot's hit song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, helped make the incident the most famous marine disaster in the history of Great Lakes shipping.



the above text extracted from:
SS Edmund Fitzgerald @ wikipedia.com

It's a good one Joey - and I like the Gordon Lightfoot song link. It beats the generic file I linked to. Here is my original post on circumstances of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'll create a link back to your model.

Hill,

Thanks for pointing out the thread in the GE History Illustrated Forum


I made an individual image overlay file with the USCG trackline.(placemark this post)



1-6-06 added bathymetry contours and Tin,
filesize 1.3meg

Merci Bookoo

click for updated model

added a bit of detail:
windows, port holes, hatch covers, hatch lift and track, crowsnest, railing, name ... etc.

put image overlays into NetLink.
( capt. Bud's painting, track line, wreckage image with crew list)

rearranged placemark tours views

for the time being .... she is still in Duluth

started animation

filesize 667kb - click here for updated annimation




timer tips

use ver. 4.0.2416, Oct 31 2006 best viewed in OpenGL mode

Click here if you are using GE ver 4.0.2693, Dec162006


touched up annimation, tilt, roll and a bit of movement. filesize 700kb







timer setting tips



watching and listening really gives me a yearning for being back on the big blue dot.

big blue dot = at sea standing atop the wheelhouse seeing nothing except blue water in 360 deg.

The updated models are great!

Zug Island Cranes
471kb

use GE ver 4.0.2693, Dec162006

select placemark "Bow View" after model loads


altered ship roll,tilt, altitude settings and startup view for new GE version