Thought I would share this with you while I have a quick second... I'm at the Office getting ready to go to a showing but this is just so cool!! It was sent to me last night... it's the Alpena chugging along Lake Huron/Mackinaw Straits and what you're looking at is the screen down in the engine room that allows them to see where they are and where they are headed! You'll notice he pans over to his left and down at what look like two wheels you'd normally find in a Pilothouse! Well those are the

Ok folks here is a look at the Alpena's SPIC AND SPAN Engine room... you can see her steam engine when the video first starts and then Hugh goes downstairs and toward the aft end of the ship where the propulsion system is that turns the propeller for the ship... you can see it spinning around... The engine drives the line shaft (that long tube spinning) and that's what turns the propeller! So cool! I've seen it aboard many vessels but not when underway! I love looking at these spaces in the bell