With days of sub-freezing weather already behind and in front of us, that line from the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald" came to mind while I watched this ship, the Calumet, plowing northward through the Straits of Detroit into the night with high cold winds snapping the flags on downtown skyscrapers.


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Really? Really? You're not pulling into harbor for the winter yet? Tracking it on marinetraffic.com it appears close to exiting the St. Mary's River into Lake Huron as of this writing. Good luck fellas.