Update - Remake of Titanic on Lake Macatawa Michigan?

[Ratickle]

I was down by Lake Mac Thursday and thought it would be appropriate to try for a remake of Titanic. All we need is someone from here with a small boat, a girlfriend willing to stand on the bow with her arms spread, and a willingness to be famous on YouTube. We'll do the rest.

Any takers?

 

[Blue Oval]

I have a dingy with a 5HP and a Golden that thinks she's my girlfriend, will that work?

 

[Ratickle]

Perfect. Have a doggy vest for her?

 

[Blue Oval]

Yep, she is a boater!!

 

[Blue Oval]

you have to keep the booze away from her though!

 

[Ratickle]

How'd she get that away from you?

 

[Blue Oval]

EMPTY

 

[Ratickle]

So, you're driving and she's up on the bow with her ears flopping in the wind. She has her life-vest on, you don't. Script says you hit the iceberg at about 15mph, she gets saved by us and you go down with the ship. Years later she tells her story in a film when talking with her grandkids about who used to hold her leash.

We all get rich, you get a better headstone.

Am I missing anything?

 

[Blue Oval]

I drive a PQ, not a Nor Tanic, I can hit the ice a at 45 and it won't take down my ship!

 

[Ratickle]

I thought you were using the dingy!!

 

[Blue Oval]

I just wanted to say Nor Tanic, I thought it would sound bad if I compared it to the Dingy.

 

[Pete B]

Paul has a few stunt boats in his barn all could be used, as they never see the water anyway, it would be a perfect ending as they would always be in water vice a barn!

 

[rschap1]

Hurry
That stuff is going to melt before the details get taken care of at this rate...

 

[Blue Oval]

 

[Ratickle]

Paul has a few stunt boats in his barn all could be used, as they never see the water anyway, it would be a perfect ending as they would always be in water vice a barn!

:smash:

 

[Serious News]

Coast Guard helicopter crew uses rotor wash to assist 2 fishermen surrounded by ice off Holland, Michigan

Apr 11th, 2015

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. – A helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Michigan used the rotor wash from their aircraft to help clear a path for two fishermen who were pushed offshore aboard their 16-foot boat by wind and ice, and then became surrounded by the ice off Holland, Saturday.

Shortly before 10 a.m., a Watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan in Milwaukee received a call from Ottawa County Dispatch about two fishermen in distress on Lake Michigan about a mile and a half offshore. The two men had been fishing near the mouth of Lake Macatawa when they quickly became beset in ice being moved by strong southwest winds

The Watchstander directed the launch of a boat crew from Coast Guard Station Grand Haven aboard a 47-foot response boat, and an aircrew aboard a Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City. Additionally, the officer-in-charge of Coast Guard Station Holland responded shoreside to maintain visual contact with the fishermen until the other Coast Guard personnel and assets arrived on scene.

The boat crew transited south on Lake Michigan from Grand Haven for about 15 miles before they were hindered by the ice about six miles from the fishermen and could not maneuver any closer.

The aircrew arrived overhead at about 11 a.m. to find the fishermen and their 16-foot boat surrounded by a vast ice shelf consisting of large chunks of ice, some 20-30 feet wide and two-feet thick. Due to the ice coverage, the fishermen had no way to get back to shore.

After deciding against hoisting the men up into the helicopter because of a potential to capsize the small boat with the helicopter’s rotor wash, the aircrew lowered a radio down to the fishermen to communicate another plan of action. It was then that the aircrew saw the ice beginning to part and break up from the rotor wash. The aircrew continued to hover between 50-80 feet above the ice for about 45 minutes, maneuvering the craft so that the rotor wash could create an open path for the fisherman to finally head to shore.

“This was definitely the most out-of-the-box case I’ve been involved with.” said Lt. Rocco Franco, one of the pilots of the aircrew. “It’s not very often that our helicopter is used an ice breaker.”

The fishermen made their way safely back to shore where they were met by Chief Petty Officer Eli Paquette, officer-in-charge of Coast Guard Station Holland. By this time, the men and their small fishing boat had been taken almost two miles north from where they began fishing.

Both men were in good condition and were not in need of any medical condition.

The Coast Guard reminds everyone that there is still a presence of ice on Lake Michigan that can easily be blown in different directions by the wind. As a result, people on the water can find themselves in life-threatening situations very quickly. Those who must venture out onto the water should check the weather conditions, particularly the wind speed and direction, dress for the water temperature and not the air temperature, and always were a life jacket.

http://coastguardnews.com/coast-gua...unded-by-ice-off-holland-michigan/2015/04/11/

 

[Serious News]

http://video-embed.mlive.com/servic...AAAAQBxUr7k~,PsMaWpexSO1o2JBTRvXgK2F46WvPiWEP

 

[Ratickle]

Looks like the ice is finally gone.

 

[Blue Oval]

Looks like the ice is finally gone.

That's what the Captain of the Titanic said!

 

[Ratickle]

Wait, you're supposed to be the captain of Titanic Macatawa!! Now we have to go all the way to Mackinaw to make the video!!!!


Titanic II, starring Blue Oval and Golden Girl. Filmed live in the Straits of Mackinaw.