[alberg30] Bob Lincoln

[Bob Lincoln]

From: "Bob Lincoln" <lincoln at cc.UManitoba.CA>

Hi Peter,
    Thanks for the note.  I posted some further prop info, essentially that
there is a web site properpitch.com that for $10 (although I got some info
before payment) you can get a computer estimate done.  Take it with a grain
of salt... I initially thought the prop would cure things with my small 10hp
Bukh diesel, which would not run more than 2500 rpm when it is supposed to
do 3000.  Instead of changing the prop I have been repairing and cleaning
the fuel system, the tank, lines, pumps and injector, to see how this
changes things this coming summer.  If there isn't much change I will go to
a 12 inch diameter, 10 inch pitch two or three blade for starters.  The 12
inch diameter will almost give me an acceptable clearance all around.  There
is always lots of time and other more pressing fixes.
    I have an interest in Lake Winnipeg, not only from the sailing, but also
from the local history and geography.  I've been working on a research
project that began with the hydrographic charting in 1901 and now is growing
into what I can only describe as a pilot of the lake for sailors, with as
much historic information as navigational stuff.
    Goderich is connected to Winnipeg because at least between 1882 and 1904
the Dominion Fish Co. of Winnipeg registered most of its steamboats from
Collingwood and Goderich in Winnipeg, for some reason. I have been compiling
a database of Manitoba boats as of 1905 and this info turned up.
    The sailing season on Lake Winnipeg is rather short, approximately June
through mid-September, although recently the fall has been very mild for us.
The lake is frozen about three or four feet each winter and there are
numerous ice roads constructed to supply the northern reserves.
    I don't know what the Coast Guard and Public Works is doing in your
area, but they are discontinuing dredging at the mouth of the Red River at
the S. end of the lake.  When the mouth fills up so that it is not navigable
they will pull the buoys and it will be everyone for themselves...  This
will of course trap any of the deep draft vessels that are moored in
Selkirk, Colville Landing and further upstream (south).
    All for now,
Bob Lincoln
Indigo 590.



  -----Original Message-----
  From: Peter Hay [mailto:phay at netcom.ca]
  Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 8:55 AM
  To: alberg30 at onelist.com
  Subject: [alberg30] Bob Lincoln


  From: "Peter Hay" <phay at netcom.ca>


  [Deletions:] .... I sail out of Goderich on Lake Huron.  Goderich is a
commercial port with lake and oceon going freighters picking up grain and
salt.  Salt is mined under Lake Huron with the mine head only 500 feet from
where my boat is moored.

  Always interested in corresponding.
  Peter Hay
  phay at netcom.ca





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