Im waiting for a Big Old Boats, Ocean Liner Designs and Maritime Horrors triple crossover! You three are all great and cover many similar stories in your own unique styles that having a video where all 3 of you collaborated would be nothing short of spectacular
Also its good to see the channel growing. As far as im concerned you are up there with the likes of Drachinifel and Oceanliner Designs so you absolutely deserve more.
aye, he the drach of great lakes- but oceanliner designs is clickbaity and doesnt know his stuff in same way and thus does not deserve comparison with true quality
When I saw the title, "the future of Big Old Boats", I was afraid that Brad was ending the channel, and posting a goodbye to UA-cam. I'm glad i was wrong. Thanks for this Brad! I can't wait to see your In Real Life videos, the Lighthouses videos and more in the new year. Be good, be kind, don't litter, be genuine and take care of one another, crew!
As a historian, your videos are great! You're totally right about the importance of understanding history and learning from the past. The love you have for history comes through in the quality and thoroughness of your videos. Thank you for making them
Honestly kind of enjoyed the departure from the regular format. Also looking forward to seeing a greater diversity of content next year. Maybe some more "feel good" stories like your video on Olympic, which ironically was the video that was my gateway into the ship youtube community. Good luck in the next year, and don't listen to the haters. You're doing amazing.
Instead of focusing on the Edmund Fitzgerald, you could make a video about the ship that was sailing with her that night, the SS Arthur M Anderson. The Anderson still sails today.
Well, it's been a pleasure to be on board, and am looking forward to the continuing adventures with Big Old Boats. Cheers to you and thanks for all the hard work. Power on! Happy Holidays to you and yours. And greetings from the UWS.
I am born and raised in Michigan , I now live near Mt. Pleasant. I can be at 2 great lakes in less than two hours ,3 great lakes in three hours, and 4 in four hours. I have photographed about 3/4 of three Great Lakes Lighthouses.and visit Maritime museums no matter how small . So please take a guess where my love and passion lies? Thank you for your videos.
I read a book about the Lusitania back in the late 70's, early 80's, then read about Titanic, and then the Morro Castle . . . So Lusitania was the hook that pulled me in. Your series on the shipping vessels of the Great Lakes captured my interest. A similar series on steamboats and shipping along the Mississippi and Missouri would be interesting, and I look forward to your videos on lighthouses, not much is said about them. I would be interested in learning about the different jobs on ships and what they entailed - but don't know if that would be popular with others. Another interesting topic would be ferries. I will be interested in any videos you produce because I was born and raised and still live in the desert Southwest U. S. and have never really lived near a coastline of oceans or lakes. Thank you for all you do!
Thank you Brad, this was nice - you're always teaching us about ships & their stories, this time you taught us a little about yourself. Kinda like the class "Shipping 202" (it's an advanced class) let out & now we're having an after class cocktail sitting in a booth talking. Didn't know you were NYC based, for some reason I thought Chicago. Either way, kudos & congrats on the 100k subscribers!!! 😎
If you start touring museum ships, and decide to come to Toledo to tour the Schoonmaker, let me know. We can coordinate things so I could help you film. I live 5 minutes from her.
Thank you for what you do & how you do it! I was only around 3 years old when my father who had been in the Navy in WW2 was re-called for the Korean War. I remember seeing him off in San Diego with my mom. That is my first recollection of what a ship was. Next was a battle ship model I found in the attic of my older cousin around 1956, but the thing that really got me was a model of the Queen Mary that another cousin had on a window shelf in his bedroom around 1959. I later had lunch and a tour of her along with the Spruce Goose while on a business trip. Then about 8 years later my wife and I spent the night on her while on a company vacation. The Normandy is my favorite liner. The SS United States is hart breaking for, as you stated, not being appreciated enough in history in this country. It was never on my list of “most stylistic” (the 50’s look is very cold). Best of luck for your future endeavors !
Just a note to say how much I enjoy your videos. Also, during this video you used some footage from the Matson Line's Matsonia. During WWII the Matsonia was converted to a troop ship. My father was in the army and was on that ship sailing from San Francisco to Australia.
Loved the video- love to see more variety. My favourite ship has to be the Île de France- even her post war interiors I love her second class Salon and smoking room combo it is to die for and as usual the French out did themselves
I know the ship that captured my fascination, was the Titanic, when I was a little girl my Father watched a special of Ballard finding the Titanic. My father told me how significant it was, and from that point on, I have always enjoyed learning anything I could about it. But my favorite ship is the Edmund Fitzgerald. I have to admit I went to the theater to watch the movie Titanic and remember some girls crying because they didn't know it sank!! P.S I hated the movie. One of my most memorable experiences is actually going to Belfast and visiting the Titanic Museum and walking to where she was built. I have been fortunate to be able to visit The White Star Line Nomadic, Queen Mary, and the USS Carrier Nimitz. I just found your channel a few months now and have been enjoying it! Thank you!
I enjoy your video subjects and the format. There's a type of ship that doesn't get much coverage because none are famous shipwrecks and they're largely forgotten. They were the C-3 freighters that replaced the liberty ships. I'm especially interested in the SS Hawaiian Pilot which started her career as the USS Burleigh, an attack transport in the Pacific. I must admit it's slightly for my own selfish reasons as I'm currently building a model of her and there's not a lot of information to be found. Anyway I look forward to another great year of Big Old Boats
The clip at 2:10 is of either Princess Kathleen or Princess Marguerite. They were Canadian Pacific coastal steamers that both met tragic ends and would make an awesome video. Just sayin'.... I've got loads of original and unique photos and home movies of both ships, including color footage of the Kathleen sinking in Alaska in 1952, any of which I would be happy to provide for a video, like I did for your video on the Princess Sophia. And I wouldn't charge nearly as much as Getty. 😉
Thank you so much for this episode! I love your work and always look forward to your posts. It is nice to learn a little about you, your motivation, and your passion for maritime history. Great work!😊
Adore all the content you make, but particularly the Great Lakes videos! I'm from the UK and have only briefly been to Lake Ontario, but one of my travel goals for the next few years is to go around the lakes and learn more about the wrecks! This was such a fun video to watch, keep up the good work!
I really enjoy this channel. The title of this video certainly got my attention. I was a little worried that you might be announcing that the channel was suffering the same fate that has befallen several great lakes freighters who have tried to make that one last late season run. So, I'm glad to hear that you'll be sailing ahead into the year with good seas. Though I'm sure you will navigate those seas with skills of a seasoned sea and great lakes captain. I appreciate that you use, where possible, actual pictures and media of the vessel that you are profiling instead of using filler that is not even from the same time period as the vessel being discussed. This a problem I have seen on other UA-cam channels where the creators do not appear to be as dedicated as you are. Also I appreciate the fact that this a human channel and not one of the channels that appear to be heavily reliant on AI systems. I can't pick just one favorite ship. I'm sure you can appreciate that problem as a fellow multi-topic nerd and information sponge. But, one subject I would be interested in seeing videos about are the salvage tugs of Foundation Maritime. This is a Canadian salvage company that Farley Mowatt wrote about in two of his books: "Grey Seas Under" and "The Serpents Coil." Currently you are one of my favorite three nautical history content creators. The other two being "Maritime Horror" and "Oceanliner Design." Sail on with smooth seas and good winds! 👍
I enjoy all of your videos. My favorites are about boats on the Great Lakes because I was born/raised in Michigan. I left Michigan in 1983 when I joined the Navy. I also love history. Thank you for your videos. I look forward to your new ones in the new year.
We appreciate all the effort! Doing this all by yourself is a ton of work. I mean a few years back, I did a weekly sorta blog - just a digital new letter - and had to stop because of how much work that eventually required. By comparison, that was _nothing_ compared to the amount of work to go into producing videos with a well written, narrated story like you do on a weekly basis. It's amazing work, and I'm glad it's become something successful enough that you could make a career out of it. I do think it's a good idea, too, to diversify your delivery a bit; from having used UA-cam for almost 20 years, I have seen that whole UA-cam algorithm thing really ruin people. Good not to have it as your only platform.
I really enjoyed the video. I, too, love history and all things historical from animals, to buildings, people to ... Big Old Boats. Keep up the excellent work.
On the question of “what ship that disappeared that you would like to be found” For me it would be the SS Waratha also, I always been fascinated about this ship and I would hope finding the wreck would give us an explanation to what happened
Ohh I'd love to see more videos about lighthouses! Great channel, you can tell so much work goes into each piece, well done and keep up the great work :)
9:32 I remember flying to Hawaii on a TriStar, back in a previous life. Snorkeled with sea turtles, took a couple of boat trips, helicoptered around Kawa'i, stood next to flowing lava on the Big Island, good times....
I haven't been watching your channel very long, but I really enjoy it. You do great work. I recently completed a survey from PBS, and one of their questions was what UA-cam channels with 100Kish subscribers did I think they should take a look at. I could only choose five, and yours was one. So if PBS comes calling...
Thank you for all of your hard work. Really appreciate what you do. I wouldn't go on a cruise ship or anything like that. I like being on solid ground. Can admire the ships though. The courage of sailors is amazing. Hope you will have a blessed Christmas.
Favorite ship? President Jackson (1940). Hard to beat a boat that had a mural by de Kooning. (Though we will disagree on liners embracing postwar modernism.)
When I saw the title of this video I thought, ‘oh no, he’s ending his channel.’ But not to worry, we have good things to look forward to! Great channel!
I’d love to see you do a piece on the engines that had driven these monsters. There is a lot to unpack there and some amazing technology powering these giants.
Loving the Channel and keep up the good work! Favourite ship is a tough one, as a Naval historian I'd have to say the First World War Armoured cruiser Scharnhorst but liner wise... Probably the Kronprinz Wilhelm or the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Happy Christmas and new Year
Thank you for this update video. I'm always interested in what's going on behind the scenes. Suggestion for irl videos: come to Muskegon, Michigan. You'll find the Milwaukee Clipper, the USS Silversides, and the LST 393, all awesome historic ships!
Love your work! It's nice to listen to your videos while working. My favorite ship is probably the Bismarck (the battleship one). Being referred to as he instead of she, being massive, armaments being the largest at the time and the hubris of the Germans to send him out into the Atlantic has always fascinated me.
Regarding the Fitzgerald, I don’t know how many videos there are that discuss the search efforts after the Fitzgerald went down or how the tragedy changed operations on the Great Lakes. That might be something to focus on. Keep up the good work.
Perhaps Lake Champlain might be a good start for IRL videos Lake Champlain Maritime Museum does rov tours to a few wrecks and has a few revolutionary era gunboats and then you have Shelburne Museum with the Ticonderoga steamboat and Burlington I believe has part of the SS Phoenix
Hey well it was the Lighthouse ep that was suggested to me and introduced me to your channel which I've been joyously bingeing. You understand mood so well, in what you say, show, and choose for music. And your humanity is wonderful. I was another Titanic obsessive as a child, though old enough (teens) to be a snob and dismiss the Cameron film as "90s trash" when it came out (nobody is more opinionated than a teenaged girl). In later years I could appreciate how much research went into the film but that song still makes me gag.
I really do enjoy your videos. I definitely learned more about other maritime tragedies and stories than before, especially the Great Lakes stories. I got one suggestion for a possible video: You can do one on the Edmund Fitzgerald's sister ship, the Arthur B. Homer. Keep up the great work!
Editing after the end of the video to say that my favorite ship is the Kaye E. Barker, which is still sailing. I had the pleasure of working on her for a few trips. Best job ever. I share your passion, and greatly appreciate your work. If I might suggest an approach to the Titanic, it would be to explore lives of the survivors. I don't know if any crew survived [Editing to add that I just learned from you that at least one crewman did survive!], but I became intrigued with the survival of passengers when I learned that one of them emigrated from what was then Assyria to my hometown of Port Huron, Michigan. I'll have to look up his name again, but he and his wife ran a bar (and by the way, the bar would have served sailors who came up the street from the docks). He seems to have lived a normal life, nothing dramatic, but I found that in itself was fascinating. I would like to know about other survivors of the sinking, and I'm sure your viewers could contribute the names of their local immigrant survivors. Newspapers of the time were interested in featuring interviews with them from time to time, and of course there are obituaries. It would be much different from your usual type of research, and much more time-consuming, so you would need the assistance of your viewers to point you to sources. I would gladly contribute to that end, and although my means are very limited, I will pledge a one time donation towards the research, for the sake of remembering the people.
SS United States..... as an Australian it disgusts me to sink her..... if it was a space or war ship the efforts to stick 8n a museum would be a different story. Big old boats you nailed it ...
SS United States would’ve made an excellent museum. Unfortunately, the point of no return passed a decade or so ago, as she’s past the point that it would be economical to try. She’s in very bad shape, and has been stripped of a lot of her furnishings. It would simply cost too much at this point, it would probably be cheaper to build an exact replica than restore her. On top of that, take a serious look at the big ships preserved today, they’re almost all experiencing financial difficulties. RMS Queen Mary in particular is facing issues because of how much money she eats to keep her up. Last I heard, Queen Mary was also in danger of suffering the same fate as many of her compatriot liners due to the financial constraints her owners are in.
@@Engine33Truckthe problem with the big U was that her period furnishings where stripped out in the late 80s for her asbestos removal and to sell. That sealed her fate. Notice the queen still has most of her original furnishings and even her wood paneling (featuring extinct species now) and that’s what made her viable for preservation. The big u as, sad as it is, a reef is not the worst send off for her vs scrapping or continued to rot in Philly. I’m glad I saw her earlier this year still above water. She is very rough though her main haul is still very sound.
Greetings Mr. Old Boats I really have to say thank you for all your Great Lakes Videos, you are the (probably) main reason I even know anything about them. I am very glad you are doing these videos and that you havve fun with them. And for your question at the end, my favorite ship is maybe the SS Belgenland, and yes partly because of your video.
Suggestion for channel for trips. One trip visiting the historic lighthouses on the Great Lakes, like Split Rock, not to mention cover the Great Lakes industries that built and still today keep Lake Freighters important to the US economic health and national security. Third a trip visiting all the historic military ship museums across America. USS Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, Intrepid and many others. Oh plus the Submarines like USS Drum next to USS Alabama, you could also include a history of military aviation which is tied to aircraft carriers.
Every time a great channel makes a channel annoucement, I immidiately get an anxiety attack - like hearing "the last run of the season". Which is a great way to make me drop everything and watch it. Glad to hear the channel and you are doing well, and congratz on the quiet milestone.
Id love to see one on Stannard Rock Lighthouse. I think its like 25mi offshore, and its construction in the 1890s had to be something to see. That and segment on the origins of the Life Saving stations on the Great Lakes would be interesting as well. Thanks
Yeah the people that were supportive of Germany and not supportive of us entering the war were not doing so because of their genealogical heritage. They did so because they were antisemitic. Many people who were in favor of the Nazi party were, in fact, also Nazis. My grandfather was two generations away from emigration from Darmstadt and he enlisted as soon as he was able to, not even of age yet. And I think a lot of that motivation was not just because he considered himself American, but because he didn’t hold really sick beliefs about Jewish people.
There are a few boat/ship youtubers I watch and they've wanted to cover the United States. I hope everyone can get around to it before she's sunk. I wonder if anyone can arrange to be there for it when they finally sink her? The Oriskany was well documented when they turned her into an artificial reef. The United States deserves it too.
Thanks for your video. Very insightful & good luck with your future!!! Ocean liners aren't my forte, but the big old night-boats of Long Island Sound could put many ocean liners to shame for safety & service. 👍👍👍
Idea… Something that is always fascinated me. So many immigrants that came to the United States on ships. What ships did they mainly cross on and who were the notable people that came to America?
It'd be neat if you could find something to colab with Drachinifel. You two are my favourite ship-related channels, it'd be epic if there was a subject you two could share.
title is scarier than the phrase “one last run”
Yeah, indeed.
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Im waiting for a Big Old Boats, Ocean Liner Designs and Maritime Horrors triple crossover! You three are all great and cover many similar stories in your own unique styles that having a video where all 3 of you collaborated would be nothing short of spectacular
Had me worried for a second that you were quitting, Jesus christ haha
SHARTING OF THE PANTS
Yep!!! Me too!!!
Right? Me, too
DONT YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME RICKY BOBBY
Scared you were quitting. Thank God you’re not. I NEED this channel. I NEED it.
Also its good to see the channel growing. As far as im concerned you are up there with the likes of Drachinifel and Oceanliner Designs so you absolutely deserve more.
aye, he the drach of great lakes-
but oceanliner designs is clickbaity and doesnt know his stuff in same way and thus does not deserve comparison with true quality
When I saw the title, "the future of Big Old Boats", I was afraid that Brad was ending the channel, and posting a goodbye to UA-cam. I'm glad i was wrong. Thanks for this Brad! I can't wait to see your In Real Life videos, the Lighthouses videos and more in the new year.
Be good, be kind, don't litter, be genuine and take care of one another, crew!
As a historian, your videos are great! You're totally right about the importance of understanding history and learning from the past. The love you have for history comes through in the quality and thoroughness of your videos. Thank you for making them
I fell in love with your Great Lakes content, and grew to love all your vids. Thank you for all you do. I is appreciated.
Same here
I really appreciate that you pull footage from archives like that, if you didn't who knows how few people would have actually seen it!
23:00 I just realized that the Smalls Lighthouse video wasn't actually about a ship, it fit in perfectly with the channel's subject matter.
Honestly kind of enjoyed the departure from the regular format. Also looking forward to seeing a greater diversity of content next year. Maybe some more "feel good" stories like your video on Olympic, which ironically was the video that was my gateway into the ship youtube community. Good luck in the next year, and don't listen to the haters. You're doing amazing.
My dad was a merchant sailor on the Great Lakes back in the 50’s and 60’s. Thank you for the respect you show these brave men and women.
Instead of focusing on the Edmund Fitzgerald, you could make a video about the ship that was sailing with her that night, the SS Arthur M Anderson. The Anderson still sails today.
9:35, oh the Tristar, such an excellent aircraft, its also among the favorites on my list (sharing the top spot with the 767).
Best looking trijet ever made
Well, it's been a pleasure to be on board, and am looking forward to the continuing adventures with Big Old Boats. Cheers to you and thanks for all the hard work. Power on!
Happy Holidays to you and yours. And greetings from the UWS.
I am born and raised in Michigan , I now live near Mt. Pleasant. I can be at 2 great lakes in less than two hours ,3 great lakes in three hours, and 4 in four hours. I have photographed about 3/4 of three Great Lakes Lighthouses.and visit Maritime museums no matter how small . So please take a guess where my love and passion lies? Thank you for your videos.
I read a book about the Lusitania back in the late 70's, early 80's, then read about Titanic, and then the Morro Castle . . . So Lusitania was the hook that pulled me in.
Your series on the shipping vessels of the Great Lakes captured my interest. A similar series on steamboats and shipping along the Mississippi and Missouri would be interesting, and I look forward to your videos on lighthouses, not much is said about them. I would be interested in learning about the different jobs on ships and what they entailed - but don't know if that would be popular with others.
Another interesting topic would be ferries.
I will be interested in any videos you produce because I was born and raised and still live in the desert Southwest U. S. and have never really lived near a coastline of oceans or lakes.
Thank you for all you do!
Thank you Brad, this was nice - you're always teaching us about ships & their stories, this time you taught us a little about yourself. Kinda like the class "Shipping 202" (it's an advanced class) let out & now we're having an after class cocktail sitting in a booth talking. Didn't know you were NYC based, for some reason I thought Chicago. Either way, kudos & congrats on the 100k subscribers!!! 😎
I am glad to know of you, and your channel! Edmund Fitzgerald fave ship story!!
The boat man has uploaded! 🙌
If you start touring museum ships, and decide to come to Toledo to tour the Schoonmaker, let me know. We can coordinate things so I could help you film. I live 5 minutes from her.
Thank you for being awesome!! I appreciate all the work you put in your videos.
have a merry Christmas!
Thank you for what you do & how you do it! I was only around 3 years old when my father who had been in the Navy in WW2 was re-called for the Korean War. I remember seeing him off in San Diego with my mom. That is my first recollection of what a ship was. Next was a battle ship model I found in the attic of my older cousin around 1956, but the thing that really got me was a model of the Queen Mary that another cousin had on a window shelf in his bedroom around 1959. I later had lunch and a tour of her along with the Spruce Goose while on a business trip. Then about 8 years later my wife and I spent the night on her while on a company vacation.
The Normandy is my favorite liner. The SS United States is hart breaking for, as you stated, not being appreciated enough in history in this country. It was never on my list of “most stylistic” (the 50’s look is very cold).
Best of luck for your future endeavors !
Just a note to say how much I enjoy your videos. Also, during this video you used some footage from the Matson Line's Matsonia. During WWII the Matsonia was converted to a troop ship. My father was in the army and was on that ship sailing from San Francisco to Australia.
My favorite ship story is SS Arctic (I’m making a short film “kinda” about it right now)
I have very much enjoyed your videos of Great Lakes boats and shipping. Keep up the good work.👍👍
All the efforts in these videos are astounding. Merry Christmas, and keep up the good work
Loved the video- love to see more variety. My favourite ship has to be the Île de France- even her post war interiors I love her second class Salon and smoking room combo it is to die for and as usual the French out did themselves
I know the ship that captured my fascination, was the Titanic, when I was a little girl my Father watched a special of Ballard finding the Titanic. My father told me how significant it was, and from that point on, I have always enjoyed learning anything I could about it.
But my favorite ship is the Edmund Fitzgerald. I have to admit I went to the theater to watch the movie Titanic and remember some girls crying because they didn't know it sank!! P.S I hated the movie.
One of my most memorable experiences is actually going to Belfast and visiting the Titanic Museum and walking to where she was built. I have been fortunate to be able to visit The White Star Line Nomadic, Queen Mary, and the USS Carrier Nimitz.
I just found your channel a few months now and have been enjoying it! Thank you!
I enjoy your video subjects and the format. There's a type of ship that doesn't get much coverage because none are famous shipwrecks and they're largely forgotten. They were the C-3 freighters that replaced the liberty ships. I'm especially interested in the SS Hawaiian Pilot which started her career as the USS Burleigh, an attack transport in the Pacific. I must admit it's slightly for my own selfish reasons as I'm currently building a model of her and there's not a lot of information to be found. Anyway I look forward to another great year of Big Old Boats
The clip at 2:10 is of either Princess Kathleen or Princess Marguerite. They were Canadian Pacific coastal steamers that both met tragic ends and would make an awesome video. Just sayin'.... I've got loads of original and unique photos and home movies of both ships, including color footage of the Kathleen sinking in Alaska in 1952, any of which I would be happy to provide for a video, like I did for your video on the Princess Sophia. And I wouldn't charge nearly as much as Getty. 😉
Awesome! Congratulations! We love Ocean Liners!
Maybe we can set up a partnership!
Thank you so much for this episode! I love your work and always look forward to your posts. It is nice to learn a little about you, your motivation, and your passion for maritime history. Great work!😊
Adore all the content you make, but particularly the Great Lakes videos! I'm from the UK and have only briefly been to Lake Ontario, but one of my travel goals for the next few years is to go around the lakes and learn more about the wrecks! This was such a fun video to watch, keep up the good work!
I really enjoy this channel. The title of this video certainly got my attention. I was a little worried that you might be announcing that the channel was suffering the same fate that has befallen several great lakes freighters who have tried to make that one last late season run. So, I'm glad to hear that you'll be sailing ahead into the year with good seas. Though I'm sure you will navigate those seas with skills of a seasoned sea and great lakes captain. I appreciate that you use, where possible, actual pictures and media of the vessel that you are profiling instead of using filler that is not even from the same time period as the vessel being discussed. This a problem I have seen on other UA-cam channels where the creators do not appear to be as dedicated as you are. Also I appreciate the fact that this a human channel and not one of the channels that appear to be heavily reliant on AI systems.
I can't pick just one favorite ship. I'm sure you can appreciate that problem as a fellow multi-topic nerd and information sponge. But, one subject I would be interested in seeing videos about are the salvage tugs of Foundation Maritime. This is a Canadian salvage company that Farley Mowatt wrote about in two of his books: "Grey Seas Under" and "The Serpents Coil."
Currently you are one of my favorite three nautical history content creators. The other two being "Maritime Horror" and "Oceanliner Design."
Sail on with smooth seas and good winds! 👍
Heck yeah I also love the L1011!!! Amazing aircraft that made the competing dc10 look like a flying can!
I enjoy all of your videos. My favorites are about boats on the Great Lakes because I was born/raised in Michigan. I left Michigan in 1983 when I joined the Navy. I also love history. Thank you for your videos. I look forward to your new ones in the new year.
I grew up in Ludington MI and I really loved the car ferries and rode across the lake several times to visit relatives. Really love those ships!!!!
We appreciate all the effort! Doing this all by yourself is a ton of work. I mean a few years back, I did a weekly sorta blog - just a digital new letter - and had to stop because of how much work that eventually required. By comparison, that was _nothing_ compared to the amount of work to go into producing videos with a well written, narrated story like you do on a weekly basis. It's amazing work, and I'm glad it's become something successful enough that you could make a career out of it. I do think it's a good idea, too, to diversify your delivery a bit; from having used UA-cam for almost 20 years, I have seen that whole UA-cam algorithm thing really ruin people. Good not to have it as your only platform.
As far as more Real world videos, get to Long Beach and Rotterdam to Start. Then focus on Dubai for QE2 you’ll love them all.
Maybe try a series of lighthouse videos. Love your channel.
I really enjoyed the video. I, too, love history and all things historical from animals, to buildings, people to ... Big Old Boats. Keep up the excellent work.
On the question of “what ship that disappeared that you would like to be found”
For me it would be the SS Waratha also, I always been fascinated about this ship and I would hope finding the wreck would give us an explanation to what happened
SS Waratah is my favorite sea mystery. I’d love for her wreck to be found so we could learn what happened to her
Isn’t the prevailing theory then she capsized in a storm? Or am I thinking of another ship?
I think it would be really cool if they found the wreck of the SS La Bourgogne.
Ohh I'd love to see more videos about lighthouses! Great channel, you can tell so much work goes into each piece, well done and keep up the great work :)
great video, its always nice to learn a thing or two about the creators of some of my favorite channels. Keep up the great content.
Scared me for a second there! This is one of my favorite channels, FOR REAL.
9:32 I remember flying to Hawaii on a TriStar, back in a previous life. Snorkeled with sea turtles, took a couple of boat trips, helicoptered around Kawa'i, stood next to flowing lava on the Big Island, good times....
I really enjoy your work! Since I live on the Great Lakes, I'm always happy to see you cover the incidents that have happened on our inland seas.
Great update video.. keep them coming.
You are a very good story teller. That's why I keep coming back. I enjoy the stories.
Great Video Bob and Merry Christmas 🎄⛄🎁🎁🎁🎁
You rock. Keep it up. Happy Holidays
You put together a top-notch video, much better than than what is shown on television today.
Merry Christmas to you and to all of your viewers
🎄🎅🤶🌲🎁
I can’t choose a favorite ship! I don’t know enough! You, and OD and Drach are teaching an oldish dog new tricks!
I haven't been watching your channel very long, but I really enjoy it. You do great work. I recently completed a survey from PBS, and one of their questions was what UA-cam channels with 100Kish subscribers did I think they should take a look at. I could only choose five, and yours was one. So if PBS comes calling...
Thank you for all of your hard work. Really appreciate what you do. I wouldn't go on a cruise ship or anything like that. I like being on solid ground. Can admire the ships though. The courage of sailors is amazing. Hope you will have a blessed Christmas.
I'm glad you made this video. We can tell you are a very nice guy. Humility is a rare trait.
Favorite ship? President Jackson (1940). Hard to beat a boat that had a mural by de Kooning.
(Though we will disagree on liners embracing postwar modernism.)
When I saw the title of this video I thought, ‘oh no, he’s ending his channel.’ But not to worry, we have good things to look forward to! Great channel!
That being said, you’re so goddamned endearing, Mr. carrot muffin.
With a name like "Big Old Boats,' I was kinda expecting that this channel would get a big boatload of subscribers. Keeping on sailing tugger.
It’s illegal to give the masses a heart attack like that, Big.
Maritime history, seapeoples, in my blood
You could cover the sinking and the reef and then go into the history of the SS United States.
I’d love to see you do a piece on the engines that had driven these monsters.
There is a lot to unpack there and some amazing technology powering these giants.
Loving the Channel and keep up the good work!
Favourite ship is a tough one, as a Naval historian I'd have to say the First World War Armoured cruiser Scharnhorst but liner wise... Probably the Kronprinz Wilhelm or the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Happy Christmas and new Year
Thank you for this update video. I'm always interested in what's going on behind the scenes.
Suggestion for irl videos: come to Muskegon, Michigan. You'll find the Milwaukee Clipper, the USS Silversides, and the LST 393, all awesome historic ships!
As a fellow historian but with rail it is tough not to fall into the trap of "later" or "It has always been there I'll photograph it later".
Love your work! It's nice to listen to your videos while working. My favorite ship is probably the Bismarck (the battleship one). Being referred to as he instead of she, being massive, armaments being the largest at the time and the hubris of the Germans to send him out into the Atlantic has always fascinated me.
Regarding the Fitzgerald, I don’t know how many videos there are that discuss the search efforts after the Fitzgerald went down or how the tragedy changed operations on the Great Lakes. That might be something to focus on. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for answering my question! A friend of mine and I that are Great Lakes freighter nerds love your content
Perhaps Lake Champlain might be a good start for IRL videos
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum does rov tours to a few wrecks and has a few revolutionary era gunboats and then you have Shelburne Museum with the Ticonderoga steamboat and Burlington I believe has part of the SS Phoenix
Hey well it was the Lighthouse ep that was suggested to me and introduced me to your channel which I've been joyously bingeing. You understand mood so well, in what you say, show, and choose for music. And your humanity is wonderful. I was another Titanic obsessive as a child, though old enough (teens) to be a snob and dismiss the Cameron film as "90s trash" when it came out (nobody is more opinionated than a teenaged girl). In later years I could appreciate how much research went into the film but that song still makes me gag.
I really do enjoy your videos. I definitely learned more about other maritime tragedies and stories than before, especially the Great Lakes stories.
I got one suggestion for a possible video: You can do one on the Edmund Fitzgerald's sister ship, the Arthur B. Homer.
Keep up the great work!
Editing after the end of the video to say that my favorite ship is the Kaye E. Barker, which is still sailing. I had the pleasure of working on her for a few trips. Best job ever.
I share your passion, and greatly appreciate your work. If I might suggest an approach to the Titanic, it would be to explore lives of the survivors. I don't know if any crew survived [Editing to add that I just learned from you that at least one crewman did survive!], but I became intrigued with the survival of passengers when I learned that one of them emigrated from what was then Assyria to my hometown of Port Huron, Michigan. I'll have to look up his name again, but he and his wife ran a bar (and by the way, the bar would have served sailors who came up the street from the docks). He seems to have lived a normal life, nothing dramatic, but I found that in itself was fascinating. I would like to know about other survivors of the sinking, and I'm sure your viewers could contribute the names of their local immigrant survivors. Newspapers of the time were interested in featuring interviews with them from time to time, and of course there are obituaries. It would be much different from your usual type of research, and much more time-consuming, so you would need the assistance of your viewers to point you to sources. I would gladly contribute to that end, and although my means are very limited, I will pledge a one time donation towards the research, for the sake of remembering the people.
Congratulations my guy 🎉
SS United States..... as an Australian it disgusts me to sink her..... if it was a space or war ship the efforts to stick 8n a museum would be a different story.
Big old boats you nailed it ...
SS United States would’ve made an excellent museum. Unfortunately, the point of no return passed a decade or so ago, as she’s past the point that it would be economical to try. She’s in very bad shape, and has been stripped of a lot of her furnishings. It would simply cost too much at this point, it would probably be cheaper to build an exact replica than restore her. On top of that, take a serious look at the big ships preserved today, they’re almost all experiencing financial difficulties. RMS Queen Mary in particular is facing issues because of how much money she eats to keep her up. Last I heard, Queen Mary was also in danger of suffering the same fate as many of her compatriot liners due to the financial constraints her owners are in.
@@Engine33Truckthe problem with the big U was that her period furnishings where stripped out in the late 80s for her asbestos removal and to sell. That sealed her fate. Notice the queen still has most of her original furnishings and even her wood paneling (featuring extinct species now) and that’s what made her viable for preservation. The big u as, sad as it is, a reef is not the worst send off for her vs scrapping or continued to rot in Philly. I’m glad I saw her earlier this year still above water. She is very rough though her main haul is still very sound.
Greetings Mr. Old Boats I really have to say thank you for all your Great Lakes Videos, you are the (probably) main reason I even know anything about them. I am very glad you are doing these videos and that you havve fun with them. And for your question at the end, my favorite ship is maybe the SS Belgenland, and yes partly because of your video.
Suggestion for channel for trips. One trip visiting the historic lighthouses on the Great Lakes, like Split Rock, not to mention cover the Great Lakes industries that built and still today keep Lake Freighters important to the US economic health and national security. Third a trip visiting all the historic military ship museums across America. USS Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, Intrepid and many others. Oh plus the Submarines like USS Drum next to USS Alabama, you could also include a history of military aviation which is tied to aircraft carriers.
really enjoyed this one!
I would love to see a series on WW2 military vessels
Every time a great channel makes a channel annoucement, I immidiately get an anxiety attack - like hearing "the last run of the season".
Which is a great way to make me drop everything and watch it. Glad to hear the channel and you are doing well, and congratz on the quiet milestone.
You could cover lighthouses of the great lakes or even light ships.
2:34 we all know it's not the size of the boat but the motion of the ocean, erre, lake
My favorite ship is the DKM Bismarck. But I also love hearing about the ocean liners and the lake freighters. Thank you
I definitely have a deeper respect for maritime history thanks to you and if it was up to me to invest in that knowledge wouldn't take the time.
Oh wow, thanks for answering my question. I agree, that is pretty cool.
Maybe a little outside the channel's wheelhouse but the U.S.S. Johnston DD-557 will always be my favorite ship.
Id love to see one on Stannard Rock Lighthouse. I think its like 25mi offshore, and its construction in the 1890s had to be something to see. That and segment on the origins of the Life Saving stations on the Great Lakes would be interesting as well. Thanks
I'd love to see videos about the shipyards and people that built the big old boats.
Yeah the people that were supportive of Germany and not supportive of us entering the war were not doing so because of their genealogical heritage. They did so because they were antisemitic. Many people who were in favor of the Nazi party were, in fact, also Nazis. My grandfather was two generations away from emigration from Darmstadt and he enlisted as soon as he was able to, not even of age yet. And I think a lot of that motivation was not just because he considered himself American, but because he didn’t hold really sick beliefs about Jewish people.
There are a few boat/ship youtubers I watch and they've wanted to cover the United States. I hope everyone can get around to it before she's sunk. I wonder if anyone can arrange to be there for it when they finally sink her? The Oriskany was well documented when they turned her into an artificial reef. The United States deserves it too.
Thanks for your video. Very insightful & good luck with your future!!!
Ocean liners aren't my forte, but the big old night-boats of Long Island Sound could put many ocean liners to shame for safety & service. 👍👍👍
Ive been here since day one, and subbed and sharing
I love everything about BIG OLD BOATS, and favorite ship got to be the FITZGERALD
Idea… Something that is always fascinated me. So many immigrants that came to the United States on ships. What ships did they mainly cross on and who were the notable people that came to America?
I slept through most of that, bla-bla & piano tinkle,,but maybe consider a series on old steamship river wrecks? (thankx-BOB)
It'd be neat if you could find something to colab with Drachinifel. You two are my favourite ship-related channels, it'd be epic if there was a subject you two could share.
All your videos are golden
I think that another sinking that was hugely impactful, was the Fitz. It was a tragedy that helped to reshape the subpar safety standards of the time.