Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXII
The Fort Frances Times reported that The S.S.Clipper was towed to the Falls River by a large boat after it had hit a reef in the Ranier Rapids and in the process had torn the keel off. Once home she was hauled out and over a summers time a new keel was hewed from a large Tamarack tree, and was treated with several coats of creosote and put back into the water. According to Violet she was as good as new and “floated like a gull on water”. Ever since they had finished the re
