Backblast! Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

AO: Boiler Room
Q: Little Dinghy (Jim Amy)
PAX: EKG (Lee White), Rio (Andrew DiGiovanni), Cosworth, Jiffy pop (Prabhu), Mediocre/Dan , Doubloon (Matthew Walker), Sajak, Boys 2 Men (Scott Markel), Six Pack (Matt Coombs), BiLo (Emil Alexander), Boingo (Jeffrey Christensen), Honorable Mention (Matt Ribbens), Deep Dish (Jeff Beryt), T-Ball
FNGs: None
Count: 16

WARMUP: 10 Side Straddle Hops in cadence, 8 Willy Mays Heys, 10 hillbillies in cadence, and 5 good mornings and then we set sail for the northern latitudes.
THE THANG: The Edmund Fitzgerald was an iron ore freighter that plied the Great Lakes from 1958 until she sank in a storm on November 10, 2025. This week marked the 50th anniversary of the loss of the vessel and of her 29 crew. The sinking was memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot’s song, released in August of the following year.

Mosey to north end of parking lot, Edmund Fitzgerald stats (296 reps):
729 feet long (7+2+9) – 19 Mike Tysons
75 foot beam – 75 jump squats
25 foot draft – 25 squat thrusts
Propeller 19 feet – 19 Carolina dry docks
Launched 1958 – Age at sinking 17 years – 17 burpees
Value of Cargo Carried Annually – $127million – 127 side straddle hops
Typical Speed – 14 knots – 14 WW IIs

Mosey to south end of the property (back way), storm stats (312 reps):
Date of Sinking – 11/10/1975 – 115 reps Homer-to-Marges
Storm Sustained Winds – 58 knots (67 miles per hour) – 58 merkins
Gusts of up to 75 knots (86 miles per hour) – 75 calf raises
Sustained waves at 25 feet with some hitting 35 feet – 35 lunges (each leg is one)
29 Lives Lost – 29 crucifix merkins

A 10-count, and Mosey back to circle and continue:
120 second chill cut

Still had time for another lap around the campus and a run down the hill and Bernie Sanders back up (going astern).

MARY: Xs and Os and Low-Slow Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tonight Friendsgiving at Jay-Z’s and Paranoid’s.
COT: Six-Pack’s daughter Vivian getting married tomorrow to Isaac, continued recovery for EKG’s dad.