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3/23/37
MC DONALD PUTS CROSLEY TO WORK CHARTING GEORGIAN BAY
How Commander E. F. McDonald, Jr. put his guest,
Powel Crosley, Jr. , to work as an assistant in helping him chart dangerous passages in and around the 30,000 islands in Georgian Bay, thousands of which still remain unexplored by man, is told by Pierre Boucheron in the March issue of "The Rudder1', the magazine for yachtsmen. The article is profusely illustrated by photographs of Commander McDonald's yacht "Mizpah", Senatore Marconi and David Sarnoff aboard the yacht, and numerous other views.
Last year there was published for the first time a chart of McGreagor Bay by McDonald and his crew with up-to-the minute scientific range and depth finding instruments. Only ten miles square there nestle within this Bay some 3,000 islands previously uncharted. Even so, this new chart is not complete by any means. It shows one where to go but not where one cannot go. At one stage of this charting, Powel Crowley, Jr. , a guest, flew over McGreagor Bay in his amphibian for a full day taking photos to ascertain the location of rocks, otherwise unseen.
"Commander McDonald actually rates the title", writes Mr. Boucheron, formerly of the Radio Corporation of America but now with the Remington Arms Company, who himself is a Lieut. Commander in the Naval Reserve. "He is a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navel Reserve, having first been commis¬ sioned in 1917 when he served in the Navy as a lieutenant during the war, and the ‘Mizpah’ today is one of the very few private vessels on the Great Lakes privileged to fly the Naval Reserve pennant. Moreover, he takes this naval associa¬ tion seriously and demonstrates it in a practical way each year when local Sea Scouts take over the ship for their annual training cruise. Also, the professional master of the ’Mizpah' has standing orders to put out to sea in time of storm when it can be of help to small craft. Practically in commission the year around, the 'Mizpah1 has won the unofficial title 'watch dog of the water front. '
"The 'Mizpah' may look like another millionaire's yacht but to a nautically minded visitor she Is a most unusual vessel combining as she does a year-round home, laboratory and cruising office. Built in Hampton Roads in 1928, of 559 gross tons, and powered with two 1,000 horse-power Diesels, she he s a cruising range of some 7,000 miles and carries a crew of twenty-seven* The range of her voice and telegraph radio is practically unlimited, as demonstrated during the ship’s sojourn in the Galapagos and in Labrador when Commander McDonald was in constant communication with his Chicago busi¬ ness headquarters, thousands of miles away, with fifteen-minute daily long range conferences a common occurrence. "
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