Talk:Stannard Rock Light

Confused

Stannard Rock Reef provides a year-round structure for a superior lake trout fishery. Michigan's state record for lake trout was caught at Stannard Rock Reef by 16 year-old Lucas Lanczy on August 17, 1997.

Is "superior" in the first sentence supposed to be capitalized? If not, I would suggest another word, such as superlative.

Any word on the size of the record lake trout?

Sca (talk) 17:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Lake Superior Magazine just ran an article on the lighthouse, it does not appear to be online yet so can't really cite it here, but according to them the record is - 1998 a lunker lake trout caught weighed 61.5 poundsEdgeways (talk) 18:50, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

See also the citations in the article. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Crib

Can someone define what the heck an "open crib" is? Early in the article, before it's used a half dozen times? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Talldean (talk • contribs) 18:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

They constructed a crib offsite and then took it out to the Stannard Rock reef. They pumped the water out of the crib and filled it with rock on which a concrete base was poured for the light tower. I will expand the article in the near future as I just located a book with copies of original plans for the construction, etc.--Wpwatchdog (talk) 23:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Candle light

"The 1,400,000 candlepower light was replaced with a 3,000 candlepower light." - reduced by a factor of 500? Sounds strange. --CopperKettle 18:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Most sources say that when the Stannard Rock Light was automated, it was reduced to 3,000 candlepower.--Wpwatchdog (talk) 23:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Map

Could this be shown on a map? Geschichte (talk) 22:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)