Research sometimes turns up more than just a lot of information Bruce Kemp,
A freelance photographer, supplied Stan with a true life story There really is
A wonderful, crazy man in Windsor who has raised the Blue Dolphin from the
Harbour mud She is the sister ship of the Bluenose, about 20 ft shorter and
Somewhat deeper and heavier in the keel She saw service as a pleasure craft,
A research ship and then as a sub tracker in WWII Attempts are being made
To restore her and put her on display as a museum Support for this venture
Can be sent to Bruce Kemp, 60 Shanly St, Toronto Ontario M6H 1S5]
It was just like him He had to pick
A boat gone from dowdy to derelict
In half a dozen years
Of searching for an owner
She may have lost her heart in the harbour mud,
But she really caught his at the flood;
And he wonders how she knew
That she was waiting for a loner
Blue Dolphin, built by the Rhuland men,
She's lying on the bottom again
With only him to care
That Bluenose had a sister
He lost the house and he sold the car
His wife walked out; so he hit the bars
And hit up every friend
To raise the Blue Dolphin
And even afloat she's a hole in the water where his money goes
Every dollar goes
And it's driving him crazy
He pounds his fists white on the dock in the night
And cries, "I'm gonna win!"
And licks the blood away
And he's gonna raise the Dolphin
Blue Dolphin's lying like a wounded whale
She's hungry for a scrap of a sail
To get her underway
Back to salt water
Now there's a man lying spent in the winter sun
He wonders what the hell he has done
And who would ever pay
To save his schooner daughter
For even afloat she's a hole in the water where his money goes
Every dollar goes
And it's driving him crazy
He pounds his fists white on the dock in the night
And cries, "I'm gonna win!"
And licks the blood away
And he's gonna raise the Dolphin