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From: Mike W
Location: London
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Date: 10/30/03
Time: 08:45:39 PM
For many years, there was a pile of greying ship's timbers resting in a pine grove near the Chi Chee-maun ferry dock. The site was owned by an ancient Tobermory boatman named Vail who maintained that they were the remains of the GRIFFON. He claimed to have salvaged them somewhere off the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. People who knew Vail said it was entirely possible: he did a lot of unlikely things. Ontario historical authorities, glacially conservative, were skeptical. Vail slipped his anchor many years ago, still waiting for verification, and I have no idea what happened to what he insisted were the bones of GRIFFON. I saw the timbers and heard the story in the early '70s. Another Great Lakes mystery.
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