A Raft Pilot's Log cont. Some of the Men Prominent in the Raftin Industry, 1840-1915 221 CAPTAIN GEORGE WINANS The subject of this sketch was born in 1856, the year I was born, and the next year, he piloted a lumber raft from reads Landing to knapp stout and Company at Dubuque. He ran his last raft of logs from Sait Paul to Prescottin 1916, his entire service covering a stretch of sixty years.