Thanks for these fotos to Dave Williams, who took them in Burlington, VT. I dedicate these to all the birds who will lose their heads this week.
Raymond C Pecor Jr launched from the ways of Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City, FL and made the journey northward to Lake Champlain. Only problem: the wheelhouse of this (non-orange) car ferry needed to be removed to clear a low bridge north of Waterford. 
Dave caught these pics as the wheelhouse
was being reattached. Raymond C Pecor had another problem: see what happens when slippery new hull paint hits the water at launch on this YouTube video.
I don’t know if any of my confederates caught Pecor traveling northbound through the sixth boro and up the Hudson, but I missed it. Now, you can see the LCT 216-car ferry up on Lake Champlain.
Dave was previously behind the scenes on my “safe travel with your house” post. Thanks, Dave.
On the left, check out the info for the 2010 Waterfront Conference happening in about 10 days in Lower Manhattan.
Unrelated: You’ve probably seen the video of a ship being decapitated by a bridge lowering over the Welland Canal, but if not . . . watch this in horror.
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November 21, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Paul
will, Theres pix of said bridge on my flickr page from my trip up there this week. Its between locks C3 and C4. Locktenders said they had 2x6s as fendering when they went up there because they were so wide in the lock.
November 21, 2010 at 7:29 pm
JED
I will be on New England’s West coast in just over a month, I’ll snap pix of RAYMOND C PECOR and her sisters doing their duty when I’m there.
November 22, 2010 at 2:36 pm
soundbounder
My sister is up in Burlington and she spends a lot of time around the lake.
November 22, 2010 at 2:51 pm
mageb
Yup, that sure was a clean hull. The only thing that dismayed me was the wiring dangling from the bottom of her house. What a job to reconnect it all.