Comments on: Two Canals, Two Ships http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/ scenes from the sixth boro and gallivants beyond Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:25:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tony http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-20137 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:04:40 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-20137 Huge ships! Duluth is a beautiful port city. So many wonderful accommodations and eateries.

]]> By: tugboathunter http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15824 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:27:17 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15824 She was loaded. She took on cargo at the Twin Ports as she left lay-up.

]]> By: Ken http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15821 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:22:42 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15821 The Mesabi Miner was heading into Lake Huron, so she was downbound and presumably loaded. I’m not sure where she was headed at the time but when I checked ais yesterday, she was already headed back up north. The Soo Locks were pretty busy apparently as 34 ships went through in the first 48 hours. It’s no wonder they opened 12 hours earlier.

]]> By: tugster http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15820 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:41:00 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15820 wow! who knew??! http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Moran-Towing-Corporation-Inc-company-History.html

]]> By: Klyde http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15819 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:10:59 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15819 Just in passing:
For the sixth boro’s connection with Mesabi Miner, It should be noted that MESABI MINER’s sister ships in the sixth boro all operate with a large M on the stacks rather than Interlake’s black stacks with an orange band.

You will find that other ships of the Interlake fleet on the lakes carry the names of the corporate officers of Moran Towing.
http://www.morantug.com/site/#/home

]]> By: tugboathunter http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15818 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:09:08 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15818 Could SOOMAX be getting longer? They’re building a new lock and I don’t know what the maximum size will be. Seeing as how no American freighter has been built for lakes service since 1981, I doubt much will change anyway.

]]> By: tugster http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15817 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:15:28 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15817 thanks for sending me hunting, kg2v . . . MESABI MINER was downbound! also, shipspotting shows her DWT as 62,335 compared with 64,500 for CSAV SUAPE. and my point was more that the loa SOOMAX is greater than loa PANAMAX.

]]> By: kg2v http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15816 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:50:31 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15816 Oh, come on, you know length and width is not how you measure a ship. Overal DWT is not listed on that site for the MESABI MINER, but her GWT is significantly lower than CSAV SUAPE

]]> By: Algosar II & The Soo Opening « tugboathunter http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15815 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:42:18 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15815 [...] Meanwhile, while I’ve been sitting here and doing this, Ken of MichiganExposures was at the Soo Opening. Here’s one of his shots of the mighty 1,004′ long Wasabi Mesabi Miner. For a kind of size comparison, see what Tugster did with this. [...]

]]> By: tugster http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/two-canals-two-ships/#comment-15814 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:29:36 +0000 http://tugster.wordpress.com/?p=23488#comment-15814 MESABI MINER was headed into Superior for the first payload of the season, so that’s ballast. As to CSAV SUAPE, shippers get charged for the containers there as well as for empty “cells” where containers COULD HAVE BEEN loaded . . . “the canal is our oil” was a sentiment i heard expressed several times.

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