Find the clue to the location of Governor Roosevelt, canal champion, in this photo? For info on the ex-president’s role in saving the canal, read here. For tugster post on Roosevelt’s last tug ride ride , click here. Click here for a photo of this vessel taken on a VERY cold day earlier this year.
Erie in Marcy.
One of many dredging operations ongoing . . .
A vestige of industry still extant but moved on.
Vestige of junction of current canal with old canal leading to Syracuse.
Current passers-through.
One of many self-propelled scows on the canal.
Here I need some crowd-sourcing help . . . this is former Coast Guard equipment, probably an inland buoy boat . . . but what was its official original designation?
Bow view . . .
Night time configuration.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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June 15, 2014 at 1:44 pm
William Lafferty
My guess is Utica. Anyway …
My next guess is that the former Coast Guard boat was the 45-foot A/N buoy boat stationed at the Burlington, Vermont, Coast Guard station on Lake Champlain, CG 45305, one of fifteen similar steel aid-to-navigation craft built by the Coast Guard at its Curtis Bay, Maryland, shipyard between 1957 and 1962.
June 16, 2014 at 9:22 am
Ken
Cool series.
October 23, 2019 at 12:45 pm
Richard Hanson
is that boat still there, if not do you know here it is