Canal Craft 4

I’m working backwards still . . . all photos in this post were taken between October 22 and 28.  M/V Mystere . .  works the Hudson river now, but I’d never seen her before this encounter above lock 7.

The next three photos were taken just above and just below lock 11 Amsterdam, showing use of small boats on the Canal/Mohawk River for bridge and dam work.  Click here to see what park this bridge footing some day will support.

The repairs have been necessitated by the flooding of 2011.

Artania II is the last wooden Matthews, built in 1970 and just restored in Michigan, headed home near lock 14.  Click here for photos of the restoration at E. J. Mertaugh Boat Works, satisfying but it loads slowly.

Here Artania II passes Governor Cleveland.

Zooming ahead of us is the largest Sea Ray I’ve ever seen . . . Just Because . . . but I forget the loa’

This Honeywell boat has probably been working on the dredging of Onandaga Lake, now  declared finished.

I don’t know the story of this vessel, although at first notice I thought it a sporty very low-slung yacht.

Lil Joe had been doing bridge inspection earlier in the season, as are

these guys.  I love this Harcon bucket boat and its hydraulically-actuated outriggers.

And finally . . . taking advantage of the ambiguity of the word craft, here’s the very definition of a bucolic scene, less than 300 feet from the bed of the original Erie Canal in Lyons.

More canal craft soon . . . maybe tomorrow.