I’d planned a gallivant along the coast of Lake Erie to see ice, maybe even walk and fish on it, as I did many decades ago. February would normally be a good time for that, but my actual schedule depended on someone else, my son. Well . . . I was told that a week earlier, ice fishing was happening here . . . Click on the map below to make it interactive.
Huron OH? I admit never having heard of it. It’s just east of Sandusky, which I saw here, and roughly between *7 and *8, posts on the Great Coast that I did last fall.
This two-part panorama (above and below) shows the turning basin near the mouth of the Huron River, which might be fun to canoe one of these years.
I use AIS to determine which roads I take on a gallivant like this, and this surely is not the green icon I saw, but I’m thrilled the icon led me here. Adam E. Cornelius is not as old as it looks–launched 1973–and I’ve no idea what her fate will be. And she’s Toledo’s pride.
One of these years, I hope to see her, under this name or another, back hauling Great Lakes minerals around our Great Coast.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. And that green icon that led me here, I’m guessing it was either R/V Kiyi or R/V Kaho. anyone help? Chain link stood in the way of my getting any reasonable picture.
For the many previous “port of” posts on tugster, click here and scroll.
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February 27, 2018 at 12:33 pm
tugboathunter
Adam E. Cornelius was sold to Algoma Central a couple months ago. Doesn’t look like much activity around.
February 27, 2018 at 2:19 pm
Jeff
Kaho.
February 27, 2018 at 3:01 pm
tugster
Thx, Jeff and tbh
February 28, 2018 at 2:16 am
Lee Rust
We visited Huron back in September 2015 and spent several hours exploring the town and harbor. At that time, Cornelius was accompanied by John J. Boland, a vessel of comparable size, and at that time it seemed like they both had only been laid up for a short while.
Besides the old iron lighthouse and a huge mountain of gravel next to the concrete plant, this very photogenic village boasts a waterfront condo neighborhood built around wide canals and pleasure boat docks that would be the envy of any upscale resort development in southern Florida.