Go Roundabout West
Almost seven years ago, I posted Go West, the announcement of my employment as onboard lecturer for Blount Small Ships Adventures. Dozens of posts followed between that date and fall 2019. Here’s my Go West at start of 2017 post. Then Covid-19 happened, and Blount decided to close their passenger vessel excursion business in spring […]
Splash!
That’s what I’m doing, preferably feeling the water but inside the ship today. Below, W. O. Decker handles the whitewater created by boats in a recent race with at least 10 times Decker‘s horsepower. As seen from the Bayonne Bridge walkway, Quenames displaces a fair amount of water, surrounding itself with froth. Fireboat water in […]
Retro Sixth Boro 49 B
May 2012 was a month of verticality, as in these twin tugboats, as in the towers of these bridges with a low, long riverboat transiting beneath, and and in the 156′ air draft of this mega yacht once owned by one of the oligarch’s now sanctioned and hiding his other yachts wherever he can. It […]
2020 Calendar October
This post (number 4650+) may stay front and center for a few days because I’ve left my desk, seated myself, precariously, on an unmotorized bike, and am (I hope) making some speed from the western end of the Erie Canal to the eastern one. I started pedaling Sunday morning from Tonawanda, not Saturday as I’d […]
Virtual Erie Canal 9: Three Rivers to Minetto
Last post ended with an aerial photo. Here’s a higher one of the same area, taken in 1981, for a state agency. The Oneida River flows from the bottom of the photo. Notice the tanks below, or east of, the bridge. As we pass, notice vestiges of docks and pipes to those tanks, although the […]
Virtual Erie Canal 10: Three Locks to Lake Ontario
The Oswego River is the second largest river flowing into Lake Ontario, but it feels in places like a stream. I don’t have to tell you what the largest river into Ontario is, I hope. If you study the east bank, lots of traces of the original 1828 Oswego Canal, a verdant mudbank and even […]
Canal Countdown T-13
Here was T-23 days. Now, in less than two weeks, the canal will be open. Some of the vessels operated by NYS Canals to perform maintenance were featured in the T-23 post; more are in today’s post. Let’s start with Tender 2, T2, in Utica, nose to nose with tug Erie. Tender #3 is tied up […]
Along the Canal E14
Grande Mariner is on its way to Chicago from NYC via the Erie Canal. Since I’m not onboard, I have the opportunity to watch it lock through. The lock is on the Palatine Bridge side of the Canal, across the bridge from Canajoharie, five times larger with its population of 3500. Note the captain (see […]
First Monthly Photos 2019
Believe it or not, I’m way inland and without a camera, and a preference for novelty prompts a different almost-year-end post together. Rules I made for myself follow: go to my archives and select the first photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if the first photo in my archives for each month […]
Montreal Bound 2019 A
This begins a new series, and I’ll post only when I can get on WIFI. “Montreal bound” will soon devolve to MB. Logistics causes me to post with a few days lag, so I’m posting from Buffalo. To start, this is the closest I’ve been to Roger Blough so far. One of these years, I’ll […]
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