Grouper “What If” Files
Grouper . . . that’s likely a quite familiar name to anyone who’s followed this blog a while, given all the posts dedicated to this 1912 vessel that’s spent two decades or so not far from where I grew up, 350 miles away from the sixth boro, which she intended to transit but was prevented […]
Grouper Saga Counting Down
Auctions International has posted the auction notice. Bidding starts June 7 and ends June 28 These are my photos from October 2018. Here’s the auction notice. For all my previous posts on this 1912 vessel, click here. For three other NYS Canal Corp. vessels to be auctioned, click here.
Grouper et al. Auction Update
I suppose if you are bidding, you might not like this post. As of this posting and with one week left for the auction, the high bid on 1912 74′ x 19′ x 12′ draft Grouper is $145. Period. That’s not $145k; it’s as much money as you might be carrying in your wallet right […]
Last Offices
I had to learn this term, but it fits here. I knew words for what’s depicted here had to exist, and it turns out that different places have their own word(s). No, I’m not referring to this blog or myself. This deceased has been that way for years, no pulse for more than a […]
Last 24 Hours to Bid
I’ll return to the Erie Canal tomorrow, but for now . . . the clock is ticking louder. In exactly 24 hours, Grouper will thaw out; a new owner, the person with the highest bid, will be acclaimed. I’ve been following the fate of this boat in Wayne County for so many years that I […]
From the Line Locker 30
Have you read or heard references to a “trackless sea” or “trackless deep”? Last night I was looking a “whole ocean” views of traffic. Notice the magenta stream? Recall that the magenta arrowheads show recreational vessels. The green (cargo ships) and red (tanker) arrowheads seem much more random, but the magenta . . . pink […]
Headwaters 5
Seth Tane took this photo on the Columbia in 2000. This was my sense of tugboats back then. I had little sense of their age, power, crews, skills needed for operation, etc. Take a guess on those features of this boat, and I’ll provide you some answers at the end of this post. Note that […]
Thanks to Former Crews of Grouper
Languishing along the Erie Canal, now in the dry dock adjacent to E-28A, is tugboat Grouper. As she continues in limbo, folks far from the Erie Canal remember her, recall family experiences long ago, not thinking of her as Grouper at all, but rather . . . Green Bay. Here she assists passenger steamer SS […]
Thanks to Great Lakes Mariner 3
Well . . . a couple of Great Lakes mariners who prefer to remain nameless . . . but let’s start with a photo of Joel B from a few years ago. She’s quite the attractive boat! Thanks so much to a GL Mariner for responding to Saturday’s post by sending another of that boat […]
Retro Sixth Boro 43
I hope you enjoy looking back 10 years as much as I do, although some might say I live in the past a little too much. Here’s some dense traffic, l to r, Twisted Sisters, Lucinda Smith, Maurania III, and Petrozavosk. Up in Lyons NY at the drydock, Governor Roosevelt shows her deep 8′ 6″ […]
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