Edna A and the Shrinkwrapped Mystery
Last spring, Edna A passed my location with a “nameless” tugboat. The day before the official opening of the Canal season, Edna A climbed the Flight westbound with a light barge 82 heading for Albion NY. Three days after passing Newark for Albion, Edna A and the 82 were back, heading east. If you’ve ever […]
Sixth Boro Sampler 3
Gene Chaser appears to be a sister of Ad-Vantage, which appeared here a year and a half ago. Click on the link at the beginning of the first sentence and you’ll see some interior shots of this 55-meter yacht support vessel. At some point, yacht support vessel Ad-Vantage was available for charter for a mere […]
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 […]
Dispatches from the Canal
But first, a reader “read” my mind and asked a question about the image below from this post a while back: what are the square “hatches” directly below the wheelhouse glass? Are they square porthole covers? Another question while we’re back at this image, did that “upper wheelhouse” design work well? How much additional visibility […]
Things I Missed 2, Part B
Lyons NY has the one of the best canal ambassador team I know*. When summer yachts come through, the welcoming committee stop by. And some interesting boats visit Lyons. Take Farallone, from yesterday’s post. By the way, if you’ve not read the additional info on Farallone I added in the comments section, check it out. […]
22Rivers Epic
See the man on the pier using his cell phone to get a photo? I wonder what he imagined he was looking at, other than a group on the water on a spectacular December day. Did he know he was witnessing the culmination of an odyssey? The Columbia, Snake, Clark Fork, Missouri, Mississippi, [to saltwater] […]
Other Peoples Photos 81
From Capt Nemo, a few years ago, the 2000 Mary Gellatly high and dry and before she was Mackenzie Rose. Also, I see Tasman Sea, Dace, an unidentified Bouchard, and Yemitzis. From KP, Dace getting her upper wheelhouse . . . over 10 years ago. From a Great Lakes Mariner, the oldest working ship on […]
Erie Canal Early Summer 2020
Please, Lord, no . . . Day-Peckinpaugh has not been put out to pasture, I hope . . . “Out to pasture or not,” as Craig said, soon someone will have to start mowing the grass around her hull. Maybe green goats can help? This photo was taken between locks E-2 and E-3 a week […]
Merry Christmas 2018
Full disclosure . . . I’m not feeling much festive this year personally. So maybe it’s my own wary eye that leads to my seeing so few wreaths on boats, maybe it’s just this lingering head cold. But it warmed my heart to see them, like here on Pegasus, and ditto on Alex McAllister. […]
Truly Epic Grouper Saga
Grouper! This boat has been the focus of a long series of posts dating back to April 23, 2008. I had expected resolution years ago, but so far, unresolved. However,bg there is some news, although it’s hardly new since Bob Stopper sent me these photos two full months ago already. Have a long look: she’s out of the water […]
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