Riverbanks 7
This series goes back to 2006, when I had no idea where it would end up a decade on. Click here to see past installments. All the photos in this post I took between Prescott ON and the start of the Beauharnois Canal. Below . . . it’s the light at the location of the […]
Retrospect
is actually a euphemism for “catching up,” which is all that’s on my plate today. Like a month ago, I intended to put up a link to a west coast tugboat blog. So here it is: fremonttugboat. Otherwise, this post comes from scrolling back through fotos I’ve taken (and not used, I think) since late […]
Tugster
Revised: August 2022 Thanks for reading my blog, whose goal is to help landfolk see my home waters — the port of New York — from the water perspective. The “sixth boro” is my invented term for the waters in and around the port. Part of my motivation is that mainstream media are “terracentric,” overlooking […]
Seawaymax
740′ x 78′ x 26.’ Shoehorning won’t add an inch anywhere. Atlantic Huron, below and loaded with ore, squeezes in with inches on either side and only four feet length to spare. Vertical lift in Eisenhower Lock is 42 feet. The lock celebrates its half-centennial next year. I celebrated my return there after 44 years […]
Seaway
Atlantic Huron arrives at Eisenhower Lock from Snell Lock. Cargo is iron ore from Labrador and loaded at Sept-Isles. Anyone know why the hatch covers are kept wet? LOA is 736.’ Lock chamber is 740′ by 78.’ Breadth of vessel is 77.’ Notice the two crewmen standing by. I heard no scraping along the sides. […]
Seaway Surprise
Note: Part of the surprise lies in a link between the last ship foto and the farm foto. A thin strip of ocean access flows across the rural areas of uppest-state New York at the Eisenhower Lock, and I wonder how bluewater mariners see this region. The two crewmen on postside bow of Marlene Green […]
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