Canal Tug Project H
If Lyons NY sounds familiar to you, either you have lived near there (like me, 14 years) or you may have read references to the town on this blog, partly because it’s where Grouper has spent its past decade and where it still languishes. All photos in this post were taken in Lyons NY, and […]
Views of Syracuse
Quick post today, almost on time. I’m resting up after travels, reunions, summits, setbacks, ravines, tech glitches that turned out to be excessive cookie of the electromagnetic sort, and . . . more. I took all these Lyons, NY photos in the past few weeks, although I missed all the excitement of the sixth boro, […]
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″ […]
Retro Sixth Boro 37 A
May Day! It’s a busy day without access to my archives. May 2011 . . . Urger in Lyons NY, waiting for the dry dock to flood. Back in the sixth boro, it’s Elk River and Siberian Sea…eastbound at Con Hook, and near the same location, it’s Lincoln Sea and Eastern Dawn, both westbound. […]
Canal Tug Project F
Many thanks to all who commented on the “mystery tug” post and identified it as Callanan No. 1. See the comments for much more info on the tug. William Lafferty sends along this photo of the tug and its crew. I count seven crew. Also, that looks like a jackstaff on the bow to judge […]
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] […]
Lyons to Palmyra
Happy 120 years old, Urger! I urge you to read the note at the bottom of this post. And . . . .Oops! I read the timer wrong. Bidding for Grouper, in Lyons NY, ends about six hours from now. Lyons is a county seat, but it’s possible to take a photo of lock E-27, […]
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 […]
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. […]
Retro Sixth Boro 20
November 2009 saw the USS New York (LPD-21) arrive in her namesake city for christening commissioning. Just faintly, the name is visible on the stern. I also went up to the Lyons NY dry dock in November 2009 and caught Urger, then in seasonal layup. Five years were to go by before I did my […]
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