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2014 was the year I was working on Urger. Here she’s tied up above lock E-2 while Bejamin Elliot steams by, downbound.
Some time later we’d all steamed down to Albany, here (l to r), it’s a Lord Nelson Victory tug yacht, a tender, and C. L. Churchill, a 1964 boat built in Cohasset MA. Chuchill is the tug that serves to move the 1862 replica canal schooner Lois McClure.
The parade here is moving northbound along the Troy wall…
and here above the Federal lock bound for the left turn at Waterford . . . into the canal. The photo below is credited to Jeff Anzevino, and you’ll see your narrator standing along the portside of the wheelhouse.
In 2014, the documentary by Gary Kane and myself was screened in the Pennsy 399 barge to enthusiastic roundup attendees.
Ceres, the cargo schooner was making one of its trips from Lake Champlain to the sixth boro. Unfortunately, that endeavor has folded. As of July 2020, the plan was to convert Ceres into a tiny home. Details can be found at FB under The Vermont Sail Freight Project.
The official Sunday culmination of the Round involves prizes. Churchill and McClure were the official vessels of 2014, and the
old man of the sea award went to my former crewmate, Mike Byrnes, here being awarded by Roundup director, Tom Beardsley.
All photos, WVD.
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.
Since this sign, propped up beside the wooden tender over the engine is a bit hard to read, let me highlight some of the info: 12 identical Q-boats built for the War Department, second oldest Luders boat in existence (I wonder what’s the oldest.), was personal launch of two Quartermaster Generals of the US, moved to the west for transport to and from Alcatraz, served as a salmon sport fish boat, and then after a move back east has traveled 10,000 in the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast in the past 25 or so years.
Ahoy, Jon. The owner of the boat back then and maybe still is catboat Jon, a specialist in wooden buckets.
While Farallone was in Lyons, Churchill moved Lois McClure through town as well.
Broadsword also stopped in Lyons, making her one of not that many yachts to have transited the Pacific, the Panama Canal, and the Erie Canal.
That’s lock E-27 in the distance, and Broadsword was headed west,
in the bottom of 27 and
out the top.
All photos, thanks to Bob Stopper in Lyons NY.
*Let me clarify the first sentence. Many canal towns have ambassadors who are very knowledgeable about the local area. I’ve found such folks happy to share the insights and assist with problem solving. Once I stopped at a canal town and was welcomed by the mayor who made sure we had a pleasant stay. I know the folks in Lyons more than I know most towns because I grew up near there.
Let’s start out at Little Falls NY, above Lock E-17, where Jay Bee V had just departed and was now delivering the Glass Barge to the wall there. Notice C. L. Churchill along the left edge of the photo.
Here above Lock C-7, it’s Margot.
On the Hudson River, tis is my first closeup view of Liz Vinik, formerly Maryland.
Westbound on the East River, it’s Sea Wolf moving uncontainerized thrown-aways.
Farther east, it’s Hudson with a fuel barge,
and meeting her, it’s Morgan Reinauer with the same.
Notice here, looking toward the Queensboro Bridge, Morgan and Hudson.
Here at the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge project, it’s Dorothy J.
and to close this post out back on the Hudson, it’s Elizabeth, moving Weeks 533.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
That declaration . . . it’s good to read it now and again, especially these days. And since I choose to post at noon, this post will be up for half the holiday, even if the holiday is NOT the actual date the document was signed.
In civilian life, flags are freely displayed, without compulsion. The current US flag is the 27th design. Careb also flies the AGLCA banner and the flag of New Mexico, a location impossible to navigate to.
Tug Churchill and sailing canal boat Lois McClure each fly a flag, every day under way and not just on holidays.
The signers–SOME of the delegates to the Second Continental Congress–remained committed in their discussions despite their many disagreements. A number of delegates would not sign. And the country has been the greatest possible ever since, mistakes notwithstanding.
All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp.
Previous flag posts can be read here.
The last time we saw Jay Bee V, she was solo and reportedly beginning an epic. That was nine days ago, and now Jay Bee V (JBV) has taken over this large white barge from larger river tugs and is heading west with a a flotilla that began over a month ago in Brooklyn. Click here for specifics on this journey as well as sponsors, and there are many.
Arguably, the epic began in 1868, and I quote here from the link above: “1868, the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company relocated to Corning, via the New York Waterways, and evolved into the company that is today known as Corning Incorporated. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of this pivotal journey, CMoG will launch GlassBarge—a 30’ x 80’ canal barge equipped with CMoG’s patented all-electric glassmaking equipment—in Brooklyn Bridge Park on May 17, 2018.”
What’s pushing the “glass barge?”
Here’s a top down view of JBV, and
the boats of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
Way in the distance, that’s the glass barge and beyond that, lock E-11. Here from tug44 a few years back is more info on lock E-11.
If this photo illustrates nothing, it shows how JBV‘s captain relies on understanding and communication from the watch stander on the barge.
Above and below, the flotilla passes Fonda, NY,
before locking up through E-13.
The glass barge flotilla had given its 8th set of shows (by my count) in Amsterdam the day before. To understand the impact of these shows, think canal-traveling circus of the 19th century. Here they were heading for a set of shows in Canajoharie.
More to come. Again, if you have not checked out this link for their schedule–the water portion of which ends in Watkins Glen on September 16, click here. Below is a vase I witnessed a glassblower make in less than 15 minutes!
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who reiterates that I take all the photos credited to me on this blog; any photos taken by anyone else–collaboration I encourage–I attribute accordingly.
More photos of the Great Race soon.
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