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White, blue, and red comes in different contexts, and
this one along with the name on the trailboard does give pause.
Glenn Raymo took these photos in Poughkeepsie Sunday, and they were my introduction to an ambitious sailing project. The best I can tell this project began in Petrozavodsk, a city on the western shore of Lake Onega, in northwest Russia, a few hundred miles east of access to the Baltic at St. Petersburg. Lake Onega is connected to both the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean via the White Sea Canal. As a person who fancies himself somewhat well-versed in canals, I was ignorant of the White Sea Canal until now: mostly hand-dug by prisoners of the USSR in the 1930s
Pilgrim is a lodya, a traditional sailing vessel of this area. Along with the koch, the lodya is an ancient Rusian polar exploration vessel.
If you follow along on the “news” link, you see their step-by-step voyage from Russia. Exactly two years ago, eg, they had just crossed the Bay of Biscay! News articles go all the way back to 2006.
To my friends along the Erie Canal, once the waterway is open, keep your eyes peeled.
Many thanks to Glenn Raymo for this catch. Previous posts with attribution to him can be seen here.
It reminds me of all the memorable vessels that have transited the Erie Canal: Bounty*, Draken Harold Fairhair, Pinta, Sequoia**, Hokule’a, Ra, When and If, Amarah Zee, the future Oliver Hazard Perry, Lois McClure . . . I have no doubt left some out.
*I have photos but I’ve not posted them on tugster. **One of the planned but not realized posted is a review of Capt. Giles M. Kelly‘s book; any volunteer to write a review? You’ll get a free book.
And to the crew of Pilgrim, попутный ветер, друзья мои I hope I spelled that right.
I’ve been social distancing in Queens, but this didn’t prevent me from telecomexchanging the news with my sister. She took these photos and told me about her experiences sailing in the Sea of Cortez. You can click on the link to the article at the end of this post.
I hope to get to the Sea some day; parts of it are designed a UNESCO World heritage site.
Isla del Carmen is a refuge for bighorn sheep whose future was threatened in mainland areas of Baja California.
The plethora of wildlife notwithstanding, the gist of the article was . . . the Sea for people in the time of COVID. That is the link to the article. I’d been arranging to get to Mexico a few months back, but it’s not going to happen for a while.
All photos, John and Lucy Knape.
For more of their photos, click here.
I vividly recall June 2010. Let’s take June 3. The two Hornbeck tugs there are Erie Service and Eagle Service, now Genesis Valiant and Genesis Eagle. Minerva Anna is at one of the easternmost IMTT docks; today she’s eastbound in the Indian Ocean. But in the middle of it all, GLDD’s Liebherr 966 was getting the channel down to 52′, if I recall correctly. Was that 966 dredge the same as New York? In the distance the Empire State Building stood alone; from this perspective today, you’d see WTC1.
Later the same day, and I don’t recall what the occasion was, Conrad Milster brought his big ship’s whistle down to South Street Seaport Museum, and ConEd hooked it up to ConEd steam pressure. Hear the result here. To date, this video has received 88,000 plays!! Here and here are some videos of the legendary Conrad. A few years later, I went to a marine steam festival in the Netherlands; I took a river ferry from Rotterdam to get there. When I stepped off the ferry and walked up the gangway to the dock, there stood Conrad. Of course he would be there.
June 17 brought the return of Reid Stowe‘s schooner Anne after 1152 days (more than three years) at sea without seeing land! Here‘s the NYTimes story.
Notice the toll the sea took on the paint.
For more photos of Anne, inside and out, click here.
As serendipity would have it, the day Anne returned, Artemis departed, going on to successfully row across the Atlantic in just under 44 days! Recently, Reid has displayed art inspired by his voyage, as seen here.
June 26 John Curdy invited me to see a good bit of the Delaware River fronting several miles north and south of Philadelphia. Overseas Anacortes was not yet launched at that time. As of today’s post, she’s in the Gulf of Mexico off Corpus Christi.
Here is Penn’s Landing and Gazela, which I sailed on later in 2010, but that’s a story already told here.
All photos in June 2010, WVD.
After a number of “misfires” this past week, I’ve made some changes.
To inaugurate these new protocols, I’m pleased to share photos you’ve sent in.
First, from Great Lakes Mariner, a few photos of Cheyenne in her new Lake Michigan waters. These photos were taken in Manitowoc, which some of you will recognize from the context. Here is a post I did on the Manitowoc River. Here‘s one of many from Sturgeon Bay. William C Gaynor (1956) has spent her entire life on the Great Lakes.
See the patina red tug to the left is Erich. You have seen that before here.
Next, from John Huntington back in March, Jaguar escorts the 1942 oyster schooner Sherman Zwicker to a berth in Gowanus Bay. Notice Loujiane in the distance to the left, and I believe Highlander Sea foreground left. Previously you’ve seen Jaguar here, here, and here.
And is that John D McKean to the far left?
Seeing parts of “US naval vessels to be” transiting the East River has long been common, but extralime recently caught Patrice McAllister doing the tow, now that Gateway Towing has disbanded. One of the Gateway tugs that used to do this run is now called Meredith Ashton and is currently in Lake Michigan.
And finally, from tug Hobo, here is a much improved wheel from the one you saw in one of my posts from yesterday.
Many thanks to GL Mariner, John Huntington, extralime, and Donna at Hobo for these photos.
Let’s go back to September 2009. CMA CGM Marlin, launched 2007, was the standard size back then . . . The 5092-teu vessel has since been scrapped, after only nine years of service!!
Over a dozen sailing barges came to NYC to sail in New York waters in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Half Moon arriving here all those years ago. Here are more posts from back then. Groenevecht, below, is a 2000-built replica of a lemsteraak.
Also in town to celebrate were Onrust and HNLMS Tromp. Here’s more on Tromp.
Old and new came. On one end of the spectrum was Day Peck,
her great hold still waiting to be transformed into museum.
Urger still operated, here sidling up to Lehigh Valley 79.
A different Rosemary McAllister worked here.
Irish Sea (1969) was still at work.
Yessir, stuff changes. All photos in September 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
Now in the Erie Canal, Tender #3 was above E3,
BB 109 encountered an unidentified SPS,
Dragon dredge worked over in Crescent Lake,
an unidentified tender worked with two barges, one was QB #14,
Tuulen Tupa intrigued and I’ll tell you my understanding of that name at the end of this post,
At Fonda on the wall stood an SPS and
tug Lockport.
Will Van Dorp took these photos, and this is the end of this post.
And Tuulen Tupa is an excellent name for a sail boat, since in Finnish–at least–it means “wind hut.”
And this was Waterford to Fonda, NY.
Here are previous installments in the series. Summer sail can take the form of foil-raised GP racing as will happen in the sixth boro this weekend; it can also happen on longer courses and require stamina and endurance as happens in some races ending in Mackinac.
All the photos in this post come from Jeff Gritsavage, as he was delivering a yacht from Florida to Lake Michigan. Some of you will recognize that this shot was taken in an Erie Canal lock. A few of you will name the lock. Answer at the end of this post.
I’ll help you out here; this was taken on the Oswego Canal, a spur that was developed to connect the Erie Canal and Syracuse to Lake Ontario. Name the town?
Another town on the Oswego Canal. Name it?
This is the same town, and the boats are exiting the same lock as seen above. In fact, about 500′ beyond the opening mitre gates is the location I took this photo of Urger and a State Police cruiser almost exactly 5 years ago.
This is Oswego. White Hawk has arrived on its first Great Lake. The masts await and will be stepped because air draft issues
no longer apply.
Welland Canal is less than 30 miles long, but it’s
the way around Niagara Falls in 8 easy steps.
Coexistence with larger vessels is the rule on the Welland Canal.
Above and below is one of the hardest working tug/barge units on the lakes . . . Wilf Seymour and Alouette Spirit.
And on any lucky passage through the Welland, you’ll see vessels like Fednav‘s Federal Dee,
Polsteam‘s Mamry, and
Canada Steamship Lines‘ CSL Tadoussac.
Before I give the answers to the questions above, here’s another town/Erie Canal location to identify. Click on the photo to find its attribution AND the article that explains what’s happening with White Hawk.
So . . . the answers are lock E-23, Phoenix NY, Fulton NY, and finally above . . . .
that’s Rome. Click here for a previous tugster post on the Rome to Oswego run.
Many thanks to Capt. Jeff for sharing these photos here.
And I’ll be looking for White Hawk on the Lakes this summer.
Apologies for sitting on these photos fo so long, but today’s the day to put them up. The previous 72 can be found here.
From Mage, long-time reader and commenter . . .. the sailing vessel below is proclaimed as the “world’s oldest active sailing ship.” I’d go along with that, since I can’t name one older and although I suspect someone might quibble with some of those adjectives. Can anyone identify it based on this statement and photo? Mage posts as frequently as I do, work that you can find here.
I haven’t posted this in a half year because I couldn’t identify the tugs. Maybe someone can help with that. Once you get other pieces of info, you will know the location.
From Sean, another long-time reader and commenter . . . these workboats. From the photo and from names, can you identify the location? Previous photos by Sean here.
Click here for fuller specs on R/V Palmetto. Click here for a closer-up photo of USACE Evans.
I’ve seen Candice L as far south as North Carolina, but this photo comes from longtime reader and commenter, Tony.
Tony also sends along a photo of this vessel Irvington, which appears to be a small double-ended ferry. Anyone know where it works/has worked? Here are previous photos sent along by Tony.
And finally, here’s a subster photo from Tommy on the Clyde, the Scottish Clyde, not the upstate NY one. Anyone identify the sub? Previous photos by Tommy here. Previous submarines on this blog . . . here.
Starting from the top, the sailing vessel is the 1863 Star of India. According to Tommy, the sub may be this one.
Many thanks for these photos to Mage Bailey, Sean McQuilken, Tony A, and Tommy Bryceland.
Tinkering with the digital file, I’ve made SSV Corwith Cramer clearer here than she was to the naked eye as she came through the foggy Narrows yesterday morning.
Maintaining this blog over many years and springtimes has taught me how much fog is a spring phenomenon. Here on a clearer day, Corwith Cramer (1987) raced into the Narrows ahead of a near-summer rainstorm.
USNS Pomeroy is always gray, but she’s even grayer in the fogs of spring.
Had the fog not been here, you’d see the cliffs of Manhattan out beyond this car float,
and to my naked, non-corrected, non-digital eyes, Joyce was much less clear than she is here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s grateful for assistance with photo manipulation tools.
Spring means warming temperatures–slowly in the watery realm–and more non-work boats. Fishermen are usually first, but then I watch for the first long-distance sailors or yachters coming to the land reclaimed from snow and ice. In a bit, the harbor will be giddy with seasonal users.
I watch the magenta targets on AIS, and here’s the first long-distance sailboat that I’ve noticed so far this year.
If you can identify the flag, you’ll know her registry. Answer follows.
This local boat was also out. You rarely see folks sailing in winter, but it does occur.
Evening Star uses the East River all year round, unlike the sloop over on the Manhattan side.
The mystery first-foreign-rivalhas an English name, that my head has transformed into Snow Bird.
Here’s that flag again and some lettering on the boom.
And the flag is Czech Republic . . ..
Click here for info on the vessel. Welcome to NYC, Miroslav. Snehurka is Czech or Slovenian (?), I gather, for . . . . believe it or not, Snow White. Does that mean there might be seven diminutive crew below?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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