Retro Sixth Boro 40 B
Today the sixth boro and environs face Henri, whose story is yet to be told. August 26, 2011 . . . I was at the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and these Hurricane Irene signs were up. When Irene’s story was told, it had done unusual damage upstate far from salt water; here’s more. Some repairs […]
CB 2019 N
Many thanks to Denis O’Callahan for all these photos from up the Manitowoc River. This RV Spencer F. Baird was launched in 2006. Anyone know how long she’ll be out of the water? She replaced the MV Togue. Also out of the water was the 1937 Dauntless. Also from 1937 AND from Burger […]
Virtual Erie Canal 7W: Seneca River to Syracuse
How we got here from Montezuma can be seen here on a map from the DEC. Sorry, but I have no pics of Cross Lake, boyhood home area of Hiawatha, but not H. W. Longfellow’s version. Lock E-24, the only lock we transit in this last leg of the trip, is the pride and joy […]
Virtual Erie Canal 8W: Closing the Circle
Three Rivers Junction, where the Seneca meets the Oneida, forming the Oswego, it’s got to be right around that bend. At Three Rivers we sail into our own wake; we’ve performed the ouroboros. There’s just this sign, which we saw on leg 9 of the earlier virtual tour. No pier, no quay, no wharf, no […]
One Boat Six Decades
Many thanks to Lee Rust for working with the two photos immediately below, showing a boat frequently featured here. Photo to the left was taken near the elevators in Manitowoc in a slip now filled in and frequently piled high with coal adjacent to Badger‘s slip. In the 1959 photo, the tug was owned by […]
CB10
Let’s call this the leg between East China, MI and Roger City, MI. A faster vessel–Happy River–over take us soon before we both passed Damia Desgagnes. North of the Blue Water Bridge, we passed Huron Spirit after she exchanged the pilots on Happy River. Once out in the width and depths of Lake Huron, […]
CB12
We’re now in the last Great Lake of the trip, but that is a big lake. In late afternoon, we pass Poverty Island, with its light sans lantern. Here’s more on the island. Morning found us in Manitowoc, looking at Neeskay, a 1953 Higgins T-boat. Any water visit to Manitowoc of course gets intruded on […]
Other Peoples Photos 67
Here are previous installments. Let’s start with a shot from Oswego. To me, it captures the magic of the Canal in that city and the stately buildings that surround it. The photo is by Jennifer Mays, who calls it “Old man Winter is on his way #headedsouth #oswegocanal. It shows research vessel DelMor (ex-Kaho) upbound in […]
Other Peoples Photos 68
All these photos come from Christine Douglas, who frequents areas along the Calumet River. Pere Marquette 41 and Undaunted . . . I’ve seen in the distance several times each of the past two years. This is why I was excited when I saw Christine’s photos of the unit close up in the Calumet river. […]
CB7
Call this Buffalo to Cleveland. Starting out with the other half of the Erie Canal inaugural trip of DeWitt Clinton, yes there was a Buffalo ceremony too, and it wasn’t a wedding. Rather, maybe it was the reception when they offered appeasement to the Lake gods. up the Buffalo river, it’s NACC Argonaut offloading at […]
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