CB 2019 B

CB is obviously “Chicago bound.”

Neither Thomas D. Witte nor Clearwater here off Mount Beacon is that, but we were.

Meagan Ann headed south with

used and abused cars on

SMM 157 for the start of their last trip.

James William pushed several loads of building materials southbound.

Rebecca Ann turned around for her next trip.

Lisa Ann worked on the bulk heading project in Troy.

Frances moved a scow south, and

Ancient Mariner too moved on.

All photos by will Van Dorp, and this was Newburgh to Troy.

 

North Bound 4

We are much farther north but without wifi I’ve been unable to post until now.  Enjoy these photos –sans commentaries–for now for the route from Clayton to Salaberry de Valleyfield.

Alex Bay,

 

 

Dark Island, and

and here’s another shot of Victorious on a crowded Saint Lawrence.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

North Bound

or Go North . . . or up and then down bound.It’s all better than going south ….

Anyhow, in the spirit of the first of series from earlier this past months’ peregrinations, I’ll start with the map.  The red pushpins are overnights and the yellows are shorter stops.  An unexpected jaunt will be from Ogdensburg to Quebec City without stopping at Trois Rivieres or Montreal, where we stop after Quebec City.

Locks there’ll be plenty–37 total I believe–because the alternative is shown below. You can descend the Lachine Rapids, but in a different type of boat.   Lachine . . . that’s French for what it looks like in English . . . China, as in … the folks like Cartier thought that if only they could get past the rapids, they’d be in China.

Here’s another way to look at the St Lawrence watershed, care of an USACE diagram.

Here’s to hoping you read this and to my having wifi.

By the way, I was shocked when I learned the namesake of the St Lawrence, patron saint of the BBQ.  Sizzlicious!!

Go West 7 and 8

We didn’t make 7  because of delays, but stuff happens and here’s catch-up.

That’s Toronto as seen from the Lake as we head for Port Weller, where

we take a pilot.

 

We wait for a down bound vessel in the first lock, and then

“record” it as it passes.

 

We pass a load of coal between locks 7 and 8.

Then we drop a pilot at Port Colborne and

and pass the marine recycling yard before

turning eastward for Buffalo harbor.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Go West 1

By 1330 Tuesday, we docked at West Point, the first non-red pushpin in yesterday’s map.   Working backward, we saw Tappan Zee II at the TZ, as we did

the Left Coast Lifter.

Off the Palisades, we saw Sarah D;

in Wallabout Bay, C. Angelo;

at the southern end of Narragansett Bay, Dace Reinauer; and

and Suomigracht with Cape Wind turbine blades,

and soon after departing Warren, we saw Buckley McAllister.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is posting these without any alterations.  We saw much more as well.  Cheers.

Urger Season Winds Down

Remind me some day to tell the story of Schuyler Meyer, who is credited with starting Urger’s educational program back before 1990.  As of today, the season is over.  Over 4500 NYS fourth graders have experienced the “Urger program” this season.  That number and more have visited the 113-year-old vessel in festivals and other contexts  along the  Canal, now recognized as a very large location on the National Register of Historical Places.

Thanks to Chris Kenyon of Wayne County Tourism for the first and last photo here.  All other photos were taken by Will Van Dorp.