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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.
Just when I thought I had no more photos for another installment of “seats,” uh . . more appear. This arrangement of seating in this Erie Canal tug has to win a prize. I can’t tell which lock it is, nor (I believe) can Bob Graham, who sent it in. The captain on the Feeney at one point was Bob’s grandfather.
Is that a folding chair way high up on Augie?
January 2014
Might folding chairs be more common than one might expect?
Ceres has become inactive after a noble attempt to sail north Country produce down to the NYC markets.
Angels Share is the largest Wally yacht I’ve ever seen, the photo taken in North Cove in September 2013.
But the person on the helm got no seat, unless–you suppose?–they’ve got a folding chair in the lazaretto. It’s since been soldand renamed.
NYC-DEP Hunts Point has a variety of seating options.
And let’s end with two European boats: Tenax and
Abeille Bourbon. Tenax has appeared on tugster in 2012 here, and Bourbon . . . here.
Many thanks to Xtian, Vlad, and Bob for sending along these photos. Here are the two previous “seats” posts.
And a final shot below, that was tugster in 2011 at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Belle Isle at the helm of the detached house of SS William Clay Ford. Note the “old man’s” chair in the background.
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If you’re going to the market event in Manhattan today, look for signs like this, painted what must be Ceres
blue. This is the west end of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, closest to Vinegar Hill. Beyond the East River there, protruding into the sky to the right, that’s the empire State Building. Ceres has arrived, and
on schedule!
Inside this warehouse, I picked up my order of Ricker Hill Orchards vinegar and Champlain Valley Apiaries honey.
Excuse the poor quality foto. Could someone explain the dried (?) birds’ wings?
There was seaweed . . .
pumpkins,
wild artichokes, and much much more.
Agger Fish–right next to the warehouse–was a sponsor of the Brooklyn event, as were Brooklyn Grange, triple island, and Marlow & Daughters.
Morgan O’Kane played, parents shopped and talked, and and kids danced.
If you’re local and have time, get down to the New Amsterdam Market today . . . on the opposite side of the river here.
Congratulations to Erik and the team for a very big accomplishment. Although there’s lots of work left this season, season two starts up soon. Here’s some preliminary info on the vessel, which was modified in the construction. In case you’re wondering . . . Erik’s estimate is that Ceres sailed only about twenty percent of the trip.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who alone is responsible for any errors in reporting.
Here, here, and here are my previous Ceres posts. Last but not the least least . . . it’s bowsprite’s rendering. Here’s the NYTimes version.
Progress report, first from Vladimir Brezina, of Windagainstcurrent. In Vlad’s words, “I did see Ceres, motoring down the Hudson past Stockport Middle Ground, where we were camping, just a few minutes fter sunrise yesterday (Monday). At first I couldn’t believe that it was Ceres—she wasn’t sailing (there was no wind, but wouldn’t a PROPER sailing barge just wait for the wind?) and making quite a racket for an eco-friendly boat… ”
At first Vlad feared they gotten out for fotos too late. Here’s more on Stockport Middle Ground.
After these fotos were taken, Ceres stopped in Hudson.
The following fotos taken yesterday come from Michael Kalin, who writes, “North Germantown Reach. My wife & I launched from North Germantown Landing 10AM, paddled to Catskill, around Rogers Island, ate lunch, went back, lost hope, took out, looked upriver one more time and there she was!”
Thanks much to Vlad and Michael for these fabulous fotos.
The next fotos of Ceres I hope show full-bellied sails! Click here for more on VSFP.
Vermont Sail Freight . . . south bound. Click here for their ports of call and dates. More fotos courtesy of Fred Wehner.
I’m eager to see them with masts stepped and sails billowing.
If anyone wishes to contribute fotos of the vessel making her way south and calling at ports headed south, please get in touch.
Whatzit?!! in the background with the classy leeboards. In the foreground, of course, it’s the world-infamous tug44, and in its own lair near the hideaway of Fred, in the north country approximately 200 miles north of the sixth boro.
It’s the sailing freighter Ceres, a moving cornucopia of all things edible, sixth boro bound
with auxiliary power for the Canals, where sailing is not an option.
Here Ceres exits Lock C-7.
At the tiller, it looks like Steve Schwartz, whose inimitable idea of a figurehead appears in foto 8 here affixed to sloop Woody Guthrie.
Much appreciation to Fred Wehner for all fotos here. Fair winds to Ceres.
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