LL3 Lake Erie Traffic

Call this 24 hours of traffic, with a fair amount of time in port of Cleveland and sailing in darkness.

We’ll start with McKeil’s Harvest Spirit.  Click here for some background. 

American Courage appears to be loading lakefront ore to shuttle it up the Cuyahoga. 

 

Cleveland port was quite busy yesterday.   I’m not sure what cargo Federal Cedar transferred.

 

See Courage . . .

and Harvest Spirit?

Algoma Buffalo here was backing around Whiskey Island. 

 

This morning westbound for Cleveland was Imke.

 

Also westbound was CSL Welland bound for Ashtabula.

 

 

And we’ll hold it up here.  Unfortunately last night we passed Northstar Challenger at quite a distance.  It would have been nice to meet her in the Welland canal. 

All photos, any errors, WVD. 

 

LL2 Some Recap

I’m posting this in the last and single-digit hours of this hitch, catching up on photos before getting back to the sixth boro.  Hey . . . in a few days the mermaids march!!

I hope you enjoy today’s installment.  Let’s have a glance back at CSL Welland and its fabulous superstructure mural . . .

to mark the 2022 Niagara Canada Games . . . and tout the fact that it burns biofuel.  Maybe someone can unpack what exactly that means.  Of course, I know the athletes, as is true for us all, burn biofuel.  I’m wondering what art might come to a superstructure in connection with 2023 games.

Happy River is a regular on the Lakes.

USACE Detroit District site might be the best place to keep up with demolition and other work in connection with the creation of the new lane, the lane that’ll make redundancy for the “footers” that work the Upper Lakes. 

Anyhow, there’s a whole lotta wreckin’ going on.

Messenger lines out . . . USACE crew walk us through until the big lines go onto the right bollards.

Cheraw is docked today. 

Shirley Ann (ex-Kurt R. Luedtke) looks quite good. 

John G. Munson was upbound.  I’ll pick another day for more of Munson.

I’ve no information on this boat.

And for a big finish . . . it was exciting to see this unit off Waugoshance Shoal Light . . .

St Marys Challenger is one of the oldest vessels on the Lakes, and I’m sure I’ll be corrected for a statement like that.  Until about a decade ago, she was a self-propelled laker.  Now she’s a barge

pushed by Prentiss Brown, none other than the ex-Michaela McAllister. 

All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s homeward bound in a handful of hours. 

LL2 Cleveland to Port Huron

Quick post today starts and ends with night shots.  I’d hoped to get better photos of Clyde S. Van Enkevort, but this is the best I could get before sunrise.  One of these days soon  I’ll post pics of Clyde by daylight, since I just now saw them.

William L. Warner we passed her near Zug Island in some less than sharp air.

Rebecca Lynn and Endurance were nearby.

State of Michigan was doing training runs on the Detroit River.  Note the iconic Boblo sign building is coming down.  It’ll be a shame to lose that landmark.

Nearby the Gordie Howe Bridge is going up, and I’ll devote an entire post to that soon.

Donald J. Sarter was down bound…

 . . . as was Algoma Innovator.

Harvest Spirit and Federal Frontier passed.

Federal Beaufort headed upbound for Thunder Bay.

In Lake St Clair we pass CSL Welland, and I’ll devote a post to her soon.

And, as this post began with a night shot, let’s end it that way…. and Indiana Harbor–I believe–passes us south of Sardinia Sarnia, whose skyglow is visible in the distance to the right.

All photos, any errors, WVD

 

CB 2019 G

The rosy fingers of dawn paint the eastern sky, as we

prepare to meet the pilot boat off Port Weller, which means Lake Ontario is nearly behind us.  The pilot has just departed Federal Yukina via Mrs C, and

and readies to join us.

Summertime is the repair season for icebreakers like CCGS Pierre Radisson, named for the renegade French fur trapper.

Behold the immense entrance to the double flight at Welland lock 4.

A crewman on Tim S. Dool employs and time-tested communication device, and it actually works well.

Saginaw discharges coal.

CSL Welland meets us.

Just before climbing W-8, we pass Federal Seto, Happy Rover, and wait for

Algoma Strongfield.

Atlantic Huron is tied up just north of the scrapyard . . . but that’s for tomorrow’s post.

All photos in the Welland Canal by Will Van Dorp, who posts about four days behind these days since wifi is not always available.  When this post appears today, we are approaching the south end of Lake Huron.