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How to structure some at photos sent along by eastriver while at sea had flummoxed me too long. But looking through some old titles, a eureka moment happened . . . I’d used this title once before . . . here.
Twilight on a hot asphalt-hauling steel barge
looks pretty good.
When the horizon retreats, twilight has a bigger canvas on which to fling color over a bigger expanse of sea and sky. The photos remind me of ones in this tugster post, also taken at sea under Maxfield Parrish skies.
Thanks, east river . . .
Everlast has been a focus several times here before, so this post will add photos in exotic American Narrows landscapes to the record.
She has one of the more interesting service records among Great Lakes tugboats, IMHO. See here. Then see how Russia and Greece play into her past here.
In the background here, you see Boldt Castle and
Sunken Rock Light, which would be better named “sunken ship” light.
All photo by Will Van Dorp, who will post again when able.
Here are the previous 8 installments.
We’ll start just north of Belle Isle and move north for these. From l to r, it’s Kimberly Anne and Andrew J, both sailing for Dean Marine & Excavating.
Near Sarnia and in front of the refinery that creates its product, McAsphalt Transportation’s Everlast lies at the dock. Previous Everlast photos show her in locations as far east and downstream as Montreal. Here’s a bit of history on McAsphalt. Want more here on the history of usage of asphalt, bitumen, or as Noah the boat builder called it, tar and pitch? And want to get really nerdy “good news” about the evolution of asphalt road building and McLeod’s contribution published in Asphalt: The magazine of the Asphalt Institute , click here.
Venturing farther north and along the east side of Nebbish Island, it’s a fish tug. Anyone know the name?
Farther upstream and hauled out, this tug appears to have Soo as the first part of its name, but I can’t make it all out.
Over on the Canadian side in the city of Sault Ste Marie, these boats appear to be floating for the duration.
On the US side of the Soo, it’s Rochelle Kaye and Kathy Lynn, both of Ryba Marine from the lower peninsula.
Beside the Bushplane Museum, it’s the Purvis Marine yard, beginning with large Norwegisn-built tug Reliance.
On the other side of the building is a menagerie of other tugs, including Avenger IV and W. I. Scott Purvis.
Wilfred M. Cohen, with some inside and out built in the US, lies along the pier. Cohen previously appeared here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has the luxury of staying indoors today.
“Motor city” is another name for Detroit, but “detroit” is only part of the name for the waterway given by the French explorer Cadillac when he led the first Europeans to settle “Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit” on a bank of “le détroit du lac Érié,” the strait of Lake Erie), linking Lake Huron and Lake Erie; historically, the strait included the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River.
Some time after departing the Cuyahoga, we pass this mysterious site. Any ideas? I’ll identify it at the end of this post.
If you’re not at the helm, straits bring the treat of relatively close passage with other traffic, like Dorothy Ann and Pathfinder here.
Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial is a 352′ monument we can all live with, sans controversy.
As we approach the center of the contemporary city of Detroit, traffic and industry intensify. I’d never noticed GLW’s glowing slag heaps, like crafted flows of lava.
On the Windsor side, Frontenac transfers payload . . not sure what. Salt maybe?
On the American side, 1000′ Edwin H. Gott is likely discharging Superior ore or taconite.
Sturgeon Bay-built Sam Laud watches from the Rouge. Laud, the namesake, moved from shop painter and riveter to CEO of GATX.
Folks on the bridge of Algoma Olympic, Port Weller-built and down bound here just south of the Ambassador Bridge, must be experiencing the frustration of having to worry about devil-may-care recreational boaters. Recently, a high profile meeting of stake holders was held at Port Huron to deal with difficult small boat operators, one in particular who decided to play chicken with a freighter .
Last year this China-built tug was called Victorious; now she’s know as Leo A. McArthur, and as then, she pushes hot asphalt contained in John J. Carrick.
Patricia Hoey (built 1949) is a good example of the extended life experienced by freshwater boats.
A McAsphalt unit like Leo A. McDonald, Everlast, matched as always with Norman McLeod, is Japan-built.
I’d love to learn more about this Windsor home, but the name on the facade is that of the Massachusetts-born founder of Canadian Club whisky.
Just north of Belle Isle, SS Ste. Claire, Boblo ferry sister of SS Columbia, marks Kean’s Marina.
And with night falling and work for me to do, we’ll leave this post only partway through the strait with Kaye E. Barker, once Benson Ford III. Notice the GMRenCen in the distance just forward of the front of the self-unloading arm? GMRenCen was built by Ford.
The return of daylight will find us in Lake Huron. To see the St. Clair River by daylight, click here. All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp.
The sinuous structures in the top photo depict Cedar Point as seen from a few miles out in the lake.
Here’s an Ocean tug I left out of yesterday’s post . . . one of the Trois Rivieres’ fleet, Andre M. She has a distinguished past as the former Foundation Valiant, of the company made famous in Farley Mowat’s classics Grey Seas Under and The Serpent’s Coil.
Svitzer moved into Montreal recently, named one tug for the port and
another for 17th century gallivanteur bretonais. Click here for some backstory on Montreal and here for . . . Cartier.
Denis M, a port tug, is an oldie from 1942.
Michigan and its barge Great Lakes is
Indiana registered, and it appears to be Andrie-managed for US Venture. Here are some specifics. To my surprise, other Andrie-managed (?) vessels may include G. L. Ostrander and Samuel de Champlain.
Boatman No. 6 seems to operate as a one-boat harbor service vessel.
Since Everlast has captured my imagination, I was happy to see it again just upstream from Montreal.
Has anyone seen a photo of her as Bilibino? Some of her interesting worldwide history can be found here.
And the last boat for today is Qimu, which
is a rare sight for my southern eyes because of the script on the stern and bow. It’s Inuktitut, written in a Canadian Aboriginal syllabic script. Over a decade ago and before I had the habit of carrying a camera, I saw a general cargo ship in Red Hook Brooklyn with its name written in similar script. I no longer recall the name of the ship, but it looked like this one.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And unrelated but in closing, here’s a information request from Michael Pak, which you can also see in the comments section to the left above, where you can also post your answers: “Hello, I’m wondering if anyone here can help me find out any information about my great grandfather John Maitland Adams, a tugboat captain on the Hudson in the thirties and forties I believe. He is mentioned in the March 1947 National Geographic magazine in the story “Shad in the Shadows of Skyscrapers” along with ‘river veterans, Captain, Fred Truax, Harry Lyons,Floyd Clayton and William Ingold.’ My grandmother and great uncles spent their early years on the river, they hauled coal and lumber up and down the river. He retired from the river and became an engineer on the Hudson River West Coast Line. He lived out his life on the river dying on his boat in Edgewater, I think. In his obituary they refer to him as ‘Pop Adams.’ Any records or info about him would be greatly appreciated.” MP.
Anyone help out with leads?
Here’s more on shad fishing in the Hudson.
And since we’re on research requests, does anyone know which tug would have been towing cargo barge Columbia Boston in Cape Cod Bay in February 1992 when it lost some containers? Here’s a reference to that event in a Bangor paper a year later because of flotsam.
Here’s the first post I did on Everlast. What intrigues me about the tug is her convoluted path to the Great Lakes . . . Japan, Russian Far East, Greece, and now the borderlands between the US and Canada. Carlzboats details it all here. In fact, Carlz goes on to add the China details about her barge . . . Norman McLeod.
Since she transports asphalt, she’s got one hot load, as explained here . . . 300 degrees F plus.
Everlast, it has been great to meet you and watch you pass. Her dimensions are approximately 143′ x 44.’
Speaking of China, those stacks are at China, Michigan, that is.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Everlast, she’s huge, and once again she outran me out of Oswego harbor. But since she’s headed no doubt to the Sarnia area, maybe my friends near Detroit will get some good pics.
No . . . it’s not a disease or a euphemism for profanity. It’s many places, one of which is marked by this lighthouse in Oswego. All these photos were taken since Tuesday in Oswego, a place I previously wrote about here last year after watching a drill that involved swimming from and to a helicopter.
See the light to the right here along the horizon, a light younger than Urger.
Last year’s drills involving drones have already made their way into kids’ murals!
The mouth is the port of entry for Metalcraft Marine vessels making their way into various US ports.
Some vessels I was free to watch enter the port, but others
went by and I couldn’t follow until later, when they were really
behind and beyond
reach. The tug here is Everlast. If you were at the canal mouth this morning–or any other time–and caught a close-up, side view of Everlast pinned or–even better–light, kindly send along some photos.
All photos this week by Will Van Dorp, whose access to wifi is still a challenge.
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