Federal Sakura | tugster: a waterblog

I’m still processing photos from the Great Lakes. I hope you enjoy this one of two batches taken in the Seaway, which by one definition (there are others) is from Port Colborne shown below to Montreal.

One of the highlights for me of places like the Seaway is that in such narrow channels, you pass quite close to other traffic, allowing a really closeup view. This means one thing for a photographer. The physics involved means something different for the bridge or wheelhouse crew.

Also, note the different hull designs and ports of registry. Hamburg is currently in Guatemalan waters. Years ago before 2013 and for maybe only one season, she was in the Great Lakes as C. Columbus. More on Columbus here, along with some good history on Great Lakes cruising going back to Northern Steamship Company. One can go farther back back, and I’m working on that.

Fednav has a fleet of over 120 such vessels, lakersize salties.

Some of their names refer to geographical locations, but Yukina is not a place I know of. Of course, other Fednav vessels are named for plants, so maybe it’s a leafy green.

As of this posting, Federal Yukina is bound for Norway.

Our third closeup is of a Canadia-flagged laker built in China.

Note the different bows of these three vessels reflecting the waters for which they were designed.

That would be Sault Ste Marie, ON.

Between locks 8 and 7, we followed John D. Leitch past Algoma Guardian, a

a Croatia build.

G3 Marquis is a China-built laker named for a variety of spring wheat. Read about that wheat here, and see photos of Marquis at stages of build here. I’ve seen this boat several times since 2017, but never knew the vessel was named for a type of wheat.