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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.
Yup, registered in the inland Red River of the North port of Winnipeg.
A dozen or so locks downstream we encounter another Fednav vessel,
Federal Sakura.
She’s clearly in ballast, showing off the bulbous bow.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Let’s start with Sugar Islander II moving school kids and commuters across from the Island to the US Soo.
The 1951 Empire State was tied up near those kayaks.
Not far away was Superior Pilot.
Maybe someone can help out with more info on Soo Marine Supply’s 60′.
Iowa and Wyoming wait for the next job. Between them, they have 202 years of work, with Iowa dating from 1915.
Stephan M. Asher has worked since 1954.
Owen M. Frederick and Cheraw are USACE boats.
Into the McArthur lock we go.
In the distance Federal Yukina discharged some dry bulk material, ore maybe.
discharge a dry bulk material.
Queen of the lakes Paul has started the climb into Lake Superior.
The 1943 Mississagi is disappearing piece by piece. She last appeared intact on this blog here.
This is my first time to post a photo of the 1976 Block.
Buckthorn heads up into Superior.
It’s active season on the Lakes, and Edgar B. Speer and all the others shuttle their contribution to the millions of tons of cargo per year.
Is she the only laker with this design of self-unloader?
Nokomis takes sightseers through the McArthur.
And someone’s taking a break from the galley of Walter J,
as they head for Superior.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Yes, I missed doing this in July, so today I play catch-up.
Three vessels were on the July page. First, it’s Louis C, a small tanker reborn as a small crane ship. I was last aboard her on a very cold morning in January 2020. The enclosed workshop forward of the wheelhouse features a wood burning stove that has no appeal in August but was very welcome in January.
Fugro Enterprise, now as then, is working off Atlantic City, making bathymetric charts of the area where the 99 turbines of Ocean Wind will soon sprout above the surface of the waves.
The third and more prominent boat on the July calendar page is Nathan G, and rather than use a photo from July 2019, let me put up this one from July 2020, where Nathan G is one of the tugs escorting USS Slater to the dry dock. That dry docking will soon be finished, and Nathan G will possibly accompany the destroyer escort back to Albany. For more info on Slater and memberships, click here.
For August, on 17 August 2019 at 0615 and we were at the western end of Lake Ontario approaching Port Weller. You’re looking over the after deck of Grande Caribe. In case you’ve not heard, Blount Small Ships Adventures made a shocking announcement this Monday that their BSSA vessels are for sale.
Welland Canal pilot vessel Mrs C approached ready to deliver a pilot, having just
retrieved one from the down bound Federal Yukina.
A few days later in August at 0722 and at the northern end of Crystal Island in the Detroit River, about 50 miles north of Toledo OH and 25 south of Detroit MI, we passed
Edgar B. Speer as she was about to enter the down bound lane between Crystal Island and Stony Island.
Speer is one of the 1000-footer, aka “footers” who ply the Upper Lakes unable to get beyond Lake Erie because they greatly exceed the dimensions of the Welland Canal. Speer‘s cargo capacity is 73,700 tons. That would be a lot of trucks.
All photos, WVD.
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
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.
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