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Fred left us yesterday, and he will be missed. Click on the photo below to see the source of this photo and read the context. Fred was a hilarious and complicated guy: born in Germany, raised in Canada and in the north country of New York State. I first met him on the Hackensack River in Secaucus, over by Snake Rock. After he retired and moved back to the north county of “Fort Ed’ard,” I would see him each year at the Tugboat Roundup. In fact, I alway had a berth on his boat at the Roundup.
From my perspective, Fred’s opus really was his website, the travels of Tug 44, named for his trawler, and accessible by clicking on the image below. In this screenshot below, you see only a partial list of his categories. Drill down to each of the categories, each of which contain almost infinite subsets of information.
Fred contributed to a number of tugster posts here. I know there are even more, but I’ve not always been consistent with my tags and categories. When I thought I knew the canal, Fred showed me there was so much more to learn, leading me to return again and again.
My first email contact with Fred came here in 2007, and our exchanges about the Dutch boat Livet led eventually to my meeting him in Secaucus.
In recent years, Fred had turned to wildlife photography and took many stupendously beautiful photos of “critters” in the north country here. If this is the only link you look at today from Fred’s site, you’ll be a big part of the afternoon admiring these.
Blogposts I did with photos I took from tug44 over the years are too many to post, but here are a few:
2014 and before I knew I would crew on Urger.
A favorite is this one from 2009, when I first learned firsthand what craziness ensues when you have a potato gun primed with hairspray and an armory of 50-calibre radishes . . . .
Hilarious, complicated, generous . . . Fred, you leave a hole in the universe.
Click here for posts from lots of other years. In today’s post, you’ll see almost all blue-and-gold before the parade, i.e., heading for the muster
entering the top of lock 2
It was great to have two covered barges for events.
Lehigh Valley 79, dry dock repairs complete, heads for the sixth boro this week.
Urger exits the low side of lock 2 and . . .
enters the Hudson.
Note the Waterford wall with the covered barges in the distance.
The federal lock at Troy leads into the rest of the Hudson . . .
After the dignitaries are picked up,
the flotilla heads back north into the Troy lock,
and
the parade has begun.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. Many thanks to tug44 as host and photo boat.
For more photos, check these from the Daily Gazette.
Oops . . . I “published” this prematurely and unintentionally if you saw it in disarray. And by the way, today I saw the woodchuck and his shadow; he saw mine and dove for cover. I wonder if that means six more weeks of cold weather. Please, someone advise.
From the wandering eye of Maraki . . . it’s in Nassau and
called Big Crab. No further info. I’ve never been to Nassau, and googling leads to me Nassau tugs on the bottom as well as someimpressive ones one the surface. Maybe I need to get myself to Nassau.
And from a secret salt via Ashley Hutto . . . four days I saw Orange Sun depart the sixth boro here, he caught it inbound Tampa. Thanks . . . salt.
Finally . . from the jaunt captain Fred of tug44, it’s what hibernates at the bottom of Lock 6 of the Champlain Canal . . . front to rear . . . HR Hawk, HR Beaver, HR Otter. You’d think there’d be a woodchuck there too!
September 2013 I took this photo of a sibling of the hibernating tugs . . HR Bass, assisted by Herbert P. Brake. Interestingly, HR Bass used to be Delta Tiger, HR Hawk . . . Delta Parrot, HR Otter . . . Delta Ram, and HR Beaver ???
. .. Mr Lane. I’ll bet you thought I’d say . . . Delta Woodchuck.
Many thanks to Maraki crew, secret salt, Ashley, and Fred.
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