Something Different 76

Call this LL3, with the UP to starboard, Detour Reef Light ahead off to port.

To be clear, we stopped for over 24 hours, but we did keep the UP to the north during the entire time span this  post covers.  Arthur M. Anderson passed, as did many others like

Indiana Harbor, 

 

John G. Munson, 

 

Edgar B. Speer

with what might have been fans or family following quite nearby, 

Stewart J. Cort,

 

H. Lee White, 

 

and finally . . . 

a Chicago-bound Calumet following the lighthouses, White Shoal and Grays Reef.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

LL2 Detroit to Port Colborne

H. Lee White pulls into Mistersky fuel just ahead of Iver Bright.  That’s the USSteel Zug Island complex in the distance.

Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin, the vessel with the greatest number of abbreviations in its name, passes by on its way down past Montreal.

Like many newer Algoma vessels, Algoma Sault‘s made in China.

Victory, the tallest tug on the lakes I’m told, followed us, with a sailboat named Janine slipping between us. x

She’s married to her barge Maumee, and that was the direction she headed from Detroit. 

Enduring Freedom is a recent arrival in the private sector and is working on the Lakes. 

Algoma Discovery is 1987 Croatia-built.

If you need evidence that Great Lakes boats last a long time, consider the case of Vac here. 

Petite Forte has been around, and done so since 1969.

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I love these murals on the CSL vessels.  This one is called Sea Keeper.   I will keep my eye open for The Runners on CSL Welland. 

All photos, any errors, WVD.

CB8

This is Toledo to Detroit . . .and we start with Bessie B 

making her way out toward the mouth of the Maumee River.

Laid up . . . it’s Manistee.

This post is geographically arranged . . . otherwise, I’d put this first.  Tug Wisconsin used to be America, launched 1897!!

This ferry is in the Detroit River, crossing between Bois Blanc Island and Amherstburg, both in Ontario.

Wagenborg has lots of vessels, this one for the location appropriately named Americaborg.

 

CSL Tadoussac heads upstream and

H. Lee White, who has a museum named for him in Oswego . . .  down bound.

Here’s some info about Mr. White.

And off the stern of John G. Munson . . .

the new digs for Cheyenne, a former denizen of the sixth boro.

 

And closing it out behind Zug Island . . . it’s Missassagi, unloader stowed and minutes away from the next upbound trip.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.