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As a reminder, CB here expands to Chicago-bound, our journey.
Dean Marine and Excavating are continuing work on the breakwaters in Oswego.
Madison R stands by as the barge is loaded with boulders brought in by train.
The ubiquitous Rebecca Ann waits along the wall in preparation to head for the Welland Canal.
As we follow Rebecca Ann, we pass Madison high and dry and waiting for deployment.
H. Lee White’s Eleanor D stands as a reminder of the commercial fishing that once happened here.
Over in Rochester, a party boat fishing vessel enters the Genesee River.
The fast ferry fiasco that ran two seasons or so 15 years ago has resulted in this Australia-built Lake Ontario boat now the object of derision in . . . . ready for it . . . Venezuela!!
During the first half of the 20th century, Rochester was a coal-export port using these two boats.
Today tug Seaway Patricia operates here to provide bulkhead reinforcement for the high-water-level-afflicted shorelines.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, and taken in Oswego and Rochester.
This post picks up at Illion marina, where Gradall #2 and
a scow and Governor Roosevelt
worked.
A scow and a self-propelled scow waited on the dock while tug Seneca
received attentions.
A fishing kayaker demonstrated multi-multi-tasking skills.
Rebecca Ann waited at the dock. Madison R assisted with breakwater work.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, between Illion and Oswego.
And let’s start with the more . . . more photos and info on previous posts. CCGS Samuel Risley appeared here. She’s currently approaching the Soo. What I didn’t know when I posted a photo of her on Lake Ontario is that she was returning from her first trip to Greenland (!!), where she was providing icebreaking support for a supply mission to Qaanaaq aka Thule.
Madison R–and I’ll do a whole post about her soon–now calls Detroit her base, I’m told.
Summer fog veils a Canadian cat and an Erie Canal buoy boat above E11.
How many folks pass by Day Peckinpaugh each summer and have no clue what she is (ILI 101… launched in May 1921!!), how long her work history (1921–1995) has been, how wide a range of waters (Duluth to Havana, I’m told) she covered, where her sister (ILI 105) languishes . . . . .
She gets attention.
Here’s the blue-and-gold yard above E3!!
Yup that’s Urger among them. And yes, the pause button on scuttling has been activated.
In the legends of Ford, a sign once marked this power plant adjacent to the Federal Lock in Troy as a Ford facility. Could this have become the location of Ford’s imagined electric car plant?
And this brings us to Troy, these walls where construction workers have staged their equipment.
Scaffold, ladders, floats, and Jackcyn
and Lisa Ann.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s been working his way back to the sixth boro from the heartland.
If you’re local and would like to learn more about the New York State Canals, consider joining the Canal Society and coming to their fall conference . . . on Staten Island. I’ll be involved in two events . . .
One of these days I’ll do a post on Great Lakes moods, as I’ve so far seen them. Actually, an essay on the range of conditions might be fun…
CCGS Samuel Risley, an icebreaking tug, hints at moods in months to come…
Lower Lakes Towing’s Ojibway makes for Hamilton, appearing almost a cartoonish version of itself thanks to fata morgana.
This view is looking at Sodus Point, where I learned to swim, from just over 10 nautical miles.
For the first time, I see Donald Sea under way.
Science ship Ontario Explorer is also a first-timer.
And I’d love to know Rascal‘s story, tied up here in Oswego near Ontario Explorer.
Working on the breakwater is Madison R, home-ported in Duluth. I’ll post more of her later.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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