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Catching up . . . it’s a never-ending task, but a useful one. Let’s start with these two tugboats still under wraps at Isle aux Coudres Ocean shipyard. It’s not the best image, but with the wind, it was the best I could get. Anyone help with identification?
RF Grant is a 1934 tug up on a marine railway on Île d’Orléans, just downstream from Quebec City.
At the main Ocean Group yard, it’s Ocean’s Taiga and Tundra, and Clovis T.
Ocean Henry Bain is on the inland side.
Quebec is inseparable with their blue.
Cue the next day and farther upstream, it’s Aldo H.
Boatmen 6 and more at their dock.
Nearer the port, it’s Ocean Serge Genois and Ocean Bertrand Jeansonne.
Excuse the blurred shot, but it’s Ocean Pierre Julien and Ocean Jupiter. Particulars on all the Ocean boats can be found here.
As we climb higher up the Saint Lawrence, we get to the US DOT boats, Robinson Bay and the brand new
brand-spanking-new Seaway Trident.
For our last boat today, it’s Seaway Joan, a Lake Michigan 1952 boat, a great name and great little boat.
All photos taken in May 2023, WVD.
Another quick post. Names are here: Theodore alias Pierre Marcotte.
Oceanex Connaigra.
Newbuild Seaway Trident under a setting moon.
Poetry in the wires.
Mia Desgagnes
Isabelle G
Seaway Joan going to a job
Seaway Pilot V
Fans of Wolfe Island.
Gliding past Toronto Islands and into
Toronto at daybreak, where Amy Lynn D is docked.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
This post encompasses two legs, but WiFi has not been cooperative.
Minimal comment: this is the eight-mile Confederation Bridge. Toll to cross by car: $CD 50.
Bridge Lady is pilot boat to retrieve the pilot who departed with us at Charlottetown.
After a rough passage north along the Gaspé coastline, we enter the lower estuary, where a cold welcome awaited.
Near Les Éboulements aka “the landslides,” this tug Felicia still adorns the shore.
From the ferry dock near there, Svanoy shuttled over to Isle aux Coudres.
As we approached the end of that first leg at QC, Ocean Guide came by to exchange pilots.
Kitikmeot W, Nordic Orion, and Spruceglen were in port.
as were the two powerhouses, Ocean Taiga and Ocean Tundra.
Departing I had my first opportunity to see Vincent Massey. Four years ago she was undergoing transformation here.
Torm Timothy headed for sea.
A pilot exchange happened just downstream from Montreal,
where Uhl Fast was in port.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Where was Doornekamp’s Sheri Lynn S heading?
Downstream on the St. Lawrence to assist USS St. Louis, LCS-19, as she was making a port stop in Ogdensburg NY.
Also assisting was Océan Serge Genois.
If this USN press release is current and accurate, other LCSs expected to exit the Great Lakes this year include USS Minneapolis-St. Paul (LCS-21), USS Kansas City (LCS-22), USS Oakland (LCS-24) and USS Mobile (LCS -6).
Now as seen from the US side of the River, standard procedure boom was deployed around the LCS by a workboat provided by Seaway Marine Group. More of this scene is captured in this article/photo from the Watertown Daily Times NNY360.
Once the LCS was boomed, the Seaway Marine boat patroled the exclusion zone.
Fifteen or so miles downstream from Ogdensburg, the Océan tug guides the LCS into the Iroquois locks.
All these photos from the Canadian side are compliments of Pat English, who posted a video on FB Seaway News Voie Maritime Info of the Ocean tug rocking back and forth to keep the LCS centered in the lock chamber. All photos from the US side are compliments of Jake Van Reenen.
Again, many thanks to Pat and Jake for use of these photos.
Previous tugster posts with LCS vessels can be found here. Previous posts at Iroquois lock are here.
Daylight hours are getting very short, reiterating summer 2019 is no more, but I’ve still got photos left from gallivants of warmer and brighter days this year, like this one of a
downbound Thunder Bay passing Rock Island Light, once legitimately tended by an erstwhile pirate William Johnston.
Later as we continued towards Lake Onrario, we followed Atlantic Huron, an ore boat we seem to have encountered frequently this season, here leaving Carleton Island to port and
Wolfe to starboard.
Soon after passing Tibbetts Point Light, we entered the NE corner of
Ontario. By the way, the hostel beds previously available at Tibbetts Light will soon be no more.
And as Atlantic Huron disappeared in the distance, we passed John D. Leitch,
passing the light at Charity Shoal, a light over an impact crater.
I love that steering pole.
Then Leitch entered the funnel, leaving Wolfe Island to port and downbound waters become the Saint Lawrence.
All photos from a few warmer months back by Will Van Dorp.
Here was “7” and 1 through 6.
This post will run photos from twilight to twilight…
Above and below, prosaically Service Boat No. 1 is doing pilot exchange duty. She’s not large or particularly powerful or new, but in twilight before dawn she looked and sounded formidable.
Ocean Basques, here approaching the Laviolette Bridge, is a solid 200 miles upstream of the islands with the same namesake.
Ocean Basques was built in Collingwood ON, as was Ocean Sept-Isles.
Quite unique and speedy, Ocean Catatug 1 raced downstream.
As afternoon falls, Ocean Bertrand Jeansonne follows Ocean Henry Bain out of the homeport basin.
That’s the marine traffic control tower on the other side in Levis QC.
Returning to another twilight shot, here’s Ocean Henry Bain pushing a deep barge down bound.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Everlast has been a focus several times here before, so this post will add photos in exotic American Narrows landscapes to the record.
She has one of the more interesting service records among Great Lakes tugboats, IMHO. See here. Then see how Russia and Greece play into her past here.
In the background here, you see Boldt Castle and
Sunken Rock Light, which would be better named “sunken ship” light.
All photo by Will Van Dorp, who will post again when able.
As mid-autumn displays her beauty at the approach to the Beauharnois Canal in the Seaway, my excitement spiked upon seeing MV Sinaa.
Sister ship to Nunalik, Sinaa was certain to be carrying specialized cargo delivery gear. Here’s the rest of the NEAS fleet. NEAS expands to Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping. For the difference between Nunavut and Nunavik, click here. My first post with an NEAS vessel was here.
As we passed I saw I would not be disappointed.
The barges like Kangirsuk I and II and the small tugs–I can’t quite make out the names. Anyone help?–are lowered into the waters near the Arctic destination so that they can shuttle cargo ashore.
Pangnirtung I and II make up the rest of the discharging equipment.
I’m hoping someone can help with the names of the small tugs and any additional info about them. These NEAS tugs appeared previously on tugster here. For a post I did on Inuit language, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who might be in a wifi dead zone the next few days.
Some more eye candy today . . . Portofino . . . Italian made?
Miss St. Lawrence is a beauty.
Is there an echo in the blog software maybe . . . ?
Elusive is a Hacker beauty based on a 1920s design, I believe.
Another Italian bella passes us, or maybe it’s the same one traveling at speeds not permitted in the lagoon.
Legend is a beauty. There’s a definite echo. Let me say “exquisite.”
To avoid the echo, I’ll call Rumrunner just plain elegant!
I hope you’ve had your fix of post-summer summer refined craft. All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I’ll get back to pretty wooden boats, but first . . . what’s this? I missed its first pass, but the sound led me to check AIS, where I saw it was doing 33 kts . . .
Does Sipu Muin mean anything to you?
But here she is . . .CCGS Sipu Muin, an icebreaker/search&rescue hovercraft.
On her return she was doing 35 kts.
Her dimensions . . 93′ x 40, roughly. Click here for more info.
Click here for previous hovercraft on tugster. Here’s more on this 70-ton vessel.
All otitis by Will Van Dorp.
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