LL5 SLSW Closeups

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.

LL5 Following Nanuk

Nanuk 1 was already at the top of the lock when we arrived.  Clearly, they had to wait, as did we. 

 

The vessel in the lock was Radcliffe R. Latimer, a Collingwood build that has been around.

While waiting to go in, following Nanuk, I got distracted by a fisherman at the edge of the Lachine Rapids. 

Nanuk had the downstream end of the lock.  When the lock opened, I’d gotten distracted again.

All photos, any errors due to distraction, WVD. 

 

Random Ships Along the St. Lawrence 8

Sometimes I watch hours ahead via AIS to see what’s coming our way, and hope that it’ll be daylight and confined waters when we pass.  I’d watch Maxima, and it didn’t work out.  Fure Viten was a treat, however.

She rose from the St. Lambert lock of the South Shore Canal, and it was, I repeat,  a treat. 

She dates from 2021, Yangzhou-built.  The Donso-based company has a long history. 

I can’t assess the accuracy of some of these claims.

 

 

She her clean lines and livery caught my eye as she passed, heading for the Champlain Bridge and eventually Sarnia. 

All photos, any errors, WVD, who will pass Sarnia as well in a few days.

Here are previous installments of this title. 

LL Montreal to Toronto

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.

Jetster Returns

Few things about flying rival “window seat,” as they complement my lifelong fascination with maps and, later, charts.  Of course, few things are as frustrating as realizing I’m sitting on the wrong side of the airplane and can’t just run to the other side.  Anyhow, let’s play a game of window seat IDs of photos of the flight from NYC (LGA) to Quebec City with a change in Montreal.  See what you can identify here, and then I’ll post them again with annotations/identification.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#1 again.  From left to right is downstream.  Red number 1 is the South Shore Canal, the downstream-most canalized portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Red number 2 is the Lachine Rapids, so-named by Jacques Cartier and the whole reason for the locks at this location.  Cartier thought the route to China lay above the rapids, hence, La Chine.

#2 again.  Again, from left to right is downstream. Red number 1 is Habitat 67, 2 is a certain icebound brand-spanking-new US warship that will be left unnamed, 3 is the old port of Montréal, 4 is a lock in the Lachine Canal, and 5 is a certain formerly McAllister tugboat.

#3 again.  Here, bottom to top is downstream.  Red 1 is one of many random bits of ice flowing downstream toward Quebec City more or less at the location of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, where the St. Lawrence is about two miles wide, i.e., half mile chunks of ice.

#4 again.  Red 1 is the Citadelle, 2 is Chateau Frontenac, 3 is the entrance to Bassin Louise i.e.,  a location in the ice canoe racing posts, and 4 is the bulk and containerized port of Quebec City. The long unmarked structure between 3 and 4 is the now G3 grain elevator.  To see a G3 (Global Grain Group) ship on Lake St. Clair, click here and scroll.

All photos and attempts at identification by Will Van Dorp, who’s also responsible for any misidentifications or omissions. And if you ever decide to buy me a ticket to fly somewhere, make mine a window seat or cockpit jumpsuit.

Here’s an index of my jester posts, which started summer of 2017.