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Sam Laud came into the Cuyahoga just as I was about to go on . . . but I did get some pics.
This gull surveyed the maneuvers.
Tell-tale red dust covers the hull.
Note the small motorboat between the two ships . . . at Sam‘s bow, and
the crew boats racing through as soon as they could.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
. . . of the mitten state. It could have been called the “arrowhead” state, given maps from long ago . . .
Passing on on the waterside is Stewart J. Cort, a laker I’ve never seen before She’s truly unusual; one of her unique features is that she’s the only 1000-footer built outside–at least initially–the Saint Lawrence Seaway locks.
Below, that’s Little Sable Light. I’d not been that interested in lighthouses before, but once you’ve seen enough of them, maybe you develop an interest in the variety.
Next on the waterside . . . it was another encounter with Sam Laud. Being on the Lakes this time, I’ve developed an appreciation for the pace of lakes, their constant running around from lake port to lake port. Here was my previous encounter with Sam Laud.
Is this hatch remover typically called an iron deckhand?
Big Sable Point Light has not always had this banded paint scheme.
Back on the lakeside, I’ve forgotten what vessel this was . . . heading for the Indiana portion of the lake.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Call this Buffalo to Cleveland. Starting out with the other half of the Erie Canal inaugural trip of DeWitt Clinton, yes there was a Buffalo ceremony too, and it wasn’t a wedding. Rather, maybe it was the reception when they offered appeasement to the Lake gods.
up the Buffalo river, it’s NACC Argonaut offloading at the LaFarge elevator.
Cotter . . . it’s my first time seeing her outside the river and under way!
Kraig K . . . my first time to see a commercial boat fishing on Lake Erie.
BBC Kibo . . . in port in front of the city.
Eagle, a 1943 Bay City tug, with matching bridge….
Sam Laud takes about two hours to back out of the Cuyahoga, using thrusters at stern
and bow.
And let’s end with Meredith Ashton.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, currently at wifi in Manitowoc.
The * here denotes these are freshwater ships, plying their trade along what must be the longest peaceful international water boundary in the world, a fact I think deserves to be more widely known and celebrated. Here are installments 1–3.
Radcliffe R. Latimer has appeared here a year ago. For a complete history of the 1978 launched vessel on her third name after a transformative trip to China, click here.
Algoma Mariner is entirely built in China, delivered in 2011. Initially, the forebody was intended for Algoport, a vessel I’d photographed the the Seaway in July 2008, but (to allude to a story told by links here) Algoport sank on its way to China. For more detail of this vessel, let me redirect you again to boatnerd.
The United Way logo here piqued my curiosity, and here’s the answer from corporate Algoma.
Buffalo is US-built and US-registered, a product of Sturgeon Bay WI and launched in 1978.
Bigger isn’t always better, and that’s the genesis of Manitowoc, built to negotiate the rivers around the Great Lakes, waterways where commerce and manufacture still lives inside cities often dismissed as having succumbed to “rust belt” disease. She was launched in 1973 in Lorain OH.
Frontenac is a Canadian built launched in 1968
the the classic “house forward” design.
Coe Leni is the only “salty” in this batch.
Her previous name–Marselisborg–is still visible.
Sam Laud is another Sturgeon Bay WI product, launched in 1974.
Algoma Olympic–named for Canada’s hosting of the games in 1976–was launched that same year.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you’re forming an impression of the dynamic economic engine along the international border with our friendly neighbors to our north.
“Motor city” is another name for Detroit, but “detroit” is only part of the name for the waterway given by the French explorer Cadillac when he led the first Europeans to settle “Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit” on a bank of “le détroit du lac Érié,” the strait of Lake Erie), linking Lake Huron and Lake Erie; historically, the strait included the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River.
Some time after departing the Cuyahoga, we pass this mysterious site. Any ideas? I’ll identify it at the end of this post.
If you’re not at the helm, straits bring the treat of relatively close passage with other traffic, like Dorothy Ann and Pathfinder here.
Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial is a 352′ monument we can all live with, sans controversy.
As we approach the center of the contemporary city of Detroit, traffic and industry intensify. I’d never noticed GLW’s glowing slag heaps, like crafted flows of lava.
On the Windsor side, Frontenac transfers payload . . not sure what. Salt maybe?
On the American side, 1000′ Edwin H. Gott is likely discharging Superior ore or taconite.
Sturgeon Bay-built Sam Laud watches from the Rouge. Laud, the namesake, moved from shop painter and riveter to CEO of GATX.
Folks on the bridge of Algoma Olympic, Port Weller-built and down bound here just south of the Ambassador Bridge, must be experiencing the frustration of having to worry about devil-may-care recreational boaters. Recently, a high profile meeting of stake holders was held at Port Huron to deal with difficult small boat operators, one in particular who decided to play chicken with a freighter .
Last year this China-built tug was called Victorious; now she’s know as Leo A. McArthur, and as then, she pushes hot asphalt contained in John J. Carrick.
Patricia Hoey (built 1949) is a good example of the extended life experienced by freshwater boats.
A McAsphalt unit like Leo A. McDonald, Everlast, matched as always with Norman McLeod, is Japan-built.
I’d love to learn more about this Windsor home, but the name on the facade is that of the Massachusetts-born founder of Canadian Club whisky.
Just north of Belle Isle, SS Ste. Claire, Boblo ferry sister of SS Columbia, marks Kean’s Marina.
And with night falling and work for me to do, we’ll leave this post only partway through the strait with Kaye E. Barker, once Benson Ford III. Notice the GMRenCen in the distance just forward of the front of the self-unloading arm? GMRenCen was built by Ford.
The return of daylight will find us in Lake Huron. To see the St. Clair River by daylight, click here. All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp.
The sinuous structures in the top photo depict Cedar Point as seen from a few miles out in the lake.
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