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Here was T-23 days. Now, in less than two weeks, the canal will be open. Some of the vessels operated by NYS Canals to perform maintenance were featured in the T-23 post; more are in today’s post.
Let’s start with Tender 2, T2, in Utica, nose to nose with tug Erie.
Tender #3 is tied up here just west of the dry dock in Waterford.
Left to right here are a self-propelled scow (SPS 60 maybe? the number) and Lockport. That land derrick marks this location as Fonda.
Port Jackson is one of the new boats operated by NYS Canals. The location is just west of lock E-13, and Grande Caribe, as well as her younger sister Grande Mariner, powering her way west to Chicago will likely never be seen in the Canal again.
Tied up here in the shade east of Utica is Governor Roosevelt.
At the Utica section yard, it’s Erie again. Note the NYS Thruway maintenance vehicles in the background.
Just west of lock E-19, the Dragon dredge gets support from Tender #4.
And on another occasion, it’s the same dredge assisted by Tender #5. I took the photo between locks E-6 and 7.
And closing this out, how about a shot above the culvert of the tugboat that turns 120 years afloat this year, Urger.
All photos, WVD. If you’re planning to transit the canal beginning on day 1 of the season . . . May 21, these are some of the maintenance vessels you’ll see. But don’t postpone a trip along the Canal because some of these could disappear any year now.
WVD is solely responsible for any errors of fact.
This is the last Roundup I’ve attended. Here’s another shot from the swim platform, where I’m flat on my belly. That’s Mike Byrnes, last year’s “old man of the sea” at the portside of the wheelhouse.
Downbound in the Federal lock, it’s Waterford, Governor Cleveland, and Tender #3.
On the northbound trip, the two smaller tugs fell in alongside Grand Erie. Grand Erie is a 1951 build that first worked for the USACE in the Mississippi system.
Tug Buffalo heads for its berth beyond Pennsy 399 and Lehigh Valley #79, where
David Sharps bugle greets each vessel as it passes.
Lisa Ann was a newcomer that year, I believe. She was built at Marine Inland Fabricators, where the “new” canal tugs like Port Jackson have also been built.
Another newbie in 2015 was Solar Sal, a solar powered newbuild that actually transported cargo later in the season. Like Ceres the year before, these are prototypes, and like Ceres, Solar Sal transported this cargo.
Ever so salty, it’s Ben Grudinskas, captain and builder of Atlantic Hunter.
Here Atlantic Hunter faces off against the mighty Tender #3. By the way, Tender #3 is 43′ x 10′ and came off the ways in 1926!! 1926 . . . . 94 years ago.
It’s currently powered by a 220 hp Detroit Diesel.
In closing, the land activities include line toss, open to all comers, but won by the pros. I failed at the 15′ mark.
And I’ve not attended the Roundup since 2015, but unless I’m employed and on duty, I hope to make the 2021.
Now in the Erie Canal, Tender #3 was above E3,
BB 109 encountered an unidentified SPS,
Dragon dredge worked over in Crescent Lake,
an unidentified tender worked with two barges, one was QB #14,
Tuulen Tupa intrigued and I’ll tell you my understanding of that name at the end of this post,
At Fonda on the wall stood an SPS and
tug Lockport.
Will Van Dorp took these photos, and this is the end of this post.
And Tuulen Tupa is an excellent name for a sail boat, since in Finnish–at least–it means “wind hut.”
And this was Waterford to Fonda, NY.
Unlike the sixth boro waters, freshwater New York changes state. As illustration, here is a color photo I took yesterday, and
below is roughly the same view (looking down from E-5 in the Flight) taken in late September 2016, almost five months ago. What’s departing lock 4 was reported here.
But I digress. Here’s what tenders look like in February.
And the long-suffering Chancellor, after the pool level has been lowered.
Floating and working, it’s the art deco tug Syracuse. She has been working since December 1933!
And can you identify the vessel in the foreground?
Indeed, it’s the 1912-launched Grouper sustaining yet another season in Niflheim.
All photos taken by Will Van Dorp this week except the first one.
or I can call this Port of Albany 2, or better still Ports of Albany and Rensselaer. Albany’s fireboat Marine 1 has been on this blog here. Anyone know where it was built?
The port has not one but . . .
but two large cranes.
And bulk cargo is transferred through the port in both directions, whether it be solid or
dusty.
Over on the Rensselaer side, scrap seems to be a huge mover.
North of Port Albany is USS Slater, about which lots of posts can be found here. But it’s never occurred to me until now that the colors used by Slater camouflage and NYS Marine Highway are a very similar gray and blue!
Kathleen Turecamo (1968) has been in this port–135 miles inland–for as long as I’ve been paying attention, which is only a little over a decade.
This September, NYS Canal Corp’s Tender #3, which probably dates from the 1930s, traveled south to the ports of Albany and Rensselaer.
The port is also a vital petroleum center, both inbound and out.
With the container train traffic along the the Hudson and the Erie Canal, I’m only less surprised than otherwise that Albany-Rensselaer currently is not a container port.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s general info about the Port of Albany, although a lot of info there seems a bit out of date. For a blog that visits visits the ports of Albany and Rensselaer more regularly, check here. Here’s the port of Albany website.
And last but not least, check Mark Woody Woods’ broad sampling of ships heading to and from Albany-Rensselaer.
It’s been a few years since Lehigh Valley 79 was there, but David Sharps added a new feature to the parade–a
brassy salute
to each vessel that passed for review.
And what a potpourri of vessels that was!
Folks who from Monday to Friday work on precision instruments indoors . . . on weekends go to the physics lab on the river and experiment with vectors.
Others compete shoreside commanding line to fly.
If you missed this one, make plans now for 2016.
Lehigh Valley #79 was last at the Roundup in 2010. See it here and here.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for posts from lots of other years. In today’s post, you’ll see almost all blue-and-gold before the parade, i.e., heading for the muster
entering the top of lock 2
It was great to have two covered barges for events.
Lehigh Valley 79, dry dock repairs complete, heads for the sixth boro this week.
Urger exits the low side of lock 2 and . . .
enters the Hudson.
Note the Waterford wall with the covered barges in the distance.
The federal lock at Troy leads into the rest of the Hudson . . .
After the dignitaries are picked up,
the flotilla heads back north into the Troy lock,
and
the parade has begun.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. Many thanks to tug44 as host and photo boat.
For more photos, check these from the Daily Gazette.
Besides larger tugboats like Urger, the Canal has a fleet of nearly identical smaller ones called dredge tenders, or usually just “tenders” like the unidentified one to the left in the photo below.
Here’s a set: Tender #1
Tender #3 stern and
bow and
at work moving Urger out of dry dock.
Tender #4 in February 2014, and
tender #4 after being electrified, and
at work in Utica this summer.
Tender #6.
Tender #7 summer and
bow in winter, with an unidentified tender (registry at MB 5900??) and tender 4 in the distance.
Tender #9 profile and
three fourths.
Tender #10 on the hard and
assisting a dredge.
Tender with identifier ending in 0209,
. .. 0308
. . . 0313 aka Dana?
Dana again.
Again, I need to dig into the history of this class of Canal vessel. What number was this?
and why is it here? How many others are there?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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