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Possibly due to space constraints, they had to remove a silencer or waste heat recovery unit to install the scrubber, creating a "straight pipe", so to speak?

Maybe she is headed to South America to operate there?

When a ship spends extended periods of time on the great lakes zebra mussels attach themselves to the internal passages of the sea water systems, (pipes, strainer boxes, sea bays, etc.). These proliferate greatly of not stopped by, say, a trip into salt water. Salt water causes them to detach ...

It will be interesting to see how she copes with a lifetime accumulation of zebra mussels in her system once she hits salt water for the first time. I hope they have planned for this?

The Century has the B&W and the Progress had two Ruston, AO8's, replaced by 2 Cats.

The Teflon linings are to provide a slippery surface so the cargo slides into the gates more readily, rather than for corrosion protection. Although there is some protection provided to the coatings because it is a cladding.

I remember hearing about ULS having a plan to build sections of hull in Port Weller and weld them together at this site in Port Colborne to create Canadian footers.

I remember it well. My father was the mate and came home early that Spring, after having been gone only a couple of weeks. He brought a couple of 8 X 11 glossies of the incident, from the red roofed, white house's view. That bow was impressive, at least to a 12 year old boatnerd! I still have them.

Nowadays I am thinking it is the Stephen B Roman.

I worked numerous years on both vessels and never heard that there were any regrets from the Company's part? To the contrary, they were pretty easy on fuel but were unfortunately pretty small carriers. The Explorer's later conversion to a river sized self unloader made her a versatile ship.

Keep at it, Denny. We appreciate all of your contributions. The Baie Comeau arrived at her lay up berth in Midland on Dec 30th at 3:45 am.

They arrived at their lay up berth yesterday afternoon.

Looks like the Nelvana. She was a Panamax self unloader with pontoon hatches.

Enterprise, Transport, Olympic and Progress all have reclaimers and flat tank tops. Century used to have a sloped tank top so that the reclaimer augers had to draw the cargo "uphill" to the center belt. JD Leitch is now flat like the Assiniboine.

If they are pronouncing it "Mar Kwis" then it is a mispronunciation of the French word that is pronounced "Mar Key".

Maybe two "Atlantic Class"?

Somehow, I don't think it will be much of a race. With the Equinox' hull design, she'll soon leave pretty much anything on the lakes behind.

It would be the Salarium as she has the medium speeds. They won't be swapping a slow speed for medium speeds. She has a long term contract that has to be fulfilled and she will need good engines going forward.

They aren't accurate. The same thing happened to us a couple of weeks ago when the Whitefish was just south of Clipperton Island and it then comes back within a day or so of passing Isla des Coco, Costa Rica. It is because they are outside of the satellite zone so they have lost communication. When ...

The Whitefish Bay is on Miraflores Lock right now.