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You've got some real, historical gems in your collection, Jon Paul! Thanks for sharing them with us. I'm going through my digital files, reassigning the ships in the recent sale to their new owner's folder and am amazed at how many different ships I've seen in the past 14 years of photographing the...

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I have posted some photos of boats in the news again. Some were in the Today in Great Lakes History (12/22) like the Cliffs Victory and Detroit Edison. I also included photos of the; Armco which is now the American Valor Middletown which is the American Victory Roger Kyes which is t...

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Here's the USCG Report on the Blough grounding

The Mac Lock is already shut down and all commercial traffic is using the Poe. I don't know I'd they have drained the Mac yet however.

I posted some of the boats that have been on boatnerd recently, the Aquarama was taken off of Sarnia, Buffalo under the Blue Water Bridge. We used to see a lot of the Sykes because we both traded out of Escanaba frequently. The Blough and Reiss brought back memories of Winter Navigation. It seemed w...

I'm really enjoying your photo collection Jon Paul. In the pictures we've seen of you, you look happy. How many years did you sail ? And what positions did you hold ? Looking forward to more.. I sailed from 1974-1979 and worked every job there was as deck crew. I had accumulated all my required riv...

Merry Christmas and Have a Happy New Year!!

Just some B & W shots from shipboard activity and also one of my favorites shots of the Sylvania. We met them as they were outbound from Toledo on a beautiful summers evening as they were headed for Conners Creek just north of Belle Isle on the Detroit River. Note the open hatches overflowing wi...