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Following comment taken from Wiki. There is no reference provided. the Fifth Welland Canal, which was planned to by-pass most of the existing canal to the east and to cross the Niagara Escarpment in 4 twinned "Panamax" locks. While land for the project was expropriated and early designs in...

Jon Paul wrote:Any idea what's wrong with the Mackinaw? They have been at the State Dock all week and other ice breaking assets are being used to keep traffic moving thru the Straits.

Somebody on Facebook said that it is a generator that's down.

RogerKYS wrote:I am trying to figure out when International Marine Salvage in Port Colborne became Marine Recycling Corp.

Are they even the same company? There are websites for both and they have different addresses.

guest wrote:i see the ship that had the collision with the pierre radison has been detained at the pilot station at escoumins for not having any heat in the bridge of the vessel.

The Federal Crimson is currently at Becancour Quebec, so it is not currently detained at Les Ecoumins.

Guest wrote:They are tucked in at Esky for about a day now.

Checked on Marine Traffic at 11:20 EST on Jan 20. She was east of Mackinac Island headed to Toledo.

Guest wrote: They probably loaded salt in Windsor.

I don't think that Algoma ships load salt in Windsor. I usually see CSL ships loading there.

Comments on Facebook indicate that the tug was breaking ice.

Currently headed to Toledo to unload after patching in Port Colborne.

Read that she will then head to Port Weller for repairs.

Could just be waiting for Algoma Conveyer to finish loading. Possibly docked there to get supplies or fuel or crew change or something.

This is a common question about both the CSL and Algoma fleets. The straight deckers are primarily used to haul grain and the grain elevators where they unload do not require s/u gear. Without s/u gear, these ships can haul more grain. Several years ago, I heard that the contracts with the grain com...

my experience has been that Boatnerd is such a niche site that there really isn't an issue with forum spamming. (maybe I'm wrong) I have no idea how much spam the old forum has been experiencing. Since nothing is posted on that forum without being checked by a volunteer, the amount could be nil, li...

Big Blue reached Kittery ME this morning.

Moderator edit: Tuesday morning. we missed this post so it didn't get approved right away.

For the last few days when I try to access the main page I get a 404 Error - Page Not Found. Anyone else ? The main page has been working for me today. However, if I type boatnerd.com in to my PC browser, the stupid thing assumes that I want to go to the salty page and gives a 404 error. Make sure ...

New Guy Rick wrote:Is there a webcam somewhere?
I found one at Lock 7 but I just get a black screen.

That's the only one that I know about on the Welland Canal. It wasn't working last night, but was working a couple of minutes ago.

Guest wrote:Does anyone know if the new 740' self-unloader Algoma announced they will have built will have a bow mounted boom or aft mounted. Thanks!

If it's for the grain trade, it may not have a s/u boom.

The private Facebook group Great Lakes Shipping Channel (current pictures only) has a couple of shots of Amurborg unloading the wrapped (or packaged) wood pulp.

Michels Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Denny:

The 2020 and other year Salty Photo pages link from the 2021 page under the alphabet bar.

Here is the link for the 2020 page.

http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/salty/Default20.htm

and they are on their way. Based on the Marine Traffic track, they left their dock at 13:53 EDT. Currently (16:00 EDT) they are just out in the ocean.

The announcement that I found said that the container service would start in May 2021 and be bi-weekly. It appears from Marine Traffic that their ship is still in Europe, so perhaps the start has been delayed. It may be a bit early for negative comments. Hopefully this service is successful.