Boatnerd News – September 20, 2022

Boatnerd News – September 20, 2022

Wind tower project wraps up at the Port of Monroe MONROE, MI – Yesterday, the Port of Monroe is celebrating the completion of a wind tower project that saw 90 wind tower sections move on an all-marine route to Oswego, New York. The towers were manufactured by...
Port Reports – September 20, 2022

Port Reports – September 20, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Rumbling into Duluth at 04:33 Monday morning to start the week’s traffic was classic laker John G. Munson, coming from Calcite with a full load of stone in her belly. A...
Today in Great Lakes History – September 20

Today in Great Lakes History – September 20

CHARLES M. WHITE was christened at Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1951. John Jonathon Boland was born on 20 September 1875, in New York. Along with Adam E. Cornelius, he formed the partnership of Boland and Cornelius in 1903, and was one of the founders of the...
Boatnerd News – September 19, 2022

Boatnerd News – September 19, 2022

Tug Heads to Green Bay to tow S.T. Crapo for Scrap The McKeil Marine tug Molly M1 departed Hamilton on Sunday headed for Green Bay, WI, to tow the long-idle cement carrier S.T. Crapo to Port Colborne, ON, for scrapping. The tow is expected to depart Green Bay at first...

Port Reports – September 19, 2022

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen A Barker Bark after midnight? You betcha! The massive two-tone sound of the JRB woke Canal Park early Sunday morning as Captain Newland sounded off a thunderous salute for the...