by import2 | June 18, 2021 | Boatnerd News
US Coast Guard cutter Alder leaving Twin Ports; Spar will replace Duluth, MN – The announcement Friday amounted to a swap of assets — with the Alder heading for a year of maintenance and then permanent residency in San Francisco, while USCG cutter Spar will be bound...
by import2 | June 17, 2021 | Boatnerd News
Great Lakes’ water levels aren’t doing what they are supposed to – rise in summer The Great Lakes are in a period of the year when their water levels usually rise. But all of the Great Lakes are not rising or just barely rising. This is a continued sign that for the...
by import2 | June 17, 2021 | Port Report Archive
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by import2 | June 17, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On June 17, 1895, the J. W. Westcott Co. inaugurated its unique mail delivery service. On 17 June 1878, the Canadian schooner JAMES SCOTT of Port Burwell capsized and sank in Lake Erie. The captain’s wife, their child and two seamen were drowned. The wooden...
by import2 | June 15, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On 16 June 1891, Alexander McDougall himself took his brand-new whaleback steamer JOSEPH L. COLBY (steel propeller whaleback freighter, 265 foot, 1,245 gross tons, built in 1890 at West Superior, Wisconsin) down the St. Lawrence River to the sea. The...
