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The CCGS Pierre Radisson is upbound on the Detroit River at Windsor. She will provide some extra assistance in breaking ice on the upper lakes.
I took this picture this morning, on my way from the logging camp (a decomissioned Coast Guard supply ship) where I stayed the night, out to open water that a floatplane could land on. The ice layer on the inlet was probably about 8cm thick. Listening to the alumnium hulled boat cut its way through it was pretty scary. We did not have any cold water survival suits and the rowboat we were towing would not have carried all 10 of us.
The fresh water rivers run into a long narrow fjord and make a freshwater layer on top that freezes. The whole salt ocean does not freeze. But there was about 6 or 8 km of frozen inlet between us and open water. And the lead we made breaking the way in to camp had frozen over overnight. Every day it gets thicker. I hope the people that stayed up there do not get trapped. They would need to call in a helicopter to get out if that happened...
4 of the resident Mute Swans on the boating lake followed me around the edge of the lake with a trail of Mallard in their wake.
The CCGS Samuel Risley leads a three vessel convoy upbound to Lake Huron. Behind the icebreaker are the Saginaw, Algomarine and CSL Tadoussac.
Finnish Icebreaker Sisu was the first diesel-electric icebreaker in Finland. She was decommissioned, transferred to the Finnish Navy in 1975 and renamed Louhi. In 1986, she was broken up in Naantali, Finland.
This photo has been in Explore: Jan 6, 2009 #343
Ducksburgs icebreaker-armada in the field
Ducks seen on a little creek nearby my hometown
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The original ferry Abegweit is now owned by the Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago, Illinois, where she is used as a clubhouse.
Career
Name: Abegweit
Namesake: Epekwit'k or Abegweit, the Mi'kmaq Nation's name for Prince Edward Island.
Builder: Marine Industries Limited, Sorel, Quebec, Canada
Yard number: 144
Laid down: November 1944
Homeport: Borden. PEI-Cape Tormentine, NB
Nickname: "Abby"
Fate: Sold and is currently the Operations Center for the Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago, Illinois.
General characteristics
Class and type: Ferry
Displacement: 7,000 tons
Length: 372 ft (113 m)
Beam: 61 ft (19 m)
Draught: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power: Eight 12-cylinder Dominion Sulzer diesel engines
Propulsion: Diesel-electric; two bow and two stern propellers
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
MV Abegweit was an icebreaking railway, vehicle, and passenger ferry which operated across the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait, connecting Port Borden to Cape Tormentine between 1947-1982.
The word Abegweit is derived from the Mi'kmaq word for Prince Edward Island, Epekwit'k, meaning "cradled (or cradle) on the waves."
Abegweit crossing the Northumberland Strait in her glory days.
The first Abegweit was laid down as hull 144 in November 1944 and was launched in 1946 at the Marine Industries Limited shipyard in Sorel, Quebec. Her designers were the famous Montreal design firm of German & Milne. Her owners were Canadian National Railways (CNR), operator of the Borden-Cape Tormentine service from 1918-1977.
This vessel was the most powerful icebreaker in the world at the time of her commissioning[citation needed] on June 28, 1947, and was reportedly the heaviest vessel ever constructed in Canada as well. Her patron at the time of commissioning was Mrs. J. Walter Jones, wife of the premier of Prince Edward Island. She entered service on August 14, 1947 and earned the hearts of Islanders who affectionately called her the "Abby".
She measured 372 feet in length and displaced 7,000 tons. Her 8 main engines generated 13,500 brake horsepower (10 MW) and drove propellers at both bow and stern. She could carry 950 passengers and 60 cars (or one complete passenger train of 16 railway cars).
Service
The growth of vehicle and rail traffic by the 1950s soon made her obsolete and subsequent vessels introduced in the 1960s and 1970s could carry more vehicles and rail traffic and could load and unload with greater speed. Her Captain was J.R.B. Maguire of Guysborough Nova Scotia.
Disposal and sale
The replacement for Abegweit was a vessel that was laid down as MV Straitway, however while under construction CN Marine decided to name this new vessel Abegweit. To accommodate this change, the original Abegweit was renamed Abby in fall 1982 and she maintained this name through the end of her ferry service. After finishing service on the Borden - Cape Tormentine route, the Abby was moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia and placed for sale during the winter of 1982-83.
During the winter of 1982–1983, while the new Abegweit was in service between Borden and Cape Tormentine, the old Abby was docked at Pictou, Nova Scotia and advertised for sale by CN Marine. She was purchased by the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago city ordinances barred the club from constructing a clubhouse on the waterfront, so the club decided to purchase the Abby and permanently moor her at their facility.
Abby left the Northumberland Strait for good in April, 1983 and remains in "service" in Chicago. A curious phenomenon arising out of CN Marine's name-switch operation is that many in the general public assume the new vessel's name was Abegweit II — this is not the case as she was officially registered as Abegweit.
Columbia Yacht Club
Abegweit was purchased by the Columbia Yacht Club in 1983 and moved to Chicago that spring. She continues to serve as club house for the CYC. The ship had new hull paint applied in 2010 preserving the traditional color scheme.
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Video from today, with wild turkey flock too.
Yea! Flickr went back to the photoblog mode of display, so I can show the before and after below...
The Oden (flying under the Swedish flag, under contract from the USAP), breaks the sea ice in Winter Quarters Bay. The Oden has a flat bottomed hull and pushes itself onto the ice, breaking the ice under its weight. Additionally there are large jets of water in the front which help weigh down (and lubricate) the ice up front.
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This bud had broken the frozen surface and stuck it's nose into the sunlight.
Absolutely no treatment except a little sharpening.