She's a grand lady! The old style ships are the most beautiful ever built!

She's a good looking ship! From 6:00 to 6:20, I can see the yellow CAVOTEC suction mooring pads [ kzread.info/dash/bejne/doB8zKxwpq2cqps.html ] just above the waterline as the FRONTENAC enters the lock. At 12:06 and 12:32 the yellow pads are still just above the waterline after the ship has been raised. It seems to be a great system, though I miss seeing all the action on the deck with the deckhands tossing lines, etc. Thanks for the detailed video!

I live a couple of kilometers from this lock, and have visited the view stands many times, but every time I see this it is a wonder !

Love lake boats. I have huge,heavy as hell, porthole with glass,screen, and cover from the Gleneagles/ Silverdale. She was built in 1925 and scrapped in the early 80's.Seeing the Frontenac made me think of her.

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

The front-pilothouse lakers are slowly disappearing off the Great Lakes.

@jimsquire9048

4 жыл бұрын

@@RightInNiagara That is sad. I worked security at the spot where the Silverdale, Amico Illinois, Amico Wisconsin,and another unnamed lake boat were scrapped. The unnamed one had been used as a barge at the end of her life with the engine removed. Just a couple slips over for quite some time was the Aquarama passenger ship. She ended up being towed across the pond and scrapped in India if I remember right. I always liked the front-pilothouse lakers. They have what I'd call a "swoosh" look to them. I really liked the Gleneagles/Silverdale because she had one more deck than most making her forward superstructure even more imposing. I actually had breakfast on her as a kid when she was still active. She was delivering stone to CBM where my father worked and we got a tour and some chow. Years later she meet her end right there in the slip next to CBM where I was now the night watchman. All I have now is her porthole,some pictures and memories.

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

Ah - yes: the AQUARAMA!!! wow! I remember that ship well, she definitely had a very sleek, deco-ish stylel! Was built as a war ship converted to a cruise ship, and her propellers were apparently way too powerful for the lake! I saw her for years in the 1990's docked in a slip in Buffalo, clearly visible from Hwy 5, just north of Woodlawn (near the north end of the Tifft preserve). She was sitting beside an old warehouse which has since been demolished. Everytime I passed, I thought that was a good looking ship! Then she was gone. I realized later she had been moved somewhere, then was eventually towed thru the Welland Canal and out overseas to be scrapped. Funny that you should mention this ship!! And all the times I had been by, I now regret and I kick myself for never have taken a picture of her..

@jimsquire9048

4 жыл бұрын

@@RightInNiagara I'm proud to say I have her inaugural cruise souvenir program. It's about the size of a regular piece of paper and has 14 pages of stats, pictures,the deck plans even sing along songs they would get together and sing with passengers.The pictures are huge and in color. A real blast from the past. When she was here my buddy worked security for her and found it on board. That's how I ended up with it.

The Frontenac was the first ship that I ever worked on in 1975.

@Batman-wv5ng

4 жыл бұрын

John Soper Very old ship.

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

@@Batman-wv5ng She's 52, built in 1967, in Quebec, and was the last vessel built for owner Canada Steamship Lines in this front-pilothouse classic laker style.

Very good movie,almost professional.I'd like to watch more your movies from my region.Thank you and good luck.

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate that!

Incrível muito bom.

When the Pont Larocque, on the St-Lawrence seaway, lifts, the ship goes through and it takes 5 to 15 minutes before the bridge closes again. Are they afraid that the captain could decide to reverse the ship?

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid I can't answer that. Could it have something to do with the flow of the current out there? I do know that the bridges on the Welland Canal close fairly quickly after a ship has passed, and are raised a good several minutes prior to a ship's arrival, and there is little current to speak of here. Waiting 15 min for a bridge to close normally doesn't happen here. I think it would be strange for a captain to have to reverse under a bridge; something would really have to be going wrong for that to happen!

That is one unusual unloading rig

@Peggyt-jp6mt

4 жыл бұрын

It is a self unloading bulk carrier.

@johnmanthey2683

4 жыл бұрын

Peggyt1243 understand that. I was commenting on the shape of the unloading mechanism compared to other self bailers.

Geez, How do they line it up to get through the lock, I didn’t see any tags or mules? Seems like the wind would be pushing it down aft while the bow is on the lock.

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

"Mules" haha! No tugs nor other mechanical devices are used on the Welland Canal to get ships through the locks. All the ships have to go through using their own power, controlled by the onboard pilot. The ships are lined up way back before they get to the lock opening, by sliding along the approach wall and bringing the ship into alignment with the lock opening. You can see the wall slide procedure starting at 02:55 as the ship's bow rubs against the wall rail, while the stern is still out in the canal; then eventually they will line up as they go forward, and also, they will then be in alignment with the lock opening. It's a common procedure. These freighters have bow thrusters which will cushion the ship's hull as the vessel enters the lock, and they'll use their prop to stop at the appropriate point..

@Peggyt-jp6mt

4 жыл бұрын

@@RightInNiagara Foreign ships must have a Canadian pilot but lake ships registered in Canada do not. The vessel is controlled by the captain. This vessel had 1 bow thruster. Long before bow thrusters existed, ships went through the Welland Canal. Thank you for uploading this video. It brings back fond memories of my childhood. I went through the Welland Canal many times. My father worked for Canada Steamship Lines.

@patchescessna7348

4 жыл бұрын

RightInNiagara wow... That’s some skill,

Is that the same model of boat as the edmond Fitzgerald.

@RightInNiagara

4 жыл бұрын

The Fitzgerald was built in Michigan in 1957, Frontenac was built in Quebec in 1967; they were designed and built by different companies for different owners. They had a similar style with their pilot house at the bow, but they weren't 'sister' ships.

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Get the butter out Martha we're going thru ! 🍀