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The MacArthur Lock is iced & snowed over. She won’t be used until later in the season.

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A queue of Boatnerds lines up outside the Locks Park gates, waiting for the first boat of the season

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Riverbear Barry, from Sarnia, Ontario, points out how the Temporary Police say, “No Parking.”

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Our moment in the spotlight as lovely steamer Cason J. Callaway is preparing to depart the Poe Lock...

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The Callaway’s spotlights doing their proper job. As I recall, because the Coast Guard was...

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To our delight, the Callaway saluted us with one long, two short as she departed. It’s a singular...

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Meanwhile, the next morning, we faced freezing rain on top of nearly a foot of snow. Barry was a...

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USCGC Katmai Bay leads the pack up the river

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The then lovely steamer Charles M. Beeghly (now the M/V Hon. James L. Oberstar) going through a river of ice.

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Capt. Joe Ruch, an officer & a gentleman, kindly gave us a salute & yelled to us that spring...

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“Mighty Ship” Paul R. Tregurtha comes up the river, headed for Fraser Shipyard in...

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This is the Discovery Channel film crew, waiting for the Paul R. Tregurtha to sail by. They were...

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Big Paul’s bow plowing through the ice. The horizontal strip of ice at the bottom right is where the cracks were in her hull plates.

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Mighty Edgar B. Speer sailing through a field of clear water at Mission Point

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A gal on the Speer’s bridge came out to wave at us

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LLT/GRN’s Calumet (3), sporting the cabin cream of her old Oglebay Norton livery from her David Z. Norton days

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The next morning brought sunny skies. The Locks Park folks were clearing the snow with steam.

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Clearing the rest of the snow with a snow blower

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