The passenger boat Island Queen V was upbound on the St. Marys River Saturday. Flying not one but two pirate flags, she stopped at the Bondar Dock in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, then she moved over to the MCM Marine yard in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, the following day. Transport Canada shows her owned by Thirty Thousand Island Cruise Lines Inc. of Parry Sound, ON. Also heading upbound over the weekend was the USCG buoy tender Buckthorn, fresh from a several months-long refit at North Shore Marine in Escanaba, MI. She is expect to begin placing summer aids to navigation soon, joining with her Canadian counterpart Samuel Risley.
Know Your ShipsLake Erie Ports – October 18
Toledo, OH: Arrivals were CSL Laurentien to CSX and American Mariner to Ironville. In port are Federal Oshima and Wilf Seymour/Alouette Spirit. CSL Laurentien departed with coal for Nanticoke. Kingsville, ON: Manitoulin unloaded limestone at Southwestern Sales Co then left for an undisclosed destination. Marblehead, OH: Manitowoc arrived to load at Amrize. Clyde S. VanEnkevort/Erie Trader...


