Escort Maintenance Ship HMCS CAPE SCOTT (ARE 101)

It was the summer of '69. Sorry, no six string bought at a "5 & Dime", but I was standing along the rail of the high masted Argentine sailing vessel ARA LIBERSTAD at HMC docks and saw an Annapolis class helicopter destroyer moored next to HMCS CAPE SCOTT (ARE 101). The oiler was built in North Vancouver at Burrard shipyards in 1944 for the Britain's Royal Navy and named HMS BEACHY HEAD. She saw wartime action near the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and when the Second World War ended, she was loaned to the Royal Dutch Navy in 1947. She was returned to the RN in 1949  and then sold three years later to the Royal Canadian Navy. The CAPE SCOTT served as a fleet replenishment oiler and alongside repair depot until she was decommissioned in 1975. She was sold for scrap and towed to Texas for dismantling in 1978. Meanwhile, her sisters ship, HMCS CAPE BRETON (ARE 100) was used as support and accommodations vessel at CFB Esquimalt until 1993. Later she was sunk as an artificial reef near Nanaimo, BC in 2001.

Photographer unknown from: http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_CAPE_SCOTT_101.htm

Carlz Boats: Tall Ship KAJAMA

Carlz Boats: Tall Ship KAJAMA: Whether you're gliding along the shoreline of Lake Huron in a day sailer, or tightening the main while crewing in a cutter in the St. George'...

Tall Ship KAJAMA (Revisited)

Whether you're gliding along the shoreline in a day-sailer, or tightening the main in a stiff breeze on a sailing cutter on British Columbia's St. George's Strait as I vividly recall doing as a young sea cadet in the 60's, the lyrics from Christopher Cross's 1979 hit "Sailing": 'The canvas can do miracles just you wait and see' - basically says it all. Dreams of sailing into paradise can also happen even while simply taking an excursion around the bay like during Canal Days in Port Colborne on the EMPIRE SANDY or around Toronto Island on the 164’ former European cargo schooner KAJAMA. 
When launched in 1930 at Nobiskrug Shipyards in Rendsburg, Germany, her name was WILIFRIED and she traded general cargo from Northern Spain to the Baltic while owned and operated by Captain Wilhelm Wilckens from her homeport of Hamburg, Germany.

Packed to the gunnels sightseers KAJAMA heads out to the Eastern Passage - August 27, 2011

In 1960, she was purchased by Captain Andreas Kohler Asmussen of Egersund, Denmark and was renamed KAJAMA, was an acronym for his two sons and wife: KAywe-JAn-MAria. KAJAMA continuesd to work under sail into the mid-70’s when she was converted to strictly a motor ship. Until 1998 she continued to trade dry bulk goods along Western Europe and Scandinavia, and to ports in Northern Norway and above the Arctic Circle

In 1999 she was purchased by the Great Lakes Schooner Company of Toronto and ever since KAJAMA has operated as a day-sail excursion vessel capable of carrying up to 225 passengers around Toronto Island on Lake Ontario and in the inner harbour like where I saw her again last Sunday, September 2.
"Yes, just a dream and wind can carry me, and soon I will be free. 
I love that song and so miss the experience of SAILING ⛵😊⛵

Ore Carrier STEELTON

Everyday we see motorists going too fast, running a red light and carrying on without incident. Other times a collision occurs and someone has got a lot of explaining to do. Such was the case on August 25, 1974 when the downbound Bethlehem Steel Company ore carrier STEELTON passed the limit of approach point before the Welland Canal Bridge 12 in Port Robinson was fully raised. As a result the STEELTON struck the centre span of the bridge, crashing it and both 600 foot towers either into the canal or mangled along its banks. That was quite an unbelievable sight as you can see from these photos taken by my then wife-to-be, Janice almost 38 years ago. The canal had to be closed for 15 days and the estimated damage to the bridge was over $15 million dollars but it was never replaced, hence leaving the community divided to this day. The STEELTON's pilothouse was later repaired in Port Colborne and sailed until 1978.

Carlz Boats: Tanker ELEVIT

Carlz Boats: Tanker ELEVIT: I thought my drive today along the St. Lawrence was going to be a total bust until I found the upbound Oil Tanker ELEVIT approaching the Iroquois Lock.

Tanker ELEVIT

I thought our drive along the St. Lawrence River today was going to be a total bust. True, though what some might think that they're everywhere here in Canada, it was pretty neat to catch a moose crossing a field east of Iroquois, but it was boats I was looking for and on this drizzly day I was about to high-tail it back to Ottawa when I came across the upbound oil/chemical tanker ELEVIT near Upper Canada Village east of Morrisburg, Ontario. That section of the River is quite wide and the fairly new tanker was making good time when I caught her from the Upper Canada Marina, which is a pretty good vantage point.

The 472.5' ELEVIT was built this year at Turkter Shipyards, in Istanbul, Turkey so I presume this is her first trip into the Great Lakes. She flies the flag of Turkey and her home port is also Istanbul. The ELEVIT  is double-hulled and has been strengthened to operate in ice conditions.

The observation area at Iroquois Lock was great place to catch her much slower approach and then passage through the lock. Check it out sometime and another one of my pics of her at (https://photos.marinetraffic.com/ais/showphoto.aspx?photoid=840727&size=full). or not. c);-b

Carlz Boats: The Tugboat ST. EVAL

Carlz Boats: The Tugboat ST. EVAL: Just after a short passage across the harbour in March 2004, I took this photo of the former ocean-going tugboat, ST. EVAL moored next to Lonsdale Quay