TOWING AN LCM FROM CLEVELAND TO NORFOLK

We left Cohoes, NY light boat in October and ran out through the Erie Canal to Lake Erie and then west to Cleveland where we grabbed a 74 ft US Navy LCM-8 and towed it back across Lake Erie to Buffalo, through the Erie Canal, down the Hudson, down the NJ coast, across Delaware Bay and along the DelMarVa coast to Chesapeake Bay and in to Newport News Ship Yard. It went there for a paint job and when it was finished we brought it back to Cleveland.

Sunrise on the Hudson River looking north towards Waterford, NY
Approaching Lock E-3
Lock E-3 foam
Flooding the drydock
Standing by at Lock E-3 High Side
Grand Erie and tug at Lock E-3
Up on the flight
BB 109
Guard Gate 2
Canal sunset
Lock E-10
Canal sunrise
Westbound from Lock E-10
Amsterdam, NY
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