PRESQUE ISLE, ROGER BLOUGH Update

The latest update on the PRESQUE ISLE and ROGER BLOUGH has changed their schedules dramatically. After being more than 15 hours behind the PRESQUE ISLE, the BLOUGH, by using an alternate route down the St. Mary's River, passed the PRESQUE ISLE and is now about four hours ahead of the vessel.

The BLOUGH is expected to arrive in Conneaut at 0800 on Wednesday, and is expected in Erie during the morning hours on Thursday. The PRESQUE ISLE will arrive off Conneaut at noon on Wednesday, and after waiting for the BLOUGH to finish unloading will arrive in Erie during the afternoon on Thursday. All times are ice and weather permitting.

One of the projects scheduled for the PRESQUE ISLE this winter will involve separating the tug and barge. The last time this was done in Erie was during the winter of 2005-06.

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Tug PRESQUE ISLE returns to Erie to pick up its barge after undergoing its six-year survey at Port Weller Dry Dock in St. Catherines, Ontario. The date is July 31, 2005.


PRESQUE ISLE is shown while separated from its barge on March 21, 2006. Two days later the vessel departed from Erie on its first trip. Note the oil boom around the tug.


Dockside view on March 21, 2006.


Another view.


With the barge.