Nice little ship in port today
 

Nice!

I looked her up: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/BAIE-ST.PAUL-IMO-9601027-MMSI-316022391

What is a Self Discharging Bulk Carrier?

Without looking I'll guess it's a grain carrier? That boom looks like a chute?

Maybe a big screw in it that moves the grain to the thingie that takes it to the chute.

Summerside is close to The Canadian Potato Museum. Maybe that's where all the pirates are going after they debark.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1653578926.jpg

These are mostly all self unloaders, this one is gravel and I believe it's belted off thru that shoot.

Yes, that's where all the pirates hang out, Vodka and French fries lure them in.

Damn.....missed the potato museum when we were there.

I have had the M/V Atlantic Erie (CSL) in at that dock many times as Master. Partial unload there and rest unloaded in Summerside. Mainly aggregate cargos.
I am now retired.

Thanks for letting us know, I worked there as a ships agent among other things and saw quite a few ships from 1972-2020. They were mostly not Canadian vessels, we didn't get many of them. But from all over the rest of the world.

Summerside
 

This is how it looked most fall seasons in the early days, 1972 when we first bought our stevedoring co, till about 1995 when the potato business was gone Then it was mostly fertilizer ammo-nitrate and such.

We had short seasons of course, potato harvest to harbour freeze up (Jan)

I think I met you a few times, I think the pilot told me you were a biker and had a Harley or two, as I did. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1653689686.jpg

I thought you were retired?

I did retire in 2020, but I still work a bit with these guys

I enjoy your pics. Thanks!

Tks for looking, I enjoy taking them.

That thing is almost beyond imagination. I can't also imagine the amount of responsibility the captain of that ship has.

Very cool.

Yellowperil, what happened to the potato market?

We shipped a lot of spuds to S America mostly Venezuela and mostly seed potatoes
then they (Ven) found a better supplier. Things change. Now almost all of it goes as French fries in container ships. Our port too small for that.

Thanks!

Love the ship pictures...

Tks, my pleasure!