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The past two On The Water columns, July 17 and 24, by Jo Murray dealt with stories about multiple paddle-wheel boats, with emphasis on the Grand Romance, which spent 18 years in Long Beach’s ...
Half pontoon boat, half paddle-wheeler, the strange-looking craft circled the lake, collecting any remaining dead fish floating in the water. Rick Hutton, owner of Aquatic Harvesting, pilots the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood today officially welcomed the largest paddle wheeler west of the Mississippi back into service at a ceremony on the Columbia ...
NORTHUMBERLAND – Plans for a paddle wheeler to cruise the West Branch of the Susquehanna River upstream from Sunbury in 2023 have hit a snag back but they are not sunk. The 149-passenger boat ...
Paddle-wheeler cruises Muscatine riverfront. Amy Cahill ... "We want people who live here, who have never owned a boat, to be able to get out on the water," Ann Meeker said.
Despite low water levels on the Mississippi River, VisitCape spokesman Josh Thompson said American Queen paddle-wheeler is still tentatively scheduled to dock during the afternoon of Friday, Sept ...
What’s more, maintenance on the 111-foot stern-wheeler, Victorian-style paddle boat would cost between $80,000 and $100,000 a year. It was a price tag the town, with a population of 2,000 ...
They are creatures that conjure up images from yesteryear: Multi-level river boats pushed by an engine, and a single paddle wheel. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...
Divers will get back in the water again on Tuesday and begin working to recover the boat. The historic riverboat starred in Blood Alley with John Wayne in 1955, and later burned in 1996 before it ...
Now sitting on the riverbank, this is the first time in six months the 99-year-old paddle wheeler has been above the muddy water. ... Originally built as a barge to tow other boats in 1924, ...
Authorities are investigating why a paddle-wheel boat ran aground in Lake Tahoe, prompting rescuers to evacuate about 300 people aboard. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...
The Murray Princess paddle wheeler is back on the water in a sign of a return to normalcy after flooding. ... said the boat's return would bring people back to the region.