Sharon M1 returns.

   Yesterdays grey,drizzly and windy weather made for a lousy greeting when the Mckeil tug Sharon M1 approached Canso Lock from the north and APA pilot Rick Hanlon boarded her to begin a transit of the lock and eventually dock in Mulgrave. It was towing the 329 ft. barge Niagara Spirit and needed the assist of the Strait Raven .The barge was eventually tied up at the  Martin Marietta Materials Quarry Dock in Aulds Cove.

Waiting at the north pilot station to transit after the Sharon M1 was clear was the Groupe Ocean tug Ocean Echo II with the barge Betsiamites with a load of wood chips destined for Port Hawkebury paper at Point Tupper.APA pilot Scott MacDonald was dispatched for that task.

 Another vessel transitting from north to south on the Strait was the Atlantic Huron which I believe was headed to St.John N.B.

The tanker Indian Point has since departed Nustar Berth 2 and the Pretty Scene is presently at Nustar Ocean Berth One.

Expected in to Nustar is the 273m x50 m tanker crude oil tanker Ashkini Spirit to the outside berth .The Pretty Scene will be departing at about midnight tonight.