Dry dock and Windmills

Got on the road at no particular time and started driving back down to the coast as our campsite was 10kms inland. Wonderful hilly road with new pavement, would be fun on a bike. Once on the highway headed east in search of Todd and his dry dock. Going on memory of the night before, we found it at noon. Had a great tour of one of the largest dry docks on the St Lawrence River. Todd was explaining that they are expanding to fit Super-max and Panamax freighters into it. 90ft wide door to 160ft wide and from 790ft long to 1000ft long, approximately.  Thank you very much for the tour Todd. Made our day!

Yours truly on the dry dock gate

Largest Icebreaker in the world

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Expanded area of dry dock awaiting funding to replace gate

Rebuilt propellers due to the abrasion of ice

Todd Harwood-Jones (Dockmaster)

New pump for the expansion 1of 6

This entire knob up to the metal building has to be removed and below another 40ft

Machine shop, with Umiak 1 in dry dock (behind)

View from parking lot

Headed east again and saw a wind turbine farm on the hill. Has the largest experimental vertical turbine in the world. Shut down in 1987. They do tours. We took the tour and was very disappointed! Very deceptive pricing. They charge $17 for a tour of obsolete useless technology and said that we could climb the old wind mill, but after a tour geared for children (waist of time) then they told us that it would cost another $25 to climb the tower. Save yourself the money and the time, just google wind turbines.