A Happy Rover is a Well Fed Rover

So the next ship was pretty cool.

I think she was coming up from Altamira, Mexico.  I would presume she loaded her windmill blades from there.

The Happy Rover was built in 1997.  She is currently serving under a Dutch flag.

Her cranes can lift 800 metric tons worth of cargo.

She is roughly 500 feet long.

She has a beam that allows her to go through the Welland Canal.

She was carrying these windmill blades up to Bay City.

I think the blades will go from Bay City to the area that is roughly around Fish Point.

Apparently, she is the first ship to use the Northwest Passage at the North Pole.

At any rate that is pretty cool.

Based on the dimensions of the ship, these blades are roughly 200 feet long.

I'll admit, they look pretty impressive when you are sitting next to them.

The pilot boat follows her.

One more shot.
 

The Happy River Passes By

 The next ship is another that I was hoping to catch.

I love it when I see a ship that is out of the ordinary from the ships that I normally see.

The Happy River is a heavy lift ship.  Usually I see ships like this carrying windmills but she may have been going somewhere to pick up cargo.

That somewhere she was heading was Chicago.  I think she would have been going near the bridge that the Blues Brothers jumped over.

Anyway, she is a neat looking ship.

It looks like she is configured to carry a maximum amount of cargo.

I'm not sure what she was going to pick up though.

Or she might have been delivering something that is in her holds.

Usually ships like this carry their cargo on there decks though.

Anyway, she has a unique profile.

The beam shot.  It looks like she has a building for her pilothouse.

One more shot.