Joseph L. Block breaking the silence at Rotary park on this quiet spring evening

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:02]Well, good evening here from the sunny Sault Ste. Marie.

[00:00:09]I wish you could see Arrogant. He's doing the flop and wiggle right now on the grass.

[00:00:14]>> [laughter] >> It's kind of weird. He generally likes doing it more on the snow.

[00:00:21]I'm trying to record him with my cell phone while I'm doing this, so multitasking here.

[00:00:28]>> [laughter] >> He's cracking me up.

[00:00:33]We got here just just in time after dinner.

[00:00:36]Come see the Joseph L. Block here on the 20th of April.

[00:00:41]And uh we just missed the Yes.

[00:00:54]Got to wave to them.

[00:00:59]That was great.

[00:01:02]And now they're going. I think they got like 27 ft of draft there.

[00:01:09]And they are not wasting time.

[00:01:16]That was cool. Get a block a block from the salute. A salute from the block.

[00:01:22]Gosh. [laughter] I swear I can talk.

[00:01:27]Well, sometimes I wonder.

[00:01:29]Zoomed in up here.

[00:01:36]Nice.

[00:01:41]They still have that same really nice color paint scheme as the Wilfred Sykes does.

[00:01:49]And uh you know how I feel about the Wilfred Sykes.

[00:01:58]This may be the the little or the bigger younger sister to the Wilfred Sykes right here.

[00:02:08]So, we got here not with much time to spare by the time I got things set up and I wanted to get a picture of Argo on the block, which is most likely a thumbnail to this video.

[00:02:22]And so, by the time I did that, it was uh I'm just Well, you saw how quickly everything went, so.

[00:02:33]Argo was about to wiggle in on the on the grass again like the silly best boy that he is.

[00:02:43]I'm taking a few pictures here of the block, so.

[00:02:48]With my phone.

[00:02:51]Well, that was pretty good. Pretty darn good timing right there. It just was a bit rushed.

[00:02:58]So, there is the the John D. Leitch.

[00:03:03]It's a hour pre-call from detour.

[00:03:07]Which makes them about 4 hours out from here.

[00:03:11]It's 8:00 p.m.

[00:03:12]So, I'm going to miss them. I missed them come when they were coming up cuz I was working, and I'm going to miss them coming down cuz I'm going to be sleeping.

[00:03:23]Well, I hope. At least I'll be sleeping.

[00:03:25]So.

[00:03:27]I only hope they'll come up here again cuz the John D. Leitch is one of the most unique looking vessels on these Great Lakes.

[00:03:34]It's a Like I saw a thing on the uh Streamtime live chat, like if there was an award for the most forward wheelhouse, then John D. Leitch would win.

[00:03:49]So.

[00:03:54]Aw.

[00:03:57]>> Okay.

[00:03:58]Oh.

[00:04:00]He's flopping and wiggling again.

[00:04:03]All right, there we go.

[00:04:07]Silly boy. He is continuing to feel better.

[00:04:14]Trying to get him as much food into him as I can and like he seems pretty much fine.

[00:04:20]You know, he just seems like his normal self.

[00:04:24]So, I can't can't ask for more than that cuz his normal self is the best boy.

[00:04:32]Well, the Joseph L. Block here sails off and down river. I'm going to call this a video here.

[00:04:44]We pack it up, head back home.

[00:04:46]It's a quite a bit warmer than last night where it was so windy and cold.

[00:04:52]But, I'm not going to call it warm. It's certainly not warm tonight. So, maybe tomorrow.

[00:04:57]But, uh for today not quite spring weather today.

[00:05:01]So.

[00:05:02]But, thanks for joining myself here as always and the best boy.

[00:05:06]He's getting the ear scratches right now.

[00:05:09]And as always, as always we'll be back really soon.