# BotBuhdy Ships

> Photo essays on working vessels on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

## Pages
- [Ships hub](https://www.botbuhdy.com/ships/): series intro and ship cards
- [R/V Neil Armstrong](https://www.botbuhdy.com/ships/neil-armstrong/): first Great Lakes transit, deck callouts, specs, interactive END explainer, Neutrinos tab (what END measures), photo gallery

## Key facts (Neil Armstrong)
- Operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI); owned by U.S. Navy / Office of Naval Research; home port Woods Hole, MA
- LOA 238 ft, beam 50 ft, draft 15 ft, displacement ~3204 LT
- Oct 28–~Nov 9, 2026: first-ever Great Lakes transit (~2531 nm) Woods Hole → Duluth MN to deploy Experimental Neutrino Detector (END) frames in Lake Superior near Two Harbors
- END: five ~30 ft / ~8000 lb frames, modular hexagonal modules, 18 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) per frame, fiber to shore; UMD-led with DARPA/DOE/Fermilab/BNL
- Primary source: https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/armstrong-greatlakes/

## Notes
- Original BotBuhdy footage and stills © BotBuhdy. Tamarack’s two Commons photographs are by Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0, separately credited and licensed on the page. Not affiliated with the vessel operators or the END partners.
- Public copy uses Great Lakes / St. Lawrence Seaway language only
- Contact: hello@botbuhdy.com

## More working ships
- [Algoma Bear](https://www.botbuhdy.com/ships/algoma-bear/): Footage shows grain being loaded from shoreside silos into an open cargo hold. Featured full-length 38-second video with original sound, plus photos and an explanation of the five holds, fourteen hatches and separate self-unloading boom.
- [Algoluna & Algoterra](https://www.botbuhdy.com/ships/algoluna-algoterra/): Two sister product tankers: liquid cargo, twelve main tanks and the pipes above deck. Explore 21 photos (5 AlgoLuna + 16 AlgoTerra), 3 full-length videos and 2 short loops.
- [Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin](https://www.botbuhdy.com/ships/paul-j-martin/): CSL’s red self-unloader: five holds, a 79 m boom, photos and the full-length 41-second passage video with original sound. Click-to-play player with controls, not an autoplay loop.

- [Tamarack](https://www.botbuhdy.com/ships/tamarack/): Canadian cement carrier, IMO 1037153, built 2025 by Holland Shipyards; owned by Eureka Shipping (CSL/SMT), managed by Canada Steamship Lines. Four dry-cement holds, mechanical loading, mechanical and pneumatic discharge, diesel-electric propulsion with four generator sets, two 360-degree rudder propellers and a bow thruster. Amrize cement distribution on the Great Lakes/Seaway. Full 36-second video with original audio in a click-to-play player, four extracted stills, and two Gogerr / Wikimedia Commons photographs licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Explains cement versus concrete, enclosed conveying and air-driven powder transfer; published capacity/loading-system differences are noted.

Algoma Bear’s separate Short-coming-soon placeholder remains; the featured grain-loading video is full-length ship footage, not a published Short. Specific tanker cargoes are not confirmed.