![]() The city struck a deal last year with Copper Creek Carriage to provide horses and employees for the boat as well as manage it. Chris Single, a historian, plays a huge part in telling the history and story of the canal and the boat, Bucher added. Right now, they are using volunteers and city employees to run the boat. The cost of staffing the boat can't be justified. The operation wasn't making any money, he added. ![]() ![]() Bucher said some days they had a full boat and others it was only a few people. In the past, the boat operated four to five days a week and ran three to four times those days. They also are working with Sherri Brake, paranormal researcher, author and owner of Haunted Heartland Tours, to revive her spirit boat ride, as well as local businesses to incorporate dinner and boat rides, he said.īucher said with City Council recently expanding the city's Designated Outdoor Drinking Area to include the canal boat, it opens opportunities for more events on the water. Helena III being pulled by tractor for now Helena III canal boat as it sails down the Ohio & Erie Canal. Historian Tim Single guides riders on a tour aboard the St. Without knowing how the boat would fare, officials are taking it slow with boat rides. We are monitoring it every few days to see if water is getting into cells underneath the floorboards." Guist finished up the work just in time for the canal boat to host local schoolchildren in May. The work took about three to four weeks as workers then had to empty the dry dock and wait for the boat to dry out before continuing their work.īucher said more rides are planned, including during Canal Days and the city's annual Haunted Halloween rides. Work began in the spring while the boat was sitting in the McLaughlin Dry Dock.īucher said workers did as much as they could before having to flood the dry dock to reposition the boat on the stanchions to reach other areas of the hull. The workers removed all of the temporary patchwork and filled the holes with a polymer material. Guist Decorators of Canton sandblasted the concrete bottom and sides of the boat to the bare concrete to expose the damage, Bucher said. (Credit: Julie Vennitti Botos / Canton Repository) Guist Decorators repair the hull of the St. Helena III is back in the Ohio & Erie Canal and offering riders a chance to slip back into history of the heyday of the canal. Last May, the boat was used for field trips but it began taking on water.Ĭanal Fulton City Manager Dan Bucher Jr. The boat, which has carried passengers down the canal for more than 30 years, had sprung more than a few leaks. Helena III was recently renovated to repair holes in the hull. The ride was the first public event in over a year. "I didn't expect much but it was a lot more." Nagy said they enjoyed learning about the history of the boat and canal, how it is typically pulled by horses and about the dry dock it is stored in during the winter months. Helena Park toward Lock IV and back takes about an hour to complete. The Tuscarawas Township resident and her daughters Ella, 8, Eva, 6, and Emmy, 4, and her mother, Vicki Feesler of Norton, joined others on a trip last week down the Ohio & Erie Canal on the St. Researching the community online, she stumbled upon a post about a boat ride on the St. CANAL FULTON – After her family spent Mother's Day exploring this historic city by the canal, Tammi Nagy wanted to know more about Canal Fulton.
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