page_title: The Volunteer (canal boat)
section_title: The boat ride
hierarchical_section_title: The Volunteer (canal boat) / The boat ride
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Rep Jerry Weller (L) and LaSalle Mayor Art Washkowiak (R) talk on the Volunteer, a 1848 replica canal boat on the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle IL.
context_page_description: The Volunteer is a 76-foot replica of a 19th-century canal boat which is owned and operated by the Canal Corridor Association. The Volunteer operates on a restored section of the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois, US.
context_section_description: The Volunteer takes up to 70 passengers on hour-long round trip journeys on a restored segment of the 96 mile Illinois and Michigan Canal. While headed east from its dock at Lock 14, The Volunteer is pulled by one of two mules named "Moe" and "Larry" that walk along the adjacent towpath. The captain steers the boat by hand with the large wooden rudder at the back of the boat. Along the way an interpreter, dressed in period clothing, explains to passengers the history of the canal and what travel was like in the year 1848. Once the boat reaches the Little Vermilion River aqueduct, the mules are detached and the boat reverses using its twin 4-horsepower electric motors.
caption: Then-Congressman Jerry Weller (left) and former LaSalle Mayor Art Washkowiak on the upper deck of The Volunteer.
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