Lake Champlain Transportation Company - The Ferries Used By The LCTC

The Ferries Used By The LCTC

Ferries used by the Lake Champlain Transportation Company, including six vessels that can run in ice:

• The Adirondack (the oldest, in-service, double-ended ferryboat of all time, built 1913, named after the Adirondack Mountains)
• The Champlain (built 1930; also doubles as a charter cruise boat for large groups under the brand "Lake Champlain Cruises" )
• The Evans Wadhams Wolcott (built 1988 to run in ice; the "EWW", pronounced "E, double-U, double-U" and named after Lewis P. Evans, Jr., Richard H. Wadhams and James G. Wolcott, the founders of the modern company)
• The Governor George D. Aiken (built 1975; named after the former governor of Vermont and U.S. Senator)
• The Grand Isle (built 1953; was overhauled in the 1995 and extended by 40 feet; this vessel now runs in ice; named after the Vermont town but running on the Charlotte-Essex crossing)
• The Northern Lights (built 2002 to resemble the steamer Ticonderoga; used for public scenic and charter cruises under the brand "Lake Champlain Cruises.")
• The Plattsburgh (built 1984 to run in the ice; named after Plattsburgh, New York)
• The Valcour (built 1947 from WWII surplus; named after Valcour Island, site of a military battle; this vessel was the last ferry to be built on Lake Champlain and was constructed at the historic Shelburne Shipyard)
• The Vermont (built 1992 to run in ice)
• The Cumberland (built 2000 to run in ice; out of service for maintenance as of November 2010; named for Cumberland Head, the specific location of the Plattsburgh ferry slip)
• The Raymond C. Pecor Jr.,(built 2010) named for Raymond Pecor who ran the company from 1976 to 2004, father of Trey Pecor (aka Raymond Pecor III), the company's current president. (Raymond Pecor is also the owner of the Vermont Lake Monsters, a minor league baseball team headquartered in Burlington.)

A brief history of the vessels owned by the Lake Champlain Transportation Co. from 1948-2010

Under an approximately $600,000 grant from National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, a United States Environmental Protection Agency program partly funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ferries in this fleet are being overhauled to reduce emissions.