Just another ship? Tverskoy Bridge, 2007 vintage, cannot be dismissed so quickly. Launched less than a year ago from the shipyard in St Petersburg originally created by Peter the Great . . . she’s impressive and of superb pedigree. See this link on the Admiralty Shipyard, her launchplace.
And Tverskoy Bridge has something I don’t even have: a godmother! Lyubov Leontyeva, I’d love to meet you. And she delivers
Norwegian oil in her Russian holds
to barges and silos in New York. Check out fotos of Russian tugs here. Check through this wikipedia link on St. Petersburg to see how the city encircles Neva Bay. Peter, an unusual monarch, traveled incognito to Europe to study, among other subjects, shipbuilding. Shipbuilder that he was, check out this weird statue to him erected by the creator of Bayonne’s own statuary, Zurab Tsereteli, profiled here over a year ago.
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February 19, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Mage Bailey
Just letting you know that I’m inching my way through your links today…..Vintage to launchings to godmothers.
February 20, 2008 at 11:43 am
Daniel Meeter
I think I saw this one anchored off Dyker Beach on Friday midday. But a few hundred yards away was another one that could have been a sister. I couldn’t make out the flags or names of either.
February 21, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Michael
Lots of mud gets moved by those propellers. Some shellfishermen use small outboard motors to blow away mud on the bottom of shallow waters to expose deeper shellfish. It always looks like overkill to me.
But to your point…the mud flies. On beaches which have spots where powerboats regularly launch, there’s inevitably a deep spot where the prop blast blows away the sand and whatever else forms the bottom. In clear water over a light bottom you can see the cloud after the boat leaves.
February 21, 2008 at 5:18 pm
will
When my brother-in-law lived many years in St Thomas VI near the cruise dock, he’d sometimes go diving right after a cruise ship departed. Prop wash would unearth old bottles, including the 1700s one on a shelf above my desk. I should foto it and use it in an inevitable “Foam 2″