I’m putting the link for “dog days” a la wikipedia here, but I want to quote part of what’s there: “[Dog days are] popularly believed to be an evil time “when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies” – Brady’s Clavis Calendarium, 1813.
Well, the skies and seas frothed today. Here’s to hoping you escaped the daze enough to make sense of the foto below, taken yesterday morning.
It’s from Erie Basin, looking west past the NY Shipyard crane grayed out by that blue-yellow Swedish store, the ruins of the sugar pier, a row of water taxis, a warehouse, and the upper tip of a Manhattan-bound cruise ship approaching the Statue. How about the next one? and the next and the nexts…
It’s shot down a street (I can’t believe I fail to note the street name) in Red Hook as an unidentified cruise vessel leaves the terminal.
Recessed bitts (another more technical term??) in a car carrier hull.
Either wine turned sour or a jelly gone languid. I don’t know the type of jelly here.
Fixins’ for a very tall sour drink?
This one I really can’t identify either. Anyone help? Looks like a research vessel of some sort leaving eastern Staten Island.
Here’s a closer-up showing some gear stowed off port and a derrick. It crawled out the Narrows this morning between lightinig and rain.
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July 27, 2008 at 8:58 pm
William B. Kelleher
I do not know the research vessel,however the piece of equipment on the port stern quarter looks like a very accurate sonar for checking the bottom.
The Army corp. of enginner’s use ones that look just like that one on the great lakes.
Bill Kelleher
July 27, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Jed
Recessed Bitts.
In the Navy we referred to those as Dutch Bollards
Commercially they are referred to as Panama Chocks
Jed sends