You’ve heard about Flat Stanley and Carmen Santiago? So, let’s play . . . errant ferry, Staten Island ferry (SIf) in particular. We’ve seen a SIF here, here, and here . .. so thanks to Birk Thomas, enjoy these new installments. Where is this?
Well . . . the location is the Chesapeake, and the answer is not really that vessel had chosen to go way offcourse; rather, it’s that maintenance is done in Norfolk, the result of bidding, I suppose. And that’s Colleen McAllister doing the tow. No matter how capacious the SIf’s appear when you are onboard, they seem to shrink
when juxtaposed with other traffic in the sixth boro. Thanks to John Watson for this foto of a busy harbor; foreground ACL is unidentified and the cruise ship is Crystal Serenity.
Thanks to Birk and John. And now, I’m heading out to get re-acquainted with the sixth boro myself. Remember . . . to vote for Pegasus/79 daily AND if you see an errant SIf, please snap a foto or several.
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May 11, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Mage Bailey
Great shots. Thanks. And yes sir, I vote everyday. I also ran a blurb on my blog yesterday. 🙂
May 11, 2012 at 7:24 pm
tugboathunter
Don’t Barberi and Newhouse share the record for highest passenger capacity?
May 11, 2012 at 7:29 pm
tugboathunter
Answered my own question: Newhouse and Barberi hold 6000 each, Oasis of the Seas set the new record with 6,296.
May 14, 2012 at 1:33 pm
bowsprite
have I got errant ferry photos for you! but my favorite was the Staten Island Ferry that was on my table yesterday morning. It’s a drink at the Cowgirl Seahorse on Front St, under the Brooklyn Bridge. Toast the SI Ferries with a SI Ferry!
May 16, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
When I was still at Pier 63, I did once see a SIF cruising past, northbound on North River. Strangeness on a par with seeing that white pelican in jamaica bay. Unfortunately
Now if I saw a Staten Island Ferry in Jamaica Bay, that might top the pelican.
May 16, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
Unfortunately did not have my camera that day, was where the “unfortunately” was going.
May 16, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
Did Bowsprite say “Cowgirl Seahorse”? I’m intrigued!
May 16, 2012 at 3:55 pm
bowsprite
let’s go!!! just a tin can’s throw away from the Spushi Joint!
May 16, 2012 at 4:06 pm
bowsprite
tin can kick?
May 16, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
stone’s roll? laden swallow’s wing-flap?
May 16, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
OK. Yum. When?
May 16, 2012 at 7:23 pm
tugster
it’s right across the street from the cowboy seacow bar, isn’t it?
May 16, 2012 at 7:40 pm
bowsprite
left of crowbar seasaw
May 16, 2012 at 7:43 pm
tugster
ah!! over there where Shelly sells shawls of marshy shoreside grasses?
May 16, 2012 at 8:02 pm
bowsprite
i ain’t going to pick a peck of pickled herring with you over this…
May 17, 2012 at 10:54 am
Bonnie K. Frogma
happy paddle babble!
(go on, five times fast & tell me how it goes!)
May 17, 2012 at 10:56 am
Bonnie K. Frogma
Cowsea Boycow
Seaboy Cowcow
May 17, 2012 at 11:32 am
bowsprite
oh boy oh boy
oh chef boy ar dee
(you’re the fast happy paddler)
May 17, 2012 at 5:38 pm
tugster
By the way, the ferry shown under tow in the post is MV Sen. John J. Marchi.
November 27, 2012 at 4:55 pm
tugster
thanks. when does she get enroute? i noticed that as of this morning (11/28) she was still in st george, maybe getting prepped for the trip.
November 27, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Trevor Gherardi
John J Marchi being towed to Virginia for scheduled shipyard dry docking.