Here are my posts from June 2 and 3 last year. It was the day Maltese Falcon stooped across the bay with all sail set, sending the orange boat in the foreground to flee in panic, as if prey.
Crew on the barge pushed by the McAllister tug to the left clock it at nearly 20 knots before
she douses her sails, at the push of a button and cruises past a Blue Marlin in Day 12 of a prolonger loading.
It took ten more days to have the load secure for departure. A day-by-day report of that loading process is in the “Tale of Two Marlins” link to the left. Since that trip last June, two more Dockwise vessels have taken US equipment over to West Africa. Today, Blue Marlin is anchored off Malta, Maltese Falcon at the dock in Genoa, the former Reinauer tugs work off Nigeria. So far I’ve gotten no response to requests for fotos from Nigeria.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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June 3, 2012 at 12:40 am
Anonymous
Great photos. And I learned a new meaning of “stoop” – which has nothing to do with sitting around on the stoop.
June 3, 2012 at 5:24 am
tugster
“she stoops to conquer” never made sense to me til i learned this . . .
June 3, 2012 at 5:26 pm
bowsprite
so does this mean you are Nigeria-bound?