I intend this site to be primarily an educational and artistic venture for me, only secondarily as a commercial one. I am more interested in sharing, bartering, or community building. However, it depends who you are. If I’ve taken your foto or one of your boat, I’d gladly send a file high resolution. If you’re a non-profit, same could apply. If you have an idea for a collaborative project promoting the concept of the “sixth boro” as the progenitor of the other boroughs, please . . . let’s talk. The basic suggestion is . . . if you’re interested, get in touch. See contact link on left side main page.
If you’re a commercial for-profit enterprise, then I would be happy to “license” use of a foto or so under the conditions of the Creative Commons license.
Also, I post fotos at significantly reduced resolution, partly because they’re just easier to work with that way. At highest resolution, the fotos have graced full magazine pages. Then again, in some documentary posts, such as some of the May 2011 Blue Marlin, I’ve chosen to post fotos obscured by haze and taken from unfavorable angles; recall my goal there was documenting, not creating “beauty” shots. And given a choice between playing with photoshop or writing/researching, I go with the latter.
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July 2, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Kate
Tugster, please tell us the name of your parrot. Is he an Amazon? You have a beautiful blog.
July 3, 2008 at 8:47 am
tugster
kate touches an omission. i inherited the parrot from a former boss, bob. bob said the parrot’s name was nigel, and i’ve accepted that altho i’ve tried out other names. i need to devote a blog post to delve into the parrot’s name. when i’m back, i’ll work on it. cheers
July 14, 2009 at 8:26 am
Andreas Mellenthin
Dear Mr. Dorp,
I`m searching for the owner of the 1930 build motor yacht Justice ex Jessica. I want to build a radio controled model of this yacht and look for informations about it. I found the picture you took from this yacht in the internet. Do you know the owner or how to find the owner of this yacht. Thank you very much for every help in this way. Best regards. Andreas Mellenthin
August 27, 2009 at 8:57 am
Javier Quintero-Chica
I am the captain /owner of Ruhen. I was delighted to see her on your blog. If you see me on her please hail me I would love to meet you. In fact anchor nearby and If I’m home I’ll hail you. I live in the grey and horizontal white striped house on the east shore across the railroad tracks overlooking Ruhen.
I think you blog is great. In fact my partner, Carla, has something in common with you. She keeps a log of the ships that pass and anchor in Hyde Park. She is very interested in these things. I am going to introduce her to your blog. She’ll love this.
Sincerely
Javier
September 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm
wapenaar
it is good to see my husband and brother working on the Sterre!!
September 10, 2009 at 6:43 am
tugster
dag wapenaar allemaal . . . i was happy to see sterre. i hope you will put up fotos of your and the other boats travels in ny. tot zondag.
June 30, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Hermione Macfarlane
Dear Mr Dorp
I do the admin for our website and I came across your excellent fotos of The ‘Artemis Investments’ team North Atlantic challenge team and wondered if you could give me permission to use them on our website please or at least in our photo Gallery. I will put a link to your 2 sites in any case – i am so glad I came across them!
Yesterday (June 29th 2010 Team) ‘Artemis Investments’ (Leven, Ray, Don & Livar) set a new 24-hour speed record for ocean rowboat on route Atlantic West to East – 117 miles (188 km) (102 nautical miles) and equalled the 24-hour speed record for ocean rowboat on route Atlantic East to West set by Team ‘La Mondiale’ on January 3rd 2008 (Leven Ray & Don rowed together on that row as well) (Leven is my son)
I look forward to hearing from and thank you in anticipation
Best Wishes
Hermione Macfarlane
August 9, 2010 at 9:08 am
Rosie
Hi Tugster, you have a great image of the boat MV Yenegoe Ocean. We are making a film about Somali Piracy and were wondering if we might be able to use this image in our film. Unfortunately we have almost no budget but would be happy to credit you in the end titles of the film.
Best wishes and i lookforward to hearing from.
Rosie
02074283100
October 31, 2010 at 7:57 am
Don Henderson
Tugster,
A fellow artist/photographer turned me on to your blog, really enjoyed reading and looking at the photos. I developed an interest in Tug Boats via the Tow Boats that ply the 3 Rivers here in Pittsburgh. http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/gallery/#Towboats
I have a interests in Railroads, especially the Pennsylvania Railroad and as a side interest, the Railroad Tugs that operated the harbors of New York. Do you know of any good resources for Railroad Harbor Tugs? This is a link to a illustration I did of the USS PRR:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=USS+PRR#/d20hm52
-Don
November 7, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Len Williams
The ketch, Baidarka, was docked here in Cape Vincent (NY) for 5 or 6 days before making it’s way down the Hudson. We met, boarded and photographed her — along with sharing light conversation and a beer with it’s captain and crew. Got pics if you’re interested…
November 22, 2010 at 10:32 am
Tom
about the picture “true of Sinbad VI.”, where can I find more about this boat?
Thanks
Tom
March 15, 2012 at 8:36 am
David
I live in snug harbor and also have an affinity for water front around kvk.
I’m a painter and would love to share some of my photos an paintings of
The staten island water front with you.
March 15, 2012 at 8:47 am
tugster
david- let’s get together when i’m back. send me an email then, and we’ll pick a time/place. cheers
July 22, 2012 at 11:14 am
Anonymous
we owe our life to the captn and crew of tug boat cabo rojo; they save us from capsizing on 13 of may 1966 on rough weather crossing from cuba to florida; will never forget them; our boat was a 17 footer; l was 18 yrs old at the time now at 66 l will like to have a photo of the ship or his crew god bless them and god bless america .note at the time of our rescue tugboat cabo rojo was pulling 3 barges behind it with molasses in a trip from puerto rico to new orleans who was to tell; thath faint far away light we were seen on the distance was goin to be our salvation thanks a million captn god bless. tugboat cabo rojo and his crew. r .a. pena vero beach fl. 7-22-2012. note our boat the anita was abandoned to the mercy of the sea due to certain circumstances; every time l remember; seen it fade away under the lights; of the reflectors of tugboat cabo rojo l can stop tears . thanks again for saving our life. gratefully yours r.a pena
December 23, 2012 at 1:13 pm
the Oracle
Beautiful work.
December 25, 2012 at 3:37 pm
tugster
oracle– thanks. i like what you are doing with the picayune!!
December 26, 2012 at 9:51 am
the Oracle
Thank YOU ! The encouragement is awesome, Looking forward to the new year and expanding the content while upgrading and making the blog and site more user friendly. Any suggestions are always welcome!
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