{First, an “ad” for the opera on Mary Whalen.} Great mood foto and ticket info here.
Now . . . Defender to Cigarette . . . prey to predator; cheetah to zebra. And the outcome…
Cheetah! Busted! Hove to.
Erie Canal tug Seneca, a government boat, attends to various and sundry canal work, here accompanying a crane barge clearing tree encroachment on a boat landing.
Below is Marine 1’s John D. McKean. See this link for John D‘s welcome of the QM2 on her first arrival here. John D. may have only a few years of service left; scroll down to “changing tide” for 2009 replacement plans. More FDNY boats here.
The newly refurbished 110′ cutter Tybee based in Woods Hole cruised westbound this summer. Tybee is one of about 40 110′ sisters.
Getting us back to predator and prey, conversion of these 110′ cutters to 123′ faster ones has not gone smoothly.
For fantastic video of Coast Guard rescue of tran-Pacific rowe Roz Savage, see this link from Sea Fever, long on my blogroll.
All images by Will Van Dorp.
By the way, new to the blogroll at left… World Ship Society with lots of New York links.
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August 29, 2007 at 8:38 am
Michael
A few years ago a work project required me to take a short ride on a Coast Guard pursuit boat. They advised when we got on that “if we get a call, we’re going whereever we’re needed, and your project will have to wait.” Sure enough, they got a call, and we went. And when I say we went, we WENT! Those boats and their crews are no joke. This happened twice in one day…I’d like to say it was exciting, and in retrospect it was, but when it was happening it was a bit frightening. I distinctly remember my thoughts afterwards: We need more of these people and these boats…they’ve got their eyes on the ball.