Seeing the Moran boats on the upper left side of this foto reminds me that I owe you an answer to Relief Crew 9‘s question, which herinafter, shall be dubbed the “tugsterteaser,” term coined by Jed. Tugster teases maybe but always delivers. Answer comes thanks to Harold Tartell:
“The year of that photo would be early 1962. The M. MORAN (brand new but doesn’t look it) has returned to New York from Pusan, Korea after towing a floating generating plant for the U.S. Navy. She left her builders (Gulfport Shipbuilding in Texas) in Oct. 1961 and made the tow from there directly to Pusan. The MARIE S. MORAN built in 1961 (now TERESA McALLISTER) and sister MARGARET MORAN (now BRIAN A. McALLISTER) were both built in 1961 by Dravo Corp., Wilmington Del. They were on charter to Moran with an option to buy. McAllister took them over with the same agreement later that year, and ended up buying them. They were the first two tugs in McAllister’s fleet single screw with Kort Nozzles.” Thanks Jed and Harold!
So back to more posteriors. After reading the bottom paragraph of this post, decide whether to some the expression should be “negatively posterior”?
L. W. Caddell is a 1990 built 16′ breadth tug working around the Caddell yard.
Christian Reinauer, 2001, 40′ breadth.
Pati R Moran, 2007, 36′
Zachery Reinauer and Thomas J. Brown, 1971 and 28′ and 1962 . . . 19′.
Rosemary McAllister, 2008, 36′.
And while we’re looking at sterns, here’s an unexpected detail on Peacemaker, a boathouse behind the fold-down stern. Bowsprite sends along this foto.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, except the last one.
And some discoveries lead me to reiterate my creative commons licensing. Fair is fair. More on this later. But please comment on this: what should I do if unauthorized use of my work turns up? What would you do?
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October 24, 2009 at 7:34 pm
tom mann
thats the problem with the internet. once a picture is posted, be it on a website or facebook or any site it becomes public domain.as far as ads on your site i have seen none
October 25, 2009 at 8:17 am
Bob Easton
You are always very conscientious about photo attribution Will, and it is reasonable to expect others to be fair too.
Using CC licensing also shows your willingness to share more freely than those who try depend on strict copyrighting. So, you’ve been more than fair with your work.
If I were you, I would contact the unauthorized user, pointing them to the CC license terms and asking them to either comply or take down the unauthorized copies. Beyond that, you have to decide whether you want to employ a lawyer.
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As for advertising, I’ve not yet seen any on your or Bowsprite’s sites. Maybe it is something that wordpress.com is messing with on a trial basis? If if comes to the point that wordpress.com implements it as a matter of SOP, and you don’t care for the ads, you can always establish your own independent web presence very inexpensively. I use a very reasonably priced provider that makes it incredibly easy to host WordPress and other blog technologies. More info on request when you’re interested.
October 25, 2009 at 8:44 am
Michael
The fold-down stern…how practical!
I’ve had people take my work two or three times…in every case a polite but to the point request for them to link to my stuff instead of using it wholesale has solved the problem.
October 25, 2009 at 12:54 pm
tugster
michael– thanks much for that other matter. also, thanks for looking at the blog.
October 25, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Mage B
Great entry, thank you. And I have noticed that sites which have been bedeviled by photo swiping now have site information right across the middles of the pictures too. Very intrusive.
Have you considered creating a record of the NY tugs in book form?