Unrelated: Have you ever heard of a fleet–a vital US government fleet–with NO ships? Details at end of post.
I’d never blogged about this docking although I took these fotos of back about five years ago. With almost-twin McAllisters (Responder and Charles) just beyond her wingtips,
Eagle glided eastbound on the East (could be misspelled as “Easy”) River ,
and overseen by an unidentified 65′ WYTL (Hawser?),
Charles D. approaches the stern as
as lines are made ready and then
hauled back in
Communication is vital as all those linehandlers get coordinated with
twelve hands working these wheels simultaneously.
Responder attends to the bow and all
lines are made fast.
and the wheels go unattended, hands down.
All fotos taken long ago (2005) by Will Van Dorp, and posted now inspired by bowsprite’s Escanaba post and Flickrstream. And speaking of Flickrstream, check out this USCG photostream.
The US 10th Fleet has NO-ZERO-AUCUN ships. Learn its mission here.
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April 26, 2010 at 8:33 am
Jed
Those wheels are NO joke ESPECIALLY in the wintertime.
April 26, 2010 at 8:55 am
tugster
cold wet . . . unforgiving if they make contact?
April 26, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Mark
Heard these guys were in town and I found this picture of Charles with the Steve Irwin.

Neat blog:
http://porterraceuemar.blogspot.com/
April 28, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Dennis @ Marine Electronics
For once I actually knew the answer to your question! Yeah, finally, being Tom Clancy’s fan paid off.