9 a.m. ... Wanderbird coming through the Gate? (Remember… doubleclick enlarges.)
Well, I knew it wasn’t, given all that capacity up forward.
but a little over half an hour later, she wandered in. Wanderbird was built for capacity, too, and from 1963 when the Jaczon family launched her, until 1990, she fished. Here’s a link for another Jaczon beam trawler operating out of Scheveningen (and you should hear me pronounce that town name in my best dialect).
The bridges making up this immediate entry to the Gate are (farther and pink) the Hell Gate Bridge and
the RFK.
Solomon Sea (ex-Brandon Roehrig) with its string of scows led
the way through.
The candy-striped stacks belong to Big Allis
over beyond Roosevelt Island in Ravenswood, Queens.
As I’m seeking to confirm, Wanderbird sips fuel . . . five gallons/hour! Click here and here to see youtube of six-cylinder diesels by the same manufacturer, Industrie.
More on Wanderbird soon.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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November 20, 2010 at 6:58 am
Roger Cole
The article gets better and better. Somehow I didn’t get to go into the engine room on either of 2 cruises, so the Industrie Engine Facebook Videos enable me to know more about what was pushing us. I was thinking I would have to take another cruise in order to get to know the much-appreciated engine.
Both cruises were great, and the engine is much appreciated by all aboard.
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December 24, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Capt. Rick Miles
Hi Will. Happy Holidays! Just a brief note to say that we arrived yesterday in Culebra after a challenging weather trip. We had some strong low pressure systems that kept on coming …….and blowing! We plan to visit your fair city again on our way north as we offer a coastal cruise from NYC to Gloucester, MA Have a great winter Will. Kind regards, Rick and Karen Miles of the WANDERBIRD
December 24, 2010 at 8:48 pm
tugster
rick and karen–and crew, merry christmas! if you have great pics to share, please send them and i’ll post them. also, when you have an eta, let me know: readers and i might love to fly wanderbird to gloucester. have a fantastic winter.