means “jumbovision” or “not everything fits inside a steel box.” Jeff Anzevino took the fotos in Poughkeepsie last Saturday, and coincidentally Bowsprite became intrigued with her some hours later as the jumboship passed through a dark sixth boro bound for sea. Bowsprite’s watercolor renders her conceptually, whereas Jeff’s fotos caught her naked deckload. As a further coincidence, I’d caught fotos of Fairload 50 days earlier in Charleston. Below, Fairload rushes through the ice as it approaches Walkway over the Hudson.
Believe it or not, Fairload belongs to the smallest class of Jumbo vessels. Errors loading such enormous loads can be catastrophic, as happened in Albany in 2003 with Stellemare . Check out these fotos of a single 130-ton piece aboard Fairload.
Cargo on the weather deck of Fairload last week included the 146-foot yacht Danadia. Anyone know the destination?
By midnight, Fairload will be under and south of the Verrazano.
Thanks to Jeff Anzevino for these shots. Bravo to Bowsprite for her lovely rendering.
Here’s a vessel-carrying vessel I caught from the Walkway a year and a half ago.
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February 26, 2011 at 10:03 pm
KG2V
Anyone know if MV Blue Marlin or her sister Black Marlin have made it to the 6th Borough? They are among the BIGGEST class
He’s a picture with probably her most famous load
Yes, that’s the USS Cole
February 27, 2011 at 9:04 am
tugster
i don’t know if black.. or blue marlin have been thru here. i do recall those fotos of the cole.
February 27, 2011 at 2:23 am
David Hindin
An alternative approach:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/03/13/BADA16EJFL.DTL&o=0
Bay Bridge gets a whopping crane
A massive shear leg crane mounted on a barge passed under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Thursday, March 12, 2009. The barge measures 400 by 100 feet and was custom built in Portland Ore. The barge was outfitted with the massive six story high crane dubbed the Left Coast Lifter in Shanghai China, then ferried across the Pacific aboad the 750-foot-long partially submersible ship Zhen Hua 22. The crane will later be used to erect the signature 525-foot bridge tower. (Lance Iversen / The Chronicle)
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/news/info/crane.htm
Click to access shear_leg_crane_barge_press-release.pdf
February 28, 2011 at 9:24 am
Fjorder
Hey will—the owners of those battlewagons are some lucky anglers they’re prepping to be fishing off Costa Rica or some other hot central American spot!
February 28, 2011 at 10:50 am
Fjorder
I wish—oh… I was just guessing on the boats’ destination.
I may have been if I were still working in the motoryacht industry… a captain/friend for a gorgeous Merritt oversaw the shipping of the vessel over to Europe and wrote about it…
http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/boat/boat-shipping/