#1 was here.
It’s June. Might you be suffering from hypoclupea . . . deficiency of herring? Read what the celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks writes about treatment here, as published in the New Yorker two years ago. Hypoclupea can leave you blase, bleached, apathetic . . .
dried out . . . as Miss Callie herself is feeling these days. To see Miss Callie in her element among the fishes, click here.
Even on Coney Island, the painting near the boardwalk looks off because this siren has taken to eating . . . @#@! dogs, and they’re not even hot.
Go fishing . . . whether you use bunker for bait and catch your own, or just
exchange cash or credit at the nearest purveyor of “new catch holland herring,” and you’ll find your zest for life just
returns! You might even end up seeing mermaids without having to go to the latest Depp/Disney show.
All fotos by will Van Dorp, who has lots of unrelated odds and ends and who just might not post tomorrow.
Translated info on the fleet at a “loggers” festival in Vlaardingen on the Rhine this weekend. “Logger” in Dutch is “lugger” in English.
From Uglyships’ Bart, here’s a video on an uneventful loading of the loading of 15! tugs onto SSHLV Fjell in Singapore bound for Maracaibo via Cape Town. Here’s a Reuters article on same.
And finally, last but not least, you’ll see a new image of “tugster” on the upper left side of this blog; click on the image and you’ll see part of an article that appeared in Jack Tar Issue #5. Watercolor is by Herb Ascherman of Cold is the Sea blog. Another great example of his work is cover on Jack Tar #5.
Finally, if you find yourself in Manhattan Saturday, look to the water: I know of at least one swim around the island race going on. New York has enthusiastic swimmers!
Happy solstice!
tugster: a waterblog 
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June 17, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Carl G. Schuster
Hello – I am a NYC resident with a fascination for the waterfront, and things usually man-made in the water. There are secured, at the 79th Street Boat Basin, large, floating wooden structures, with iron reinforcements. They measure something on the order of 6″X8″X8.” No one, including the Dockmaster at 79th Street, can tell me what they are, or were once part of. They are huge, and at least one of them at another location, is unsecured and grounded at about 70th Street on the Hudson. A storm tide will send that out into the harbor, and will constitute a sever hazard to navigation. Any thoughts on what they might be, and should CoAE be called to remove them?
I’m also a student of Henry Hudson and his various undertakings, and have published several articles on the subject. The story in our history books has nothing to do with the reality of 1607 – 1611. Historians claim to know next to nothing about Hudson. It is said that we can know about people by the company they keep; it is equally true that we can tell the nature of the people employed by those companie. Hudson’s associates were well known and extremely important people of the age.
Pace Carl Schuster
June 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm
tugster
carl–two things: 1) can you send a foto of said floating structures to the email address attached to the blog, and 2) scroll down the blog and on the left side you’ll see “my other blogs.” the second one there was an attempt to “channel” a year in the life of HHudson by means of the Juet log. hope you think it was a fun endeavor. thanks for reading the blog and commenting.