Today minimal text prevails.  I took these fotos in a total of nine minutes.  Below is foto #1.

#2.

#3.  Note the prop race on starboard side of Laura K.

#4.

#5.  Margaret Moran helps Commander depart Howland Hook stern first aka

backing down.   Foto #6.

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#9.

#10.   Note two of the charge towers (if that’s what they’re called) on Kraken, the bedrock cracker.

#11.

#12.   Note Manhattan cliffs reaching over the flatlands of Bayonne.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.  Commander is Europe-bound.  Previous backing down reports are here, here, here, and here.