Surprise, lunacy, and freebies commingle in this post. At one point, my perspective shifts a half dozen miles also.
0859 . . . as seen from the “swimming pool” aka Faber Park, Staten Island-side just east of the Bayonne Bridge. That’s Shooters Island (see a then/now post I did here) off the bow of Zim Qingdao. Here‘s something to know about the place Qingdao.
Still 0859 . . . Amy C McAllister awaits instructions on assisting with the turn.
0901 . . . part of the turn accomplished . . .
0902 . . . Zim Qingdao makes the Bridge.
0905 . . . Ellen‘s off the stern now. And when I look up,
… well, there’s no surprise about female mariners except
that looks like a kid! Could this be a contemporary Zim Family Robinson . . . sans the shipwreck of course!!
0940 . . . I’ve jumped onto my horse and raced over to the Brooklyn side of the Narrows. What directed my attention to the Brooklynside base of the VZ Bridge was ships’ horns: one long blast . .. danger! Is it this? At least six “smokers” . . .
as Zim Qingdao sped up . . . for her next port, tailed by Amy C and Responder.
I was half expecting these invulnerables-whose engines will never stall maybe— to jump the bow wave . . . . NYTugmaster links to a WSJ article on “playing in urban commercial waters” here.
Between the VZ and Swinburne/Hoffman, Zim Qingdao meets
Zim Shenzhen . . . Note the crew on her foredeck.
By now, Zim Qingdao is passing the Bahamas after a post stop in Savannah, no doubt headed for the Panama Canal.
Unrelated: Want a free boat ride on Saturday, tickets are available here at 7 pm today. Actually, there are no truly free boat rides; support historic vessels of your choice.
If you’re looking for a thriller to read this summer, try The Ship Killer. Bonnie gave me hers . . . after I’d noticed in prominently displayed at my local Barnes & Noble. There’s info here, and I agree with the first review there by Jim A . . . except I’d go farther and say it’s like Moby Dick . . . but you get inside the whale’s twisted mind just as you get inside Ahab’s lunacy. I was predisposed NOT to like it, I didn’t BUT it was a thrilling ride.
And speaking of thrillers . . . here’s an American jetski adventure stopped by Russian tanks and helicopters, from a blog yesterday.
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July 13, 2012 at 5:24 pm
JED
Smokers – HA! Didn’t need a link to know the reference. I liked most of that movie…
July 21, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
weird situation with that WSJ article – it’s interesting, mostly solid, but from some stuff I ran across through a fellow paddling blogger, it seems like there’s a possibility that the original incident didn’t really happen the way it got reported.
http://www.frogma.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-storm-incident-misreported.html
July 21, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Bonnie K. Frogma
PS – ha! liked this comment over on that book review site –
“Really good in a totally popcorn way”
February 3, 2015 at 3:44 am
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February 5, 2015 at 11:33 am
Lou Rosenberg
Will
I absolutely LOVE your photography of ships!
re: Super Container ships: WHY do they stack the containers so high as its obvious to anyone who has seen pictures of them falling off
in storms…when the deck pitches 20• degrees? I know its all about the $$.There is NO way to secure them and all i think about is what they do to boaters and ships after they fall off . See R Redford in “All is Lost”
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