Lauren’s Backhaul

Field test for a new digital camouflage pattern?

Actually it’s this, CVA-59 . . . decommissioned for over 20 years and now moving

south and then west.  Justin Earl gave permission to use the photo below.  For more pics of the move out of Philly, click here.

Dave Boone took the rest of these.  Here, the tow approaches the Chester waterfront.

Assisting here–as they approach Fox Point–a great place to see river traffic–are (I believe) Alex McAllister, Timothy, and Bridget.

Check out this 12-minute video on her construction.  It makes an appropriate start to an epitaph for this vessel.

Fair weather, Lauren.

Many thanks to Justin Earl and Dave Boone for use of these photos.  Justin’s chief mate on Lauren and has been on board since Panama. I took the top two photos back in June 2010.  It’s hard to believe that Lauren, Iver and the crane coming through the Narrows was less than a week ago!

Slight digressions:  here are my latest photos of Timothy from more than six months ago.  And here’s a post I did over a year ago with shots from Fox Point.