Pilots 7

By this point, I’d ceased thinking this was a fast-moving fishing boat.

Here’s a dawn photo I took from the Staten Island side of the Narrows six months back.

But this shot, like the top one above, I took at dawn two weeks ago while waiting for the big crane to lift itself above the horizon.

It must be me . . . but are there many things prettier to look at than this pilot vessel coming in to replenish and arriving with the dawn?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Click here and here more photos of their vessels since 1837.  Click here to see this vessel during Sandy’s blow.