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I thought I had done a post called “pushing oil,” but I seem to have mis-remembered.  The closest I can find is here, and looking at this post, it’s clear to me how much I’ve learned since starting this blog.  Here’s another related one from last year.

Clearly . . . that’s not a tanker below.  Thanks to Ashley Hutto for this fine photo of Captain Zeke doing a job that might have been done by small tankers a few decades or less back.

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Capt. Log is one such small tankers, and her life doing what she does so well is winding down.

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Here two Moran tugs–Brendan and Catherine Turecamo, I think–push a tanker into a berth on the KVK.

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Davis Sea . . . once this would have been done by a tanker.

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Ditto Dace Reinauer.

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Thanks to Ashley for the top photo.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

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