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Just some more photos and mostly from Amsterdam.
Photos 2, 3, 4, and 5 here were taken from Hoek van Holland; the others are from Amsterdam. It’s been rainy and gray. Enjoy.
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More later after the gallivant ends.
I hoped to ride Elbe to Maassluis, but due to my misread of the waterbus schedule, we were JUST too late . . and watched from the quay. For two short movies of Elbe leaving the dock, check my Facebook page.
Again . . . with limited time available . . I’ll leave the post to photos.
I don’t have a good coonection, but enjoy these photos for now. The watershed in the Rhine; waterway is the Maas. More when I can. My photo arrangement here is the opposite of what I wanted.
Bergen Point, a 1958 Blount product, coming through the Narrows last weekend. Click here for many interesting vessels from Blount that have appeared on this blog.
And a first timer on this blog . . . John Parrish.
Penn No. 4 all painted white . . . click here and scroll through to see her in PennMaritime gray.
Bluefin . . still in PennMaritime gray . . . or is that primer?
Maryland . . . with reflections.
If my search window serves me right, then this is the first appearance of Katie G. McAllister on this blog.
This is definitely the first appearance of Pelican State here. The photo of this Great Lakes Dredge & Dock boat is here thanks to Mike and Michele Mcmorrow.
And thanks to Mage, here’s Esti and
Cerro Jefe.
A previous view here of Emily Ann had her as Solomon Sea.
Brian Nicholas at work in Great Kills. Click here (scroll through) to see her as both Banda Sea and Brian Nicholas.
And finally . . . it’s the mystery tug Elbe when it was Maryland Pilot boat Maryland. At its stern is its predecessor, Baltimore. I haven’t found out much about Baltimore. Any help? About Maryland, Capt. Brian Hope–who shared this photo, said this, “In 1985 and MARYLAND was donated to Greenpeace. She was a great boat, but too expensive to operate. She had a crew of 18, plus a chief steward. The crew worked two weeks on and two weeks off, so that, counting the steward, we had a total of 37 crew. When we went ashore that was reduced to about 21 and our fuel, repair and food costs dropped dramatically as well. I am very glad to see that she has been preserved (in Maassluis). She’s a great boat!” Thanks to a generous reader, here’s an article about her sea trials.
When next I post, I hope to share photos Elbe in her restored glory.
Sorry to miss NYC’s fleet week again.
Notwithstanding all that . .. sometimes the thought that a day is the first day in the rest of one’s life is superlatively vivid. Enjoy my pics and maybe you’ll get this sense also.
Sunday afternoon, Zhen Hua 10 enters the Kills. Does anyone know if “Zhen Hua” means anything? Note Manhattan and the tip of Bayonne to the left, and tug Brooklyn, Robbins Reef Light, and the boro of Brooklyn to the right.
The new cranes arriving and the bridge their squeezing underneath are integrally related parts of the same story, as . . .
… are the cranes and the dredging equipment in the background. Note tug Specialist in the background
Margaret Moran tends the port bow.
Gramma Lee T Moran supplies the brakes and rudder.
The ship completes its journey of thousands of miles. Is it true that Zhen Hua 10 arrived here via Cape of Good Hope?
On the same theme . . here’s a handsome team of tugs, good paint all around. Working on a tandem assignment?
My thought when I read the name on the nearer tug was . . . this is historic . . . Crow‘s last ride; the Bushey tug might also be in the last mile of its thousands and thousands in a half century of work.
She’s being escorted in by Emily Ann . . .
Crow and her sister Cheyenne DO have classic lines!
Machines on shore were already staged . . . .
while not far away a last spring seal lollygags on some warm rusty metal, once also a brand new machine.
And on the other side of Staten Island rubble of a light indispensable a century ago adapts to a new life as a rookery.
Many thanks to NYMedia Boat.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will be transiting himself soon. Thursday I leave on a grand gallivant, and in early June–if all goes well– I start a new chapter working on Urger, that handsome young centenarian tug you see upper left at the top of the page.
It’s late Sunday evening, and Monday morning will come very early, so as a sneak preview to tomorrow’s post, a few photos of the transit of Zhen Hua 10 to Port Newark. Moveable platform courtesy of NYMedia Boat, which gets a photographer in the right places.
More tomorrow after work. All photos by Will Van Dorp.
F. Scott Fitzgerald said there were no second acts in American life . . . but as in this case, he was wrong about so many things. We all have second and third acts, fourth and fifth lives.
Does anyone know the larger vessel below? What’s barely legible on the bow is the name Maryland. Photo was taken by Brian Hope between 1978 and 1984, and that info should make identification quite easy. There’s a closer-up at the end of this post.
Unrelated . . . but another vessel, currently in the UK, has also gone through a series of lives.
Currently it’s on the Avon River near Bristol . . . Its previous lives include the following
30-06-1916 Flora, Rotterdam; 18-11-1975 Zuiderzee, Urk; 1979/04/07 Zuiderzee, Enkhuizen; 22-08-1979 Zuiderzee, Steenbergen; 16-01-1980 Zuiderzee, Rotterdam; 1981/06/08 Zuiderzee, Maastricht; 1990/09/11 Gaby, Maastricht. I’ve simplified the info a bit here; the underlined words are towns of registry although in many cases the boat had multiple owners in the same town.
Her previous life as a small tug is evident in her lines.
Her current owner–Pete Totterdell–is looking for any more info and photos from her previous lives. Further info from him: “The boat was originally bought from Zaandam. It has a Volvo Penta 117hp engine currently. 15m x 3.5m, Air draft 3m, depth draft 1.6m. It was a was a working canal authority vessel.”
Parting shot . . . closer-up of Maryland, whose current life and mine may cross paths in exactly one week.
Thanks to Capt. Brian hope and Pete Totterdell for these photos.
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