Transitioning 5

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.