Suco!!

So what’s with the white sheet over the fendering?  It must mean

a creamy-white hulled vessel is arriving with what the Brazilians call “SU coe,” or  . . . my favorite cargo.

It appears this is the third voyage of Orange Sky from Santos to Port Newark this year.  My friend John Skelson caught her here on her second voyage.   By the way, you might want to check out John’s photo exhibit on Lilac this month.

In the next few photos, watch the teamwork between tugboat crew and ship crew.

Ship crew has sent down the monkey’s fist line and deckhand makes it fast to a towline . . .

which is then hauled up and made fast by ship crew, while deckhand keeps eyes on tug captain.

Line is made fast on ship but slacked as needed on the tug until

tug is correctly positioned.

Now with a name like this, I couldn’t resist using

this photo recently sent along by a secret salt.

Any errors in interpretation of what I was “seeing” while taking these photos  . . are my errors.

Unrelated . . . given that this is Brazilian orange juice and that world cup play is on many people’s minds, check out this interesting essay by David Brooks on  . . . more like life . . . baseball or soccer?