Inside Out

Given the hold shots from Wavertree in yesterday’s post, can you guess the vessels?  Answers at the end of this post.

While under construction . . . looking aft.

During dormancy and along the port side looking aft?

During restoration and looking aft . . . .

During rejuvenation and looking forward . . . Sept. 2009.  The rest of the photos, starting with the one below, all show parts of the same vessel.

A closeup taken from the photo above.

Outside same vessel showing corner of a hatch cover.

Day-Peckinpaugh in the sixth boro in September 2009.

Day-Peckinpaugh between Locks 2 and 3 in Waterford in September 2014

 

Day-Peckinpaugh is expected to be towed to Buffalo at some point in August 2015.   If you live within reach of the Erie Canal, you might want to get shots of her making a highly unusual transit.  Here’s more on the first (2005) phase of D-P’s second life.

Holds shown above were 1) Onrust, 2) SS United States, and 3) Wavertree.  Thanks to all who’ve helped arrange access.

Here’s another interior shot from last year.

And this is a self-indulgent set of photos.

Wavertree at Caddell Dry Dock 1

Here are posts about Wavertree’s trip to the dry dock and before.  And below are two photos I hadn’t used in those posts.

May 21, 2015

May 21, 2015

In the past 10 weeks, prep for the actual dry docking has resulted in loss of at least a foot and a half of draft.  Mussels once submerged have lost their habitat.

July 30, 2015

July 30, 2015

Let’s descend into through the forward cargo hatch to see where a cavernous hold is getting even more cavernous.

from the ‘tween decks looking up and …

… down …

and all the way down

Note the ladder beyond the foremast, as seen from standing to starboard of the keelson.

Looking to the stern from the ‘tween decks.  As Mike Weiss said, “a cathedral of cargo.”

For scale, note the worker wearing a white hard hat on the keelson beyond the mast

Looking astern from atop a makeshift block of ballast on the port side of vessel.  That’s the main cargo hatch prominent in the center of the photo.   My response to Mike’s quote is “an ark of angled wrought iron.”

This is how the skeleton of a 130-year-old vessel looks.

Looking toward the rudder post from the ‘tween decks.

Returned to the main deck looking forward at the cargo hatches.

Removal of extraneous and/or non-original weight has included belgian block and large concrete block ballast.  This water tank may be original

And here are the credits.

Many thanks to Mike Weiss and  South Street Seaport Museum for the tour; click on that link for membership info.  August promises to be more prep work for dry docking.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Click here for CSM article about the 1983 initial and partial restoration of Wavertree.

East River Mystery 4

Here are previous posts in this series.

And this set comes from Mike Abegg, whose photos have been used here previously.   Check this out.  All I know about the yellow vessel is that it looks like a Griffon 1000TD.

Anyone know the whences and whose . . . inquiring minds wish to know.

Thanks to Mike for sharing these photos.

Somewhat related . . . does anyone you know refer to the East River or any portion of it as the Sound River?

 

Bayonne Tower 2

I’m not entirely sure where the land story here starts and stops, but three and a half years ago, I posted this when the tower went up because it intruded into a lot of photos I took.  I took these next two photos in January 2012, right after erection but six months before it went on line.

from the Upper Bay

from Lower Newark Bay

And here are two I took last month.

from right across the KVK

from the Con Hook range

Here’s the news:  the turbine is fritzed and needs repair or replacement after just three years in spite of an expected life span of 20 years!  Here’s a full range of speculation. Of the hundreds of thousands of wind turbines operating in the world, why does this one fritz out?

All photos by Will Van Dorp, with thanks to WS for passing this story along.

 

 

 

 

 

More Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension d

Here were parts a,  b and c.   These photos taken over three decades ago capture a simpler sixth boro.

Here the magical dory is tied to Philip T. Feeney, which now languishes in a tug purgatory.   The shore of lower Manhattan also looked quite different then.  That low-slung but stately building on the other side of the river is the Custom House aka Museum of the American Indian.

Reef points and baggy wrinkle . . . this is a classy sailing dory not timid

when navigating past a tanker of yore.

 

All photos by Pamela Hepburn of Pegasus Preservation Project.

200 Miles North of the Battery

I went quite close to the source of the Hudson four years ago . . . here.   But earlier this summer I stopped in Glens Falls, just because I wanted to see the falls.

Glens Falls as seen from the Route 9 bridge

Here’s more . . .

and more.

Glens Falls as seen from below the Route 9 bridge

And here’s looking down the Hudson from below the bridge, with Finch Paper to the left and SCA Tissue to the right.

Back to the Route 9 bridge, here’s the old central office, and click here for an interesting Finch Paper history.

But here’s the real nugget . . . the really interesting piece of history, and it’s UNDER the bridge.  Charles Reed Bishop, local boy orphaned by age 4, who tagged along with a friend with connections–William Little Lee.  At age 24, the two of them headed for San Francisco, and since this was 1846, that meant sailing around Cape Horn and stopping in Hawaii along the way.  Bishop stayed, became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the rest of the story is here.

 

How’s that for an unlikely trajectory for a Hudson river boy AND information found under a bridge?   And about 50 miles south of here, in Troy, along the river’s edge is another plaque celebrating another Hudson river boy with an unlikely trajectory into the Pacific.

Photos by Will Van Dorp.

Government Boats 36

Here’s an index to the previous posts in this series.

This post is short and sweet, and you’ll soon notice the theme.

900 total hp of Yamaha above on the FDNY boat and even more Mercury below . . . divided between two US Customs and Border Protection boats.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Something Different 19

This is partly inspired by the first 18 posts of this series and partly by the Apple ad campaign called “shot on iPhone 6.”  I have an older iPhone, but if you ever get a message from me, you’ll see a note “sent by talking drum” instead of the default advertisement.  OK, I’m contrarian.  But all the shots in this post have been taken by my talking drum, and therefore of a different quality.

I need to carry a mini tripod for the talking drum (TD) camera . . . in lower light, although

this one is crisp.

I certainly need a tripod for a “pano” shot.

Sometimes you get a pano via composition.

A TD cam IS handy when you find yourself facing a once-in-a-lifetime perspective.

This bus has fascinated me for the past two weeks, so today, having carved out time to stop, I chatted with the owner . . . my age, who had the bus painted by graffiti artists in honor of his late son.  When the weather chills, he will cast off his lines and head south.

 

Final shot for this beautiful day . . . everyone takes these, an autofoto or a narcis  . .  read the comments.

 

All these reps by Will Van Dorp.

Wall Vessels 2

Wow!  When I typed “wall” into the search window, I came up with this somewhat silly post from 2007!  But one of the photos shows Barents Sea when I first saw her in the sixth boro.

What I was thinking with the word “wall” today is that the hull of a vessel walls out any info about the crew, the cargo, the human climate on board!  By looking at  this image of a section of the hull, you can tell what it carries, where it came from, its age .  .  I could go on.  Actually, all those patches notwithstanding, the vessel is four years old.  Anyhow, my point is

two thirds of the planet is inhabited by “worlds” walled off like this and more often moving throughout the latitudes and longitudes and climate zones and political regions and hot spots . . . .

and if you missed Ian Urbina’s articles recently in the NYTimes called “The Outlaw Ocean,”  check them out and the comments here.   I’m still stuffed with the food for thought presented there.

Photo by Will Van Dorp.

 

Waiting 2

Here was the first in the series.  That one ended on a “back-to-work” note.

This one . . . probably will not have a happy ending, unless of course you’re a fish looking for structure or a diver wanting to explore.  Here’s a view of the vessel pre-sixth boro days. And here’s the last time I saw her run.   Call Barents Sea high . . . and potentially wetter and wetter.

Have a look while you can.

When she gets reefed, I’d love photos.

Thanks to Birk, here’s her history.

Click here for a guide to fishing and diving on New Jersey reefs.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.