Port of Havana 2

Let me pick up here, a closer up of the mystery tug Alnair from yesterday’s post.  I have no further info, but one reader–Thanks, L–wrote to suggest that Alnair looks like a YTB.  I’d thought so, too, but in Cuba?

So consider this one, not my photo, but if you click on the photo and do a search for YTB, you’ll find that until May 2006, this “Cuban” tug was known as Apalachicola YTB 767.  So could Alnair be Chesaning YTB 769, for example?

Al Mendares looks to be a small tanker named for the river that flows through Havana.

 

And here from the seawall  . . . MSC Opera, which as of this writing is across the Yucatan Strait in Mexico.

The red vessel is Vega, a trailing suction hopper dredger.

And finally, this ungainly vessel is a ferry.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

For more on YTBs, click here.