Atlantic Sail

Over half a year ago, I did a series of posts on Atlantic Star, the first of the new ACL c-ships arriving in the sixth boro for the first time.  The other day was my first time to spot the next of the set of five.

And given the location of Wavertree, a 130-year-old  veteran of Atlantic (and all its adjoining waters)  sailing,

juxtaposing the two seemed an opportunity not to pass up.  imagine this as cover art for a book called Atlantic Sail, Then and Now.   And no, I haven’t written it.

Here’s a shot.  Now if only I’d had a drone….  I suppose in a few weeks if Peking is docked here, a shot with that barque and this Zim vessel (IMO 9289544) would be the one to get.

See in the middle distance a Nukahevan craft passing Atlantic Sail?

No matter.  Let’s study the novel shapes and angles on the CONRO, assisted out here by Eric McAllister.

 

That’s the stack offset to port.

Steel curves like this in superstructure are unusual.

 

Sail on,

Atlantic Sail.  Here’s the report for the week Atlantic Compass went to scrap.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.