Thanks to tugster readers who snap photos and write tugster editorial offices, I sometimes can include dispatches from far-flung places. Today’s post comes thanks to bowsprite who texted me the other day mentioning a pelican at the North Fork of Long Island.
I had limited wifi at the time, so I expected later to see a photo of a haggard fish-eating semitropical bird blown out of its usual habitat by this summer’s storms. Later but before I could open the photo file, she asked about VIMS, and I could not imagine why.
But here is is . . . a vessel named Pelican looking faintly military and with ghost letters midships “VIMS.”
Click here for a thorough orientation to the boat since its adoption as VIMS flagship in 2003. But according to this, a new vessel was ordered, and here it is (as a rendering) . . .
Here’s more about the shipyard in Matane, QC.
Many thanks to bowsprite, who’s especially buoyant these days, for this photo and news.
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October 1, 2017 at 5:32 am
tugster
I should have recognized Pelican, because just a month ago–although it feels much longer than that–I featured it in an Exotics post. Here it is: https://tugster.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/exotics-4/
October 24, 2017 at 11:36 am
George Schneider
…and I’ve added a little background on her in the comments to that page. Many thanks to Bowsprite for another view of her.