I’m at a quo vadis point myself. I appreciate the feedback you’ve given on the virtual tour. I could do more, e.g., guide to the Welland Canal, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, and four of the five Great Lakes. As to the Erie Canal, which was/were your favorite leg? What info specifically did you find most interesting or startling? As for myself, learning about the loyalists . . . that’s topic I could dig into more, not on the blog but in my personal reading. Three Rivers Inn nightclub is one of my favorite details.
Let’s have a look at small boats and their seasons. Below, that might be Emily Miller, black and white alongside the monolithic hull of USNS Watkins. She’s acrew boat that operates all year ’round.
Savitsky is one sweet fish boat. Fishing is a year round activity in the boro.
Emergency vessels are here year rund. NYPD has a number of these fast 70′ tactical response boats. One I caught soon after arrival in the sixth boro exceeding 40 knots can be seen here.
Side by side, here’s a serious USCG 45′ nearer and a NJ State Police RIB farther.
And the 29′ Defiant looks like it’s made for
maneuver-
ability!
Marine 1 FDNY has the big boats, medium, and small boats, although I’m not sure the length and other specs of this one.
And finally, the North Hudson Firestorm 36 is a rare sight on the KVK. I first saw her here on her delivery from Canada.
All these photos I took in March or earlier. As we move farther into spring, covid-19 notwithstanding, different types of small boats will be moving around the sixth boro.
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May 12, 2020 at 11:18 am
Roger Johnson
Future travelogues: I enjoy the journey you take us on – the main route and the rabbit (and squirrel and deer and . . . .) trails found along the way. Like a good main plot in a movie or book, with side stories that augment & provide context.
So whether that journey is the Oswego or the Ottawa or the Outer Banks, no matter.
I just need to learn to cope with the guilt of leaving you with all of the heavy navigation. Minor problem that will resolve.
-R
May 12, 2020 at 12:09 pm
Linda Roorda
Any trail you take us on gives those of us who cannot travel a great view of life elsewhere. Appreciate you added some of the older historical sections where my Mom’s ancestors settled, lived and died since the 1600s. It’s been 12-20 yrs since doing my genealogy research and publishing in the NYGBR – using dial-up way back when. Totally enjoyed your current photos including the Palmyra/Newark area where I grew up, too, and fished on the canal as a kidlet, and updated data you sent us to since I’d found way less online back then, ordering interlibrary books to do research. Your providing historical aspects meant alot. THanks for a great tour!