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Picking up from yesterday, Kimberly released her line on the lower recessed bitt of MSC Bilbao and spun around to head back home. Jonathan C goes to retrieve the docking pilot.
Victoria Highway comes in . . . .
Life saving steel cage?
Lines are prepped for the next job.
Brendan Turecamo is on the stern.
Meanwhile, over in Global, there’s a lot of shifting going on.
See the crane operator’s cabin beneath the rail just to the right of the red/white tip of the rail? An operator sits there the whole shift shuttling backing and forth lifting and lowering containers more than a hundred feet below.
Frances leaves for her next job.
Emily Ann moves a brace scows . . . likely to Claremont.
And Bruce A. comes over to hang on the wall between jobs.
Here ends my spring morning series. On a day like this, I couldn’t be happier. I’ve posted only ten percent of the photos I took, of course, in the interest of creating some narrative. Obviously each of these photos could develop into a narrative in itself. And other photos creating differing narratives remain in my archives . . . for now.
All photos, WVD.
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March 25, 2021 at 6:25 pm
mageb
It’s been a wonderful spring series.
March 25, 2021 at 8:08 pm
MARTT
The “lower recessed bitt” along the side of the hulls I believe are also called “Panama Pockets”
March 26, 2021 at 9:27 am
tugster
Thx, MARTT. I’ve also referred to them as Panama chocks…
March 25, 2021 at 10:16 pm
Vivian Sea
Thank you so much for your beautiful photos. I miss my tug man and his stories. RIP Nick W., engineer at Seaspan for 35 years. If I were a boy, I would run away to sea. Really. Awesome photos. Thanks.
March 26, 2021 at 9:28 am
tugster
Vivian– You’re welcome. Thanks for reading and commenting.