Mixed Sixth Boro 2
Christy Anne is a small tug that I’ve not seen in 15 years!! I posted it here, after seeing it in the Hackensack River, a place I see rarely. Unrelated: where are those buildings on the ridge in the distance? Is there some Fata Morgana effect going on there? With the placement of tire fendering fore and […]
From the Line Locker 37
I spent part of a quiet T’day thinking about doing a 2023 calendar, and difficult as it always is to winnow the choices down to 12 or so shots, I’m doing a calendar. Price will likely be $20 again. Sorry to bring up buying on this Black Friday. Going back through the 2022 photos […]
Small Craft 27
I caught this small open boat eastbound on the KVK. She passed Ernest Campbell. Clearly by her markings, she’s a survey vessel. Between traffic, they seemed to focus their work near the transition between the KVK and the ConHook Range . . . returning to their area of interest, as I said, between traffic. Work […]
Small Craft 30
All year round, bathymetry happens with small boats like this from McLaren Technical Services. I couldn’t tell if it had a name. Click on the photo above for more info on McLaren. Ditto . . . boom boats they work all year round near oil docks and around vessels where petroleum products are transferred. Here […]
People on the Boro 33
Keyport Princess dropped anchor in front of the Statue the other morning. Does anyone need more proof that fish are currently thriving in the boro? Climate Change also came through the boro from the Sound, no doubt heading for warmed waters for the next half year, but while transiting, this boater takes in the beauty […]
Exotics 18
If you’ve forgotten why I call these exotic, it comes from a bird book I have on the shelf. Read about it here. RV Ridley Scott Thomas came into the sixth boro yesterday, arriving here between Driftmaster, 1949–exotic in a different way–and the light, West Bank. Here’s my question: where and when was Ridley Thomas […]
Second Lives 30
The photo below shows Neptune, a survey vessel doing wind farm related work. It was first posted here in late July 2019. As of Monday morning, this vessel has been anchored in Gravesend for over 24 hours. Previously she was Neptune with that wilder paint job. EGS loosely expands to “earth sciences & surveying” and […]
Thanks to Great Lakes Mariner 3
Well . . . a couple of Great Lakes mariners who prefer to remain nameless . . . but let’s start with a photo of Joel B from a few years ago. She’s quite the attractive boat! Thanks so much to a GL Mariner for responding to Saturday’s post by sending another of that boat […]
RVs 3
I value classification, so here are the previous posts with this title. And here’s a cadillac of research vessels that’ve called in the sixth boro. Some others elsewhere have included a NOAA boat, Weatherbird II, and a larger NOAA boat. I was there for the christening of Kaho. Michigan has the venerable Neeskay, Huron has […]
Sixth Boro Solstice Surveyors
Let’s start with one at Brooklyn GMD, thanks to Mike Abegg, whose previous photos can be seen here. I’d seen NOAAS Hassler before, but I’d never realized she was a catamaran. Might she be NOAA’s only large multi-hull? And the horizontal inboard-pointing fins, I’d not expected those, although they may be standard stabilizers on a […]
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