Where “Exotics” Ain’t Exotic 3
It’s a new year, and with today’s and tomorrow’s post, I’m retiring the label “exotic” as I’ve used it to describe vessels related to offshore wind development efforts. Consider the photo below: three such vessels appear, l to r: Fugro Enterprise, Miss Emma McCall, and HOS Browning. Since all three are offshore wind farm related […]
Where “Exotics” Ain’t Exotic 3 b
One more to underscore the increasing frequency of a variety of these boats . . . Brooks McCall even today is working an area of Long Island Sound between Plum Island and Fishers Island. That’s Millstone Point in the background. Brooks McCall is slightly older and longer than Miss Emma McCall, from yesterday’s post. Brooks […]
Where “Exotics” Ain’t Exotic 2
Here’s another mostly photographic account of quite commonplace traffic off Louisiana, aka in the oil patch. Fourchon Runner is running some supplies, equipment, and likely personnel out to one of a forest of platforms involved in oil and gas extraction. Here are stats on Fourchon Runner. This unit on the stern looks to my […]
Where “Exotics” Ain’t Exotic 1
Long time readers of this blog know I’ve assigned the term “exotic” to vessel types not commonly seen in the sixth boro. If I’d begun the blog in the SW Louisiana section of the Gulf of Mexico, I’d never have called the boats in this post “exotic.” For a primer on types of offshore supply […]
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