Other Peoples Photos 88
Thanks to Tony A, let’s play “name that ship.” Photos were taken near the “banana pier” yesterday, and as of this writing this morning, the vessel is still there, but here’s your chance to use your search skills to identify it: there’s a number, a flag, and of course a color. Many thanks to […]
Thanks to Tony Acabono 31
To follow up on my “inconsistent post-entitling” comment from yesterday, this could be Tony A 31, at least, given all his previous contributions here under a variety of noms de keyboard. For starters, here’s another closeup of Highland Eagle. Last summer the boat was contracted to survey an area near the Straits of Mackinac for […]
Sea Power
I had something else for today, but . . . Sea Power . . .changes everything. No, this is NOT a post about assets of global military hegemony. Instead, Sea Power is the name of a huge tug that pushed Sea-Chem 1 into the sixth boro yesterday, and Tony Acabono sent along these photos of […]
New Hulls, New Names
ACV Enviro provides boom service at IMTT; this means they use a small boat to deploy and retrieve oil containment precautionary booms around vessels transferring petroleum products there. Here and here are examples appearing here previously. I don’t know how long booming has been required– years, I suppose; it’s not new. Miss Beth, however, is […]
Harry McNeal, a TriFrame, and More
Tony Acabono wrote me that he was confused, although maybe he was not. As this approached and passed by, I was briefly confounded. The shape reminded me immediately of a tidal power installation in the East River, which I’d written about here 12 years ago. The three nodes of the structure on the barge are […]
Government Boat Surpise
The smaller surprise was to see USCGC Beluga (WPB- 87325) traveling with speed from Sandy Hook into the Upper Bay. I don’t believe I’ve seen Beluga before, although she looks identical to the 70+ Protector class 87′ boats named for marine predators. I didn’t realize that many marine predators existed, although once you start counting […]
Fruits of Preservation 3
Here were the first two installments of this series. And what prompts this post is the news yesterday about a $200 million structure in the assembly stages just four years ago. Click on the image below to see the post I did just four years ago. It will be scrapped as announced yesterday here. The […]
Other Peoples Photos 81
From Capt Nemo, a few years ago, the 2000 Mary Gellatly high and dry and before she was Mackenzie Rose. Also, I see Tasman Sea, Dace, an unidentified Bouchard, and Yemitzis. From KP, Dace getting her upper wheelhouse . . . over 10 years ago. From a Great Lakes Mariner, the oldest working ship on […]
Big Ones 4
A top hat tip to my eagle eyed collaborators in and around the sixth boro . . . Here are previous “big one” posts. See those marking on the base portion of that vertical structure behind the RV? this is a mighty high-reaching crane base painted like a giraffe’s neck. It’s actually a perfect […]
Other Peoples Photos 80
Hats off to all mariners today on National Maritime Day. For key statistics from US DOT on role of mariners on US economy, click here. If you want to see all the previous iterations of other peoples photos, click here . . . over a thousand photos, I’m sure. And I’m sure not going to […]
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