So Long, Alice
I took the photo below on June 7. My special interest in Alice stems from her being the subject of my very first blog post. Since then, I understand from two sources that Alice Oldendorff will be renamed. Algoma Verity. Verily? Verity it’ll be when she next returns? We’ll see. Anyhow, here’s one source, and […]
Random Ships 69
Let’s start with Alice Oldendorff, inbound with a hold full of Nova Scotia stone and about to turn to starboard on her (almost) final approach to Brooklyn. Alice and I have a long history. YM Wind makes the final approach her into Global Terminals, her first call at sixth boro docks. In contrast above, […]
Sixth Boro Self-Unloader
Preliminary question: Where in the world is Alice Oldendorff? Answer follows. This profile below–not Alice— might make you imagine yourself in the St Lawrence Seaway or the Great Lakes. But I took this photo on the Lower New York Bay yesterday. I had not caught a self-unloader of this style in the Lower Bay since […]
Late Season Lakers 2
Because of a cold brisk wind, I shot some of these through glass, which is never a good idea. But looking at this set, taken between Belle Isle and Sarnia, illustrate the variety of lakers, all in a context of not a single recreational vessel, something you’d never see in summer. Select info from […]
Really Random Tugs 41
Sea Power has been lurking in and around the sixth boro the past few days, and I will continue trying to get some good photos of her, but on 9-22-16 Jack Ronalds up at the Canso Canal caught these photos of her as she headed into Lake Erie to pick up her barge constructed in […]
Random Ships *5
My staying with this * thread leads me to wonder how to refer to this long peaceful international boundary between the US and Canada, and after rejecting a few like “third coast” (It would be disputed with the Gulf of Mexico) and “fresh coast” (Fresh has too many negative connotations) I’ve settled –for myself–with “great […]
East River Float-by by JM
JM, that’s John McCluskey, sent along these photos yesterday. I’d planned on doing that same trip yesterday, but time got away from me and today it’s rainy and darker! This shot greatly resembles one of the first set of photos I ever posted on a blog, my very first post. You can see it here. […]
East River Traffic
I’ve done other East River series, but it’s time to start a new one. The next 12 photos were taken yesterday over a total elapsed 11 minutes! I happened to be near South Street Seaport in hopes of catching santacon craziness there, as I did many years ago here. Let’s start with Alice discharging aggregates, […]
Random Ships 51
I missed this one, but I saw it on AIS. She used to be called Eagle Hope, but I’m thinking someone’s running out of names. I caught up with Alice though, here to discharge what she always does . . . aggregates. Denak Voyager waited in the anchorage at sunrise and before midmorning coffee, she […]
Really Random Tugs 44
First, from Kyle Stubbs, three Vane tugs (Elizabeth Anne, Hudson, and Delaware alongside DoubleSkin 501) which would not be that unusual on this blog, except he took the photo in Seattle over by Terminal 5. Click here for previous photos from Kyle. Leaping south to the Mexican port of Manzanillo–north of Lazaro Cardenas–it’s VB Yucatan, […]
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