High and Dry: Caddells 4
The “4” here refers to the dry dock, not the fourth post in this series. The last post on Caddell was Something Different 57. And in the “high and dry” series, this would be number 11. I’m just trying to anchor this post in the previous body of work. Also, I believe this dry dock […]
Retro Sixth Boro 54
This month I’ve done one retro October 2012 post on the Chesapeake schooner race . . . and am doing this one at the end of the month rather than the beginning, for reasons that will soon be apparent. On the 31st a decade ago, I made my way down to Front Street Staten Island […]
Frederick E. Bouchard
Full disclosure here, I took this photo almost a month ago. Also, I’ve sometimes referred to this 2016 tugboat in posts without including the middle initial, and as it turns out a boat sans the middle initial did exist, launched in 1951 and scrapped in the 1990s. Anyhow, this 2016 boat was purchased by JMB […]
Something Different 57
Here’s a mystery, a 1919 UK-built tug named G. W. Rogers that sank in Rensselaer in December 1987. Click on the photo itself to get more info. The mystery is this: which floating crane raised it and what became of it later? Next mystery: what became of the wooden floating drydock that used to be […]
Retro Sixth Boro 56
This monthly practice of looking back a decade gives me an opportunity to dust off a specific part of the archive in tugster tower. Besides sneezing sometimes because of the dust, I also feel amazed about the amount of change, small changes maybe but significant it seems. Evening Mist has become Everly Mist, and is […]
Random Tugs 339
“Random Tugs 001” I posted in October 2007, 14 years ago. The motivation for such a post then, as now, comes from the observation that what passes you by, either on the water, the roadway, or even the sidewalk or hallway, is often just random. It’s foolish to look for meaning or significance where there […]
Non-Random Tugs 19
I’ve noticed and mentioned patterns before today. A pattern in my book has to be made up of more than two items or occurrences. So Marilyn George by itself is not a pattern. Having Kimberly Poling show up while Marilyn George was at the IMTT dock is not a pattern either. Kimberly appeared to […]
Random Tugs 374
All these tugboats have a common design feature. I’ll let you figure it out. Eastern Dawn pushed a load of scrap westbound in the Kills. James William showed off her bow as she traveled light toward the Upper Bay. Ditto Buchanan 12, usually confined to pushing up and down the Hudson with a train […]
Dawn 2023 B
Part B of this post is a corrective. The lead photo I used two days ago was NOT the first photo I took in 2023; rather, the one below was: a pristine 1969 or 1970 Buick Electra (?) parked here by another photographer wanting to get golden hour photos of the sunrise over waters near […]
Random Ships 102
Seen yesterday by Donald Edwards . . . whose photos previously appeared here. The story behind the paint job follows. Today’s post features exactly what the title says . . . a random set of recent visitors to the sixth boro, like the 2015 Hafnia Raven, here escorted in by Margaret Moran. Bass is a […]
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