Chandra B 3
If you can’t get to the fuel, you can have the fuel come to you. It’s Chandra B now, and it was Capt. Log before that. The fuel boat comes in while the Circle Line Sightseeing boats all rest at their pier. Inland from the pier, it’s the city that never sleeps or stops building. […]
Sixth Boro Details 14
This will be the last post for a few days . . . William F. Fallon Jr. at the Statue. Thomas D. Witte, dredge Delaware, Durham, and some smaller boats in the Upper Bay. Marjorie B. McAllister with NYNJR 200 on the Brooklyn side. Jessica Ann and another RIB appear to be involved in […]
Random Tankers 10
Random means all within the past month and all ages and sizes, like Giancarlo D 2016 508′ x 85′. Kmarin Resolution is also a 2016 build, but 820′ x 144′. Lightering is Linda Moran with barge Houston. Linda was the tug spared in the W & D fire back in 2008. Maybe someone can identify […]
Retro Sixth Boro 40 A
Happy August 2021. And “Wow!” That is almost always my reaction when I jump back a decade into the archives. This riveted tug was 83 years old when I took this photo, and I looked at that deep rounded icebreaker hull and imagined it would go on working forever. Now it’s 93 years old, and […]
Back in the Sixth Boro 4b
Heraclitus has to be the classical philosopher most referred to on this blog. I thought of this person again as I returned into the city after my longest ever so far time away; this is a familiar place of six boros, and yet it does not seem familiar. It is new, renewed by multiple sunrises […]
Back in the Sixth Boro 4
Here are the previous three installments of this title. After seven straight weeks away, I’m back in the boro for a while, a short while, and it seems the best way to catch up–attempt to–is to work backwards, starting from now. A welcome sight on the west side of midtown . . . . Chandra […]
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 […]
Retro Sixth Boro 11
My rules for this series: all photos need to have come from the month in focus but exactly 10 years earlier. It’s a good way to notice change. Take Capt. Log. I used to love seeing that boat, now long scrapped. I have photos of her as a heap of scrap pieces and have never […]
Chandra B 2
It appears I’ve not put up a batch of photos of this handy floating fuel station since here, but I’ll have to check the archives later today. For now, these are photos of Chandra B and her hard-working crew I took last week. Know the location? The two buildings through-lit by sunrise are Nouvel’s 100 Eleventh Avenue […]
Small Tankers 2
Chandra B may be small in size, but she of the American Petroleum & Transport, Inc., is big in personality. And Emma Miller and Marine Oil Service, I’d like to know you better. Both small tankers here–one for fuel and the other for lube oil–seem often accompanied by birds. I wonder why . . . All photos […]
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