Christmas 2022
If you think a blog devoted to tugboats is narrowly focused, imagine one devoted solely to herons. Babsje has been doing that for longer than tugster has been around. She sent me this image yesterday in response to my solicitation of seasonal photos. She told me that getting a heron to pose with that cap […]
Christmas Eve 2022
Can you identify this text? “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” I’ll provide the answer at the end of this post. Thanks much to George Schneider for sending along this “cheer,” Wedell Foss, Port Angeles WA and taken last night. As for me, I’m […]
Christmas Eve 2021
Deck the hulls . . . the bell sound signal device and railings too. And I’ll leave that song right there. Kimberly Turecamo has a wreath around the bell also, but consistent with the Kimberly crew, there’s more. Merry Christmas all . . . All photos, WVD. Here was last year’s M is for […]
Christmas Eve 2020
Having seen the forecast for December 25, I did my watch on Christmas eve. These are the latest sunrises of the entire cycle . . . photo taken around 0745, and the sky was still reddish and offering very little light. Fort McHenry and survey boat Christina cross. Yes, Christina . . . namesake you […]
Truckster! 27
“Vintage CJ” has to come to mind when you see this photo, and time has modified this folding windshield jeep to give it an “articulating” frame. The lake middle left side is Canandaigua. This is a photo from a month ago; by now along this road, snow lies on the grass at the foot of […]
M is for Merry 3
Unless I get more Christmas tree/decorations photos, you might consider me remiss. It’s the season when I get decoration photos, no tree itself. Here are previous iterations. Got any unique ones like signs of the season, like this one . . or this from Morgan City? That photo, WVD, who’s currently out looking for […]
Road Fotos 2021 F 2
We’re a week out from Christmas Eve and fewer days than that from the solstice, it’s time to complete road photos from two weeks ago already; here was part 1. The French Quarter of New Orleans has a lot of colored neon all year round, but here, juxtaposed with tropical colors of house paint, are […]
Package Boats
You’ve seen all the brown, white, and now blue package trucks clogging the streets and roads, their drivers working ever longer hours as we take to online shopping. These two Reynolds boats have nothing to do with that, but they do deliver foodstuffs, spares, and incidentals to ships at berths and in the anchorages. The […]
Yachts Velocita Massima
What interested me in this incoming vessel was its fleet: Spliethoff, and the name–Dijksgracht–makes her a D-type. Her D-type fleetmates can be found here. As to cargo, I imagined she might be bringing wood pulp. But when she came into view, another secret was revealed: she had a deckload of yachts on a voyage that […]
M is for Merry 2
Those look like icicles, and beyond the icicled railing, that’s certainly a wreath decorated with CFR § 83.33 signalling device . . . aka bell. And are those partial candy canes way in the distance? And a Christmas . . as well as all-year round star! Seen from a different perspective, I think this is […]
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