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 […]
Retro Sixth Boro 50 A
June 2012 was pivotal for me. A photo sent along by a friend alerted me to Canal commerce–Canadian corn– entering the US at Oswego, a place I knew something of from my youth. If that was a spark, then the breeze that fanned it was an invitation to do my trial article for Professional Mariner […]
Tugboat Roundup 2007-2010
I first went to the Roundup in 2007. Here are some photos. National as for sale that year. W. O. Decker is an almost-regular attendee. Cheyenne, also a regular, was red then. Since it’s currently working out of Wisconsin, I doubt she’ll ever be back. Here are some photos from 2007: fleetmates Margot and Benjamin […]
Riverbanks 11
Here are previous riverbanks posts, although for some inexplicable reason, they are not indexed in order. Name the riverbank in the image below? Above and below, that’s Manhattan, as seen from about 30 miles out. It would take another four hours before we passed the 59th Street Bridge. The darker image in the center […]
Retro 2012 Waterford Tugboat Roundup
The 2010 post had a photo from 2009, so let me start this one with one from 2010. This photo made the cover of a NYS Restoration publication devoted to boats, but I lent my copy to someone and it’s never returned. If you know the publication, please let me know. OK, let’s see one […]
Retro 2013 Waterford Tugboat Roundup
An omen of the future . . . in 2013, Urger was laid up, sans her problematic prop shaft. Here she’s nez-a-nez with Day Peckinpaugh. Gowanus Bay was looking good. NYS Marine Highway was well represented, as always. And following two of the four NYS Marine Highway boats there was Cornell, Frances and Margot‘s senior […]
A Lost Jakobson
For the source of these two photos, click on the second photo, the frontal view of Lumberman. For a thorough history of the vessel, click here. Arthur Hamilton sent me this article from yesterday’s Juneau Empire about this September 1941 Jakobson of Oyster Bay tugboat built as Dauntless No. 15. What’s clear is that plans […]
Retro Sixth Boro (and beyond) 33
2011 began in Charleston, a great place to welcome a new year. Strolling around, I encounter the 1962 75′ buoy tender Anvil, 75301, here made up to CGB68013. In the background, that’s cutter Cormorant or Chinook. Heading farther north a day or two later, it’s Hoss, sister of Patricia, and now habitat for fish and […]
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, […]
Review: Tales from a Tugboat Captain
Take all the photos you like, but if you just sit on a dock by the bay watching the ships roll in and out, you’ll only know so much and nothing more. If you suspected I was hinting at something in yesterday’s post, it was this review. If you want to know more about working […]
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