Wheeler Shipbuilding
See the name on this black-hulled yacht? Note the simple upper helm? Check again as we pass. I took these two photos back in July 2016, making that the Mt. Hope Bridge and beyond that, the Brayton Point cooling towers, now gone. Pilar? Maybe you’ve heard of it in relation to Hemingway and currently in […]
Fruits of Preservation 3
Here were the first two installments of this series. And what prompts this post is the news yesterday about a $200 million structure in the assembly stages just four years ago. Click on the image below to see the post I did just four years ago. It will be scrapped as announced yesterday here. The […]
Canal Steamers Project 2
Not all tugboats on the Barge Canal in the first half decade were steamers, but most of them were. More on the early diesel tugs in another post. The photos in this post are arranged chronologically. In these days before metadata was even imagined, I’m very grateful for photographic prints that have dates written on […]
‘Ster Crazy 5 b
Thanks to all who wrote concerned notes about my being away from the blog. I had said I wanted to get away from the city and the blogger’s desk. l’m back renewed although restless with conflicting ideas about where I’m headed. These roosters, and all they had to say, were part my company in the […]
Something Different 47
Looking, seeing . . . but not understanding makes me wonder if I’ve missed stuff before. Am I dense, or is that something I don’t recall noticing before. See it too? Here’s the rest of the vessel with the (I believe) unusually high mast. And as large as this bulk carrier is, she seems disproportionately […]
Last Monthly Photos 2019
For your quick peruse today, I offer the inverse of yesterday’s post: I went to my archives and selected the LAST photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if that photo was a person or an inland structure, I didn’t use it; instead, I went backwards … until I got to the first […]
Random Tugs 300
The year 2007 spawned this series here. Since you’ve stayed with this blog, I’m celebrating a milestone . . . the 300th post in this series. Thanks for continued visits to tugster. To honor this event, I solicited photos from you, particularly photos that’d never previously appeared on this blog. I threw some of my […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS3
Here’s another photo shared by Ingrid Staats. If you’ve been to this blog before, you recognize the bridge, but what are Vega and Altair you might wonder. The ferries are aptly named, since they are two characters in a Chinese love story, Vega the weaver girl and Altair the cowherd. Here they operated within the […]
12 Lights b
The answer to the question in part a of this series is . . . Faro San Giorgio Maggiore, “faro” meaning “light.” And today, the winter solstice, with only 9 hours and 15 minutes of daylight in the sixth boro, has to be the best time to do another post about lighthouses. Before we get […]
Random Tugs 196
Name that tugboat? Or this one? Or these two? Answer follows. Enjoy the rest of these for what they are . . . Bruce A. McAllister above and Fort McHenry below. Meredith C. Reinauer on a sunny but cold morning. Ready for the answers on the first three? Well, the first was Kimberly Poling, […]
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