Film Tugs 9
The idea for this series is that while watching a movie, I see tugboats in it unexpectedly. This happened last night as I watched Kill the Irishman, a 2011 movie based on events in Cleveland OH during the mid-1970s, when a mob war led to 37 bombings in Cuyahoga County. I was outside the US […]
Old Hulls, Old and New Names
Not quite half a year ago, I used a variation on this title, but photos I took yesterday necessitate a modification as you see above. Imagine my surprise when I saw this nameplate on the most famous–and only–wooden hulled tugboat in the sixth boro. I’d noticed before on AIS that there was USCG vessel in […]
Film Tugs 8
This is an unexpected post, but I watched a movie the other day that involved D.S. 78 barge moving garbage away from a marine transfer station somewhere in Manhattan. John J. Harvey shows up in the movie. And the crewman above, would he be crew or an actor? And here’s the tug. Likely someone seeing […]
Film Tugs 7
Here are previous posts in this series. There is some self-disclosure here: since last winter and thanks to my movie-buff son, I’ve gotten hooked on movies based on comics. So, recently, to my surprise, while watching Gotham, I saw Marie J. Turecamo and one of the 6000s in a CGI-noir of an East River scene. […]
Winter Solstice 2021
Winter solstice is one date I pay attention to, and yesterday demanded an undivided portion of it. I was out on the sixth and primordial boro at sunrise, although when it rose, a gauzy film of stratus filtered the light. I tinkered with the image a bit to enhance the cosmic eeriness. Along the Brooklyn […]
Canal Tug Project M2
After today, I have one more Matton post from the Canal Society archives. Below is an aerial shot on the Matton shipyard on the Hudson, the one that closed in 1983 as a Turecamo-owned site. Bart Turecamo had purchased the yard in the mid 1960s , soon after Ralph Matton had died. More info and […]
Inaugurations
January, once every four years, involves a formality that we mark today. Inaugurate has a strange derivation, you figure it out. With this post, I’m in no way intending to divine futures. Really it’s just sets of photos taken four years apart. Ice and lightship yacht Nantucket floated in the harbor in mid January 2009. […]
Film Tugs 6
Here are the earlier posts in this series. And for today, see this screen grab from Coen brothers Ladykillers, a fun movie I thought for an otherwise uninspired evening. That’s a tug towing a garbage barge under a bridge supposedly in a southern state. A good half dozen bodies get tossed onto the garbage as […]
1964 Sixth Boro b
In continuing reportage from Steve Munoz: “On Sunday, July 12th, 1964, my family sailed out of Paerdegat Basin in Jamaica Bay on the Evelyn Mae (below) and arrived at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, still under construction and not to be opened until late November [1964]. Throughout that afternoon we drifted and steadily rolled in a southeast […]
Film Tugs 5
Click here to see the series. Recognize the actor/character gazing into the dry dock at Ocean Wrestler? When I saw this on a streaming rerun–whatever you’d call it now–I suspected the name Ocean Wrestler was a prop added for the show. More on that later. According to the script, this was a dry dock in Norfolk, […]
tugster: a waterblog 