Retro Sixth Boro 37 A
May Day! It’s a busy day without access to my archives. May 2011 . . . Urger in Lyons NY, waiting for the dry dock to flood. Back in the sixth boro, it’s Elk River and Siberian Sea…eastbound at Con Hook, and near the same location, it’s Lincoln Sea and Eastern Dawn, both westbound. […]
Retro Sixth Boro (and beyond) 27 b
I vividly recall June 2010. Let’s take June 3. The two Hornbeck tugs there are Erie Service and Eagle Service, now Genesis Valiant and Genesis Eagle. Minerva Anna is at one of the easternmost IMTT docks; today she’s eastbound in the Indian Ocean. But in the middle of it all, GLDD’s Liebherr 966 was getting […]
Retro Sixth Boro 29
August can be hazy, and it appears that some August days in 2010 were, as below when Colleen McAllister towed dredge spoils scow GL 501 out and Brendan Turecamo (?) moved Bouchard barge B.No. 260 westbound in the Kills. Colleen has now traveled from sun to ice out to the Great Lakes, where the 1967 […]
Delaware Traffic 3
River traffic travels in all weather and times of day. So at first I was dismayed to be without my camera, but fortunately Elizabeth had hers when Timothy McAllister came past and got really close. Thanks to the crew, whose demonstration probably inspired some young’uns to want to grow up and be mariners. Earlier […]
Really Random Tugs 13
This NYPD officer of the peace got tugged right into a recent parade. When that happens, you know all things could get downright disorderly. This last June post is a melange of Pegasus and Lehigh Valley 79 in a setting rays irritating my camera, Patuxent in the Philly dawn, Sea Hawk approaching the St. John’s Bridge, Patuxent […]
Review: The Heart of a Ship
This book makes very clear what the heart of a ship is. And it’s not the electrical or mechanical systems. It’s not even the galley, although I can attest to the revival I felt after consuming the goods from this vessel’s galley at sea. By the language on the engine order telegraph, can you tell […]
Other Watersheds 9
Foto below was taken on July 3, 2012. Charles D. McAllister . . . featured here dozens of times, was assisting British Harmony (see name on lifeboat) out of IMTT Bayonne . . . for sea. Where? Doubleclick enlarges fotos. Related: note the follow-though handwork demonstrated by the line thrower below. Where is he? He’s […]
Convergence 4
Here’s some of my May 2010 coverage of Fleet Week’s arrival. So Fleet Week and OpSail 2012 have converged, commingling state-of-the-art with traditional vessels. Now add into the mix F/A-18s and Hudson river water pumped through the system of 1931 John J. Harvey. Doubleclick enlarges fotos. Leading the fleet is Eagle. And leading the […]
Context
I had planned to call this convergence, but the sixth boro or any harbor is much too dynamic a place for that title. Stuff in and stuff out . . . . From near to far here is Dewaruci, Arabian Sea, and Swan. Dewaruci, arriving here already last Thursday, was the vanguard of the flotilla […]
What the Storm Brought
From my reading Stephen King phase, I remember a formula that involved a storm or fog moving on and leaving something inexplicable, usually malevolent. If I hadn’t expected Gazela at this appointed hour, my imagination would have raced. Instead, it did my heart good to see Gazela–who was still dory fishing on the Grand Banks […]
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