Headwaters 5
Seth Tane took this photo on the Columbia in 2000. This was my sense of tugboats back then. I had little sense of their age, power, crews, skills needed for operation, etc. Take a guess on those features of this boat, and I’ll provide you some answers at the end of this post. Note that […]
Port Colborne Pics 1
Besides the title, you might place this photo by the background. It was the focus of this post from about six weeks ago. I returned to Port Colborne because I wanted to spend more time. All vessels traveling between the upper four Lakes and Ontario/St Lawrence Seaway must traverse here. And an alarm on Bridge […]
Retro Sixth Boro 12
March 2009 . . . Stephen Scott here passes Port Ivory, near my old job, pushing RTC 70. I’m still looking for Stephen Scott photo is her new profile, sans upper wheelhouse. Port Ivory was an intriguing place name for me when I first moved here; once a North Shore Branch of the SIRR […]
Summer Sail 2
Here was Summer Sail 1; and since that dates from almost two years ago. Clipper City looks great juxtaposed against the skyline, but ketch Catriona . . . she has Herreshoff pedigree. No matter . . . larger schooner or smaller and more intimate ketch, one is pampered moving by sail in the sixth boro. […]
Retro Sixth Boro 3
All photos today I took in May and early June of 2008. Odin, configured this was in 1982, is now known as Jutte Cenac, after considerable reconfiguration. You’d no longer look twice at her now, as you would back then. Scotty Sky, the Blount-built tanker launched in 1960, was rendered obsolete on January 1, 2015 […]
Spring Sixth Boro Sail 2018
“A butterfly among moths” flitted past lower Manhattan yesterday, northbound on the North River, albeit a butterfly that hadn’t yet fully shed its cocoon. “The boat has a colorful history, beginning as a small trading vessel along the South China coast. It reputedly once belonged to a Chinese warlord who had to sell it in […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension Mon Lei
Recall that “fifth dimension” is my code for the time travel series; call it history if you wish. In 1968–50 fast years ago!!– Mon Lei, which transited the harbor last weekend, was more of a presence. All photos here come from Steve Munoz, who writes: “I saw your post and remembered seeing a Chinese junk at the […]
Chrononauts 7b
Ken came up with additional photos of his overnight in the transient slip at South Street Seaport Museum many years ago . . . so here they are. Note the Twin Towers in the background. To the right side of the photo, I’m guessing that’s a mastless Lettie G. Howard and Major General William H. […]
Lettie: Sixth Boro to Gloucester and Return
Here are some posts about Lettie G. Howard. Want to join the crew for a sail to Gloucester for the 2016 schooner race, be part of the race crew, or help sail the 1893 schooner back to NYC’s sixth boro? You’d be crew in training, integrated into watch-standing along with her professional crew. On the return, […]
Wavertree Returns 2
Who else greeted Wavertree on the rest of the way home? John J. Harvey is always in on celebrations. Lettie G. Howard was there, as was the helicopter. Feehan presented herself on the far side of Rae. Pioneer accounted for herself with crew in the crosstrees. Pioneer and Lettie teamed up at times. Wire showed up. New York Harbor School […]
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