Thanks to Jan van der Doe 2
If you’ve yet to make your first trip to the Netherlands and you’re interested in tugboats, then Maassluis in one of a handful of must-see places. Jan van der doe went there recently and sent these. I was there last year and got some of the same photos, just two months later in the […]
Old Year 2016
This is my Janus post . . . which I’ll start with a photo I took in January 2007 of an intriguing set of sculptures, since licensed to Trinity Church in Manhattan. Since I’ve tons to do today, comment will be minimal. The photo below I took near the KVK salt pile on January 14, […]
NL7a
Now let’s bounce back south of Leiden, west of Rotterdam . . . to Maassluis. Notice all the gray color upper left side of the aerial below . . . all greenhouses! I have lots of fun looking at this part of NL by google map. At the center of Maassluis . . . you […]
NL7b
This is a 1959 vessel with a rich and varied career. Click here for photos from a maritime festival last year, and here (scroll) with info about her sojourn in the US. Click on the photo below to hear her run. Click here to watch a 20-minute video documenting her meeting a near-sister a few […]
Thanks to Xtian
Xtian has been sharing photos here for some time. Now it turns out he and I were in the tiny dorp of Maassluis within days of each other earlier this month, as evidenced by his photo of Furie, which was in the same spot the day I visited here (and scroll). I would never have […]
Assorted Dutch Craft 3
Here’s an index to previous posts with this theme. But truth be told, technology has no nationality. Click here and scroll through for the last vessel, a Dutch tug vessel that for a time worked in the Chesapeake. Here she was last week, all decked out and doing a tour in connection with a Maassluis’ tugboat […]
Dutch Tugs 3
Hudson, launched 1939, spent WW2 working for the British Ministry of Shipping, having left the Netherlands with a tow to Africa just before the Germany invasion and occupation. After the War, it towed to ports worldwide until 1963, when it was deemed underpowered and sold for scrap. Instead, it was purchased by a fishery as […]
Other Watersheds 12 c
I hoped to ride Elbe to Maassluis, but due to my misread of the waterbus schedule, we were JUST too late . . and watched from the quay. For two short movies of Elbe leaving the dock, check my Facebook page.
Random Tugs 128
Bergen Point, a 1958 Blount product, coming through the Narrows last weekend. Click here for many interesting vessels from Blount that have appeared on this blog. And a first timer on this blog . . . John Parrish. Penn No. 4 all painted white . . . click here and scroll through to see her […]
Road Fotos 29
Quick update on National Maritime Day from Belfast, Maine. What got me here was this vessel, today a platform for tours between here and the Arctic mostly. Wanderbird started this stage of her life after fishing for 30 years, cod and herring. The shoes in the foreground reflect its origins . . . launched in […]
tugster: a waterblog 