Refurbishing Patty Nolan model
Ages ago it seems Patty the tug got a refurbishment, as chronicled here. Recently the esteemed captain and owner of Patty Nolan received a model of his boat that had been made decades, more than a half century, earlier. Since Patty received its own livery, the model needed to be patched up and the new […]
Retro Sixth Boro 50 A
June 2012 was pivotal for me. A photo sent along by a friend alerted me to Canal commerce–Canadian corn– entering the US at Oswego, a place I knew something of from my youth. If that was a spark, then the breeze that fanned it was an invitation to do my trial article for Professional Mariner […]
Retro Sixth Boro 48B
Let’s go back a decade. Then MSC Emma was on the west coast of Bayonne leaving town; now she’s on the west coast of Central America, leaving Lazaro Cardenas for Panama. Above she was assisted by Gramma Lee T [now in Norfolk] and Margaret and setting up for the turn from Newark Bay into the […]
High and Dry 11
Numbers are hard to keep straight, but I think we’re up to 11 in this series. The most relevant preceding post would be “High and Dry 8” here. Yesterday I think I caught Saint Emilion getting hauled, with quite a few folks looking on, although maybe that number of folks is standard. Doing the honors […]
Retro Sixth Boro 28
I hope you all enjoy looking at these retro posts as much as I do putting them together. I’m seeing that 2010 was the year I started to gallivant extensively, so the division for July 2010 retrospective is part a is for local, and part b will be for away. Count the boats in the […]
Something Different 53
Recently I got a request for something on single screw tugs. Ask . . and receive, from the archives. May 1, 2011 . . the 1901 Urger was on the dry dock wall in Lyons looking all spiffy. A month later, she’d be miles away and alive. On March 19, 2010, the 1907 Pegasus had […]
Checking Back 2015 c
Remember the logic in this series is . . . the first pic of the month and the last pic of the month . . . Early September found me still along the Acushnet . . . Malena–as of this writing–is in Sierra Leone, having bounced around the Caribbean since departing New Bedford. By September’s […]
World’s End
World’s End is not some lamentation about the single digit temperatures we’ve seen in these parts; it’s one of the great place names in the Hudson Highlands from 40 to 55 miles north of the the Statue. Enjoy these summer/winter pics of this curve in the vicinity of World’s End. West Point is just to […]
Landmarks 4
Here’s a previous post with this title. For anyone venturing upriver, no landmark is more intriguing than Pollepel Island, 50 miles north of the Battery. But it’s changing. Note this difference between these fotos I’ve taken over the past decade. 2003, as seen from the Channel, looking roughly east. Notice the lower wall and […]
How to Swim FROM a Tugboat
You may have seen this foto sequence yesterday of Orlando Duque diving from a helicopter near the Statue of Liberty? Well . . more on the foto below later in this post, but the diver here is in fact she who inspired my post today by her instructions on how to swim from a schooner […]
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