Random Sixth Boro 14
This is my title for times I’m feeling ADHDed out . . . when I can’t focus on a big picture for all the divergent details. So, who’s home court is this? AS Felicia‘s crew, that’s who. Any guesses on AS Felicia‘s teu capacity? RN Weeks is a split hopper TS dredge, like Ocean Traverse […]
Random Sixth Boro 13
Here was the post I’d planned for yesterday, put together in a moment when I thought a single focus was too elusive, random scenes, like a container ship anchored off Stapleton, elusive detail in a set all diverging from usual patterns. Or seeing a Mein Schiff vessel in town after a hiatus… with Wye River passing […]
Random Sixth Boro 12
It’s hard to beat morning light for drama, as is the case here with QM2 getting assisted by James D. and Doris Moran into her berth in Red Hook, as I shoot into that light. Taken only a few minutes later, this photo of FV Eastern Welder dragging the bottom in front of the Weeks […]
Random Sixth Boro 11
I’m on the road again, so today I’ll share some recent photos on the boro. Of course, winter is still fishing time in the harbor, as Viking is doing here. Others are feeding in the boro, like this guy below . . . closeup of the photo above. I’m always looking for intriguing things, like […]
Random Sixth Boro 10
The sixth boro, i.e., the watery part that holds the other boros together, is the one that never sleeps, with current, tides, mechanical denizens and their operators, their flora and fauna, . . . I’ll leave the list there for now. You can read the season changing in the fact that Eastern Welder has reappeared […]
Random Sixth Boro 9
You can find the first eight installments here. Little C is a relatively seldom seen harbor tug dedicated to Warren George projects. Coal? Navigator these days has been pushing coal around the harbor, coal as I understand it thanks to ws–a frequent commenter here–that was previously intended as fuel to the now-retired Hudson Generation Station. […]
Random Ships 102
Seen yesterday by Donald Edwards . . . whose photos previously appeared here. The story behind the paint job follows. Today’s post features exactly what the title says . . . a random set of recent visitors to the sixth boro, like the 2015 Hafnia Raven, here escorted in by Margaret Moran. Bass is a […]
Random Tugs 375
Random and quick for now . . . the 2015 Janet D makes her way across the Bay. The 1974 Marjorie B. McAllister moves its car float float from NJ to NY. The 1996 Martin Explorer and her barge has been in town at least once before here a little over a half […]
Non-Random Tugs 18 A
Moran is one of the quintessential NYC marine companies, formed before the boros existed as such. The harbor then was THE water boro. Since I’m upstate right now, I was intrigued to find a Moran Street in the canal town of Lyons, not far from a asphalt depot on the canal which used to be […]
Non-Random Tugs 9
Sometimes you need a spell out of the routine to spawn new ideas. My long sweltering time in the GOM this summer communing with alligators and sugar cane may have had that effect. In this case, the “new” idea–as it often is–is to go back to an old idea, but twist it in a new […]
tugster: a waterblog 