Something Different 76
Call this LL3, with the UP to starboard, Detour Reef Light ahead off to port. To be clear, we stopped for over 24 hours, but we did keep the UP to the north during the entire time span this post covers. Arthur M. Anderson passed, as did many others like Indiana Harbor, John G. Munson, […]
LL3 Lower St Marys
Kaye E. Barker heads up to the Soo. . . passing Lime Island. John Sherwin waits. John W. Boardman, previously Lewis G. Harriman, a 1923 purpose-built cement carrier, has been converted into a cottage. I’d never before noticed Little Toot in a small marina near the cottage. Victory/Maumee heads into the […]
LL3 DeTour and the Soo RT
DeTour Village here is a Michigan location. And these photos were all taken within 18 hours from meeting the St Marys Pilot. Daybreak saw this vessel ahead of us . . . Arthur M. Anderson. Once we tied up, Hon. James L. Oberstar passed us by. Manitoulin exited the Poe, followed by Walter J. McCarthy […]
Weather 14
It’s been over four years since number 13 in this series here. Of course, besides the first measurable snow today in 700ish days, the past week has had some weather highlights as well. The next eight photos I took in the space of less than one hour, as clouds swirled above and around, rain fell […]
Tugster’s Tail-Twirling Photo-tales
I didn’t check if surf was up, but when a surfboard rides up atop the 161 truck, it can mean only one thing . . . time’s been suspended, as the temporal portal and the littoral one opens and the drum corp quickens our pulses because (I can’t hear you) the mayor delivers to key […]
Small Craft 34
These small craft operate all year round in the sixth boro. I’ve seen at least two Clean Harbors boats in the harbor, 32 and maybe . . . 33. But the company is hardly local. I once saw one of their trucks on the NY Thruway west of Syracuse. Click here for the history of […]
Winds of March
It’s March in the boro, so Sunday the temperatures surged up to 70, and this morning’s rain turned into snow at 36 degrees; yesterday was windy, with dramatic clouds scudding across the sky on chilling gusts. So when Jonathan C. Moran headed back into the KVK after assisting a ship out the door, this was […]
1989 Postcard Mystery
The question here is where and when this photo was taken. In 1989, I was living in SE New Hampshire and sent this postcard to my parents. My mother saved all the mail I ever sent them, and thanks to that, I have this postcard. Yesterday I stumbled upon the card while looking for something else. […]
February Sail
February sail will mean vastly different things to different folks. For some, it’ll mean curling up with an inspiring sailing story like this one from Small Boats Magazine written by a retired USN sailor and partner rowing and sailing the 17′ dory he built down the Mississippi, camping on sand bars along the way. […]
Random Tugs 369
Happy spring. All photos in this post were taken in winter two days ago and over a six-hour period. Before noon, the five boros and the next state were obscured out of existence. I really think they didn’t exist during those hours, just like the imaginary sun crossed (??) the imaginary equator at 11:33 NYC […]
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