Go Roundabout West
Almost seven years ago, I posted Go West, the announcement of my employment as onboard lecturer for Blount Small Ships Adventures. Dozens of posts followed between that date and fall 2019. Here’s my Go West at start of 2017 post. Then Covid-19 happened, and Blount decided to close their passenger vessel excursion business in spring […]
Random ULCVs 5
Glovis Cosmos has a beam of 105′. YM Warmth . . . 167′. Of course, we’re looking at the pier from an angle,so there’s that accentuating the difference in beam. We’ll return to YM Warmth. The next day just after 0600, CMA CGM A. Lincoln appeared around Bergen Point with an entourage of tugboats. […]
Something Different 49*
*I could have called this “ports of ___” because I’m not telling you yet where this unexpected location is. Not yet. Tomorrow. These photos were sent to me yesterday. And I’m asking for your help if you chose, later in this post. Here are the wares delivered by the “french bakery” boat. In tomorrow’s post, […]
Bikester 4 Camillus to Rome
I spent two nights in Camillus because the forecast saw high winds and rain. A day in bed did me good, although I felt a bit guilty until the rains came. In early afternoon, when I took the photo below, I took this color photo from my window, feeling happy to be indoors. The next […]
Relief Crew 21: Jet-Propelled Paddle Steamer
Oops! I meant this for tomorrow. Today Robin Denny offers his second relief post. Here are all the previous ones. Clyde paddle-steamer Lucy Ashton operated from 1888 until 1949, at which time she was taken out of service and was about to be broken up. But scrapping or reefing isn’t the only thing to do […]
Dense Traffic 2
Count the tugboats in this one shot . . . six! And a seventh is obscured right behind the nearest. And no, it was not part of the annual tugboat race. From (l) to (r), it’s JRT Moran, Amy Moran, Stephen B, (and Ellen McAllister is obscured) then Genesis Eagle, Magothy with Double Skin 57, […]
Relief Crew 20: Sir Walter Scott
Walter Scott‘s 1810 publication of The Lady of the Lake, an epic poem which sold 25,000 copies in eight months, triggered Scottish tourism, by rail and boat. Tourism demand boomed: the early six or eight oared galleys were replaced by the small 70′ steamboat Rob Roy (1845), then a 90′ steamyacht Rob Roy and lastly […]
Empire State VI Returns from Hurricane Duty
Here was the previous 2017 return, before the venerable vessel was called out for extraordinary duty in early September assisting in relief efforts after the devastating hurricanes in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. I caught these photos of the classic 565′ steamer–launched in 1962 as SS Oregon–from Roosevelt Island on a rainy blustery morning. She […]
Fight ALS
Overcast warm winter days . . . they’re not give relief but also present interesting light. Two tugs and the large barge approached, and truth be told, when I first saw the scene above I thought I might be looking at Millville pushing 1964. Alas no. I love this portal created in this light . […]
12 Lights b
The answer to the question in part a of this series is . . . Faro San Giorgio Maggiore, “faro” meaning “light.” And today, the winter solstice, with only 9 hours and 15 minutes of daylight in the sixth boro, has to be the best time to do another post about lighthouses. Before we get […]
tugster: a waterblog 