Salt 16
Two bulk carriers are currently in the sixth boro having come directly from a very salty area in the north of Chile, more than a 1000 miles north of the coastal city of Valparaíso. One of them is Albatross Island, an ultramax bulker from the huge Pacific Basin fleet. She was launched in 2010 as […]
Salt 15
Salt 14 dates from November 2017, with previous installments going back to 2009, when bulk carriers could not yet dock at the current location of Atlantic Salt aka “the salt pile”. As of this time, there’s not much of a pile at the salt pile. With our mild weather for the early part of this […]
Dawn 2023
I made my way through all the weird car wrecks on the Belt Parkway this morning to get to my cliff just before sunrise. A small bulk carrier headed to Gravesend Anchorage while a tanker was anchored farther out. About those wrecks . . . three multiple-car collisions in same-direction lanes between Woodhaven and the […]
Names 50
Sometimes dragons seem to gather in the sixth boro. Last weekend seemed to have an esoteric South American theme, which I took the liberty of intensifying by adding to this post some vessels from before last weekend. Bulk Colombia is still in port over at Atlantic salt discharging white stuff . . . salt of […]
Tugs on the Sound 2
Here was installment 1. Right over beyond Race Rock Light, that’s the entrance to New London, where Rowan M. McAllister lighters a salt ship named Feng Ze Hai. A Reinauer unit heads for the sixth boro, and not taking refraction into account, I figured I could just read the name here. Can you make it […]
Retro Sixth Boro 34 b
This secret lake had great ice for these old boats like Ariel, Ice Queen, Whirlwind, Genevieve, and others. I was asked not to tell then, and by now I’ve forgotten exactly where this Shangri-la was, but the ice boating was ideal. Has anyone heard of Hudson River Valley ice boating happening this year? The […]
Random Ships 95
It’s been over a month since I did a thoroughly non-scientific sampling of ships in the boro. I’ve not gotten photos this time, but ONE Apus is back in town after a long hiatus, a time to reconstruct the cells after a Pacific mishap. Above, not quite a month on, Nordspring is in the Atlantic […]
Christmas Eve 2020
Having seen the forecast for December 25, I did my watch on Christmas eve. These are the latest sunrises of the entire cycle . . . photo taken around 0745, and the sky was still reddish and offering very little light. Fort McHenry and survey boat Christina cross. Yes, Christina . . . namesake you […]
General Guisan in the Smoke
Quick post today since I just got back at a computer after seeing the General in through the sea smoke. The sun didn’t rise until 0731, so the timing worked for a tangerine sky. Are you familiar with General Guisan? I was not. The bulk carrier came in from Chile–so likely carrying road […]
Spring Morning Hour 1
The light could not have been more beautiful as I swooped into the boro, metaphorically speaking: Peace Victoria in the foreground, Coral Queen (not the other Coral Queen) loading scrap mid-distance, and that ridge the Watchung Mountains defining a horizon. Note the Tsereteli monolith mid left margin of the photo. Closer than Peace Victoria, Zola […]
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