Pilot Boat No. 1 at the Narrows
Sandy Hook Pilots vessels are the first glimpse of the sixth boro traffic for incoming vessels, but many folks on the sixth boro periphery might rarely see any trace of them or their vessels. The other windy day, however, they appeared to be training near the VZ Bridge, whose shadow you see as a dark […]
Pilot Boat No. 1 February 2022 Update
It’s back, and with reconstruction complete, training can begin. To see how the new pilot boat got to this point, see updates here from May and August 2020. For a glimpse of the 1972 vessel this one replaces, click here. The 1972 pilot boat measures 155′ x 28′; this rebuilt 1993 OSRV measures 210′ x […]
Symphony Space
This is not a great photo, but given the temperatures out, it is the only one I was going to get. It’s hard to believe today how icy it was just yesterday. How could I not want to get photos of a Dutch general cargo vessel named for one of my favorite venues in the […]
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 […]
Random Ships 85
“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean” is a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner 220 years ago. This ship might be painted, and the ocean and sky nicely colored, but that ship is certainly not idle. MOL Glide . . . glided in through the Narrows a […]
Newest Hull in the Sixth Boro 14
As of March 1, 2022, CMA CGM Adonis was still in the shipyard, not yet delivered. By March 31, the vessel was in Qingdao and loaded, casting off lines. And April 29, 2022, she had a Sandy Hook pilot on board and was proceeding up the Ambrose Channel, making her first ever cargo call anywhere. […]
Narrows Dawn 4
Here are previous installments. What’s different here is that in this case I’m inside the Narrows and shooting to the east and north. Yankee passes in light before sunrise. I rotate the lens 90 degrees to the right and Margaret stands by along with James D to support Maersk Chicago, anchored in Stapleton. As I […]
Other Peoples Photos 100
Let’s start with a photo by John “Jed” Jedrlinic, one of Alp Forward, currently off the eastern Scottish coast. She’s a 213′ x 61′ anchor handling tug from 2007 with over 200 tons bollard pull. From there, let’s go to the Connecticut in US coast and some local boats with some Seakite by PanGeo Subsea […]
Pilot Boat No. 1 May 2020 Update
See the exciting announcement at the end of this post. Sunday I got word thanks to Shipshooter–Jonathan Atkin–that the pilot boat-to-be would be moving from Caddell’s back to the Sandy Hook Pilots (SHP) base on Monday morning right around sunrise. Pilot boat-to-be? There’s still much work to do before she enters service. And at 0626, […]
Pilot Boat No. 1 August 2020 Update
Today will be a two-post day. Here’s the first one, and it follows on this May update. These photos come thanks to Kevin Oldenburg. The next post will come in an hour. She was headed up to Feeney’s Shipyard in the Rondout for a continuation of the conversion from oil spill response vessel to pilot […]
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