Truckster! 17
I caught up with this . . the other day, Switching lanes . . . I noticed something I’ve seen before like here from a decade ago, and in many other posts like here. Of course, others become art objects for a while, maybe until they rust back into the earth. Cars arrive from […]
Random Tugs 372
Dana Alexa is another seldom seen tugboat in the sixth boro of NYC; although painted DonJon blue, she’s now a Breakwater Marine boat, I believe. It was good to see the 1958 54′ boat with a barge of what appears to be sheet piling. William F. Fallon Jr. has appeared here several times recently. Robert […]
Headwaters 6
I’m jumping back to the second half of the first decade of the 21st century. This day when USCGC Eagle was tying up at the old Pier 17, I had no idea why these two tugboats were so similar, no sense that once they were 1967 twins Exxon Empire State and Exxon Garden State. I’d no […]
Random Tugs 383
Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River? Its current name? Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook. Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no […]
Random Tugs 392
With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick. The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that was getting towed. Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched? Decide that for each of these and arrange them by […]
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 Tugs 374
All these tugboats have a common design feature. I’ll let you figure it out. Eastern Dawn pushed a load of scrap westbound in the Kills. James William showed off her bow as she traveled light toward the Upper Bay. Ditto Buchanan 12, usually confined to pushing up and down the Hudson with a train […]
Random Ships 96
or I could call this Boxing Day 2. Denak Voyager hauls scrap in her big boxy holds regularly from the sixth boro to Turkey. This was my first time seeing the 2012 New York Express or Varna Bay. Guthorm Maersk has called here before. Ditto San Cristobal. ONE München has appeared on this blog before, […]
Random Ships 93
In several hours yesterday, a diverse set of vessels came by. I could begin with Chemical Pioneer, a 1968 vessel that’s been calling here in some form for half a century. She first called here as a container ship, until her big fire. As Chemical Pioneer was assisted into a berth in Bayonne, an MSC […]
Out of the Bayou 6
Day 3 shows up in green . . . from just west of Port Fourchon to just east of SW Pass. We took the stern of C-Fighter on the way, as the ECO boat appeared to head into Fourchon. Surprising were the number of small fishing boats, out angling and even anchoring next to platforms; […]
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