Other Peoples Photos 109
One enjoyable thing about this tugster “business” is that you all send me photos, some of which I’ve shared 108 times before this post. First, from a Mississippi River vantage point that I only recently left, some photos from Lew, who previously contributed these photos. I’ll consult tugboatinformation.com for the low down on this […]
Other Peoples Photos 95
Credit for all here goes to Sea Bart aka Zee Bart, which means the same thing. He writes: “When we moored in the Lekhaven in Rotterdam in August 2021 I saw a seemingly abandoned tugboat moored called Dynami, had some list, no lights on, etc. etc. During the following weeks we noticed more and more […]
Thanks to Zee Bart 1
Many thanks to Zee Bart for sending along these photos he took in Ijmuiden, the port where the locks are at the west end of the North Sea Canal, the waterway linking Amsterdam with the North Sea. Check out the dredge. This dredge started life as a container ship, Gerd! After 78 days in […]
Second Lives 32
Zee Bart periodically sends me photos from the North Sea and adjoining ports. A few months back he sent these, and I’ve filed them until now. These photos illustrate what can be done with old work boats. Here’s what Zee Bart writes: “The old tug here is Grada, a 1927 tug with a Stork […]
Thanks to Zee Bart 2
Zee Bart sent some more photos from his vessel taken in December and January. Orion 4 is a waterboat. Here’s a translation of the function from the vessel website: “The [business] Waterboat IJmuiden [pronounced eye MY den] was founded by Mr. Jan Overvliet and his wife Tante Dien, captain and captain of the steam tugboat […]
Seats of Power 5
It seats one to power nothing, but makes a good puzzle here in the PowWow River some years ago. In dry season, you walked through the gate and sat here to fish or just sit. Poseidon’s Sea-Bee Pusher power unit has has no seat, so you make your own with your own, complete with a […]
1937 Sardiner
The top three photos in this post come thanks to Kyle Stubbs, who has contributed photos here before, not to mention many photos on uglyships, which is how we first met. He’s not Sea bart. I’ll tell you more about this fishing boat in a bit, but that mud says it has been below the […]
Columbia River Commerce 2
I’ve been fortunate to see the Columbia and do posts like this and this. But equally fortunate is the fact Seth Tane lives there and periodically passes along photos like the ones below, Fennica, along with sister Nordica, in Portland about a month ago. Fennica appeared here once six years ago in photos from Sea Bart, showing […]
June Fishing in the Sixth Boro 2
#1 was here. It’s June. Might you be suffering from hypoclupea . . . deficiency of herring? Read what the celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks writes about treatment here, as published in the New Yorker two years ago. Hypoclupea can leave you blase, bleached, apathetic . . . dried out . . . as Miss […]
Jumbo 2
From aboard icebreaker tug Sturgeon Bay, Harold Tartell took these three fotos of Jumbo Vision southbound near Kingston about two months ago. That ice is now gone. According to Sea Bart, Jumbo’s motto is “We can transport anything that doesn’t fit in a container. . . power station components, large oil refinery reactor vessels, container cranes, […]
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