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 […]
Seats of Power 4
My trickster truckster hopper is filling and will dump one of these days soon, but this photo fits better in the “seats” category. But to put this back on the water, here’s the power seat on ex-Catherine Turecamo now John Marshall. I’d love to see this vessel in her current colors and working in her […]
Seats of Power 3
Just when I thought I had no more photos for another installment of “seats,” uh . . more appear. This arrangement of seating in this Erie Canal tug has to win a prize. I can’t tell which lock it is, nor (I believe) can Bob Graham, who sent it in. The captain on the Feeney […]
Seats of Power 2
Edda Fram runs back and forth, it seems, from shore (Scotland) to various oil platforms in the North Sea. Rough weather operation necessitates seats hard to fall out of. Solomon T, once operated by Elbert Felton (shown), is a 1938 restored inside the Outer Banks fishing vessel, with seat and wheel appropriate to 1938. MV […]
Seats of Power 1
Consider this a post in the genre of stacks and wheels. The fourth photo is the latter post shows 12 hands on these wheels, and no one seated. Someone once said you stand (not sit) watch. This canoe livery motorboat used in Algonquin Provincial Park has a flat aluminum seat, no cushion. No seats here […]
First of a New Class: Big Lizzie
Her first steel was laid down almost a decade ago, and here she is pirouetting for New Yorkers. Carriers tend to have these offset superstructures. I wonder how it feels to be far-to-starboard in rough seas. To see the commander in his seat of power, click here. This ship was christened with a bottle of […]
Something Different 65
I traveled RT by air last week, and as usual, tried to spot landmarks, entertainment for the map fan that I am. Mount Vernon is how the smart phone labels it. I’d call it a view of Mobile Bay at dusk, looking south. I concur with the phone that this is New Orleans, one of […]
Panama Tugs 4
Rio Indio could have been grouped with yesterday’s post because it’s a Z-Tech 6000: ASD with 4826 hp Wärtsilä engines with azimuthing 7.8′ propellers in Kort nozzles, generating 61 tons of bollard pull. I include it here for contrast with the rest of the boats in this post. Calovebora came out the next year (2010) […]
Equinox 4
My intended title here was something like “….so I thought I’d get out early this morning and take some fotos of the harvest moon setting, but the morning arrived all foggy in the sixth boro…” but that would have been been too long, even though everything I just said is true. Practically the first thing […]
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