Miss Ila
Can you make sense of this? Without a zoom, I was not sure what I was looking at. I’d seen Miss Ila slowly making her way up the coast. “Slowly” usually means there’s a substantial tow, and in fact there was. She rounded up off the east side of Shooters Island, which has […]
Retro Sixth Boro 58
February 2013 saw Patrick Sky still working in the boro. The walkway still flanked the west side of the Bayonne Bridge, which allowed images like the ones that follow. Sun Right and Suez Canal Bridge were regulars. Since then the 1993 Sun Right has been scrapped. The 2002 Suez Canal Bridge continues to work under […]
Random Tugs 345
If you’ve never hung out at any of the public places on the KVK and you’re interested in tugboats or shipping in general, you are missing something. The Upper Bay is a busy place also. M Faber Park is a great place when it’s open. You get views of the Bayonne Bridge and the east […]
Random Tugs 260
Thanks to Joseph Chomicz, it’s Capt. Latham in Port Elizabeth . . . standing by the barge Atlanta Bridge . . . So here’s my question . . . and answer will be located at the end of this post . . . in quo vadis? I’ve not seen this boat in a while . […]
Ghosts of T’givings Past
Choosing a random starting point, I went to my photo files closest to each of the Thanksgivings between 2008 and 2016. The holiday fell on the 27th that 2008. Of the photos I took –this one on the 23rd–here’s one I remember taking. ITBs were not very common in the sixth boro then, extinct now. […]
Names 37
Quick . .. name the ship name the ONE vessel . . . The first three photos were taken Sunday by Bjoern of the New York Media Boat. And if you know the tugs in the sixth boro you have a 75% chance of naming all tugs here too . . . three of […]
Browns 2
Thomas J. Brown and Sons Inc. has been a marine towing enterprise in the sixth boro since 1927. Their boats are busy and always very attractive. More than a decade ago I first used this title. Thomas J. Brown, the oldest current boat, is a classic. Joyce D. Brown, the most powerful current boat, is […]
Random Tugs 237
Kirby Moran and James D Moran wait, like a team of horses, actually a team of 12,000 horses. Here’s a different perspective on Kirby as she returns from a job. CMT Otter and a salt barge lies alongside Nord Summit while along the other side, the venerable Twin Tube reprovisions from stern starboard. Atlantic Salvor (or […]
Old Year 2018
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning […]
Retro Sixth Boro 4
OK, if old songs make for “classic rock,” then old photos of tugboats could be called classic roll or pitch, yaw, or some such. Let’s start with one from March 2008 . . . American Patriot over NW of Shooters Island as seen from the Port Elizabeth shoreline. I’ve no idea why she was here […]
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