Cranes: Weeks 533 Again
Here was the first post in this series, but Wednesday I caught the crane again, this time being handled by a regular in the boro as well as a newcomer named Brinn Courtney, who appeared here once before as Patricia Winslow. Thinking the better shot would be with Manhattan as background, we opted for the […]
Allie B’s Tow at Sea
The sun was setting when we met Allie B and her tow: Weeks 533 with Robert as tail boat. I’d seen the big crane only a week or so earlier doing some lifts in the sixth boro. This blog has featured this crane in a number of sixth boro jobs and moves going all the […]
B, D, and 533
From right to left then, that would be Allie B, Sarah D, and Weeks 533. The two tugs assisted the crane barge that lifted a large electrical component onto a many-wheeled trailer inside the Red Hook container port. I’ll post my photos of the truck on my next truckster! post. Well over a decade ago, […]
Retro Sixth Boro 50 A
June 2012 was pivotal for me. A photo sent along by a friend alerted me to Canal commerce–Canadian corn– entering the US at Oswego, a place I knew something of from my youth. If that was a spark, then the breeze that fanned it was an invitation to do my trial article for Professional Mariner […]
Cranes: Weeks 533
Weeks 533 has credibility: she lifted the USAir Flight 1549 Airbus A320 out of the Hudson back almost 11 years ago and more. So the other day when I was on my way to “yon” and saw her “hither” and she was working with Susan Miller, I decided to linger and inquire. That’s when I […]
Inaugurations
January, once every four years, involves a formality that we mark today. Inaugurate has a strange derivation, you figure it out. With this post, I’m in no way intending to divine futures. Really it’s just sets of photos taken four years apart. Ice and lightship yacht Nantucket floated in the harbor in mid January 2009. […]
Diller Island
I walked along the Hudson and past the Vessel the other day because it was flat and scenic. I also wanted to see what progress was happening at Pier 55, aka on Diller Island. Beneath, from small boats . . . these workers attended to several of the 132 pots that make up the […]
Leaning In
[Note: investigation of the Christmas pirate break-in is ongoing at Tugster Tower. Culprits once located and questioned may face a job offer. ] Weeks 533, the one that lifted Sully’s plane out of the Hudson, was moving up to either Port Elizabeth or Newark, using a three-tug configuration. What impressed me was the lean-in, seen here […]
Retro Sixth Boro 10
In only ten years, a lot of changes have happened in the sixth boro. I wish I’d started this blog 30 years ago to document even more, but 1988 predated blogs, the internet, and digital photography. Wow . . . how did people relate back then? Joking aside, let’s see some that have moved on. […]
Random Tugs 231
Let’s start out at Little Falls NY, above Lock E-17, where Jay Bee V had just departed and was now delivering the Glass Barge to the wall there. Notice C. L. Churchill along the left edge of the photo. Here above Lock C-7, it’s Margot. On the Hudson River, tis is my first closeup view […]
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