High and Dry 12
Since starting the blog, I’ve noticed constant change in the sixth boro, shorelines of the five boros and NJ, and a few other places I get to repeatedly. For example, a year and a half ago Bayonne Dry Dock added their marine travel lift, and anyone looking in that direction gets treated to a rotation […]
Uncrewed 2
Look what Bjoern at New York Media Boat observed in the the New York Bight surveying the hithers and the yons of Ambrose Channel and other locales last week. First, have a good look at the communications “superstructure,” with a FLIR camera, radar, four regular cameras one pointing in each direction, nav lights, lots of solar […]
Tagster 7
Tagster 5 was posted exactly a year ago, so I’m taking that as license to revisit the series… today, when people put on masks. Murals on buildings add color and design. Whenever I have time to kill in a new or even familiar city, I wander around, getting exercise while at the same time looking […]
Random Ships 73
An unrelated question to begin: Have you kissed or do you know Resusci Anne, aka the most-kissed face of all time? I’ve kissed her more than once. Answer at the end of the post. Some of you can conclude a lot from this shot: the type of vessel, the company, the location the ship, and […]
Where are the Props From?
Back in 2008, I had a chance to see a VS-driven tug for the first time here and here. Since that time, this tug has become Matthew McAllister, a Narragansett Bay-based tug which is McAllister’s only VS tug. A local set of boats with VS props is operated by the Staten Island ferry. Here’s a post that […]
Random Tugs 163
I considered calling this “random vessels,” since I haven’t used that title in a while, but here is a tighter focus for a few days: tugboats. Here I also randomize the backgrounds and seek out some vessels infrequently seen. Like the rare and exotic Shelby Rose and Jay Michael and Vicki M and Patricia with her […]
Ports on Oneida Lake 3
By 3:00 pm, the deck of Wards Island was at capacity with buoys. It was time to head back west to a scow on the wall in Brewerton, an accidental destination for Champlain almost exactly 400 years ago. Champlain was a gallivanter extraordinaire, crossing the Atlantic about 25 times in those days, and a guy even […]
More North Woods Alligators
You may recall previous posts here and here about these machines called “alligators” or warping tugs, flat bellied vessels used in timbering a century ago that could pull themselves across short stretches of land between bodies of water. These photos were sent to me by Steven Smith who owns a camp near where the photos of […]
Waterford Tugboat Roundup 2013 b
First, and I quote, the roundup “began in 1999 as a way to preserve and promote the maritime industrial heritage of the State Canal System….” Many thanks to the sponsors and the volunteers. Thanks to the town for their “hawsepitality” (That’s Jed’s newly minted term.) which brings about 25,000 people to a Saratoga County […]
Other People’s Fotos 23
You may once have ridden this vessel. Thirty months ago you could have made a bid on it. Eighteen months ago it was topheavy and listing. Two weeks ago Paul Strubeck caught this foto. Might you call it a major haircut. Around the same time, Paul caught this vessel in Verplanck. That looks like Cornell […]
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