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I was at the KVK the other morning waiting around for an appointment. Overnight it had rained, dawn was overcast, but gradually the sky cleared. Just before I departed, Gabby came by, pushing a small barge with minimal freeboard, maybe spill remediation equipment.
Before it looked to clear, Helen came by, as
did Haggerty Girls,
Bruce A.,
Miss Madeline,
Brooklyn,
Laura K, and
Patuxent. So did these, posted a few days ago.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who muses about the fact that although there’ve been a couple different tugboats in recent years called Brooklyn, there’ve been none in that same time frame named for the other boroughs or boros that come to mind.
Springtime seven years ago, the roadbed that had existed on the Bayonne Bridge was breached, In a controlled manner, of course. Steps in the transformation are captured here. April 3, 2017 was the day this vessel, Maersk Kolkata, came through the opening that dismantling had just created. Here were moments before that happened.
As I took the following photos yesterday, I realized I hardly ever
think about the previous shape of that bridge,
the new configuration has been seared into memory, what else would the Bayonne Bridge look like, I think.
After all,
bridges are forever,
until we think about it.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
No, they’re not.
By the way, I wondered about the tanker name Arrebol. It wasn’t familiar and didn’t sound appealing until I looked up the derivation. Nice!
Know that boat making its way through the canyons along the East River?
It took two months and a few days, but here it is, maybe here they are. Is CMT Kronau among the barges that entered the sixth boro back in early January? Of course, the much anticipated Erin Elizabeth arrived that day.
It was good to catch up with the new boat among this iconic
and wooded shoreline.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Here was “pairs in winter 8” from four years ago. The others can be found in the search window. The title started as my attempt to be too clever and parody this Edith Piaf title, which someone else–not me–liked. Number 4 might be my favorite.
Not much to say other than that yesterday morning was quite foggy before the rain started. Eventually I gave up because the fog got too thick, gruelly although not quite peasoup. Fog serves almost as a way to narrow the depth of field; the names of Caroline M and Mount St Elias are clear but farther from them, details drop out.
Ditto Dace with RTC 83 and Silver Dubai,
Bohemia and Doris,
Brian Nicholas and Stephen Dann,
Kirby and Mary,
and the incongruous Gelberman and MSC Lisa.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Unrelated but interesting: a gray whale off Nantucket!
Yesterday I posted a photo of a mill along the Cuyahoga with faded “ghostwriting” on a wall, and someone asked what was once written there. Below, thanks to William Lafferty, is the answer. Read this post and comments here for further info on the Fairchild mill.
Upriver Kevin Oldenburg does fabulous work with his drone, which he posts under his name on FB. My favorites are the ones on moody days, as in the shots of Manhattan heading to Albany below.
The crisp lines and colors of the boat contrasting with the dark river ruffled by the bow and rolling the cold water . . . these are just magical.
Another day another vessel . . . here the brawny Atlantic Salvor urges Chesapeake 1000 crane through the waterway. The angle diminishes the 1000‘s size, but that crane is formidable, as seen below.
The next batch, shared by Antonio Calandra on FB, shows the triple-screw Erin Elizabeth, recently arrived in the boro after a 10+ day voyage here, with Chesapeake 1000 lifting her off CMT Y Not 8 barge and lowering into the waters of Port Newark.
Relative size is apparent here, as J. Arnold Witte takes charge of the larger Erin Elizabeth to move her to a location to begin the process of stirring her to life. In the distance, that’s Douglas J.
Many thanks to William, Kevin, and Antonio for use of these photos.
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