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Forecast for the morning after the Oscars was for some sun, which I sorely needed. And who’s out . . . William Oscar aka W. O. Decker, for starters.
CCNI Aquiles and Dallas Express at Global . . . and a Moose boat racing toward us.
I couldn’t quite figure out what Sorensen Miller‘s load was. In the background, that’s the Newark Bay Bridge, which doesn’t make it on my fotos much.
Virginia Sue was fishing off Clermont.
John P. Brown moved nine (?) railcars from Brooklyn to Jersey.
Clipper Legacy arrived here yesterday.
Shawn Miller‘s pushing trucks around again, this one all ready for the mid-March holiday.
Taurus light moves past Christine McAllister.
And . . . let’s conclude with another shot of William Oscar, wherever it may be heading.
All fotos this morning before the clouds moved in . . . by Will Van Dorp.
Here was 17. Short post today, with one foto only from l’amica dalla torre, who treats me sometimes with sights my eyes miss. Like this vessel below, which showed up on AIS as Ocean, but
in fact is known as Ocearch. Here and here are some links to its organization and mission. Here’s a link showing a great white on deck.
I’m no idea why they’re in the North River. Maybe they heard this vessel (fourth foto) had been in the sixth boro?
My plan this morning had been to get fotos if an assemblage of Miss Emily, Miss Gloria, and Charleston were still in Gravesende Bay, but by daybreak, they’d disappeared, at least from AIS.
L’amica . . . grazie.
Here and here are some fotos from previous winter fish seasons in the sixth boro. This post from January 2010 probably shows the greatest number of sixth boro fishing boats I’ve ever seen. Below was a foto I took at Gravesend Bay last week.
Alexa J,
Linda,
Linda and Mary Virginia,
an unidendified boat and Lobster Boy,
Linda and Lobster Boy,
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Related in their scales, here’s a photoessay on fishing in SW Alaska, and here’s one about a big catch near Detroit.
Three years ago I did posts about wooden vessels and names while in the greater Cape Ann area. This time what struck me was the variety of vessels in this small but intensely important peninsula. Essex Shipbuilding Museum is always “must stop there” . . . and make a donation if you wish. Essex has fewer than 4000 people. Treat yourself to beautiful lines fleshed out in old . . .
and new like these.
Speak of random tugs, it’s YTL-438, built on City Island, NY, in 1944, Nicholas T today.
I can’t hear the word “Gloucester” without thinking of fish and lobsters and other sea life. Read what Capt Joey has to say about Western Venture, here with Osprey. Joey’s GMG does “citizen journalism” par excellence on many aspect of Gloucester life, and a more historically focused website on Gloucester industry can be found here.
Vessels old and
new–like these three midwater trawlers of Western Sea Fishing– line the piers when they’re not at sea. It no secret that fishing brings risks: a vessel I featured here three years ago–Plan B-- sank earlier this year.
Small and newish like Cat Eyes or
or classic, versatile, and large like 1924 Highlander Sea (for sale) and 1926 Adventure both Essex built . . . they all lie in the few dozen acres of water in Gloucester’s Inner Harbor. See Adventure‘ s site here and some fun fotos here.
Treats appear at every glance, near and far.
Can anyone tell me more about Traveler . . and all her lives? Here’s what I learned from Good Morning Gloucester: follow the comments and you’ll learn that she was launched in “1942 by Cambridge Ship Builder, Inc. based in MD, for the US Army. She is 79.9 ft. long, was a rescue boat serving in WWII picking up downed fighter pilots and had full infirmary facilities aboard.”
More Gloucester tomorrow. All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who realizes he should come back here more often. And if you’ve never been to Cape Ann, sooner is better.
First, check “parrotlect flickrstream” along the left margin here for my favorite 45 fotos from the start of the Great Chesapeake Schooner Race last week. I had posted some of them earlier, but put them up in the moment and without the benefit of my “foto-cleanup” tools.
Here is the real predecessor for this post . . . small specialized East coast designs. And here’s a question . . . guess the loa and beam of this vessel. Answer and fotos follow.
Some small craft are just beautiful . . . sweet
not to emphasize the “just” there. Seriously sweet lines here.
And here. And nearby but in the shadows was a twin called Puffin. And that vintage Johnson Sea horse 18 was attached to the
the prettiest motorboat I’ve ever seen. I don’t think that Johnson comes with the blender attachment seen here!!
This is Silk. Silk is a pushboat. Believe it or not, it’s the prime mover for a 65′ skipjack, and while hauling for oysters, Silk needs to be hanging high and dry. I regret I didn’t get a chance to look at the engine.
Stanley Norman dates from 1902. And that boom looks impossibly long.
And here’s a surprise, maybe. The vessel in the top foto here is a restored 1925 Hooper Island Draketail named Peg Wallace, measuring a belief-defying 37’6″ loa with a beam of only 6’8″!! I’d written of local Chesapeake and southern boats here almost two years ago, but this was my first encounter with a draketail. Scroll down to pete44’s comment here to learn his sense of the origin of the design.
I’d love to see her move through the water.
Draketail . . . named for a duck. Make way!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
So I was an especially gullible kid who wished in vain that my parents would let me buy some sea monkeys that I saw advertised in Popular Mechanics. Never happened. Hold that thought.
Below is a foto of the Great Salt Lake. And before I came here, I’d heard that it stunk and held
no life. But how
then was it also a major bird migration path.
Doubleclick on this foto and see all the birds. And yes the water near shore was black with flies and other insects that–unlike gnats–disperse when you approach. All this brings up this
display outside Dave’s Gonzo Kayak rental on Antelope Island. To my amazement, I learned that Great Salt Lake has a fishery and this is an older, obsolete vessel used in the harvesting of brine shimp . . .
aka sea-monkeys!! Click here for a foto of a more up-to-date vessel, the likes of which I’d love to see.
Click here for a feature from High Country News on the fishery, here for the site of the GSL Brine Shrimp Cooperative, and here for some starter economics on the industry.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Sometimes along the road, I see things I don’t understand. The first two fotos here, though, I can identify but just won’t right now. Hazard guesses about this fish?
. . . and the current usage of this vessel? Answers soon.
This is a poor foto shot from the roadway where I couldn’t stop, but it looks like fishing weir tenders removing trapped fish? Click to enlarge.
Here, from a place I could stop is a weir with nets visible. I call them weirs, but maybe other terms are used along the mid-Atlantic coast
Here was my northbound conveyance . . . ferry Twin Capes, which I saw in the sixth boro here (fotos 4 and 5) two years ago. Nah . . . it wasn’t lost or in fugitive mode; it was headed for Caddell Dry Dock.
Now . . . I kid you not, but let me say I saw a ray in Delaware Bay (sounds like the beginning of a song?) but didn’t even try to take a foto. Maybe that’s a ray’s mouth motif on the bow of that pilot boat, which just
retrieved the pilot from Fivelborg, Quebec-bound. You need to see this foto of her on shipspotting!!
Following Fivelborg was this container ship, and I have no idea who she is. Any ideas . . . 10 to 15 miles behind Fivelborg outbound Delaware Bay?
Here’s the Cape May Light with the wreckage of SS Atlantus off Sunset Beach.
If this is a second life for this vessel parked on the shellrock surfaced marina, what was first life?
Two roads diverged in the New Jersey bayou (and I don’t mean that pejoratively) , and my GPS had no idea where I was or where I should go, and squadrons of tabanus nigrovittatuses aka greenheads knew exactly where their blood food was. Squadrons of squadrons!!
But I braved them to sneak a quick look at 1927 FV Louise Ockers!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. More on the two unanswered Qs at the beginning soon.
Here’s my summertime post from almost a year ago; it’s still spring in the sixth boro, although spring 2012 has made for a mostly sultry season and a lush KVK. Thomas J. Brown tows
an irregular load.
And with a warm winter and sultry spring, bugs
are so big and hungry I fear to swat.
John P. Brown pushes along a many-wheeled barge, and if you want a scene for a Stephen King horror story by the name of Maximum Overboard or somesuch, you know this crane
could proceed to scoop this fish out of the water.
The start of summer is a holiday for the Dutch (even those who live in Brooklyn and dally with crocs), when they do this with herring, and elsewhere
in Brooklyn, it’s time for
who knows who to transform in mermaze!!
All fotos by will Van Dorp.
Thomas D. Witte . . . I did nothing to manipulate this image, no liquification, no DAP . . .
Yet another Mighty Servant 1 foto with four movers of the Miller’s Launch fleet. As of this writing, the Mighty is still anchored at the Narrows. Bravo on what appears to have been a flawless loading.
Gustav Schulte passes the loading on a very slow bell, partly because of the tow happening off its port bow also.
I’m not sure what this tow is . . . Sea Lion (?) and a thousand feet tailing it. The tail boat may be Iron Wolf. Can anyone help?
December means fishing on the sixth boro . . . here’s a newcomer for me . . . Mary Virginia (ex-Maazee).
Irish Sea moves a barge into the Bay.
Eagle Baltimore and Liechtenstein swing on the hook.
Crystal Cutler does too.
Shearwater motors out the east end of KVK headed, I believe, for North Cove.
Crystal Marie exits the Narrows.
Happy last day of Fall 2011.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. And this just in . . . as of noon today, Mighty Servant 1 exited the Bay Nigeria-bound. I hope the good folks on Meagan Ann get a foto they will share.
Here was Birds 4. Birds intrude on these fotos a fair amount just because they do. I usually don’t intend bird fotos, but like the second from bottom here, they happen and make intriguing juxtaposition. Vastly different proximity of bird and vessel sometimes makes for apparently huge birds and new ways of seeing, as in the fotos of Julia Fullerton-Batten.
The same is true here; helicopter and building here are several miles apart, but it did give pause. And I was wondering whether it would alight upon some platform at the top.
But sometimes birds distract me from my usual subject. Indulge me and take two minutes to watch this two-minute vimeo called “murmuration,” starting out with two girls in a canoe on a lake in Ireland. If you’ve already seen it, pass it along to someone.
But back to my egret, who was tense, then slack, then tense, calculating … until
the fish seemed in range.
It came up empty-billed, but no matter. There was plenty in the world beneath the boom to attract them with food, which reinforced the faith and patience of the egret.
Not the best shot, but a fairly typical one of a great blue heron, a timid bird that departs with very annoyed squawks.
Here’s another shot of an osprey I included here about two months ago, third foto from last. To me this one suggests bird on fish like surfer on board.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. And seriously, if you didn’t watch that vimeo . . . it’ll make your day. Thanks to Maureen for sending it my way. To me, it rivals the amazingvirtualreal sequences in Avatar, the movie. Here’s another bird/water video.
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