Seats of Power 3
Just when I thought I had no more photos for another installment of “seats,” uh . . more appear. This arrangement of seating in this Erie Canal tug has to win a prize. I can’t tell which lock it is, nor (I believe) can Bob Graham, who sent it in. The captain on the Feeney […]
Seats of Power 2
Edda Fram runs back and forth, it seems, from shore (Scotland) to various oil platforms in the North Sea. Rough weather operation necessitates seats hard to fall out of. Solomon T, once operated by Elbert Felton (shown), is a 1938 restored inside the Outer Banks fishing vessel, with seat and wheel appropriate to 1938. MV […]
Seats of Power 1
Consider this a post in the genre of stacks and wheels. The fourth photo is the latter post shows 12 hands on these wheels, and no one seated. Someone once said you stand (not sit) watch. This canoe livery motorboat used in Algonquin Provincial Park has a flat aluminum seat, no cushion. No seats here […]
2020 Calendar September
If you ordered a calendar last year, you might recall that I promised that I’d “extend” the photo set each month. Well, here’s September, following all the other months. Call this . . . “how Cleveland turned a toxic industrial sewer into a recreation area, while maintaining industrial activity.” Recall while looking at these photos […]
St. Lawrence River Wooden Traffic 1
This post follows on a similar one based on St. Clair River traffic . . here. Would the captain below qualify as a “back seat” driver? He with his attractive runabout was taking part in this event . . . Wood like this truly makes attractive vessels. Zipper is a beaut, as is Glacier Girl. […]
Cosco Shipping Jasmine
Peony has appeared on this blog twice, but this is the first time for Jasmine. I waited at the Narrows until one of the two box ships I was eyeing headed out yesterday, a hot seat in spite of the shade and the breezes, and Jasmine was first. The other was the irregularly named ONE Contribution, […]
Second Lives 26: Louis C
On April 11, 2008, I took this photo of lube tanker Manhasset. I don’t believe I’ve posted this photo before. I did post two others here. The set below shows the same vessel a bit over 11 years later, with a crane added near the bow and an extended supply shelter forward of the superstructure. […]
Virtual Erie Canal 10: Three Locks to Lake Ontario
The Oswego River is the second largest river flowing into Lake Ontario, but it feels in places like a stream. I don’t have to tell you what the largest river into Ontario is, I hope. If you study the east bank, lots of traces of the original 1828 Oswego Canal, a verdant mudbank and even […]
Summer Yachts 5
Schooner Ambergris came in from sea in mid-April, but I still don’t know anything more about her. Anyone help? Dolphin is truly a yacht; it’s also likely a winter yacht down south. Up north, we see vessels like this seasonally. I can’t identify the burgee on the bow. Schooner Pioneer, launched 1885!!, has never been […]
First of a New Class: Big Lizzie
Her first steel was laid down almost a decade ago, and here she is pirouetting for New Yorkers. Carriers tend to have these offset superstructures. I wonder how it feels to be far-to-starboard in rough seas. To see the commander in his seat of power, click here. This ship was christened with a bottle of […]
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