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Happy spring. All photos in this post were taken in winter two days ago and over a six-hour period. Before noon, the five boros and the next state were obscured out of existence. I really think they didn’t exist during those hours, just like the imaginary sun crossed (??) the imaginary equator at 11:33 NYC time. Crossed . . by boat or chariot or blimp or goat cart . . . I don’t know.
Kimberly passed by and Robbins Reef was barely there. Mariner brought boxes in, and Kirby passed by, and they might as well have been at sea.
Neptune shuttled by, and hints of Bayonne showed themselves.
Justine came by and the sunshine was making progress burning off the moisture.
When Cape Canaveral crossed in front of me, Manhattan was there, albeit like a matte painting; right, that’s just a movie set, right?
The large gray ship . . . Soderman, that too was a different painted background, this time for Captain D.
Before Mary Turecamo appeared over on the starboard side of New York‘s trans-harbor load of containers, I had no idea what I was seeing.
It wasn’t until well into the afternoon and–in the near distance–Bert Reinauer passed overtaking the Vane unit that I saw a boat pass by without a hint of fog. That, however, was mostly due to the proximity
All photos, Friday, WVD.
Tugboats move quite the variety of materials around the boro on barges. The brand spanking new J. Arnold Witte here moves Delaware Bay, a bucket dredge.
Doris Moran moves containers around the boro much quicker than trucks can.
I had to throw this in . . . a late 1950s Chevy pickup was moving a motorcycle southbound on the BQE.
Sea Fox transported a scow with its own clamshell (I think) in the upper bay.
Helen Laraway had some rich light on her as
she came west in the East River, passing Lower Manhattan, with
some cubed metal.
The seldom seen Liberty II was bringing maintenance equipment to the Statue island, when I noticed an interesting detail. See the blue Thrustmaster engine covers?
A closer up of that part of Liberty II shows she’s twin engine and her starboard engine is not in use.
Closing it out, Durham is moving a mini scow into the Kills.
All photos, WVD.
These two boats have a lot in common: built a year apart in the same shipyard and more.
Without being aboard, I’d say they were products of the same designed and may appear to be twins,
A surprising feature they share is the telescoping upper wheelhouse that
allows visibility when needed.
I say they appear to be twins, but if the tale of the tape is correct, Marjorie is about five feet longer, two feet skinnier, and a hundred horses more powerful.
Both were originally Exxon tugboats until the Exxon brand was removed from the boats after a certain large tanker had an unfortunate encounter with Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound.
That flexibility was no doubt a selling point for the design.
All photos, WVD.
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