Names 29

Here’s the index of previous “names.”

I love surprises, but some pass almost unnoticed to most.  For example, did you know Ernest Hemingway visited the sixth boro a few weeks ago?  The Hemingway IMO 9295177.  Ditto Charles Dickens, earlier this spring.  Now I wish Thomas Pynchon would visit, given that he wrote about it . . . and tell me about it in advance.  Orange Ocean is in town, but please, no more orange rivers.  Alpine Mary is here now, but please no typhoid Mary.  YM Unicorn, yes . . . they exist.  And a really crazy one, a tug on Lake Ontario yesterday, Radium Yellowknife!  Wow!

When I saw on AIS that Buffalo Hunter was bound for sea, my tired brain thought Bob Marley and wondered which of his songs would be emblazoned on a bow and stern soon . . . Stir It Up, maybe?

Then I realized the second word was “hunter” and not “soldier,” and the paint job looked neo-dazzle.

Strange . . .

So let’s get out front and look the vessel over again.  Unusual paint-on figurehead.

What’s that around the upper railings of the house?

Barbed wire!  Coils and coils of it.  Has the sixth boro gotten a nasty reputation?

Seriously, I’m guessing it’s for some pirate-infected waterways elsewhere.  Anyone care to share more about the story?

Here was barbed wire mustache on a vessel in Cape Town a few years back.  Maybe this is a cheap-fix for better internet?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.