Cold Steamin’ 3

Here was 2.  Floating ice has started to arrive in the Upper Bay, where I might get to tomorrow, but in the Kills . . . it’s clinging ice.  The vessel beyond the #9 is Asphalt Eagle.

A Vane unit travels eastbound on the KVK.

Tankers of sizes from BW Amazon to Capt. Log go about their business.

Note the ice clinging to the Brooklyn shore and to Ellen’s flanks.

Beyond Ellen, Topeka, and Ron G, I think I can spy some floating ice just west of the Battery.

Robert E. McAllister looks to have even more icy cling than Ellen did.

And . . . with mention of ice floating in its direction, BW Amazon seems to have decided to head out to sea.

All fotos today by Will Van Dorp, whose fingers are now thawed out.

Weather 7

Here was number 6 in this series.  It occurred to me this afternoon to rename the whole series “weather overwater,” as a tip of the hat to Dr.  Jeff Masters and his site.  His 18-minute TED talk at the link with his name on it is worth the 18 minutes.   And what do you imagine happens on and over sixth boro water on a day like this . . . ?

The usual.  Diane B pushes a fuel barge, leaving BW Amazon behind,

Cheyenne consolidates scrap,

Davis Sea pushes oil somewhere up river as she did here and here,

Susana S, in the same location here a year ago, takes on bunkers. . .

. . . along with Stavanger Breeze.

Fishing goes on, and pilots

do their thing no matter the weather since 1694.

More bad weather coming . . . so what.   Not that it’s easy, though.

20-Something Dutch Girl

. . . a 49.9′ fishing vessel built in 1991 and  living in Belford, NJ, may not be the first association you had with this title, but here she was in port about a month ago, and

here she was this morning in close proximity with a 964.5′ three-year-old

container ship called NYK Romulus.

But one goes where the first are.  Lime green hull in the distance, along the KVK is BW Amazon.

Here . . . she passes at Fox Boys.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

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