Pairs in Winter 9

Here was “pairs in winter 8” from four years ago.  The others can be found in the search window.  The title started as my attempt to be too clever and parody this Edith Piaf title, which someone else–not me–liked.  Number 4 might be my favorite.

Not much to say other than that yesterday morning was quite foggy before the rain started.  Eventually I gave up because the fog got too thick, gruelly although not quite peasoup.  Fog serves almost as a way to narrow the depth of field;  the names of Caroline M and Mount St Elias are clear but farther from them, details drop out.

Ditto Dace with RTC 83 and Silver Dubai,

Bohemia and Doris, 

Brian Nicholas and Stephen Dann, 

Kirby and Mary, 

and the incongruous Gelberman and MSC Lisa.   

All photos, any errors, WVD.

Unrelated but interesting:  a gray whale off Nantucket!

 

Sixth Boro Traffic 4

Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun.  Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know.  The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems.    A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image.  I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.

Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.

Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are. 

Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.

Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler.  Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.

This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.

Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.

This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.

And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.

All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow.  Peace on Earth!