Ever L 2

It’s that day, and although I’d planned something different, there are a lot of these green containers coming through the sixth boro.  Guess which ship?  Unrelated but something else to guess?  What is the emerald isle of the Great Lakes USA?  Answer follows.

Kimberly Turecamo was on port bow the other day, as

 

James D. and

 

Kirby assist along starboard side.

I believe 30 of the L- series have been built.  Click here (and look on the left nav bar) for their green features.

Go to any world shipping lane and you’ll see them.  The photo below was in Gatun Lake.

Their profile is unmistakeable.

I certainly haven’t even taken a photo of everyone I’ve seen in the sixth boro.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s ingesting green things like basil and oregano today.

Here is the first in this series.  Here’s another.  And from 12 years ago here’s an earlier class of Evergreen C-ships.

Emerald Isle of the Great Lakes . . .  it’s in Lake Michigan . . .  Beaver Island!!

 

Ever Lambent Again

It seemed just a few weeks ago I’d seen her, but it was just over 60 days, the time it takes to get from the sixth boro to China and back.  But there she was passing Robbins Reef Light.

Starboard and

port, she was controlled,

starboard, port, and

 

 

more.

 

Evergreen was founded by Chang Yung-Fa with a single ship in 1968.

Anyone visit their maritime museum in Taipei City?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

People on the Boro 20

Here’ve been previous posts in the series.

See the crew up behind the glass;  one might be a pilot.

The scale of container ships calling in the port renders the bow watch keeper almost invisible, but here

he is zoomed in.

Ditto this crewman.

See the person in the rigging, partway up the center mast here?

Here he is zoomed in.

I’m not sure what the watch stander requirements are on these ships, and which people are just taking in the sights before

 

they head out to sea . . ..

See the two people on the bow?

 

 

No matter the biting wind, a lookout must be kept.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Rounding Bergen Point 3

Before returning to bends around points on other rivers, I want to share some photos I took yesterday, first in a while at Bergen Point.  Here’s the set-up out of Newark Bay.

I’d love to know the tension of the line up from Marjorie.

Ellen pushes on the port stern quarter, and

Robert counters on the opposite bow.

It’s gusty.

But someone calling the shots up there knows how

to rotate

just right.  A year from now, it’s possible there will be gaps in that lower roadbed, if any of it left at all.

 

I’ve no idea what the clearance was yesterday, and I’m eager for that walkway to be re-opened.

 

Another job is almost complete here as of late morning Friday, but the work never ceases, as traffic into the port can be said to

be ever lining up.  There are 30 (I believe) of these Ever L ships, liberal, lasting, lovely, loading, lifting, lucid, laden, lucky, loyal, linking, and more.

Lambent left Shanghai in early November  and will be back in Panama Asia-bound late next week.

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.