Hail to the New

Sorry for the hiatus in posting.  I was out at sunrise New Years Day . . . but more on that in a moment.

Part of my silence was attributable to verizon.  The rest . . . was because I decided to ACT on new year’s resolutions, not just make them.

The first photos after sunrise January 1 . . . Buchanan 1, who must have been towing a loaded dredge spoils scow out as the new years whistles were blowing and fireworks blasting.  Bravo, Buchanan 1.

The linemen/boom managers were out working, as

were the crews of Lucy Reinauer and pilot boat Yankee.

Jay Michael headed out with a scow load of dredge spoils, evidence that dredgers worked their way from 2014 to 2015.

And Bering Sea . . . heads west into the Kills, having passed Gotland Marieann.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Meditations G

G . . . gee!  Grog, galley, green flash, gaff, and my favorite . . . gallivant, which I don’t do nearly enough.  The sixth boro encompasses two bays, spots named Gravesend and Gowanus.  Available for charter is a small boat called Big G and

and yesterday a Torm “super ice” tanker named Gotland Marieann

lightered onto the DBL 32 attached to Taurus.

Falcon sporting some new green paint sidled up to Sea Raven.  Anyone know if Allied Transportation has a website?

If you return to yesterday’s post, I mentioned a tanker named Altius having a ghostly shape;  here that tanker close up and

and then still closer up.  E-ships lists launch date on Altius as 2004. Ghostly . . . or maybe ghastly paint job, especially the partial obscuring of the a previous name.  I can’t figure what it used to be.

Fantasmic  name.    By the way, Big G used to be called Launch 13, named for Patrolman M. Mercer.

Seven days of meditations have ground away at me.  Gotta draw from a different well for a few days.  Remember, click on a foto to enlarge it.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Oh . . . I will get grief for the foto below:  the glossy green bird from Equinox,which seems never to disappear from my top posts.