Random Traffic August 2015

For as multipurpose as sixth boro waterways are in summertime, my perception is that safety prevails.  RORO, barge on a short wire, and canoe stay well apart.

Ditto here with spacing.

PWCs . .  I’ll never be a fan.

Foreshortening masks the fact that from a vantage point like Fort Wadsworth . . . I can see over 10 miles.

The traditional ship here was launched in 1997;  the tug beyond  . . . in 2001.

My only question is where that classy yellow sand is going.  TZ Bridge?

All photos recently by Will Van Dorp.

 

Random Ships 42

The first photo comes via Fred Trooster, HHL Fremantle leaving Waalhaven for Port Said on 4 August, with RT Zoe, RT Stephanie, and RT Claire, for new lives there . . . .

All the rest I’ve taken recently in the sixth boro  . . .  Gracious Ace (a fun name) left Yokohama on June 30.

Ellen McAllister and McAllister Sisters escort GA under the Bayonne Bridge

Palmerton follows the Ambrose Channel into the Narrows.

Anyone recognize the cargo?

Glovis Crown and CMA CGM Vivaldi cross on the Ambrose Channel.

Juliette Rickmers heads for sea with Margaret Moran alongside.

Here crabbing across the Hudson is Sightseer XII, built in 1933!!  Click here for more info on this vessel originally built to enforce Prohibition!

Built as WPC-100 Argo!!

And finally . . . Destiny, a new one for me, a sixth boro version of a lobster boat.   A Maine lobster boat has evolved into something quite different.

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Thanks to Fred for the top photo;  all others by Will Van Dorp.