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Here are previous cargoes posts, but today I could have called this fog as well.  But what is it . . . a happy marina?

Oh . . . Hornblower Hybrid , a misnomer, and Amarula Sun, a sport fish . . .

It’s a Big Lift vessel with a marina load on its deck.

 

 

 

 

I wonder she’s headed after the Panama Canal?

In the Big Lift fleet, I’ve seen H Rover, H Buccaneer, H  River . . . and more . . .

Happy Dynamic has been here before.  I wonder where this cargo is headed . . . as final destination.

All photos this foggy morning by Will Van Dorp, whose previous “marinas on deck” posts include Flinterborg and Flinterduin.Rod Smith helped out with Traveller carrying Half Moon across the Atlantic.  And let’s not forget Peking’s ride. 

About Hornblower Hybrid, which arrived in the sixth boro in 2011 . . .  what percentage of its power did it ever get from solar, wind, and hydrogen?

 

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Count’em . . . three!  Becky Ann and two of Ken’s boats.

Click here to see a post I did a few months back on crewboats exclusively.  Miami River shuttles in here past Charleston in drydock.

Becky, Doris, and Maria T.

Wolf River has returned to the sixth boro after some time away.  Brazil maybe?

A few weeks ago, here’s Julia assisting as Freddy K Miller prepares to move a construction barge away from Governors Island.

Miss Ayva in the straits of Gowanus down under the BQE is one of the workhorses . . . work ponies of the harbor, not unlike

this unidentified vessel off Happy Dynamic‘s stern and

Gabby . . . here staying ahead of Sarah Ann and her clutch of barges and

Julia fearlessly speeding out the flat Narrows to run someone out to Gravesend Bay.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

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Random . . .  all fotos taken in the past week, and  . . .  let’s start with a tugboat that’s NOT mostly painted white, the 1958 Thornton Bros.  This foto, courtesy of William Hyman, also shows the color of foliage on the New Jersey bluff across from upper midtown.

2000 Brooklyn, which also has had a long list of previous names.

1979 Margaret Moran

2002 Gramma Lee T Moran

1974 BF Jersey

1966 Gulf Dawn

1979 Patrick J Hunt

And some fotos of vessels operating by night.  ..  1983 Escort

1969 Robert E McAllister

1976 Atlantic Salvor.    Notice the tallest building in the distance . . . that’s WTC1.  Eleven months ago, I took these fotos of Salvor steaming int the sixth boro with segments of the antenna that are now assembled and in place atop the tower.

And once again, the green 1958 tug that started out this post.

Thanks to William for the first foto;  all others by Will Van Dorp.

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Here was 19.

And this fast moving light tanker is Afrodite, shuttling Albany to St. John, NB Canada, exporting Dakota crude.  That all may sound like science fiction, but sometimes I feel like my whole life has started re-enacting science fiction.  Afrodite, she with the intriguing name, sails fast.   This foto, taken between the bridges in Poughkeepsie, comes compliments of Jeffrey Anzevino.  Thanks, Jeff.

The foto below, the latest from Tony Acabono, shows Gunhild Kirk, formerly Stealth Argentina.

I took all the rest here, except for the very last one . . .  here Happy Dynamic leaves ex-MOTBY for sea.

The last few days, Happy Dynamic has been my striven-for state.

Maryland . . . passes here in the foreground of Overseas Fran and Stolt Concept.  Overseas Fran . . .  all I can think of —in the spirit of Thomas Pynchon-make that . . . overseas, fran?  Or . .  “Over.  Seas (seize) Fran!”  Gravity’s Rainbow is enjoyable, if you can make it through, and it took me three tries before I got through the first time.   More Maryland pics soon.

Ah . . and finally that creamy colored tanker bringing into the sixth boro my favorite

drink.

At first my eyes saw Zengale, quite the oxymoron.  Later, I made out the correct name, referring to a province of Latvia.

JPO Libra . . . escorted by Miriam Moran and

Energy Conqueror . . . spun by Margaret Moran.

Parting shot, also from Jeff Anzevino . . . Afrodite.

Many thanks to Jeff and Tony for use of these fotos.  All others by Will Van Dorp.