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It’s the end of another month, and maybe because everything’s been so bleak of late, let’s just admire and enjoy the complexity of the sixth boro.
Diverse people work here on diverse missions.
Places like NY Harbor School and M.A. S. T. as well as SUNY Maritime College and King’s Point MMA are here.
On foggy days a narrow navigation channel gives the illusion of being as expansive as the ocean.
Keeping it as ideal a place as possible is the mission of many people and much infrastructure, seen and unseen.
Professionals pass through the sixth boro without ever technically entering the space, both a boon and a bane to all involved,
and their safe passage is ensured by the named and the nameless.
Work and recreation can happen in the same space because of
professionalism. If you have a lot of time, you can binge watch these videos by a pro who works the sixth boro and beyond. Now, when I hear his voice on VHF, it’s familiar. There are books as well.
The universal language of gesture is powerdful.
The sixth boro has at least as much specialized equipment as the other five boros combined; another way to put it, the specialized equipment of the sixth boro enable the other boros to perform.
And if the land boros have spirit, don’t imagine the sixth boro lacks anything.
Photos and sentiments, WVD.
It’s the season.
I wonder if the Kimberly crew has marked other holidays and I missed it. I did catch the red-clad guy almost a year ago.
Mary H and her barge Patriot is likely headed for Newtown Creek. The 1981 build, such a clean looking tug, has been working in the sixth boro for 33 years.
We’ve had a spate of foggy days. Beyond Franklin here, notice the bright lights at Bayonne Shipyard where work proceeds on Mendonca even at night.
The mechanical dredge J. P. Boisseau here gets moved to a new worksite by Sarah Ann, with Brian Nicholas standing by.
A Maersk ship came in recently with a gaggle of assist boats: l to r, Ava, Ellen, and Matthew. Not visible is Charles D. McAllister, and the visible Thomas J. Brown is not assisting.Yes, Matthew Tibbetts is doing a fair amount of ship assist work these days, and why not.
Here are two more photos of Matthew Tibbetts doing ship assist.
Helen Laraway passed through with a load of scrap.
Poling & Cutler’s Crystal and Evelyn pass in opposite directions.
HMS Justice has eluded my eyes for quite a while, but here she is, with the Centerline Logistics feline on the superstructure.
All photos, WVD.
Here comes Jonathan C around the stern of an incoming ship . . .
This turn would have been fun to see from the air, from a stable platform like a helicopter or drone.
The container ship is called Athens Express. And of course that is Kimberley Turecamo.
She was inbound yesterday from the ancient port of Damietta, 12 days and 19 hours behind her.
All photos, WVD.
Name the shipping line?
Ships are color-coded after all . . . all ships of this line are the same color as this one being escorted in by Jonathan C and Miriam Moran.
More and
more clues are here.
Lenient is surely not the first vessels of Evergreen that I’ve watched transit the port waterways., although
it’s the first I’ve seen loaded–or unloaded–in this zoned manner.
All photos today by WVD, who took these photos a few weeks ago.
More “thanks to” posts already planned, but if you have some relevant photos to share, I’d love to receive them.
Can we possibly be passed the equinox yet again? And we’ll have to see flurries fly and flows freeze before summer returns to bless us? Autumn 2 was almost a year ago? The two fotos that follow come thanks to Dock Shuter, up near Catskill. Look carefully at the sail arrangement on . . what I believe is Ommeswaay below, and
Tijd zal t Leeren (aka Time Will Tell) . Thanks to Uglyships Bart, each of these water-scooping sails is appropriately called a waterzeil.
Yesterday this sloop explored the east end of KVK, racing Hamburg Goal. Anyone know this sloop? Tug on Hamburg Goal‘s bow is James Turecamo.
Here it is again, upriver of Comet.
Catherine Turecamo passes in the foreground, and I can’t positively identify the schooner on the far side of the barges with blue houses and out close to the Battery.
Kimberley Turecamo near, Margaret Moran farther, and it looks like schooner Pioneer off the Battery.
Judging by mast height relative to top of sail, schooner near the Battery here is Clipper City.
And as WTGB 107 Penobscot Bay, one of eight such tugs in service. And . . . yes . . . that’s Pioneer under bare poles, disappearing behind 107’s stern.
Finally, I anticipate that in less than a week, another 15-masted motor vessel will traverse the sixth boro; in this case, it’ll be Flinterborg, currently approaching the mouth of Delaware Bay from northern Europe bound for Philadelphia. I believe from Phillie, Flinterborg will make for Albany to load barges and “intall” her 15 or so masts. So, fellow-shipspotters in the area . . . please inform me of a spotting. Next weekend, I will wait at some opportune location once I have ETAs. [Update: as of 0830 this morning, Flinterborg passes through Wilmington bound for Philadelphia.]
Photos, WVD.
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