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So many large ships pass through the sixth boro that unlimited time and a large staff of passionate observers could make ship watching (and learning from the experience) a tourist attraction. Some of the names intrigue . . . like Stove Friend . . . recently built in the home of a quarter of all seafarers, the Philippines.
Axel Maersk may be one of the “longest” container ships that have called in the sixth boro, loa 1155′ x 140,’ assisted here by JRT, Jonathan C, and Miriam Moran.
Ibrahim Dede, here with escort Amy C McAllister, has been calling in NYC for almost as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
Eternal Ace . . . one of the 6400-car capacity PT, looks quite streamlined for a PCC or PCTC, but a newer design is coming . ..
Navios Venus is another fairly new bulk carrier.
I’ve seen CMA CGM Maupassant before, but this is the first time featured on this blog. Kirby Moran, along the starboard side, seems to have a swell approaching from astern.
Liberty . . . last time I saw her she was Topeka, one of the T-class, and yet I can find no reference to a name change. Hmmm.
Tanker MTM New Orleans . . . barely over a year old, is assisted here by Eric McAllister.
SCT Matterhorn leaving the Narrows bound for sea here has Basel as her homeport.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who just found out about this related event . . . related in that it focuses on the wet 2/3s of the planet.
It’s not just mea culpa. I’ve done it, you have too, most likely. “What?” you ask? I’ll get to that.
Foreshortening does make for dramatic photos. And that looks like a spare prop high up on the port side deck.
Watch out there, Madame Mallard . . .
What would Captain Ahab make of this profile? Onyx Arrow was in port for less than a half day yesterday, arriving from Halifax and Europe before that. Early afternoon I got these photos of her leaving town…
So this “we’re all at fault” title in Latin above? We’ve all hit animals while driving: birds, bats, other folks’ pets, turtles . . . I’ve never hit a deer, but over a million are hit on US highways each year . . . .
Here’s what I’m getting at . . . see it on the bulbous bow? Here’s more info on ship strikes . . .
It’s sad to see . . . like deer along the highway, but mitigation seems not so easy. I know of a sailboat sailing with no engine running that hit one that may have been asleep on the surface . . . middle of the night.
The last two photos come thanks to the always alert Tony A; the others by Will Van Dorp.
It has suddenly gone from winter to limbo to spring, and that brings folks outside.
Out in small boats, meetings for dock plans,
surveying this strange place called NYC,
keeping bow watch,
racing geese,
or stowing wires . . .
it’s all easier on spring days like this.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Kirby Moran here seems to have some symbiosis going on with the gulls,
and Jonathan C comes in for a closer look.
Zachery Reinauer repositions light under the parking lot forming on the lower deck of the Bayonne Bridge.
Diana B moves another load of product, likely to the creeks.
Thomas D. Witte is on the paper recycling run, I think.
Does anyone have a photo of her working up in the canals?
I’ve not yet seen Sapphire Coast light.
And finally, the unique paint scheme on Balisco 100
moved into the Kills by Navigator.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Surprises can be ranked in degrees. Here was a surprise . . . people walking way up on the Bayonne Bridge back in 2011. Ditto here I was looking into a hot tub on the stern of a scrap-carrying bunker (photo#7).
The surprises in this post emerge slowly.
This PCTC has been on this blog before, as has Kirby Moran.
That it’s called Don Juan was surprising the first time I saw it, but this line names some of its vessels after characters from opera, so Don Juan fits.
But the detail below–just forward of the radomes– blew me away. In fact, when I took the photo, I had no idea what it was, maybe some netting, I imagined. But a painted-on bower? Or is it painted on . . . maybe it’s real bougainvillea? Is there a Don Juan aboard who uses this as his love nest? Here’s stanza XVIII from Lord Byon’s epic Don Juan Canto 1:
Perfect she was, but as perfection is
Insipid in this naughty world of ours,
Where our first parents never learned to kiss
Till they were exiled from their earlier bowers,
Where all was peace, and innocence, and bliss,[b]
(I wonder how they got through the twelve hours),
Don José, like a lineal son of Eve,
Went plucking various fruit without her leave.
Next . . . even stranger, I think. See TS Kennedy over next to the GMD Graving Dock and Anthem of the Seas out beyond that? Surprise?
A giraffe?! !@#!
Maybe it’s an amusement. Maybe it’s a stand-in for emergency drills? I went looking and found out about Gigi.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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.
I don’t care that it’s February, but the number of subsequent days with temperatures over 50 degrees in the sixth bor0 tells me it is spring–or has been.
Notice the difference between Severn and Fort Schuyler? Here proximity highlights the difference in height of the upper wheelhouse,
but Severn is of the 4200 hp class and fort Schuyler, the 3000.
Ah, the line and boom boats.
Joan is one of the Moran “giraffe” boats and see HR Otter?
She reminds me of the long gone Odin.
Here’s a closer-up of the HR Otter, a name that immediately conjures up Kenneth Grahame.
Some different pairs are possible here, and they’d be the same.
See the pair there?
a pair of hands. Is there a word for the painted design centered on the bow of some vessels, like figureheads but not?
Hope they clap for mardi gras!
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for previous photos from Jed. Click here for a photo of John W. Brown when she housed a high school in the sixth boro, pre-1988. Jed took these photos while he was onboard in Norfolk this past weekend. Click here for info about her September 2016 visit back to her place when she was assigned to the NYC Board of Education.
For the rest, I’ll let Jed’s photos speak for themselves.
photo date 22 MAY 2016
Steven McAllister is a 1963 YTB. John W. Brown had already passed 20 eventful years under her keel by then.
photo date 22 MAY 2016
photo date 22 MAY 2016
photo date 22 MAY 2016
Many thanks to Jed for these photos. NYC should be seeing its own wave of gray arriving today.
Below is a photo taken on June 10, 1946 showing dozens of Liberty ships anchored between where the TZ Bridge would be built (BF is correction thanks to Tony A’s comment) and Haverstraw. That looks like Ossining in the distance. This photo and hundreds of others can be found in the Digital Collections of the NY State Archives here. Who knows, Brown could actually be anchored among the others.
Here are the previous 6. If you want to guess what these are, try; then check against the answers below.
And the order is Wavertree starboard bow, Ever Lyric starboard bulb with Ellen McAllister and Liberty IV in the distance, line between c-ship and Kirby Moran, house of MSC Luisa, decorative welds on a backhoe bucket, stern of a twin-screw tug, panama chocks on CMA CGM Dalila, and container bracing gear in use.
All photos taken recently by Will Van Dorp.
Here were some previous posts with “dawn” in the title. I’d hoped to get photos like these on Easter Sunday, but overcast skies obscured the sun rise color.
Sunrise this particular morning was 0643. The photo below was at 0644.
Quantico Creek pushes a barge eastward while Stephen Reinauer heads west.
Curtis Reinauer westbound; Emerald Coast eastward.
And by 0729, the light was losing some of its richness. This is the joy of springtime light.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has left the building and the sixth boro again and asked the robots to put up the next week or so of posts. division of labor? I take the pics and write some commentary, and the robots do the rest.
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