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See the decorated Dutch bar? That’s not something you see every day.
but July 4 is not an ordinary day. Just look at all those people at the land’s edge: “water-gazers” Melville called them, as you can read here with the last sentence of the second paragraph and go through the next two paragraphs. All wanting to see the decorated Dutch bar?
Brendan Turecamo, showing the Turecamo flag!
Marie J Turecamo brought a barge of pyrotechnics too.
Marion Moran–like Brendan Turecamo–brought a barge full to midtown, I believe.
. . . as did Doris Moran. Again, see the water-gazers fill the esplanade.
Other tugboats brought other gazers . . . sky-gazers soon.
like Kimberly Poling and .
Yemitzis, launched as a PRR tug in 1954. Click here and scroll to see her original look.
My goal at the fireworks on Pier 16 had been to get shots of Ambrose bathed in pyrotechnical light, but alas . . . without the right orientation of camera to boat to flashes . . . this is the best I got.
This photo from July 2012 was what I had imagined I could get. Well . . . it’s all about a lot of things, including location. See the different version of this shot of the left of this page and please let’s continue the discussion on the future of Pegasus.
Speaking of sky-gazers . . . from the back of the crowd on Pier 16, this is what I got.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And if you didn’t see this article in the NYTimes about digital photography and ethics, check it out, even if you just look at the before and after photos.
The first 11 fotos here come compliments of bowsprite, who was so eager to get fotos of Ambrose‘ return that she admits to running out to the East River to get these shots … in her pyjamas …! Now THAT would have been a sight to see. As evidenced by her posts here and here, she IS a devotee of lightships.
I leave most of the narrative here to her fotos, which begin here are a parade processed past the heliport along the East River.
Keep in mind that Ambrose in not moving under its own power, but
traveling on the hip of Charles D. McAllister, whom I foto’d from seagull perspective recently.
Ambrose clearly demonstrates some power here versus this hecilopter.
That’s Brooklyn Heights in
the distance.
Now pay a modicum of attention to the vessel way out beyond the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
For a resplendent Ambrose, it’s homecoming! I hope you can come to the welcome back ceremony on the pier next Monday evening, March 12.
Again, note the ship in the way background.
A radiant Ambrose gives new meaning to the term “lightship.”
Docklines are tossed . . . she’s home!
Et voila! Guess who’s back in town . . . Ms. O, Alice . . . my first love!
More seriously, I’ve written about a crypto-lightship in town here and here after being tipped off by Jeff S.
The final foto above comes thanks to Mike Cohen . . . who snapped it from Brooklyn Heights.
So here’s a matter to speculate about: Ambrose‘ return attracted some of the mainstream media. Is it possible that these media are starting to pay more attention to folks’ attention paid to water and harbor and sixth boro events?
Back in December, Ambrose went to the yard for a makeover, and John Watson took these shots.
Today, John got these, mere minutes ago, as they tangoed
Charles D. McAllister and Ambrose,
chico y chica
felizmente
como amantes en la primavera.
Big party is NEXT Monday evening. RSVP!
Many thanks, John.
Birk took these waterside fotos the better part of a week ago. It took me a while to figure out the “color” of the mushroom anchor at the bow.
Plastic wrap I conclude, but that could be erroneous. Ambrose certainly is full-bodied with a low center of gravity.
For purposes of comparison, I’ve put up the next two shots I took at South Street 25 months ago. While afloat, Ambrose‘s beamy or “jowly” hull cannot be fully appreciated.
From this NPS Maritime Heritage Program link, I learned that Ambrose was launched in 1907 and originally wore straw colored paint–with her name in black–not the white lettering on red hull she’s sported since the 1930s. Oh . . . the folks in the red suits around her in this shot . . . they must belong to some secret society of the Nacirema.
Many thanks to Birk Thomas for the top two fotos.
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