More Greenport

Click here for tugster posts related for the town on the North Fork, which get lots of attention in about a month.  My most recent posts were here and here. My advice is to gallivant at least twice, and once before the flotilla arrives.

Take this harbor tour to get oriented.

Elco launch Glory

Captain Dave is a great tour guide as

he takes you quietly around the old shipyard at Greenport Basin.    I heard rumors that Commander may be heading back west this summer.  Anyone know?

Greenport feels almost like a downeast New England town.  I’m told this vessel is part of  modern oyster farming project.  Eat something raw.

See truly beautiful boats, some newly restored.

China Clipper

Catch some fish.

Read about a veteran,

this one.

built on City Island in the Bronx  in 1937.

Walk to a beach and take a selfie with Resolute.  It was invisible but present, 10 or so miles to the northwest.

Discover research projects to ponder.  More on that black spheroid soon.

Whatzit??!

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

 

Botruc Plum Isle

That’s Hobo on the left. And what is that larger vessel?  Although I was told it was a supply vessel, a little hunting turned up another category, a botruc . . . or bo-truc.

Here, according to the owner, the yellow stripe was added to make the vessel–which has spent most of its life serving the island with the DoHS research facility and NOT the island where I used to live— appear less ominous.

I’ve done lots of posts featuring Blount boats. Click here for the list.

Check hull #94.  This is what Plum Isle looked like in 1963.  It introduces a new word . . . botruc, quite the 1960s word. Here’s another.  Click here for a photo of a vessel with similar lines, the Blount-built Sailor, a lube tanker that worked–or still works–on the Delaware.

So . .  does this new word apply to Rosemary as well?  Bopickups?

And Danalith . . . here headed for Cape Verde, is she a shi-cars?

All photos except the archival one by Will Van Dorp.