Small Craft 11

Here’s an index of previous posts with this title.

And a lot of photos of small craft.  Given recent temperatures, it’s notable that all these vessels would NOT be able these days to navigate waters much north of the sixth boro or on the Great Lakes, because of ice conditions.  Given the significant clues, can you identify the vessel and location below?  Answers follow.

Here’s Julia, a sturdy all weather boat out with McKinley Sea.

Here’s Julia a few weeks ago–when the whelp of Hudson River ice still went out into the Lower Bay–

retrieving personnel from NS Lotus.

Taking the stern of Kimberly Poling . . . a small USACE I don’t recognize.

See the small unidentified boat beyond Mako‘s stern.  I believe it’s the Vane crew boat, not

to be confused with Grace D.

ABC-1 was out with supplies a few weeks ago, no matter the single-digit temperatures.

These temperatures could kill, but small fish boats like Pannaway are out there.

And if I’m reading that right, Pannaway is registered in a New Hampshire, my home state as you can read on the “about tugster” page.

Harbor Charlie is out with the small NYPD boat.

Now, let’s mix things up a bit.  Seth Tane took this photo in the sixth boro back in the late 70s or early 80s.  Can anyone identify this boat, Karen L?  I ran a lot of photos from that era by Seth in a series here almost two years ago.  In this case, Karen L seems to have just returned four jolly tars back to their ship in the anchorage as another crewman watches from the rail.

Rich Taylor took this photo recently off St. Lucia, four different very balanced tars in a long narrow boat.

This photo comes via Fred Trooster in Rotterdam showing line handlers there. Here’s a post I did over three years ago of line handlers in the Kills.

And this somehow returns us to the mystery vessel at the top of the post:  Knight Rider following the FDR just north of the United Nations, the blue flag in the top photo being the clue.

Thanks to Rich, Seth, and Fred for the photos already attributed.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

Random Ships 36

How many more folks in the cold first months of 2015 would have slipped on walkways or skidded off roadways had it not been for our annual salt infusion?  Spar Spica is the most recent vessel emptied here.

How many old trucks and cars have a second life in the Caribbean islands because of this trade conducted by Grey Shark?

What kind of petroproducts does Pula transport?

The classic Ellen McAllister escorts her in. . .

as another tanker . . . Arionas heads for sea

guided by Elizabeth McAllister.

Deep Blue–named for this??– lingered in port a few days as

did NS Lotus, here a few weeks ago when this ice drifted beyond the Narrows.  And what did the crews think of the ice drift?

I really have lost track of the number of salt ships that have delivered anti-ice properties to the land sides of the sixth boro. There was at least one between United Prestige–shown here in mid-February–and Spar Spica.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is ecstatic to be in a warmer sixth boro this morning.

For a Caribbean take on a salt pile–production and ship-loading side, see here, here, and here.