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What can you tell about this vessel? Here’s a clue . . . try to give it at least 30 seconds of a listen.
Here’s a bit more of her. Actually, I’d love to get a fast rescue craft to explore harbors with . . . Anyone know of a online marketplace for used FRCs? Norsafe is a leading manufacturer, and their site introduced me to a new term, daughter craft. But I digress.
The sixth boro can be quite crowded sometimes. Like here, how many large vessels do you count?
From left to right, there’s Red Cloud, STI Fulham, Maersk Weymouth, Opal Express, Anthem of the Seas, and Leopard Sea, with an unidentified tug and barge unit along Opal Express port side; and when I move the camera to the right, there also Zircon, with Sunny Williams delivering lube oil and I can’t identify the tug bunkering.
Still farther to the right, there’s Marie Kirk, Irish Sea, and an unidentified fishing boat her the CNJRR station.
A bit earlier, I caught this photo of Kirby Moran escorting STI Fulham out of the “inner harbor” to the anchorage.
Over by the salt pile and deeply laden with ice remover . . .
it’s Arcturus, newly arrived from the Antofagasta region, waiting to be discharged.
Which returns us to the mystery ship at the top of this post. It’s Carmen. WW has named many of its PCTCs after characters from operas.
Click here and here for more of these WW vessels. That’s either Miriam or Margaret Moran seeing Carmen in.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
… and random thoughts. A ship with a name that recalls inauguration anchored in the sixth boro Wednesday. It seems that Faithful‘s sibling ships mostly end in -less. Imagine the possible confusion given that siblings are Timeless, Priceless, Endless, etc. “Yes, my dear, I just signed on to sail Faithless.”
All fotos taken by Will Van Dorp since January 20.
Snow’s not falling, but the temperature has
stayed wintry. Ice coats Caspian Sea passing Opal Express, whose name flustered me from a distance when I read the second letter as “r” instead of “p.” “Oral Express calling traffic.” Possible confusion of names there too, like the “Ham Berry” v. Hammurabi of some months back.
New tugs (to me at least)
have arrived. See her launch here!
TGI . . . getting toward spring. Fifty degrees when I left work today.
Photos, WVD.
as in “stocking up,” this sampling records some of the ships headed for sea or a short stay in port during the first half of September.
same with Golden Venus . . . what a name!!
Ever Racer and Navig8 Stealth
of course, while we stock up on stuff including home appliances, don’t forget the juice . . . or juice fuel, the coal for the power plants, here blocking the helmsman’s window as it travels between bridge supports.
oh yeah . . . coal seems abundant enough (9000 tons per barge) here to suggest lots of those stockings will get stuffed with coal. Coal foto compliments of Jed; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Long Island Boathouse was not the only kayak group cleaning up islands in the boro. Check frogma’s J-Bay TrashBash for 9/23 here.
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