Daily Ship 6

Here was 5 in the series.  And here’s something I miss up on the Canal:  ships!  They remind me the planet is vast yet interconnected.

From a distance, I thought this was Grey Shark.  It’s actually quite different, but

its cargo is the same.   And while we’re on hauling cars, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Lygra.

Into this very busy pic comes Maersk Detroit.  Tugboats there are Susan Miller and Larry J. Hebert.

This bow of Oceanmaster has ploughed the oceans for just one year, and brings fresh salt to the port, in anticipation of another ivy winter.

I love great names like Freight Margie, here with Specialist passing.

Anyone know the name of this vessel over in GMD Bayonne?

Afrodite passes through the harbor in broad daylight.

And if you weren’t satisfied with yesterday’s view of Ramform Atlas (104 meters loa by 70 m. maximum abeam) . . .  here’s another.

And finally . . . with over 10% of the shipping in the world flagged Liberian, here’s acknowledgement that that country is also suffering from the most recent ebola outbreaks.  Note the flag on stern flown upside-down.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’ll be in the sixth boro a few days.

 

Relief Crew 18

Here was 17.  Click here or use the search window on the left to revisit all the posts in this series.  All photos in this post come from my sister currently in the Gulf of Paria, off Trinidad, a place calling me .  . I feel it!

This isn’t the only tug named Tenacious, but look at the rest of the fleet here.    It looks like Culloden started life as Chindit.

I can’t identify the vessel over near shore.

The orange vessel in the distance is Ramform Atlas, a truly usual design, as wide as it’s long;  you have to look at the images in that link earlier in this sentence.  No matter how functional Ramform is, to someone too long at sea, seeing this approach, it would truly seem a hallucination.

For more info on Janus, click here.

To the left . . . Marfret Marajo operates for a company I’ve not heard of.  To the right, in unmistakeable ECO colors, it’s Edison Chouest!

Many thanks to my sister and brother-in-law for these pics and for planting the idea of gallivanting off to the Golfo de Paria . ..  soon.