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This secret lake had great ice for these old boats like Ariel, Ice Queen, Whirlwind, Genevieve, and others. I was asked not to tell then, and by now I’ve forgotten exactly where this Shangri-la was, but
the ice boating was ideal. Has anyone heard of Hudson River Valley ice boating happening this year? The temperature is perfect, but that doesn’t always mean the ice surface is. I checked here and it doesn’t look favorable.
Evrotas was getting an assist from Amy C McAllister. Evrotas is currently St. Eustatius-bound from Texas. Amy C is in the Mariners Harbor yard, and I’ve not seen her in a while.
Amazing, which has to be one of the most amazing extraordinary names for a bulk carrier, was discharging salt. Currently she’s anchored off in the Black Sea. The ice of February 2011, the heat from oil, and the need for salt of the roads interrelate.
Then, as now, the sixth boro was busy with (l to r) dredge New York, GL 501, MSC Yano, Horizon Discovery, K-Sea’s Maryland, DBL 17. I may have left someone out there. To choose two of these, the originally Esso Maryland is now Liz Vinik. Horizon Discovery was scrapped in Brownsville in February 2015.
Ipanema heads out to sea in the rich morning glow. She may have sailed into her sunset as Norsul Ranaee, unrelated to this photo.
Irida discharges salt. She appears to have been scrapped.
MOL Partner is inbound on the Con Hook range. That’s a GLDD mechanical dredge at work and (maybe) some Bouchard tugboats in the distant left. MOL Partner is passing the Aleutians between China and Tacoma.
We leave it here. All photos from exactly a decade ago, to the month, WVD.
The combinations in the sixth boro might surprise you, cargo and clams, for example.
Mary Virginia crossed Gravesend Bay to get to the Upper Bay. Back in 2013 I posted photos of Mary Virginia here.
Over in Stapleton . . . Giulianna Maria . . . is that an anchoring system?
Crossing Hell Gate and leaving 91st Street Marine Transfer Station behind, Never Enuff seems fishing bound, rod fishing.
Here’s a NJ crab boat. Note the rake toward the stern. That’s the Miller’s Launch fleet along the distant shoreline.
And although it carries the name Lobster Boy,
the rakes show they’re going for clams.
Commercial fishing vessels is a hallmark of winter in the sixth boro.
All photos, WVD.
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