Thanks to Xtian

Xtian has been sharing photos here for some time.  Now it turns out he and I were in the tiny dorp of Maassluis within days of each other earlier this month, as evidenced by his photo of Furie, which was in the same spot the day I visited here (and scroll).

I would never have guessed RPA 14 is 31 years old!  Xtian certainly caught the light right here.

Smit Ebro has been on this blog before, as in this post.

Equipment on Husky?Make your guesses and on Monday or so, I’ll explain.

Smit Cheetah and SD Seal . . . doing fire equipment training?

FairPlay 21 … in between Smit Panther 

and FairPlay 24 with still more Smit tugs in the foreground.

Here’s part of the Kotug fleet.  From left, it’s unidentified, RT Evolution, SD Rebel, and RT Adiaan.  Click on each of the three links previous to see how different those three tugs are.

Smit Hudson has been around since 2008.

Click here for the entire FairPlay list.

 

 

 

Many thanks to Xtian for these photos.

Random Ships 40

Right around this time four years ago, I saw my first dockwise vessel in the sixth boro and the loading process was lengthy.  There’s a link at the end of this post, by which time you’ll understand why I bring that up.

For now,  imagine what’s to the right of Smit Panther and Smit Schelde, and

to the left of Smit Elbe and Smit Cheetah . . .

Here it is . . . Armada Intrepid, an FPSO here lassoed in the Calandkanaal portion of the port of Rotterdam.

And  . . . related or not . . .  Dockwise Vanguard,  queen of the heavy lift fleet, now enroute for the Riau Archipelago . . .

Oh!  of course, they are related.  It’s time for a piggyback.

All secure and keel of FPSO is already dry.

A sailor too long at sea, upon seeing this approach, would panic!

So here is the index of “groundhog day” posts I did four years ago.

For these photos, many thanks to Hans van der Ster of towingline.com and Jan Oosterboer via Fred Trooster.

Unrelated but talking about Dutch ideas for unusual housing, check out this idea.   Here are some photos from last year when I stayed at Botel in Amsterdam for a few days.

 

Really Random Tugs 27

The first two and last two photos here come thanks to John Jedrlinic . ..  aka Jed.  He took these of Marlin in Baltimore in late July 2009.

Has anyone heard of/seen it since it was sold foreign?

The next batch were taken in the Beerkanaal area seaward of Rotterdam in early March (I think) by Jan Oosterboer and sent via Rene Keuvelaar and Fred Trooster.  I’ll just list the names and embed more info:  Iskes Brent, 

Smit Panther with 1200′ CSCL South China Sea,

Smit Ebro,

Fairplay 24,

SD Stingray with enhanced fire fighting gear,

Smit Cheetah,

Canadian built Svitzer Nabi and Nari,

Smit Hudson, 

and SD Rebel.

Look at the palm trees.  Jed took this one of Fort Bragg last month in a place where northerners probably wished they were. . . .

. .  and this one of Susan Moran in Norfolk in early June 2012.

Thanks to Jed, Jan, Rene, and Fred for these photos.

 

Dutch Pictures 1

Photos 2, 3, 4, and 5 here were taken from Hoek van Holland;  the others are from Amsterdam.  It’s been rainy and gray.  Enjoy.

T