50 Shades of Spray 2

Many thanks to Pierre Kfoury for sending along this very clever photo in shades of black, white, and gray of Bruce McAllister he took up by New Hamburg, NY.  In Pierre’s photo, I like those gray shades and gray reflections too.

More shades of spray take us to Emerald Coast, passing Chesapeake Coast.

Sitting out on deck has to be evidence of a warm heart on a vessel

that will miss Mardi Gras in a warm place.

Frozen spray reinforces the fenders maybe?

The glaze coats the hull with a very light-gray layer.

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Even on this vessel with a hot name . . . the icy shading is present.  Is it true that this tanker was briefly in port to deliver the love drug –phenethylamine– to those of us crowded on the edges of the sixth boro?   A few years ago, this vessel was in the sixth boro with the name Golden Venus;  for photos of her and other vessels with fantastic names, click here.

So . .  50 shades of spray?  How about 56 or 65 or  . . .spray, gray, play . . . ?  The number is only limited by the imagination and the eye.

I had gone looking to get a photo of this vessel, but by the time I got to my favorite cliffs, they all have headed to warmer waters.  And given the usual fashion of mermaids, I can’t blame them.

Thanks again to Pierre Kfoury for his photo.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

100 Days’ Changes

Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, late October 2013.

Same bridge February 4 2014.

WYTL 65611 Line and Doris Moran passing under that same bridge  February 4 2014.

Looking south toward Bannerman’s Castle late October 2013.

From not as close . . . but that’s Bannerman’s slightly off to the left.

Northside of Bear Mountain Bridge in October 2013 and

yesterday with Stephen Reinauer with RTC 80  north bound and

and Stephen-Scott with light barge RTC 20.

Doris meets the train.

Here’s looking south from Newburgh dock mid November a few years ago, and

here’s the same view from earlier this week.

All fotos of two of the faces of the Hudson River by Will Van Dorp.

July 2012 KVK

I’ve never seen or heard of Sam M before.  Anyone know what she’s doing in the boro?

Dramatic as this is . . . a few seconds earlier was even better .  . . that’s Maersk Montana.

Guesses on the tugboat on Eagle Beaumont‘s port bow?

The tug is not unusual in itself, but that it’s doing assist

work  . .. is something I’ve never seen.  Yes, there’s a line there connecting Stephen Scott to the tanker.

Maybe all other “assistants” were engaged elsewhere?

Charles D. McAllister solo was assisting British Harmony away from

the dock and retrieving the pilot.

The waters of the KVK seemed to call beckon me so strongly to come swim that I had to leave.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders what became of Yemitzis.

And if you have an appetite for an youtube hour of Dutch tugboats in the rivertown of Maassluis . .  click here.