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4 min read 2023-05-24 22:59:21

Meeting the Fleet 2023

Is that really USS Cole (DDG 67)? I’ve not seen it mentioned much in media coverage today. Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott (H131) and why

3 min read 2023-05-06 02:22:02

This post encompasses two legs, but WiFi has not been cooperative. Minimal comment: this is the eight-mile Confederation Bridge. Toll to cross by

2 min read 2023-04-28 00:36:49

You’ll understand if I say this is a wicked quick post. Bear with me. At the appointed hour, albeit Campobello time rather than Eastport time,

5 min read 2023-04-10 22:59:48

Two days, two ULCVs, and two distinctly different types of weather. OOCL Brussels glided into a foggy harbor with Ava ready for indirect towing.

2 min read 2023-04-08 22:59:49

I don’t want to be too predictable with this title. Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning. Later that foggy day, it was Everly

3 min read 2023-04-07 22:59:27

Here was 1. Background on the UHL “F” fleet can be found there. I’d thought to call this “non-random ships 001” because choosing to

2 min read 2023-04-03 22:59:20

I still have March travel photos of new scenes and even towboats I want to post, but it’s good to get back to my favorite old scenes like birds

4 min read 2023-04-02 22:59:41

A decade ago, the split-hulled trailing suction hopper dredger Atchafalaya was in the sixth boro. These days in 2023 the 1980 vessel in the St.

4 min read 2023-03-04 23:59:56

Since I’m currently riding the long rails, including this one, I’ve queued up a few posts. More on the rails soon. But let’s go back a decade

3 min read 2023-03-01 23:59:03

Happy March . . . . Exactly a decade ago I made my second trip to Puerto Rico, and both times I spent some time on the island of Vieques. If

2 min read 2023-02-28 23:59:02

It’s a 24/365 proposition for a petroleum hub. Here Potomac stands by while DoubleSkin 58 lighters Kuwaiti crude from Odori. Tanker Boxer

2 min read 2023-02-12 23:59:49

In the chilly windy of a crisp Saturday morning light, Maersk Skarstind made one of the many turns in the KVK. Name the tugboats assisting?

3 min read 2023-02-01 23:59:31

February 2013 saw Patrick Sky still working in the boro. The walkway still flanked the west side of the Bayonne Bridge, which allowed images like

2 min read 2023-01-27 23:59:30

Call this a continuation of yesterday’s post, but this is a model bow set . . . . Given all the features that could be discussed, focus on these

2 min read 2023-01-24 23:59:07

A couple days ago in the 77 Days post (which I’ve since learned added up to 79 days) I saw a mariner I know on the boro on a Maersk container