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Retro Sixth Boro 49 B
May 2012 was a month of verticality, as in these twin tugboats, as in the towers of these bridges with a low, long riverboat transiting beneath,
Tag : Tugster: A Waterblog
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Ports of Western Mexico 4B
No sandy beaches here, although I saw a few farther north closer to the US border and the maps point to some farther south. My first thought was
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East River Catch Up 7
Pete Ludlow’s photos have shown a variety of vessel traffic near Hell Gate. Here’s a whimsical set, not really work boats for a day I’m
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Ports of Western Mexico 4
Three and a half years ago I started this series. I realize now I should just have called the three posts for the ports in question: Guaymas in
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Port of San Diego
Fast jet boats . . . like Patriot, doesn’t every major harbor have one? Oh well, it gets folks out on the water. There are many other
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Thanks to Tony A 33
Tony A has a sharp eye on the sixth boro traffic, like here, Durable, cable ship that worked off Fire Island for some time this spring. I did catch
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East River Catch Up 6
Let’s get back to some Pete Ludlow photos. Co Morgan has such a long history of names going back to 1951 1965, I’m just going to paste it in
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East River Catch Up 6
Let’s get back to some Pete Ludlow photos. Co has such a long history of names going back to 1951, I’m just going to paste it in here. A
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Government Boats 59
One of the joys of wandering around an unfamiliar port is getting surprised, as I was to see an LCS underway. I also saw some reference to the
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Urger Update
Urger got some love yesterday, and tugster was there to document it. Wait . . . is that Urger? No . . . that’s tug Seneca and there is the Capt.
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Truckster! 25
We’ve updated our incomplete work from yesterday, and hey . . it’s May, tugster is away, and that makes it a perfect time for another
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East River Catch Up 4
x Clearly, we robots messed up. To make amends, here’s some info pasted in: GENERAL RUDDER (IMO: 8835463) is a Training Ship that was built in
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Random Tugs 371
Adeline Marie was at anchor off the Coney Island Light. Douglas J and a dump scow were shuttling to and from HARS. Mary Emma was arriving from
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East River Catch Up 3
More photos here thanks to Pete Ludlow. The Amigo is an asphalt tanker. That means she moves her cargo around at almost 300 degrees F. She was