Random Tugs 58
Keeping with tradition: here’s #57. Remember, doubleclick enlarges. Unidentified kayaks foreground, and middleground from left to right: Layla Rene, Sea Bear, dredge Florida; and background, King...
View ArticleBalancing … or Not 2
If you click here and are familiar with some of the changes on the NYC waterfront, you’ll know some of these landmarks are gone. Debate on choices of what to save and what to preserve are endless....
View ArticleLoose Ends 1
Continuing my effort to see the sixth boro from every imaginable angle, I recently walked Hudson River Waterfront Walkway between Port Imperial and Edgemont Marina. This post covers the first portion...
View ArticlePegasus Afternoon
Today marks the end of the four-day historic ship festival and the official opening of Pier 25. Friday and Saturday I worked on Pegasus. Click on that link and you can find details of her history,...
View ArticleLady Liberty Levity
This just in: an exemplar of French femininity is occupying Bedloe’s Island, and has done so for . . . 125 years!! And today . . . something just had to be done about it. Rubber bullets? No. Tear...
View ArticleWhatzit 11
<<This just in! Tugster faces an immediate election!! See note at end of this post.>>> Here was 10. Here was 3 . . . , and the others you can locate through the search window....
View ArticleMeanwhile in the Sixth Boro
Although I have many more “oldcarcity” fotos to share soon, John Watson got the following fotos from his sixth boro cliff yesterday, and they must go up. Kudos , John! John’s fotos are physical...
View ArticleNorth Coast News 2
I’ll get to more of the Louisiana and Panama fotos once I “deglitch” something, so thanks to these shots from Isaac Pennock of tugboathunter we can head north. Do you recognize this shade of blue? It’s...
View ArticleWhole Lotta Dredgin’ 12
Here’s where the “leverman” sits for a twelve-hour shift as the C. R. McCaskill slews port to starboard 400′ once each three and a half minutes. Another way of saying that is the dredge moves using...
View ArticleRiverbanks 8
Recognize this location for sixth boro riverbank living? The fine print there says USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham (T-AK-3017), which was just outside the VZ Bridge a few days ago. Now it’s over by FDNY...
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