Quantcast
Channel: Waterfront news – tugster: a waterblog
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 12 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Balancing … 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Loose 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pegasus 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Lady 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Whatzit 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Meanwhile 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

North 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Whole 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Riverbanks 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...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 12 View Live


Latest Images