The dark season and the end of 2009 trigger an impulse to look back. Wood . . . there’s been a fair amount of it this year especially from Mystic, the Dutch barges, and of course Onrust. The following are mostly built on Cape Ann, a place once...
Answer to yesterday’s TugsterTeaser: that BIG tall ship is NOT Peking, which didn’t arrive in the sixth boro until late 1975. Answer is Moshulu, mentioned in the wikipedia site, although if you look at the Moshulu site, it appears she went directly...
Click here to see what google delivers in response to the search term “twinkle express.” Well, believe it or not, a serious crew works
on board the product tanker by that name. But can you imagine working on a vessel by that name? Sorry, I just...
As I hiked along the KVK today, it seemed for a while that half at least the boats were K-Sea white with red and mustard trim. Of course, I’m known for the gift of selective vision. Not all the fotos below were taken today, but the enjoy the...
Rust . . . it transforms the
bow. It
eats through the
starboard plating. And
it seeps through the metal
at the stern. You know the logic now, so next is
what happens portside on a bulk carrier hauling salt. It
bruises and degrades the...
