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Just Fishing … or Not
If she’s not fishing, I figured she might be heading out to fish, or even returning. x But unlike the other fishing boats in the boro, she has nothing in the water. And then I saw this sign; fishing...
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Sixth Boro Details 34
You can’t approach the sixth boro with a fixed idea of what you’ll see, unless you have special arrangements, but seasonally you can imagine what’s nlikely to be around, like clammers working the boro...
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Mersey Venture & the Choppers
Trawler Mersey Venture caught my attention as we sailed into Halifax, but I’m not sure what was going on. I suspected it was training for the helicopters. More info on the 1988 193′ trawler can be...
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January 2025 Boro Details
Although southern states so far have more snow on the ground than the five boros, there’s no question it’s cold here. The KV buoy adds a coating of white to look like a flag. Engine cooling water...
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Fall 2024 Fishing
If whales and party boats come into the Upper Bay, you know the health of the harbor has improved. Come post-summer and almost fall’s end, seeing these same boats year after year makes me giddy....
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Road Fotos 2024 L
My friend the wood carver, Nick . . . the N. in Louis N. Carreras gave me an idea with this post here, where he points out that Nick, whose day is today, is the patron saint of travelers and lots of...
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Random Tugs 436
Brian Nicholas makes past the Weeks yard followed by Dutch Girl. Annie G II works underneath the Newark Bay bridges. Meaghan Marie heads on a mission into the Kills. Osprey tows a flotilla to a...
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Registries
International shipping registries is a dizzying topic for me. Look at that link and you’ll see that IRI was founded by an equally elusive person, Edward Stettinius Jr., elusive meaning I don’t...
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Sixth Boro Details 28
‘Tis black Friday morn, and all o’er the web come calls to spend dollars . . . increasing your debt . . . . I’ll let you finish the words to a soon-could-be classic called “Morning after T’day.”...
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More Fishing Tugs 12
Fish tugs are a design unique to the Great Lakes. Here are previous installments. I found the particularly illustrative poster below in the NPS Pictured Rocks Interpretive Center in Munising MI....
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Greenport Maritime Festival 2024 B
Here was part A, and below, have another look at the mighty Mattituck. Mere feet from the LIRR terminal, the end of the line, is this fisherman’s dock and the East End Seaport Museum. Maybe...
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Road Fotos 2024 F
This road photos post covers from the Canso Causeway–a road–NE clockwise along Cape Breton’s “sunset coast,” except in our case, fog coast, which is not to say I was disappointed as we circum-drove...
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Road Fotos 2024 E
The image on this coin makes it my favorite “hey buddy, can you spare me a bluenose.” The dime image is the result of the work of Emanuel Hahn, said to be inspired by the work of photographer W. R....
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January 2025 Boro Details
Although southern states so far have more snow on the ground than the five boros, there’s no question it’s cold here. The KV buoy adds a coating of white to look like a flag. Engine cooling water...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fall 2024 Fishing
If whales and party boats come into the Upper Bay, you know the health of the harbor has improved. Come post-summer and almost fall’s end, seeing these same boats year after year makes me giddy....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Road Fotos 2024 L
My friend the wood carver, Nick . . . the N. in Louis N. Carreras gave me an idea with this post here, where he points out that Nick, whose day is today, is the patron saint of travelers and lots of...
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Random Tugs 436
Brian Nicholas makes past the Weeks yard followed by Dutch Girl. Annie G II works underneath the Newark Bay bridges. Meaghan Marie heads on a mission into the Kills. Osprey tows a flotilla to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Registries
International shipping registries is a dizzying topic for me. Look at that link and you’ll see that IRI was founded by an equally elusive person, Edward Stettinius Jr., elusive meaning I don’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sixth Boro Details 28
‘Tis black Friday morn, and all o’er the web come calls to spend dollars . . . increasing your debt . . . . I’ll let you finish the words to a soon-could-be classic called “Morning after T’day.”...
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More Fishing Tugs 12
Fish tugs are a design unique to the Great Lakes. Here are previous installments. I found the particularly illustrative poster below in the NPS Pictured Rocks Interpretive Center in Munising MI....
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