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Atlantic Basin 2
home of the two Marys. The farther Mary comes and goes, but the nearer one–Mary A. Whalen, hub of the Basin–will serve as locus for (literally) tons of visiting historical vessels (See Atlantic Basin...
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Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension 8
I hope you’re enjoying this time warp as much as I am. Foto #1. Princess Bay northbound through the Old Bay Draw. Foto #2. When I first met this vessel, she was known as Kristin Poling. Click here...
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Stormy Aftermath 7 Months 7 Days
Sandy pushed this 1941 vessel ashore on Staten Island late last October. The registered owner was from another continent and possibly no longer alive due to unrelated circumstances. The city took...
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Around the Sixth Boro 3
Here was ASB 2. There might be eight million stories in the naked city, but in its primary boro aka the sixth boro at least half again that number of other stories could be told . . by the...
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Small Tankships 2
I should rename this post “Time Warp.” I started it in May 2008 and this morning–in response to some Facebook exchanges–resurrected it. Maybe I will begin a series called “Time Warp,” though, and any...
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Mary Whalen’s 70th Birthday
Here are the basics: come by land or water to a party for Mary Whalen‘s 70th year next Saturday December 6 from 11 til 5. You can RSVP here. I’ll be there. Two of these three fotos are recycled...
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Communing
In Moby Dick, Chapter 36 aka “The Quarter Deck” depicts a muster aboard Pequod in which the captain calls the crew to dedicate themselves to a project. If it were possible to factor the melodrama out...
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Trio
In August 2007, while reading about K-Sea history, I wrote a post called “… Ancestry” that featured Davis, Falcon, Taurus, and Lincoln. In response to an email a few days ago, here are some recent...
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Mary Whalen Moves III
Mary Whalen‘s moved several times that I missed, but today was my third, or so. Click here for one of her previous moves, and here for an orange tug moving her. In small, quick patches of sunlight...
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Retro Sixth Boro 24 B
Some things like winter fishing in the harbor appear not to change in a decade, but Houma will never again move Mary A. Whalen. Houma, built at Jakobson in 1970, was scrapped in 2017. PortSide...
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