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Peking’s Ride
Recall the BOLO post? Well, today out of the fog she arrived, albeit with an errand to run upriver first. After a six-week run from Shanghai, of which about five days has been northbound from Colon,...
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Combi Dock III & Peking Saga 1
Yesterday at 13:31, Combi-Dock III is in sight . . . 14:04, she approaches the VZ Bridge . . . I don’t know how many crew are on board, but soon they’ll be quite busy until they depart with their...
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Combi Dock III & Peking Saga 2
I stopped by around midday today. Trevor had been alongside all morning. I presume this was loading cargo support materials. Here’s the last post I did where Trevor appeared. These first two photos...
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Combi Dock III & Peking Saga 3
No need for much language here. I started these photos around 0830. Despite some rain, conditions were ideal for this loading . . . or engulfing. Here Dorothy J gently moves the antique barque foot...
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Combi Dock III & Peking Saga 4
I passed by this afternoon, so here’s a quick post. Peking seems to have disappeared in this hold. But for scale, check out this photo I took while she was on a dry dock at Caddell’s nine and a half...
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Combi Dock III & Peking Saga 5
or . . . the final installment from the west side of the Atlantic . . . and I’ll use (what I imagine as) NASA times here, but I’ll modify it from “t-minus” to “U–as in underway” minus and plus. So,...
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From the Line Locker 27
Here’s a photo from a friend who works for a naval architecture firm. Guess the function of the completed vessel below. Here’s a rendering. To the gentleman from New Zealand from the William C. Daldy...
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Retro Sixth Boro 40 B
Today the sixth boro and environs face Henri, whose story is yet to be told. August 26, 2011 . . . I was at the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and these Hurricane Irene signs were up. When Irene’s...
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Retro Sixth Boro 49A
Let’s jump back to May 2012. Over along the Manhattan side of the East River then, I caught this scene. Since then, there’s been some movement: Peking to Germany, Marion M to the Chesapeake,...
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Retro 86
Happy July 2025. Let’s have a look back at July 2015, a pivotal time for me, as it might have been for some of you. After all, if you don’t pivot now and then, you might be in a rut and not even know...
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