Rivers have always made the best highways. On Monday, a massive heat-recovery steam generator left the Port of Coeymans, near Albany, on the Hudson River, on a barge bound for a new power plant under construction in Sewaren, NJ. The generator weighs in at an impressive 4,000 short tons, is 130 feet tall and costs $195 million.
The generator was welded to the deck of a 400′ long deck barge with a 100′ beam and was taken under tow down the Hudson River. Once in New York harbor, the barge was towed up the Arthur Kill to Sewaren. The pace of the voyage was determined by the currents and several bridges, including the Mid-Hudson Bridge and the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, which the generator could only pass under at low water.
Australian waters can be dangerous. Over the years we have posted about attacks by 
In mid-July we posted about a 
These have been rough times for US destroyers and cruisers deployed to Japan. The US Navy has found that the former commanding officer of the 
When dredging a harbor with as long and rich a history as UK’s Portsmouth, there is literally no telling what you may find. The harbor is now being dredged to deepen and widen a four-mile channel to allow the the navy’s new 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers, HMS 
Recently, Lt. Taylor Miller of the U.S. Coast Guard was featured in an 
The best thing that can be said about the “rebuilding” of the Canadian schooner 
The disappearance of Malaysian Air flight MH370, which vanished in March 2014 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board, remains one of the worlds greatest aviation mysteries. After surveying over 120,000 square kilometers of Indian Ocean and reportedly spending $160 million, the 
Last weekend, we sailed by living history in Oyster Bay. As we were heading toward the gas dock, a beautiful gaff rigged sloop sailed by. It was Christeen, the oldest oyster sloop in the United States. Built in 1883 in Glenwood Landing, New York, she returned to the hamlet of Oyster Bay, New York in 1992. Over the next seven years the 
One hundred and one years ago today, on July 27th, 1916, 
Originally posted on 
After a two year drydocking for restoration work, 
One recurring comment related to the 
In 1867, Royal Navy Captain, and later Admiral, Philip Colomb, worked out a system to send signals by a code of dots and dashed using 
The ship was just a silhouette in the haze as we sailed into New York harbor. We were on the last leg of the delivery of my new/old sailboat Arcturus from southern Virginia to Oyster Bay, Long Island. The ship in the distance looked odd. The ship’s deck-house was forward with three pedestal cranes aft. What was strange was the other rigging, which at first looked like four king posts, rising from the deck. Why would a ship with pedestal cranes also have king posts?