Shipping News, No. 4

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Shipping News, No. 4
New York Harbor Region
Saturday, January 8, 2000

See also: Shipping News; Shipping News: Update; Shipping News, No. 2; Shipping News, No. 2: Update; Shipping News, No. 3; Shipping News, No. 3: Update.

Reports have surfaced of a "boarding party" visiting one vessel in the waters of New York Harbor. While no information is available regarding the composition of the party, there are currently no reports of pirates running the waters of The Narrows.

The radar of one vessel underway lit up two targets in the surrounding waters, while traffic radar lit up three targets in the identical area. The vessel captain then requested the grid-square locations of the bows and sterns of traffic's targets.

Temporary anchorages in the region appear to be at a premium today, as well as dockside barge space. Vessel captains are not enthused about the unusually tight anchorage accommodations, and are consulting the charts for nearby options.

Tugboat captains have been subject to unusually long wait times for dockside refueling and lube oil, stemming the tide behind other waiting boats and crews. Two refueling depots are closed today. A combination of events is causing some barge work to be rescheduled.

Windows of opportunity for entrance and exit of some ships to the various local ports are being missed for reasons unknown, and thus rescheduled. Cargo traffic to the Ports of Elizabeth and Newark appears to be on the increase from previous days, though groups of ships are moving inbound and outbound in rapid succession, with long periods of time between subsequent ship movements.

The port- and starboard-side lights on a rail bridge over the upper Hudson River are reported to be lighted in reverse colors. Also, a lift bridge spanning the waters between Newark Bay and the Hackensack River will be inoperative for a short period of time following unspecified repairs; thus, only vessels that may fit under the unlifted bridge may pass during the repair period.

Finally, the U.S. Coast Guard continues a vessel exclusion zone in the waters 50 nautical miles S/SE of Nantucket Island.

Today's quote from the channels of The Harbor: "I'm sorry about the confusion today, Sir; but I think it's a case of too many cooks in the kitchen."



-- Harbor Guy (HarborGuy@OnThe.Waterfront), January 08, 2000

Answers

Thank you for your ongoing reports. Maybe you are contributing to the future written history of Y2K. You have a beautiful writing style. Have you considered such a project?

-- J Wheel (motherof5@wellprepared.noregrets), January 08, 2000.

---allright, I'll bite. Been several days now, and I haven't seen anyone ask the "why?" for the vessel exclusion zone. Wazzup with that noise? dot mil "testing"? Projected asteroid impact zone? the king got a yacht, takes his honeys out there? Perspiring zogs gots ta know! Thanks, Harbordood! Very good supply line reports, by the way....

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), January 08, 2000.

Harbor Guy, what's your guess on the reason for the exclusion zone? Could it be the squirrel-piloted UFO crash that we've all been expecting?

-- Dzog (dzog@plasticine.com), January 08, 2000.

Thank you for the compliment, J. I don't intend to do a large written project (just this little interesting bit requires much of my otherwise self-employed time). To me, it is obvious that adverse inputs to this complex system that I am observing are producing a broad variety of adverse effects; hopefully, it will not escalate beyond short-term "minor inconveniences."

Yet, I have not pinpointed a primary source of the inputs. If the source is not the men and their seaworthy machines, could it be the programming routines?



-- Harbor Guy (HarborGuy@OnThe.Waterfront), January 08, 2000.

Isn't that the area where TWA 800 went down?

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), January 08, 2000.


Vessel exclusion zone? That question is stooopid good. I'm clueless, call the Coast Guard :-)



-- Harbor Guy (HarborGuy@OnThe.Waterfront), January 08, 2000.

Love to read your water way notes

dave

-- davebullis (davebullis@aol.com), January 08, 2000.


Forrest: I don't think it's the same area.



-- Harbor Guy (HarborGuy@OnThe.Waterfront), January 08, 2000.

Was that the area where JFK jr. was murdered?

Keith

-- Keith Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), January 08, 2000.


Aaah. I really look forward to the Waterfront reports from Harbor Guy at the end of a day. The vessel exclusion zone is of ongoing interest, yet I find myself especially pleased by the continued inclusion of "today's quote" . Not sure what picture these may eventually paint, but they are wonderful to read.

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), January 08, 2000.


Keith, I thought I was the only one suspecting JFKjr and his beautiful wife were murdered! I haven't even said it aloud to anyone and there you are with the same intuit. JFKjr was not just a pretty boy, he was very intelligent and very perceptive, guess his perceptions became a liability. On that TWA 800 I found the list of deceased (murdered) passengers on the web. There were several VIP people included but it's been years since I saw it and can't remember--do remember telling my husband it was odd that quite a few leadership types were on that plane. I found the right word to describe Bill and Hillary Clinton-- oligarchs. Just like the Marxists. Even though they look and sound so American.

-- gl0ria (watkins@dtc.net), January 08, 2000.

Harbor Guy- I continue to read your posts with great interest! I am gathering that somehow, the "organization" of the New York Harbor is in disarray, as if sand had been poured into a motor...Sooner or later, if they can't resolve this situation, it may result in disruption of JIT delivery of goods, I would assume. Would you be able to elaborate a bit on what the different targets refer to that were lit up by vessel and traffic radars? Thank you again for keeping us updated!

-- Swissrose (cellier@azstarnet.com), January 08, 2000.

Harbour boy very good reports ,I agree you should be a writer.I am reading them very time you post them.

If NY port runs into problems is the xport/import in USA effected a lot?

Thank You

-- Alex The Italian (alexcapr@yours.com), January 09, 2000.


Exclusion zone is that "ship merchants watching from afar" part in Rev 18, *wink.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 09, 2000.

Didn't that Egyptian plane go down off the coast of Nantucket???

Taz

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), January 09, 2000.



"boarding party?"

I'll hazard a guess that someone who doesn't normally look at shipping saw a ship take on a pilot :-)

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 09, 2000.


Krempasky: Russia decided they wanted a circus, so they built a fence around Poland.



-- Harbor Guy (HarborGuy@OnThe.Waterfront), January 09, 2000.

Well, our harbor P.C.'s still are functioning ar the Solitaire level everything must be ok. Go ahead increase traffic until big pieces of steel start bumping into each other. If we reach full load everything is fine, if not tell them to tripple wrap the containers with stretchwrap just in case.

-- Squid (ItsDark@down.here), January 10, 2000.

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