Out my window

[ron ll]

Yeah, looks like Grayling. http://www.styc.org/Newsletters/2009_09_Issue_3.pdf

Wow. Thanks for the link. I've seen her around a lot recently but didn't realize she was the same Grayling that I remember from the '70s and '80s around here. She had a much different house then and even looked a little hogged (maybe that was just the bulwarks someone had added. She's a beauty now. What a boat, what a history.

[johnw]

Yes, I remember her looking hogged, and having old, blown-out sails. I'm glad someone was able to rescue the old girl.

[ron ll]

I'm still experimenting with trying to improve image quality without much luck. Even stopping it way down, there is still the simple math problem of not enough pixels to crop down this much. I'll keep trying to squeeze more from this old 4 megapixel Olympus. In the meantime, a couple more workboats.

[Bobcat]

I'm still experimenting with trying to improve image quality without much luck. Even stopping it way down, there is still the simple math problem of not enough pixels to crop down this much. I'll keep trying to squeeze more from this old 4 megapixel Olympus. In the meantime, a couple more workboats.

The top photo is the SES Propeller, my daughter's Sea Scout boat. She's a Korean War era Army T-Boat and she still has some of her armor plating. I have spent a lot of time aboard her.

[Paul Pless]

I'm still experimenting with trying to improve image quality without much luck. Even stopping it way down, there is still the simple math problem of not enough pixels to crop down this much. I'll keep trying to squeeze more from this old 4 megapixel Olympus.

What model Olympus and which lens? Without spending much you might find a cheap tele or tele-converter. Your basic system of remote release and focusing seems to be working quite well. Great thread!

[ron ll]

What model Olympus and which lens? Without spending much you might find a cheap tele or tele-converter. Your basic system of remote release and focusing seems to be working quite well. Great thread!

It's the old Olympus E-10 with the Olympus 9 - 36mm (35 - 140mm 35mm equivalent) lens. I have it zoomed to about 20mm (near mid-range) to allow me to capture the full amount of the canal that I can see between buildings from my window. I have to leave it at that fairly wide FOV or I'll miss boats or parts of boats in their travel. Then by the time I crop down to just a small boat, I am sometimes using only about 400 - 500 of the 2240 horizontal pixels recorded. If I were hand-holding for each shot, I would zoom into and follow the boat. But even with work a bit slow, I can't stand there all day hand-holding a camera. Yes, the AC adapter and mirror for the RF trigger are working great. But it has me thinking about looking for a better camera, even a used one would be better than this one, but not a real financial high priority right now.

[Chip Chester]

If you buy one with remote trigger capability, and a probably-existing-camera-utility hunk of software, you could just put it online, and let other people look out your window and take the pics... If everyone chipped in $2, that might cover it. (6000+ views on thread... not unique views, of course.) Chip

[ron ll]

Island Chief, one of the regulars. This guy pushes a barge, sometimes two, of sand and gravel thru the Locks just about every day. I assume they are going to make concrete up at Kenmore at the North end of Lake Washington.

[Bobcat]

When on the Propeller, which you showed today, last summer at night, this barge or one like it filled the Montlake Cut. We were idling waiting for the barge come out. A big party yacht was steaming toward it, seemingly oblivious. We had to hit 5 blasts on the whistle and use the loudhailer to get the attention of the yacht captain. He or she then came to an abrupt stop and backed the hell out of the way.

The gravel barges are very hard to see at night.

[ron ll]

Blarney and Capelin.

[ron ll]

And the other side of Propeller as she heads back to the barn.

[Yeadon]

Island Chief, one of the regulars. This guy pushes a barge, sometimes two, of sand and gravel thru the Locks just about every day. I assume they are going to make concrete up at Kenmore at the North end of Lake Washington.

I see that very same tug up at the north end of Lake Washington pretty consistently.

[ron ll]

Little red tug working on the docks next door.

[ron ll]

His big brother.

[ron ll]

Liberty, a research vessel. Not sure what they research.

[Garret]

Liberty, a research vessel. Not sure what they research.

Truth, justice & the American way?

[ron ll]

A little bit better pic of Redjacket.

[gnack]

From flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lgevans...n/photostream/):

The county's 48-foot research vessel that is used to conduct various saltwater projects on Puget Sound.
"Liberty's" homeport is the King County Environmental Laboratory in Fremont. The lab provides quality field services, laboratory, information technology services and advisory services in support of King County and other publicly-sponsored programs that protect and enhance water quality.

[BETTY-B]

Here's a closer look at Red Jacket. And gee, what boat is that in the background?

[Bobcat]

Here's a closer look at Red Jacket. And gee, what boat is that in the background?

Dunno.... a Bayliner?

[ron ll]

Here's a closer look at Red Jacket.

Looks better without the dodger.

[ron ll]

Dunno.... a Bayliner?

Hope you are either bigger than Lew, or faster.

[Garret]

Hope you are either bigger than Lew, or faster.

And here I was gonna say that we have to be careful with the "R" word around here.

Red Jacket does look better w/out the dodger, but I bet it's nice in a blow.

[Bobcat]

Hope you are either bigger than Lew, or faster.

Lew has a sense of humor

(Oh God! I *hope* he has a sense of humor .....)

[ron ll]

What's the steel gadget standing next to Redjacket's port lifeline?

[Garret]

Frame for the dodger? Just a guess.

[ron ll]

Another of the daily regulars.

Ocean Titan

[BETTY-B]

Ocean Titan was just messing about when I came around West Point today. There was a bunch of kayaks and other boats out there and he was just spinning around and weaving backwards all around them. Here he is running backwards at a good clip. Heading back in I suppose.

[ron ll]

You came around West Point today but didn't come by my office for a photo op?

[Captain Intrepid]

What's the steel gadget standing next to Redjacket's port lifeline?

It almost looks like a davit.

[BETTY-B]

You came around West Point today but didn't come by my office for a photo op?

I would have liked to. Unfortunately, the tow boat wasnt having as much fun as we were! The good news is I'm your new neighbor at Shilshole and I have a pre-paid round trip at Seaview to fix that stuffing box once and for all here soon. I've just been too chicken to actually fix it right while still in the water. If something were to go wrong and Elliott Bay Marina being so far away from an emergency haulout and all.

[ron ll]

What dock Dan?

[Brian Palmer]

What's the steel gadget standing next to Redjacket's port lifeline?

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a person lift for getting people aboard who normally have to use a wheelchair, etc.

Brian

[wizbang 13]

The chap , sorry I forget his name,( well known and well liked around here), fell off the boatyard scaffolding years ago and busted both legs, so, maybe?

[ron ll]

I had a harddrive meltdown so have been away for a bit .

Here are a couple of boats I don't know anything about, maybe someone else does.

[ron ll]

"Orba"
http://pacificmotorboat.com/dreamboats2

[ron ll]

"Pacific Ram"

[ron ll]

The entire Canadian Navy tried to sneak past me, but I caught most of it.
(Okay, maybe Coast Guard, not sure which.)

[TR]

The entire Canadian Navy tried to sneak past me, but I caught most of it.
(Okay, maybe Coast Guard, not sure which.)

Canadian Navy "Glen" class tug. We have 5 of them, probably 2 Westcoast and 3 East. Roughly 95' by 30' beam, about 250 tons displacement, twin 1800 HP driving Voith-Scheidner cycloidal propulsion units, equal thrust in any direction.

[tomlarkin]

Canadian Navy "Glen" class tug. We have 5 of them, probably 2 Westcoast and 3 East. Roughly 95' by 30' beam, about 350 tons displacement, twin 1800 HP driving Voith-Scheidner cycloidal propulsion units, equal thrust in any direction.

I've heard them called eggbeaters.

[Yeadon]

I had a harddrive meltdown so have been away for a bit .

Here are a couple of boats I don't know anything about, maybe someone else does.

The tug is Isswat, and the other boat is a Bristol Bay Gillnetter. Both are associated with the Center for Wooden Boats. Probably headed to Camano Island for the annual mother's day sail at CWB's Cama Beach State Park campus. I've done that exact same trip at least twice on Isswat. It's a lot of fun.

[ron ll]

Canadian Navy "Glen" class tug. We have 5 of them, probably 2 Westcoast and 3 East. Roughly 95' by 30' beam, about 350 tons displacement, twin 1800 HP driving Voith-Scheidner cycloidal propulsion units, equal thrust in any direction.

Cool! Thanks for the info. Here is a picture of her starboard side, unfortunately in the afternoon the sun is on the other side of the boats. (And I was kidding about the Canadian Navy, this guy might be armed and I'm within range. )

[ron ll]

We've seen this one before, still don't know who it is, but she looks lower and longer in this pic.

[TR]

Cool! Thanks for the info. Here is a picture of her starboard side, unfortunately in the afternoon the sun is on the other side of the boats. (And I was kidding about the Canadian Navy, this guy might be armed and I'm within range. )

No.....we're friends right?......YTB 640 is CFAV (Canadian Forces Auxiliary Vessel) Glendyne and she carries no armament. I wonder what she's up to though, perhaps we're contracting ship docking to help pay the bills........

[ben2go]

We've seen this one before, still don't know who it is, but she looks lower and longer in this pic.

Rum runner. Except you guys are closer to Russia than the Caribbean,so make Vodka runner would fit better.

[ron ll]

No.....we're friends right?......YTB 640 is CFAV (Canadian Forces Auxiliary Vessel) Glendyne and she carries no armament. I wonder what she's up to though, perhaps we're contracting ship docking to help pay the bills........

She's in parade dress and they often come down to take part in the Opening Day festivities. But that was last weekend. She went thru the Locks, then came back out a couple hours later. You don't suppose she mismarked her calendar do you?

[Lew Barrett]

Lew has a sense of humor

(Oh God! I *hope* he has a sense of humor .....)

I'll be OK as soon as I get over the burn! Nice to see a pic of her every time! This weather.......miss her for sure.

More on Orba...... (Another shameless self-promotional plug!)

Here's the actual article I like that boat for what it means as much as what it is.

[ron ll]

Seadawn

[ron ll]

Here you see part of the problem with my setup. Some things are too small...

This may be a Poulsbo boat?

[ron ll]

...and some things are too big.
(You can also see the glare on the right hand side from shooting thru a window.)

I wonder if that window reflection could be cancelled with a polarizing filter. ??