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PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007 Another Working Harbor Day, another slew of photos. This year's highlight for me was the Intrepid in dry dock in NJ.     some more highlights, like this massive container vessel:     More on this NJ-SI cruise. I say I won't do this again next year, but I said that last year and the sirens called me once again. It's hard to resist boat rides like this and I'll post some stuff from Brooklyn soon. Newkirk Plaza David was on board for that one. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu May 24 09:13:59 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. COOL!!! I was just on the Intrepid this past Octover, just before it closed for renovation.The barge stuff is great too!!! I rember watching lots of them like that when I was in San Francisco some years ago. Amazing to see. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 10:08:21 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. That boat doesn't hide what it's origin's are does it.More junk to waste my money on. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu May 24 10:13:30 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. Great pics.Interesting that they didn't take the exhibits off the boat prior to beginning repairs. Is the Concorde still moored at the Hudson? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu May 24 10:14:50 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 10:08:21 2007. Uhhhmmmmmm, it's a museum. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 11:24:31 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu May 24 10:14:50 2007. Pictures 6, 7,8,9 is a museum? That's 45% of the pics! |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu May 24 11:46:37 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 11:24:31 2007. Oh!! I thought you said the Intrepid was a "waste of your money", but you were talking about the barge? |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 12:21:44 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu May 24 11:46:37 2007. Yep! ;)I never seen a low looking container ship with "CHINA" written in such big letters before. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 12:36:37 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 12:21:44 2007. A lot of containers on those ships. I remember when my company built that type of unit.(Gindy-Budd-Thayco). We used shorty 20' jobs at WAL*MART for storage. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 12:48:11 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 12:36:37 2007. Looks like everyone uses them for various reasons. Containers are the new milk crate.You can get a quasi-container like thing now. PODS! |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 12:52:12 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 12:48:11 2007. Nice, Thanks for the link. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Thu May 24 13:45:22 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 12:36:37 2007. A lot of containers on those ships. I remember when my company built that type of unit.(Gindy-Budd-Thayco). We used shorty 20' jobs at WAL*MART for storage.No doubt the contents of the containers on the Chinese ship will be in Wal-Mart soon. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 14:08:33 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Peter Rosa on Thu May 24 13:45:22 2007. I am so glad I left WAL*MART. The Chinese stuff is all over that place. I had a theory that even if you bought a name brand product, such as Black & Decker, you were getting a lower quality item.I used to be in the design business, and am well aware of parts that get out as "close to tolerance". We had Briggs & Stratton Lawn Mowers blow up. Need I say more? |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 14:14:11 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 14:08:33 2007. *I had a theory that even if you bought a name brand product, such as Black & Decker, you were getting a lower quality item. *You are correct. Half the stuff, maybe more now, is made in one factory and the label slapped on after. Buy a Lexmark printer, they don't even cover it up anymore! It's got all these chinese characters on it, with a Lexmark sticker. There's also the "Made for" now too. See this in a lot of cheap products. I think I saw a shirt in Sears that I bought at Value city. Different brand, same label and same country. But that was the big thing a decade ago when they criticized the GAP. Before that was standard practice. Plus, like they saw in pet food a few weeks ago, one company owns everything anyway, so really there's no point. Pessimist post of the day. |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Thu May 24 16:47:42 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by RonInBayside on Thu May 24 10:13:30 2007. Someone said it was moved to near the Floyd Bennet Field.Since it's Fleet Week I think it could be possible to see what's left of the musueum right now. |
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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Thu May 24 16:57:57 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. Nice shots!These couple of shots below surely explain for itself why the Molinari has been out of service rather frequently and why... http://www.madre-de-dios.org/gallery2/v/movement/boats/051907/nj/33+smokin+molinari.jpg.html ...the John F Kennedy boat can be seen in service here. http://www.madre-de-dios.org/gallery2/v/movement/boats/051907/nj/30+staten+island+ferry+terminal.jpg.html Staten Island Ferry Boat Problems? |
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Posted by WillD on Thu May 24 17:09:50 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. Truely excellent photos once again, I really wish I could have been there.I woke up about 7:30 Saturday morning and noticed that I felt funny, but chalked it up to getting up so early. I took a shower, noticed what seemed like a few mosquito bites over my body, but didn't think of it. I tried to put my contacts in, but my forehead felt funny, the mirror was fogged up so I couldn't quite see what I looked like. I managed to get the lens in. My alarm had woken up my parents so my mom was downstairs when I got there and she just about screamed. My right eye was almost swollen shut, my stomach was about 6 inches further around due to swelling, and I was covered head to toe with a rash that swelled outward. I'd hoped I could blame it on mosquitos and sneak out of the house without them noticing, but when I actually saw how bad off I was any hope of making it to NYC that day evaporated. I wound up at the Virtua Hospital emergency room, where they proceeded to question me about anything different I might have had in the past 24 hours. For the entire week I'd been eating left over roast beef for dinner after work, and hadn't changed soaps, shampoos, deodorants, or anything else. At first I blamed an allergic reaction to some leftover spaghetti I'd eaten that night, until my mom pointed out that there was nothing new or different in it from the previous times I'd had spaghetti. I wound up then settling on preservatives in a hot dog UPS had given us for 15,000 safe work days as the cause for my irritation. The doctor gave me a strong dose of steriods and Benedryl, a prescription for smaller doses of steriods to wean me off them and sent me home. With the Benedryl and general lack of sleep I fell crashed and wound up sleeping til about 4pm. When I woke up the steriods had completely cleared the hives from my skin and I thought I was cured. I considered heading for NYC Sunday despite having missed Working Harbor Day. Sunday morning I woke up and the hives were back. I was severely pissed off and was generally miserable at the ineffectiveness of the smaller steriod prescription doses. I was taking Benedryl every four hours to keep the itching down and still had no idea when this hell would be over. On monday the hives pretty well covered my feet, which made walking a whole new exercise in pain. The steroids seemed to be even less effective and throughout the day I watched the hives march around my body in roughly 2 hour cycles. Needless to say I called in sick to work. Tuesday I finally got in to see a doctor, but because the general practitioner near us was unable to see me I wound up at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. There the doctor looked at me and quickly dispelled several misconceptions I had. First of all it couldn't be a food allergy because my mouth and throat likely would have swelled up in the same way, a far more dangerous situation. Again I was questioned about any changes in soaps, shampoos, or anything else. I'd had an ingrown toenail cauterized a week before the breakout and in the instructions for recovery I was directed to keep it wrapped and covered in Neosporin. Thinking that this was the one case of self-medication that I couldn't screw up or end up overdosing on I'd kept it well covered with neosporin and changed the bandages twice a day. The PH doctor heard this and said "stop using Neosporin, you're allergic to Neomycin". Neomycin is an antibiotic, the active ingredient in Neosporin, and as it turns out lots of people overuse it and end up giving themselves allergies to the stuff. I had told the Virtua ER doc that I was using lots of Neosporin on Saturday, but he simply nodded and asked about any different foods. Because I didn't know Neosporin was the problem I continued dutifully applying it to my toe Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday all while trying to cure the allergies it was causing. Tuesday afternoon after getting home from the hospital I cleaned my toe very well, replaced the bandage without neosporin, and since then I've encountered a whole lot more success with the recovery. I still likely have to go to an allergist to confirm this, but it seems that the Penn Hospital doctor was dead-on with her diagnosis. Sorry about the fairly long narration, but hopefully folks will get the moral of the story, be friggin careful with Neosporin. Like I said I always thought while you had to be careful with painkillers and all other medicines Neosporin was the one thing you could over-apply without a problem. The Penn Hospital doctor told me that in the past she'd hand out little tubes of Neosporin to every patient she saw, until she came across cases of it causing severe allergic reactions. Furthermore she said that it's highly debatable if it's any more effective than washing a wound with antibacterial soap. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu May 24 17:11:05 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. Intrepid = sign of US strength.Container ship = sign of US weakness. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu May 24 17:19:08 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by WillD on Thu May 24 17:09:50 2007. Holy cow, Will, that's awful.Keep us updated, please. |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Thu May 24 17:29:49 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by WillD on Thu May 24 17:09:50 2007. i got a long cut on my arm by my dog, applied neosporin on it directly + bandaid. cut is closing up nicely.Also sorry to hear such a graphic occurance, hope you are ok. I'm glad i don't have such allergic reactions like that. in the past when i got mosquito bites, the bitten areas would swell up, but now the bite swells are smaller and disappear w/in a day. but leave like small 'cut' marks. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 18:02:53 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by WillD on Thu May 24 17:09:50 2007. Real Moral of the story, kinda like a 60 minutes expose, is always get a second opinion. 5 seconds of conversation and guess work doesn't always work, and doctors aren't computers. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 18:23:24 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by WillD on Thu May 24 17:09:50 2007. Wow, Will, I hope you're ok. That's some nasty reaction!your pal, Fred |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu May 24 20:28:39 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by WillD on Thu May 24 17:09:50 2007. Neomycin allergy is fairly common, and with additional exposure to it, your reactions would have been destined to get worse. I'm glad your case was diagnosed properly.In general, when you put any medicated cream/ointment/gel on your body, you use a thin layer (the smallest application which will be effective). This is true of steroids also, as over-application of steroids over an extended period of time can cause thinning of skin and other bad side effects. If you get a rash or allergic reaction, STOP and call your doctor. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 21:22:51 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Thu May 24 16:57:57 2007. Cool thanks for that last link. It's interesting how the Chief Operations Officer thinks it's par for the course for a boat to have problems like the Molinari is having. Doesn't sound right to me.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Thu May 24 21:28:09 2007, in response to PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by Fred G on Thu May 24 07:13:04 2007. You are in ''ship shape''anchors away mate !! |
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Posted by Fred G on Fri May 25 04:51:46 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Thu May 24 21:28:09 2007. LOL, thanks!your pal, Fred |
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Posted by mambomta on Fri May 25 12:09:16 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS - Intrepid in Dry Dock and other nautical stuff, posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 24 18:02:53 2007. and doctors aren't computers.even computers mess things up sometimes. |
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