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By adamg - 9/1/24 - 5:28 pm
Clouds form a giant white bird

SwirlyGrrl looked up while on the 5:10 p.m. ferry from George's Island.

Some appropriate music to contemplate the photo by.

By adamg - 8/11/24 - 1:27 pm
US Coast Guard's Eagle docked in Boston

Eric Bender shows us the Eagle, docked at the North End Coast Guard base and open for touring until 7 p.m.

By adamg - 8/8/24 - 5:07 pm

Mark Garfinkle has been chronicling the breaching exploits of Shambhu, the juvenile humpback, who has been enjoying the outer harbor, between Deer Island and Castle Island, the past few days.

By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:04 pm
Sun setting over Charlestown as seen from the East Boston waterfront

Matt Frank watched the sun go down in East Boston through the haze of western fires over Charlestown this evening.

By adamg - 7/27/24 - 5:37 pm
Oil barge

Eric Bender spotted this oil barge tied up at a dock near the Eddy and LoPresti Park on the East Boston waterfront today, along with its pusher tug, the Haggerty Girls (the orangish, red and white tower at the rear of the barge) - rather than at a petroleum depot on Chelsea Creek. He reports the Haggerty Girls crew told him they were waiting for divers to inspect the hull before continuing on their journey.

By adamg - 7/5/24 - 11:46 am

The Globe reports that after raising $30 million and hiring a design team to build a third Piers Park on the site of an old Massport pier in East Boston, one that would more fully connect people to the water, the Trustees of Reservations canceled the plans because of concerns over possible climate-related flooding in the future. Read more.

By adamg - 7/4/24 - 10:09 pm
Codzilla and the USS Constitution

Matt Frank went down to Castle Island today to watch Old Ironsides on its trip around Boston Harbor and got a good view of both it and Codzilla.

By adamg - 6/30/24 - 10:23 pm
View of downtown Boston from the East Boston waterfront at sunset

Matt Frank reports that people flocked to the East Boston waterfront this evening to take in the sunset over downtown.

By adamg - 6/17/24 - 10:48 pm
Sunset over Boston Harbor

Adam Castiglioni snapped what looked like sunset on a really hot day this evening, although it was actually pretty pleasant.

By adamg - 6/14/24 - 10:30 am
USS Constitution underway

With a little help from her friends. Adam Castiglioni watched Old Ironsides today.

The MBTA reports that Boston Harbor ferry service could be delayed between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. because the USS Constitution is going on a sailabout around the harbor.

By adamg - 6/4/24 - 11:07 am
Juan Sebastián de Elcano coming into Boston Harbor

Adam Castiglioni watched the barque Juan Sebastián de Elcano glide into Boston Harbor on its way to a berth at the Charlestown Navy Yard late yesterday afternoon. The ship is a Spanish Navy training vessel, named for a Spanish navigator who sailed with Magellan - and completed his journey around the world after Magellan was killed in the Philippines in 1521.

By adamg - 6/3/24 - 11:34 am

The Harvard Gazette interviewed John Lowry, a physician at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, before he and three others set off from Menino Park in Charlestown on a bid to row to London in a 28-foot rowing vessel. They hope to get to Big Ben in 50 days.

By adamg - 5/17/24 - 1:39 pm
Crewmen and officers aboard the USS Constitution

Lee Toma got some photos of the USS Constitution - and some of its officers and crew - on one of its periodic turnaround cruises on Boston Harbor this morning.

By adamg - 5/5/24 - 2:49 pm
Dead fish near the Eliot School

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/24 - 1:18 pm
The Ever Fair docked at the Conley Terminal

Eric Bender spent some time this morning observing the Ever Fair, berthed in the Reserved Channel at the Conley Terminal. He noted it's 1,095 feet long - longer than the container ship that took out the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (although we don't have any bridges to takeout between the Reserved Channel and the open ocean). It also appears to be a reverse mullet: Party in the front, business in the back: Read more.

By adamg - 4/10/24 - 11:19 am

One day after the family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville sued the owner of the boat she was on just before she drowned - and the owner of another boat - both the boat owner and the federal government asked a federal government to reinstate her ban on lawsuits over the crash in state court, which she had lifted just last month. Read more.

By adamg - 4/9/24 - 8:55 am
Daymarker 5

Daymarker 5 in 2022, between Spectacle Island and Castle Island.

The family of Jeanica Julce of Somerville, who drowned in Boston Harbor in 2021 after the speed boat she was a passenger on hit a large, permanent navigational beacon off Spectacle Island, yesterday sued both Ryan Denver, the owner and captain of the Make It Go Away, and the operator of another boat the family charges struck Julce before speeding from the scene. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/24 - 9:30 am
Rough water at Boston Light at the edge of Boston Harbor

A National Park Service/Coast Guard camera on Boston Light, where the ocean meets Boston Harbor, recorded the sea's ragin' glory at 6:24 a.m.

Photo via Boston Timelapse, which reposts photos from Boston Light, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights every hour.

By adamg - 4/1/24 - 2:07 pm

GBH takes a look at the health woes of giant ships belching diesel smoke from the cheapest possible grade of fuel that now routinely ply Boston Harbor.

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