Saturday, July 11, 2009

Newport in Photos

I rolled into Newport on Wednesday evening just in front of a classic summer squall. Here are some pictures from Newport Shipyard and the Hinckley facility in Portsmouth. Click on any picture for the larger version.

Incoming! Crews were scrambling to put on extra dock lines as this storm cell approached. The cranes in the foreground are on the deck of a private expedition-style motor vessel.
Roger Sturgeon's STP-65 Rosebud, drying out after Block Island Race Week.
I wish there was a better sense of scale here; the radar/satellite dome on the first spreader is about three feet across, if that helps.
Big.
Fast.


Pretty.