""Vessel" is all-encompassing... if it floats with people aboard, I think it counts as a vessel.
Have you seen "Captain Phillips"? A boat like this should have been awarded a "best supporting vehicle" Oscar."

"She's (we hope) being saved from the scrapyard by a family that wants to take her home to Hawaii.
I don't know if that will work out, but I wish them well.
She was headed for Port Townsend, Washington to prepare her for the transit to Hawaii...…"

"Busy processing and uploading, for certain! I have a lot of catching up to do."

"Thanks, Jack. I beg to disagree, but it was the best I could get under the circumstances."

"That's Fort Columbia in the background. Construction started in 1896, decommissioned in 1947. I'm reasonably certain that one of the two WWII 5" coastal defense gun turrets is visible just above the bow of the boat."

"It was a Tuesday afternoon... so, race day for the local yacht club."

"This is just a guess, but, since she's a cable layer/repair ship, the boom might be used to deploy ROVs to survey the sea-floor."

"Well, she drags big barges around the Northeastern Pacific... better to be over-powered and under-loaded than the other way around, especially if things get snotty off the coast!"

"My views are presented to me as the tides allow, and I like that. Between photographing the ships and kayaking in this river system, I feel quite closely connected to the tides."

"That level of freeboard is pretty typical here, so I don't think that that's the case. I have a couple of local sources here that still haven't chimed in. I've been told before that a tug is required to be in tension and astern of a ship at anchor…"

"Thanks, Andre.
Good support (tripod), shooting RAW (and knowing how to drag the information out of those files) and knowing that you know more than your light meter does are the keys for me."