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long days of summer were drawing to an end so on saturday we went here are some photos continue reading 39 comments posted in kayaking new york city tagged circumnavigation container port container ship graveyard of ships kayaking new york city new york harbor photography ships shipwreck staten island a picture perfect ederle swim posted on august 22 2014 by johna till johnson 49 comments by johna till johnson photos by vladimir brezina maybe the magic was in the pasta this year vlad and i signed up to provide kayak support for the ederle swim a 17 5 mile open water swim from manhattan to sandy hook new jersey vlad has done it several times but this was my first time accompanying swimmers to sandy hook though we ve paddled there many times we d each been assigned a swimmer and the day before the swim the organizers nyc swim sent us the swimmers email addresses so i reached out to my swimmer andrea varalli mentioned that i d done the paddle many times and offered what advice i could including the detailed blogs vlad has posted on wind against current about his previous ederle swims here here here and here next thing i knew vlad and i agreed to meet andrea and his support team for dinner at a real italian restaurant as andrea called it piacere pleasure in italian we had guessed correctly as it turned out that andrea was real italian not merely of italian descent so the real italian restaurant was sure to be a treat continue reading 49 comments posted in kayaking new york city sports tagged ederle swim kayaking long distance swim manhattan new york city new york harbor nyc swim open water swim sandy hook travel theme orange posted on august 22 2014 by vladimir brezina 15 comments by vladimir brezina this orange had traveled far but this was the end of the road everglades challenge shakedown paddle april 2013 a contribution toward ailsa s travel themed photo challenge orange another contribution is here 15 comments posted in photography tagged orange photography postaweek postaweek2014 travel weekly photo challenge weekly photo challenge fray posted on august 22 2014 by vladimir brezina 51 comments by vladimir brezina this week s photo challenge is fray rival tugboats enter the fray in nyc s great north river tugboat race competition they engage in single combat as well as a general melee more photos from the 2012 and 2013 races are here and here and the 2014 race is coming up in just one week on sunday august 31st we ll be there 51 comments posted in new york city photography science and technology tagged boats fray hudson river new york city new york harbor photography postaweek postaweek2014 race ships tugboat tugboat race weekly photo challenge harbor water wheels decorative and practical posted on august 20 2014 by vladimir brezina 35 comments by vladimir brezina as we paddle along the hudson river past the piers on manhattan s west side we pass there on pier 66 a large water wheel sometimes it is slowly turning as its blades dip into the tidal current that is streaming past it is a work of art it is in fact long time by paul ramirez jonas the concept is simple the wheel is connected to an odometer that counts the wheel s rotations but the piece has large ambitions the artist is quoted as saying he wanted to create a piece to represent human existence it was created with the improbable goal of marking the duration of our lives species civilizations and even the planet but its more immediate intent is to place human existence within a geologic time frame the wheel will rotate indefinitely until it breaks down or the river changes course or the seas rise or other unpredictable circumstances stop it and those unpredictable circumstances have already occurred after only 67 293 rotations since the wheel was installed in 2007 in 2011 the floodwaters of hurricane sandy stopped the odometer repairs are not high on the priority list however the wheel itself is pretty darn sturdy it was actually happy during sandy because it likes the deeper water you should ve seen it spinning the long time wheel had to be made sturdy enough to resist among other things the impact of trash floating in the water so why not go a step further and use the rotation of the wheel to pick up the trash last weekend we visited baltimore maryland and walking around the inner harbor we spied from a distance a familiar shape a water wheel at first we thought that like long time it was an artwork of some kind but when we came closer we realized that it was something more practical this water wheel is a trash collector it s mounted on a floating platform moored at the point where jones falls a river that drains quite a large watershed to the north of the city and brings down a corresponding amount of floating trash empties out into the inner harbor the river current drives the water wheel there is also solar power for days when the river current is too weak the wheel in turn drives a series of rakes and a conveyor belt the rakes rake the trash already concentrated by floating booms up onto the conveyor belt which deposits the trash into a floating dumpster simple and yes it is also a work of art more detailed photos of the trash collector are here and here is a video of it in operation the trash collector can collect up to 50 000 lbs of trash per day by all accounts although it hasn t been operating long yet it s already made a very promising contribution toward solving baltimore harbor s trash problem it s been much more effective at any rate than the old way of picking up the floating trash with nets from small boats after a rainstorm we could get a lot of trash in baltimore harbor sometimes the trash was so bad it looked like you could walk across the harbor on nothing but trash last weekend as we walked around it the harbor looked remarkably clean much cleaner in fact that some parts of new york harbor and we can think of a number of rivers draining into new york harbor where such a trash collector could be ideally positioned take the bronx river for instance it already has a floating boom to hold back the huge amount of trash that floats down the river trash that must be periodically removed a water wheel would do the job effortlessly so let s hope there are more water wheels not merely decorative but also practical in new york s future ________________________________________________________ more details about baltimore s water wheel can be found here healthy harbor inhabitat ecowatch southern fried science 35 comments posted in art new york city science and technology tagged baltimore marine art new york city new york harbor trash water wheel city sunset silhouettes posted on august 17 2014 by vladimir brezina 62 comments by vladimir brezina in the middle of the city you don t see the horizon well before sunset the sun dips behind a dark palisade of silhouettes to see the sun touch the horizon you must climb very high or down below wait for a very special day manhattanhenge 2014 or of course watch from your kayak on the river a response to this week s photo challenge silhouette and ailsa s travel themed photo challenge horizons 62 comments posted in kayaking new york city photography tagged horizons hudson river kayaking manhattan manhattanhenge new york city photography postaweek postaweek2014 silhouette sunset travel weekly photo challenge weekly photo challenge silhouette posted on august 15 2014 by vladimir brezina 89 comments by vladimir brezina this week s photo challenge is silhouette sailing across tampa bay at sunrise at the start of the 2014 everglades challenge 89 comments posted in photography sports tagged photography postaweek postaweek2014 sailing silhouette weekly photo challenge windsurfing older posts copyright wind against current by vladimir brezina and johna till johnson is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivs 3 0 unported license search search for authors vladimir brezina rip kayaked the waters around new york for more than 15 years in his red feathercraft folding kayak he was originally from the former czechoslovakia and lived in the u k and california before settling down in new york he was a neuroscientist at the mount sinai school of medicine in new york city he died in 2016 johna till johnson is a kayaker and technology researcher at nemertes research she s an erstwhile engineer particle physicist and science fiction writer she was born in california and has lived in italy norway hawaii and a few other places she currently resides in new york city our links johna s technology research vlad s photos vlad s scientific research recent posts a meditation on gratitude november 26 2025 the first leg june 6 2023 looks like they made it june 5 2023 more scenes from the northcountry may 30 2023 r2ak scenes from the northern lands may 29 2023 halfway there may 29 2023 and they re off may 28 2023 team trimoron heads west may 26 2023 sheltering at sea part 3 staten island to atlantic city june 28 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