December 06, 2006
Senior tug pilot says Intrepid almost didn't move
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum almost didn't go anywhere yesterday, according to the
New York Times.
“Just when I was ready to say this isn’t going anywhere again and I was formulating my defeat speech, she moved,” Jeffrey McAllister, the senior docking pilot for McAllister Towing, told the paper.
After escaping the mud and making a victory lap through the harbor, the USS Intrepid docked in Bayonne, N.J., where she will undergo sandblasting and repainting in March. In late spring, she'll be towed to the far side of Staten Island, where the museum's exhibition spaces will be overhauled before returning back to Manhattan's by-then-rebuilt Pier 86 in November 2008, according to the Times.
More NewYorkology pictures (taken from the Staten Island Ferry) after the jump.
Earlier: Intrepid + Statue of Liberty; S. I. Ferry + Buttermilk
Intrepid towed out of mud, heads down Hudson
December 6, 2006 12:39 PM in Museums
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