Waiting for a barge
When I took the bus home at lunch there were about 8 tugboats (and the Portland fireboat) standing around by the west side of the Ross Island Bridge. As the bus went across the bridge, I took pictures of some of them, but didn't realize until I returned to work why they were there; it turned out that the shipbuilding company was launching their latest boat today, and all of the barges were there to make certain that the barge de jour didn't take out either itself, the crane barge, or one of the piers of the Ross Island bridge (the fist two would be incredibly annoying, the last would be Very Bad Indeed.)
I'm not sure how I would have arranged to get down by the water when the barge was being launched, but I'm still sorry that I missed it. Perhaps when they finish the next one (and there probably will be a next one now that the rolling disaster known as measure 37 has been clarified to be a zoning giveaway to small landholders and not the “screw you unless you're a rich developer!” mess that the supporters intended it to be.)