crane

One day when I took a walk on the Harbor walk here in New Bedford
as I got near the end of it by the Cisco breweries Restaurant I noticed this crane which I thought was on land and wondered what the restaurant was adding to their outside area, so I snapped a shot of it from this view point

^{Sony A7iv 16mm F11 30 Sec ISO 100}
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So I walked down from the raised walk path and decided to go and check it out closer, it was a moody dull kind of morning when I took this walk so it was cool to see something new and motivate me to walk a bit further and get more steps in
the still morning and long exposure shot of 20 seconds give a cool feel to the water.

and by the stage it became clear to me the crane wasnt on land at all

^{Sony A7iv 26mm F11 20 Sec ISO 100}
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As you can see in the next photo it was on some sort of platform tied up to the pier at the back oof the Cisco breweries property.

now I am not sure exactly what it is for, I wondered if it was some sort of drilling platform with those long poles at the other end of the platform, but I am not sure that's right, so if anyone has any idea what it does I would love you to let me know

I like how the color of the platform of the crane stands out on the otherwise muted colors.

^{Sony A7iv 22mm F8 8 Sec ISO 100}
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I would have loved to walk out on the pier and take a closer look and try to work out what it was, but they had it roped off, which I am now thinking i could probably have easily stepped over it, but perhaps I am to much into respecting where things are roped off lOL

Looking at these photos it looks like there are some sort of pulleys at the top of those poles, which only makes me more intrigued what it does.