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What’s Going on With Shipping? Update On the Final Voyage of SS United States | Tow by Vinik 6 | Off the East Coast of Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yel57ljzVas

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Thank you for that excellent 20 min info video with the beautiful images from the Vinik 6.

5 days ago but great nonetheless.

I’d been focused on the garmin tracker with its red flag, but he’s been on the tracker for the tug:

Map view:

Vinik..

A name I’d seen that should have been on my radar as well (better late than never):

Ukrainian, masc. sing:

я / ти / він ви́ник
ya / ty / vin výnyk

I / you / he arose

Verb
ви́никнути • (výnyknuty) pf (imperfective виника́ти)

(intransitive) to arise, to crop up, to emerge, to spring up, to appear

viník

Czech
Etymology
From vina +‎ -ík.

Noun
viník m anim (female equivalent vinice)

culprit (male)

From vina (guilt) +‎ -ík (used to form the name of the bearer of a property from an adjective)

-ík akin to -nik

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Going back to the Ukrainian (Cyrillic)...

Recently I’d looked up the phonetic “spelling” alphabet for Russian. I haven’t seen one for Ukrainian specifically but perhaps it’s the same.

I’ve had a lot of fun with “Я”, ya, the last letter of the alphabet in either language (33rd).

Я means “I”, but Я also has a name in the spelling alphabet:

Yakov

Who’s neighbor is Yuri (Yu Ю), “U”.

SS United States has a nickname: Big U

This ties in with the flags, bigly, but I’ll save that for another post, when the United States becomes a MARShull.

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