Occasionally, they're also ambassadors of good will, tossing retrieved baseballs, footballs and basketballs to children along the shore. As Booker steers toward the harbor's two huge tour and party boats, the Bay Lady and the Lady Baltimore, a boy on the deck of a moored sailing yacht, the Cassandra II, stares while eating his breakfast. Within a few moments, the Lady Baltimore's bow is looming as blue as the sky, towering above the dwarfed garbage boat. Riding nearby are Leonard Johnson 41, and Babe Lindeman 48, in the City's newest trash skimmer. Johnson is at the helm, while Lindeman nets a few pieces of trash at a time.
Music plays loudly.