As Florida’s cutterhead chews the harbor bottom away at the rate of 43,200 revolutions per day … in ideal conditions of teeth staying permanently sharp, vessels of all provenances and sizes sashay in and out and around. By New York standards, Maersk Kokura is large, at 1040′ loa x 138′ beam, and its keel mere feet above Florida‘s anchor line.
What drew my attention was the number of tugs: three.
Amy C McAllister and Maurania III on starboard, and
outa-towner Resolute on port.
I’ve no numbers on clearance below the Bayonne to the uppermost portions of Kokura. Anyone?
Fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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October 20, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Les Sonnenmark
One hopes the pilot and the master had a good handle on the clearance below the bridge. Note that KOKURA’s mast is folded down. I was aboard a similar size ship entering Charleston. The pilot didn’t think it was necessary to fold the mast, and we just clipped the bridge, only knocking off the topmost light on our mast; could’ve been a lot worse.
October 20, 2010 at 2:21 pm
tugster
good eye, les. i had missed that.
October 20, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Lemming
Page 4 of this has a good drawing of the air draft under the bridge
http://www.panynj.gov/about/pdf/Bayonne-Bridge-Air-Draft-Analysis.pdf
October 20, 2010 at 4:32 pm
John van der Doe
Better safe than sorry, with a containership this size.
I’m sure the coastguard wants 3 tugs to go up the river
Kind Regards,
Jan.
October 21, 2010 at 8:52 am
Buck
Well the Keel To Mast Height of Maersk Kokura was quite the trivia question. I couldn’t easily find it, so I went for the next best thing; scouring the net for information on her sister ships. I had some luck with Regina Maersk (now Maersk Kure) and found an Army Corps of Engineering paper on the air draft of the Bayonne Bridge that notes her height: 198 feet, keel to mast. With a 48 foot draft, that maker her waterline to mast height 150 feet. The same paper calls the air draft 151 feet at high tide. Whew!
http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/harbor/pdf/BaynBrAirDraftAnls.pdf
Kokura had a different name when she was launched. Then, she was the Katrine. For completeness, the class is made of these ships (named as launched):
Regina Maersk (1995)
Knud Maersk (1996)
Kate Maersk (1996)
Karen Maersk (1996)
Katrine Maersk (1997)
Kirsten Maersk (1997)