I’m surprised it’s been almost five whole years since I did the previous installment by this name. The sixth boro is a huge fuel transfer port, and currently Sandy has moved oil back onto everyone’s brain . . . mostly because of how difficult it is to procure. Fuel is gold. The other day when I was standing in line to get to vote, the joke I heard several times was that at the end of the line we’d either get a ballot or a five-gallon container of fuel.
New York harbor is filled with expensive vessels either waiting to move fuel . . . like Dace Reinauer,
Pati R. Moran, or
Rebel. Or
they’re actually moving it . . . like from Eagle Matsuyama to this Bouchard barge probably usually pushed by
Evening Star.
Or fuel is actually being moved from one to another node in the distribution chain . . . like here Diane B,
Mako,
Pocomoke,
Pocomoke and Comet (in foreground),
B. Franklin Reinauer,
and Evening Mist . . ..
All this movement notwithstanding, gas rationing is still in effect.
Anyone read whether consumption has decreased because of the rationing?
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
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November 11, 2012 at 7:51 pm
JED
The Spice Must Flow
November 11, 2012 at 7:59 pm
tugster
you nailed it!! and so did frank herbert all those years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert mebbe instead of saying “fuel is gold” i should have said “fuel is spice”
November 11, 2012 at 9:05 pm
HT
Reinauer tugs are getting uglier and uglier, over time…old man Franklyn is rolling in his grave over what Christian is building. I remember when the Joanne got a upper house,he went ballistic cause it took away the tugs looks.
November 12, 2012 at 7:25 am
Chris Williams
Seems like there’s a general trend to subordinate graceful lines and proportions in favor of practicality and increased revenue. Hard to argue with the trend, by the way, but f’r instance compare most cruise ships today and their tiers of “balcony” staterooms, with the WWII Era Queens, the Normandie, the United States and of course the France. With respect to tugs, I was a big fan of the Jacobsen built boats from the ’60s – thought they had nice lines and proportions and lots of power for the day.