I’ve held off moving from 99 to 100 because 100 suggested I do something special, but ultimately, I decided that random means random, so here it is. Guess the location if not the tug? It IS sixth boro. Answer at the end of the post.
Almost 30-year-old Franklin Reinauer entered the Narrows light as Sun Right departed the other day.
Less than an hour earlier, Emerald Coast (1973) overtook the same Sun Right at the turn around Bergen Point. I’ve seen Sun Round recently (although I didn’t take a foto) here but not Sun Road. Are there more in this Manila-registered series?
Note the small tug assisting with Energy 11105 barge . . .
pushed by (?) Liberty Service. It’s Freddie K Miller, which I first met as Stapleton Service, even though that was not the first identity for this 1966 built tug.
Susan Miller (1981) meets Akinada Bridge –named for a Hiroshima bridge–at the Narrows recently.
Coho lighters G. Agamemnon. Has repainting started on any of the ex-Penn boats?
Comet (1977) heads under the Bayonne Bridge, while (?) Brian Nicholas following.
Atlantic Salvor (1976) followed Atlantic Coast (2007) into the sixth boro the other day.
Resolute (1975) escorted in Americas Spirit.
Finally . . . that first foto . . . it’s Diane B southbound in Eastchester Bay (til now a tugster-neglect portion of the sixth boro) with Throg’s Neck Bridge in the background.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Does anyone know if and when Athena was scrapped?
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February 4, 2013 at 1:07 pm
JED
GOOD looking bow pudding on RESOLUTE!
February 4, 2013 at 7:09 pm
tugboathunter
Kirbyfication is done on the ex-Penn tug Capt. Hagen, not sure about any others. In that first photo, is the barge being pushed backwards (stern-first)?
February 4, 2013 at 9:50 pm
tugster
on the stern-first barge, good observation. that unit has just come out of eastchester creek, which is so narrow that the barge can’t be turned around. so to exit the creek, the tow is remade with tug made up to what had been the bow on the way up the creek.
February 4, 2013 at 9:23 pm
eastriver
Penn 4 and Penn 6 have turned up in the Mississippi. Not Kirby-fied yet, and had some of us wondering about their names, too.
February 5, 2013 at 9:44 am
tugpower
CAPT. HAGEN is repainted. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200552979573951&set=o.105375971881&type=1&theater Once the weather starts to warm up (50’s & above). the paint brushes, rollers, sprayers, etc. will go into full tilt, unless the boats are down south, and weather conditions for painting them down there will be permissible.