Below is an image I posted on February 27, 2024. Cape Kennedy had only recently arrived, the latest in a string of government vessels getting rehabbed at Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair.
Below is a photo I took yesterday. Notice the detail change?
From a different angle, this is the door removed from the graving dock and being escorted out of the way by Sarah Ann and Nathan G.
Wind sock and door crew monitoring the float away.
In the presence of a mustering of McAllister tugs, Samantha Miller begins Cape Kennedy‘s exit. The McAllister tugs (l to r) are Marjorie, Timothy, Capt Brian, and Rowan.
Positions are assumed the farther out the 5083 floats.
I’m wondering if the exit is timed so that a slight current can ease her in the direction of the KVK side of the pier.
Once alongside the pier, Timothy, Marjorie, and Capt. Brian stand by as she’s made fast. USACE Moritz, foreground, must be serving some function, not just loitering.
I’ve posted photos of this process at least once before, as seen here.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
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May 10, 2024 at 11:49 am
eastriver
The door is, properly, the caisson.
There was a kerfuffle in Philadelphia years ago surrounding the commercialization of the Navy Yard. A large company established its corporate offices there adjacent to the small dry dock. Large apparel company, forget which one. They wanted nothing to occur there to destroy their view and tried to have the caisson scrapped, rendering the dry dock useless. It took the intervention of legislators to stop its destruction.
May 10, 2024 at 12:41 pm
tugster
Urban Outfitters is that company.
May 12, 2024 at 1:30 pm
Anonymous
Here is a great video of the move https://youtu.be/zkyfK4RmZsM?si=uTBI6GHir7uUAhAX
May 12, 2024 at 2:05 pm
tugster
Amen to that, anon. I highly recommend the Tugboat Willy channel with great content and superb camera placement. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@tugboatwilly843