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Meredith C. Reinauer (2003, 7200 hp) and Kristy Ann Reinauer (1962, 2000 hp)
Hunting Creek (2011, 3000 hp) and my first view of her, not that I wouldn’t be able to predict what a Vane tug would look like.
Hunt Girls (1983, 1800 hp)
Coral Coast (1970, 3000 hp)
Buchanan 10, 1967, 1700 hp)
Thomas D. Witte (1961, 3000hp)
Linda G, 1943 and I have no idea how much power she generates, but that’s quite the tow she’s minding.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Bohemia (2007) sprints her way through a race of sail.
Taurus (1967) bunkers Ocean Titan.
Eagle Service (1996) also threads its way through a sailing race.
Sassafras (2008) and Emma Miller (2008) adds fluids to run this vessel from Korean, London. London must be a new country?
Buchanan 1 (1967) moves like a rock star.
Evening Mist (1976) poses using the cliffs of Lower Manhattan as background.
Ellen and Amy C McAllister (1966 and 1975) back Liberty Ace out toward Brooklyn.
Morton S Bouchard IV (2004) exits the KVK.
Cheyenne (1965) ties up at scows over toward Jersey City.
Oyster Creek (2011) blends in as Vane’s newest vessel in the sixth boro.
Coho (2008) makes its way through anchored units on its way to Hell Gate and the Sound.
Specialist II (launch?) waits at a scow.
Patapsco (2004) makes its way to the Gate.
Gabby Miller (launch?) pushes a box somewhere north of the Battery.
All fotos in the past week by Will Van Dorp.
It’s late and the sixth boro has claimed me for a whole glorious day. Some quick fotos, mostly from today. Check this one out: Sarah Ann (ex-June K) has experienced an identity crisis . . . her genuine orange self has begun bleeding through?
The theme here might be the seldom seen . . . like Coastline Girls, based on the south side of Raritan Bay.
Is this the same Miss Yvette as the one here three and a half years ago?
This is my first sighting for this Vane boat, Oyster Creek.
Long time no see . . . Yemitzis and Dorothy Elizabeth, here over south of the Outerbridge Crossing.
Buchanan 1 looked extraordinarily regal the other morning over by Owls Head.
The rare and exotic Shelby Rose passes near the salt pile.
Lois Ann L. Moran . . . had her brights on this morning as 8:30 a.m., as some thick clouds closed in overhead.
And unrelated to the sixth boro but exciting nonetheless, Elisabeth (launched 1925) was named “tugboat of the year” (“sleepboot van het jaar”) at the National Tugboat Day 2011 in the Netherlands! Congratulations, Maarten. “Felicitaties!”
The last foto here by Fred Trooster; all the others by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: For a series of the fotos on the tug (En Avant 5) that got flipped /tripped yesterday in the Netherlands, click here. Thank, John.
Imagine a tugboat with a bowsprit, at least some of the time? See the link at the end.
First from Robert Apuzzo . . . Crow (1963) in the East River, and
Susan Miller (1981, ex-Uncle Ned) in the Bronx River. Speaking of the Bronx River, here’s its namesake tug and some info on doings in the Bronx River this summer. By the way, you saw Bronx nearly lost in the lush bow pudding of Cornell here last September… scroll through a bit.
From John Watson, the newer (Feb 2011) and bigger (630′) orange juice tanker Orange Stararrives escorted by Laura K. Moran.
Same shot, bigger context.
A distant sound like a train whistle Saturday morning . . . that was the aforementioned Cornell.
A school of Vane boats (l. to r. Elk River, Pataspsco, and Quantico Creek) get their stern-parts bathed by the oracle waters Gowanus Canal.
Eagle Service, fairly fresh off the Great Lakes, heads into KVK about a week ago.
Like Eagle Service, Greenland Sea was originally built as a Bollinger-built Candies boat. . . Grant Candies (November 1996) and Doc Candies (December 1990).
Another Hornbeck boat, Freedom Service (1983) heads into the Buttermilk from the East River.
Buchanan 12 (1972) heads into the East River. See her light here.
Thanks to Robert and John for sharing their fotos.
Unrelated: Here are some fotos from the Seattle Maritime Festival, tug race and more, from yesterday. Wish I’d been able to go. Here and here are some Seattle water fotos I took last summer. For updates on Coot, the tug in W. O. Decker colors, click here. Scrolling through you’ll also find some great tugboat names as well as the hull–high and dry–of a supertug under construction.
Also unrelated but . . a two-minute video honoring WW2 vets. Watch it all, please.
Anna Frater is the bowspritted tugboat; click here to see it. It’s not the first such tug to appear here: check out this tugantine from 2008.
No . . . I’m not misspelling the name of that French city that enthralls all those singers like . . . PaperMoon. I mean sixth boro ”p-a-i-r-s,” which that French city just re-enacts, right? Pairs here like Siberian Sea and Stolt Invention, this latter featured in yesterday’s Hoops post; or
small fishing boat and Stephen Scott Reinauer, or
Charles McAllister and OSG Independence, or
that same Charles McAllister and Serenity, or
the unmistakeable Lincoln Sea and the –is it–Eastern Dawn?
More pairs in springtime would include North Sea and Katherine G (the jack-up vessel way over beyond Liberty Island) as well as all the architectural and monumental pairs here.
Nicole Leigh and Franklin Reinauer, and
McAllister Girls and Buchanan I.
Is it Ellen Bouchard here with Evening Light?
another shot of Katherine G with a pair of crewman sitting forward,
and . . . upcountry in farmland New York, a pair of megalithic Steiger tractors, compared with Larson and Lucas. . . tillers from today’s NYTimes.
More “pairs in springtime” tomorrow.
You can see your own pairs and triplets, etc. on a tour with Working Harbor Committee, starting next week.
Thanks to Fairlane and Ben for pointing out an example of “you travel far away to find what you left behind” : shipbuilders in southern New England labored to create vessels like Cayo Largo (2008) , below and here (fotos 6 and 7). In fact, Cayo Largo displays front-and-center on the Blount Boats Shipyard site here.
The same Blount workers built Isla Grande (1976) and Cayo Norte (1995) , and if you want graphic evidence, look at this shot of Cross Sound’s Caribbean Ferry (1972) that despite its name never left New England, I don’t think. They built Isleno in 2004. (third foto down) and La Princesa (2009) (fotos 2 and 3).
As you enjoy these “walk-around” shots of Isla Grande, some of you
might consider her applicability for short sea shipping on
the Hudson, if not elsewhere as well.
Other Blount boats already depicted on tugster include the following:
Twin Tube (1952)
Bergen Point and Vulcan III (ex-Bethtug I and Bethtug III, respectively. 1958)
Scotty Sky (1960)
Miss New Jersey (1991) and bunches of other Circle Line boats.
Mister T (2001)
Labrador Sea (2002)
I’m sure I’ve missed some Blount boats that I’ve seen. The one I’d really like to know the disposition of . . . is Kasai (1960) and built for the rivers of the Congo, where I worked from 1973 until 1975. Anyone know? Here’s a story of a ferry disaster on the Kasai River just a few years back.
Unrelated: I’ve looked high and low for fotos of Asso 22, the tugboat seized yesterday off Libya. See story here, with fotos, of course, of politicians.
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Bowsprite hears and transcribes memorable quotes from VHF chatter on the sixth boro; I need to upgrade my radio before I get such plums. So I’ll listen in using other sources.
That’s a very lonely Bohemia among all those barges.
“I prefer winter … when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” Andrew Wyeth
From left to right: Bluefin, Robert Bouchard, and Brandywine.
“Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.” Stanley Crawford
Miss Callie fishing over by Blue Sapphire. ”Winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.” Henry David Thoreau
McAllister Responder and Maurania III escort Nordatlantic into Global. ”Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.” Nice observation from an unknown author
Buchanan 1 departs barges hanging on a mooring near a virtually invisible Bayonne. ”The color of winter is in the imagination.” Terri Guillemets
HNSE 211 scrap barge, pushed by an bright blue but invisible Crow, heads for export in the hold of a salty bulker. Over on the Brooklyn side, see the yellow crane of Cove Island. ”In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.” Plutarch
OK . . . some humor on the way out: ”I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.” Will Rogers What Will Rogers conjures up is the realization that the mermaid parade 2011 is only about four months away. Seems soon. Mardi Gras is over 30 days away. Seems far.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who enjoys winter as much as summer and all the dozens of other seasons we experience in the sixth boro.
Unrelated: To see what happens in Essex, MA, when sleet or snow is flying, click here. Hey, schooners await their appointment with launch.
What happens in the harbor as the sleet flies? The same stuff that always happens. Here Barbara C lighters a tanker aptly named Winter. Off Winter‘s stern, container vessel NordAtlantic arrives, bound for Global. Doubleclick to enlarge and see these today.
Marion Moran heads for the Buttermilk, apparently between Scott Turecamo with barge New Hampshire and Linda Moran with barge Houston.
Odin pushes Aqua.
Gramma Lee T Moran and Kimberly Turecamo escort bulker Thalassini Axia into Red Hook. And Miss Callie stays fishing.
Here’s a closer-up of Linda Moran framed by the fossilized cranes over by the Red Hook Ikea. Click here to see what was replaced by Ikea’s parking lot . . . ok . . . I should just forget about it maybe?
That’s Buchanan 1, over by some empty Buchanan scows.
And the scrap keeps coming out of Newtown Creek, here pushed by Crow. Can someone identify the tall building with the green pitched roof near the left margin of the foto?
All fotos taken in the sleety drizzle Tuesday by Will Van Dorp.
It’s that time of year. The blog will resurface at the mouth of the Cooper/Ashley watershed, I hope, just before 2011. As final post from the sixth boro for 2010, then, here is a motley set of fotos and disjointed thoughts.
Collaboration . . . I love it. This foto of Golden Elpis comes from John Watson. Given my imagination-driven eyes, I read the ship name as Golden Elips and thought “elips . . . give ekisses, not wet urgent ones.” In 2011, I want more real passionate kisses and fewer ekisses. About this ship, I saw it in New Haven recently and read the name as Golden Elvis. I really need to get my eyes checked, maybe patented.
APL Jade is another John Watson foto. The city here looks as atmospheric as it did back in fotos from back in the days of coal-fired steam.
Here’s my tree this year, located in Newport, Narragansett Bay. A Tree of Life is the best kind.
You heard it here: one of the things I adore about this city is that it finds itself among those places where you hear and see other languages daily, unidentifiable ones. MSC Mandraki sent me here.
To go somewhere and see a retired politician’s name on a research boat like this . . . all pols should be so lucky.
Endeavor . . . yah!
Fishing vessel Janet. Eye candy is enough for me.
More marine eyecandy called Dominique, launched 1937. ”Eyecandy” actually is a crass word for beauty. May 2011 bring beauty into all our lives.
Clingstone House . . . staying there with a dozen like-minded friends . . . that’s something to organize in 2011.
Probe forward. I suppose some things I’ll encounter in 2011 will push back hard, and I’ll deal with those. Others . . . will bring unexpected pleasures and treasures. I wish you all the same. Before parting, a story.
Call it one of my 1001 stories . . . actually, it’s not a story but an email I got recently from someone I’ll call “Joe.” I’ve “tinkered” with identifying info in the letter, lest the company in question object.
<<<I’ve been a fan of your web site for a long time. So when I saw a guy sitting on the rocks of the KVK near [a certain location], Sunday, October 3rd, I said to “my captain,” “See that guy over there shooting pictures, I’ll bet that’s the Tugster.”
The captain said, “Where,.. what are you pointing at? That looks like a bunch of Richmond Terrace winos sitting under that tree.”
“No sir, not the mooks sitting under the trees, the guy crouched up like a seagull on those rocks shooting pictures of the dredge, I’ll bet ya that’s the Tugster.”
“What the hell is a Tugster, is that something like a hernia?”
“No Cap, the Tugster is an aficionado of all that is New York Harbor”.
“What kind of fish did you say he was fishing for, a fish-ah-what? What the hell kind of fish is that?”
“No Cap, He chronicles New York Harbor in photographs and posts them on his web page. Hey, I’ll keep an eye on his site and see if we show up in any of the photo’s.”
Now it was the Captains turn to give me the fish eye, as if, I might be looking at, “other less prurient pages,” on the Internet. “Yeah sure, let me know what turns up.”
Today I went to your site. Imagine the joy when I discovered that, yes the bearded individual crouched on the rocks like a kid with bad diarrhea, truly was the Tugster. Wow, in a city of Ten Million people! Who could imagine?
Naturally, I’ve emailed your web page link of flattering photo’s to all of the [company X] folks. This is particularly great because the guys working on the [vessel in question] are from [a faraway state outside the Northeast], haven’t been home for awhile and can share the pics with their families. Nice.
If you are interested, perhaps I can bribe, blackmail and use threats and innuendo and scurrilous gossip to arrange for you to visit the [vessel in question, again]. No guarantees, but I can ask the big shots that run the show, if you’re interested.
Thanks again for a great web site.>>>
Wow! Thanks. I could NEVER hope for a better gift.
I’m headed inland for a spell and a gallivant, and hope–as I said earlier–to emerge about 750 miles south of the sixth boro.
Bonne annee!
Beaufort Sea (ex-Corsair, 1971, 105 loa x 32′) with DBL 101. Can anyone identify the tallest building on the skyline there? I can’t.
Emily C. Cheramie (2000, 90′ x 28′ ) with Unloader No. 2.
Despite a stiff tailwind, a Buchanan tug (12?) heads southbound toward Yonkers with six or nine stone scows barely making headway against the flood.
Catherine Turecamo (ex-Gulf Tempest, 1972, 99′ x 30′) approaches while Endeavor (2007, 964′ x 91′) and Ellen McAllister (1966, 102′ x 29′) recede. Ellen seems shorter than 102′ . . . although I’m not sure why I think so. Click here and scroll for a foto of the Bayonne Bridge under construction. See MOL history here.
Amy C. McAllister (ex-Jane A. Bouchard, 1975, 91′ x 30′) with B. No. 231 approaching the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
Morgan Reinauer (ex-Exxon Garden State, 1981, 119′ x 34′) passing an outbound Maersk Denpasar (exactly the same dimensions as MOL Endeavor but launched in 2003). Denpasar is the capital of the Indonesian province of Bali.
Susan E. Witte (a classic looking from 2004, 55′ x 17′) strides into the Kills.
Maurania III (also 2004, 101′ x 33′) escorts a tanker while Linda Moran (2008, 116′ x 36′) passes on the far side.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated question: You will no doubt remember the fiasco of Mobro 4000‘s 6000-mile journey towed by Break of Dawn, built 1982. Does anyone have a recent foto of Break of Dawn?
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