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Sandy? Of course, if you live inland from a beach, you may be scoured by the stuff.
These signs appeared along the NJ Turnpike today.
I had to return to the sixth boro from a little time spent in Philly. I saw Lois Ann L. Moran (2009, Washburn & Doughty) pass quite close to Penn’s Landing, but she was way up by Fishtown by the time I could grab my camera.
High Roller (1969, Jakobson) passed also, but the light hardly allowed Roller‘s brilliance to show. Scroll through for a foto of High Roller and her siblings with unique names in a post I did here over two years ago. The dome is the Camden aquarium, where some float-through-and-over-anything hippos live.
Two weeks ago, these small craft bobbed resplendent in summery sunny, but now a storm that should be called stormy or squally or even super-tempestuous dulls their colors.
For now, get to high ground; otherwise, batten ‘em down. Dog’em. Double’em up.
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s some sixth boro area tempests of past years. As I post this (1700 hrs), Queen Mary 2, Maersk Kentucky, and Yasa Golden Dardanel are among the last large vessels leaving boro6 for the safety of sea.
gCaptain comments on vessel heading counter-to-trend with paramount urgency . . . here.
Three vessels at the roundup this year appeared there for the first time . . well sort of. The red one, aka Augie, was in fact there for the first time. The other . . . on the left, Frances, has been there before but with very different appearance.
Here’s a closeup of Augie, who first made a show here and here.
The surprise newcomer at the roundup this year was Wendy B, but with a bit of search, I’ve found this blog about here journey from Toronto to DC seven years ago, by the previous owners.
Click here for the specs at the time of her last sale. Talking with the owners, I learned she was delayed in the sixth boro–on her recent northward passage–by the 4th of July 2012 fireworks. Does anyone recall seeing her in town? Here are my fotos of the spectacular illuminations that day.
Here’s Augie, nestled up to Cornell, in current colors.
When I saw Frances this weekend, I first assumed I was looking at Margot, currently working on Lake Ontario.
Here’s how Frances looked two years ago.
I’m enthusiastic to see Frances (1957) covered in new paint that just exudes vitality. Soon she’ll be working like Margot, her one-year-younger sister.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated but thanks to Barbara for sending this link along: South Street Seaport in the news.
aka Naismith gear. And where is this industrial
setting?
At, in, or on Stolt Invention. And what is Stolt Invention, you might wonder?
She’s a parcel tanker and midday today she left the sixth boro bound for sea, bound for some scrimmage somewhere in mid-ocean somewhere. Yes, that’s Siberian Sea (1980, ex-Heidi E. Roehrig, Matthew, Star Avjet) , but she seems to lack the Naismith gear.
I wonder if all the NYK Stolt tankers have hoops? Might the entire global fleet be divided into leagues? Is there a draft? Are rendezvous points established in mid-ocean for competitions?
Be on the lookout for a basketball court with cargo capacity coming your way soon.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Related: Read “deepwater writing”‘s description of a ship he visited recently in “ship envy.” Along with quite interesting links, he includes great details about his tour of a Norwegian vessel that featured spacious quarters, a gyn, and a room for karaoke and music.
Unrelated: For a 19-minute Fred Vloo video of Rotterdam harbor, showing a wide variety of vessels, click here.
This is a post for Bonnie, in response to hers in which she reveals she’s crazy about buoys, very crazy . . . by her own admission a week ago. Further, Bonnie’s post was in response to Tillerman.
I feel compelled to say I’m equally crazy about gulls, all kinds of gulls including eeeee
gulls . . . er, eagles.
But I don’t like dogs or
snakes.
The second foto comes thanks to Bob McLaren via Allen Baker. Taken in the early 1960s, the fotos shows the house of Dalzelleagle, now McAllister Brothers as seen here and here. Previously, Allen has supplied this foto and others. Please get in touch if you have ideas on how I can locate and photograph any remaining Dalzell trademark eagles. Other vessels with ornamental eagles are Huntington and Pacific. (Use “find” to locate the ornamental eagle reference within those articles. I’m curious about this tradition. )
The third foto shows McKinley Sea (1981, ex-Annabelle V. Roehrig and El Oso Grande II). And the boa, I took the foto on Coney Island after the mermaid parade in 2007.
I last used this title over three years ago, and every day since then, fuel has flowed through the harbor, as blood through healthy veins. And it will keep on doing so by an impossibly wide array of vessels. Below, yesterday afternoon the 1934-launched ship Kristin Poling pushes over 21,000 barrels of oil in the direction of the 1931-opened Bayonne Bridge. Kristin‘s destination COULD lead it through the ice-choked waters up the Hudson, captured here less than a month back by Paul Strubeck. Part of what the foto below says to me is the immense care and maintenance in keeping both these harbor icons in use.
Lucy Reinauer pushes the 2008-launched RTC 83 southbound on the Arthur Kill. Lucy was launched from Jakobson’s in Oyster Bay in 1973 and since then has borne all the following names: Texaco Diesel Chief, Star Diesel Chief, Morania No 5, May McGuirl. I’d love to see a foto of her when first launched.
Lois Ann L. Moran (2009) pushes barge Philadelphia out toward the Newark Bay portion of the sixth boro. The destination of the fuel beyond that I can only guess at.
As an indication of changes in scale over the decades, load capacity of barge Philadelphia is 118,000 barrels, relative to Kristin Poling‘s . . .21,000 and a bit.
Fuels moved through the harbor have a range of users: Vane’s Doubleskin 301 moves in to fuel container vessel NYK Delphinus even before containers start moving off the ship.
Maneuvering 301 is not a Vane tug but Dann Marine’s East Coast.
All fotos in the past 48 hours by Will Van Dorp, who is convinced that millions of dollars will go to whomever figures out how to move food and retail goods through the sixth boro to the consumer as efficiently as all our fuels already are. All fotos were taken from Arthur Kill Park in Elizabeth, NJ.
If you click here and are familiar with some of the changes on the NYC waterfront, you’ll know some of these landmarks are gone. Debate on choices of what to save and what to preserve are endless. Recognize the vessel below? What was its past and will be its future?
The vessel above and the one below live about 20 miles from Hell Gate. Christeen, below, was built as an oyster sloop in 1883. Click here and here for video of Christeen under sail today.
Here’s a summary of Christeen‘s features. Click here for a quick timeline of 150+ years of water history of Oyster Bay, NY. Of course, Oyster Bay launched many tugboats during the half century of Jakobson‘s tenure there. Scan the list for boats that have appeared on this blog, (Cornell, Margot, Houma, Maryland, Escort, Consort …) too numerous to link to now, but you can use the search window to see them. Jakobson’s even built a small submarine, X-1. Jakobson’s yard is now gone without many traces.
The vessel in the top foto is Ida May as she currently looks, but
she once looked like this.
This is a down-at-the-heels queen whose future
hangs in the balance. More info is available through the
What prompted this post is an article in the NYTimes this morning about Pier D, near 64th Street. If you’ve never seen it,
you won’t. It’s gone. See the article here. I took this foto less than three months ago.
All fotos by will Van Dorp.
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