Random Tugs 105

OK . . . I fail here.  Which Moran and which McAllister are those in the Sunday morning chop?

Quick post:  Shelby 1978.

Evening Tide 1970.

Jay Michael 1980 doing a re-enactment of my December 15, 2012 post here (scroll to third foto).

Long time no see . . . Superior Service 1981.

North Sea 1982.

Laura K. Moran 2008.

Resolute 1975 and Discovery Coast 2012.

All fotos taken in April by Will Van Dorp, who’s feeling it’s significant that so many of these are stern shots . . .  i.e., I’m struggling to keep up today.

Taurus Heads Upriver

I had no idea why Fred Johannsen (47′ loa x 18′ and launched 1971) showed up at the east end of the KVK, westbound.

But a few hours later, she reappeared  . . . with a dead ship.

Taurus, identified on the VHF as a dead ship?!  !@#@!!

Up to Kingston she goes, and at 3 kts fighting the flood, it’s

going to be a long ride.

Click here for a post of almost five years ago when Taurus herself moved another dead ship.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Molting Falcon

When Nigel (last foto)–my parrot–molts, he’s raggedy, would win no beauty contests.  Behold a fully fledged Falcon from June 2012 and

from yesterday, a molting one, an Allied boat in the process of becoming a Kirby one while moving a barge between sugar fields down south and a processing plant in Yonkers.  The deal is not new, but the manifestation of the change is ongoing.

ATC 1800 is a dry bulk coastal barge built in 1966.  Will it molt as well?

All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp.

Old Esso Maryland

But first . . . any ideas on the connection of this post to Pegasus?  This foto comes from last July 4, 2012.

The tug on this bunker barge I first came to know as

K-Sea’s Maryland.  Here’s a post that identifies the great blue hull of the vessel she’s bunkering.

Maryland just passed her 51st year mark, with a makeover.  Behold the colors from her recent pre-50th year mark and

now!!  Hudsonian caught her trip back from her makeover a few weeks back, slogging through the northern ice in February.

Enjoy  . . . the old and the

transformed!

So here’s the connection with the top foto above.  Maryland‘s original name 51 years ago was Esso Maryland.  There was a “state” series back then . . . although Maryland version looked quite different than–say–the Pennsylvania version.  Esso Texas appeared six years later .  . and is something of a blend between Maryland and Pennsylvania.  Before the state series, there were just numbers and at age 40, Pegasus became known as Esso N0. 1.  Pegasus today is 107 and looking forward to another educational season and the fundraiser listed below.  Details will follow.  For now, here’s info on the legendary Ear Inn.

Random Tugs 102

Here’s a first-timer for me in the sixth boro . . . Miss Emily, a saltwater member of the huge Marquette Transportation fleet.  Look carefully and you’ll see she sports equipment not commonly seen here.

One of my favorite harbor vessels . . . now called Ellen McAllister, used to do gray-work in Holy Loch, Scotland.  Here’s more on Holy Loch and its role in the Cold War.

Zachery Reinauer was built upstate at Matton 42 years ago.

Kristy Ann Reinauer, 51 years old, offers some style hints of 1960s trucks like this one. 

I’ve no idea how long Harry McNeal has worked the boro, but she was launched in Louisiana in 1965.

Ditto my question on history of Robert IV . .  who launched in Louisiana in 1975.

Ruth M. Reinauer is the mother of facet tugs launched in Rhode Island around a half decade ago.

Discovery Coast might be the newest tug in this installment.  It’s the creation of Frank Basile, whose bio as written by Brian Gauvin can be found here.  For a portfolio of his work, click here.

JoAnne III Reinauer, a 1970 vessel with a 2008 aluminum tower is one of the more unusual tugs in the sixth boro.  For a before-after look on tugster, click here.

Finally, a 1980 Oyster Bay, NY built vessel . . . now called Siberian Sea.

And that equipment unique to Miss Emily . . . it’s this knotted rope escape system.  To see this in use, look at fotos 7 and 8 in this tugster post from three years ago.

All fotos taken–with icy fingers–by Will Van Dorp, in the past few days.

Sixth Boro Random Delights 6

Forecast for the morning after the Oscars was for some sun, which I sorely needed.  And who’s out . . . William Oscar aka W. O. Decker, for starters.

CCNI Aquiles and Dallas Express at Global . . . and a Moose boat racing toward us.

I couldn’t quite figure out what Sorensen Miller‘s load was.   In the background, that’s the Newark Bay Bridge, which doesn’t make it on my fotos much.

Virginia Sue was fishing off Clermont.

John P. Brown moved nine (?) railcars from Brooklyn to Jersey.

Clipper Legacy arrived here yesterday.

Shawn Miller‘s pushing trucks around again, this one  all ready for the mid-March holiday.

Taurus light moves past Christine McAllister.

And . . . let’s conclude with another shot of William Oscar, wherever it may be heading.

All fotos this morning before the clouds moved in . . . by Will Van Dorp.

WLV-612 Redux

Sometimes serendipity smiles on me.  Like yesterday.  I’d left quite early for an event and saw this red dot on the horizon.  If I hadn’t seen the vessel before, I might have thought it a phantasm.  But four-plus years ago, I’d even gotten a tour of WLV-612 . . . a vessel so exquisite inside now you have to take your shoes off, not for security but just because the floors  . . . are gorgeous.

 

This is the Norton Point Light . . . technically the Coney Island Light at Norton Point.  Vessel in the distance is Rotterdam Express.

Not a rock and a hard place . . . but a bridge and a parachute jump . . . .

As if on someone’s invisible cue, the sun broke through overcast sky for about 30 seconds just

before she passed under the VZ Bridge and

crossed paths with Mediterranean Sea heading out to pick up a barge.

To repeat myself . . . if I hadn’t known Nantucket was spending winter in the sixth boro doing events, I might have questioned my perception or sanity, but

knowing that she’s around still did not diminish

the sheer joy I felt seeing her.  My afternoon definitely picked up after this.   Is that Pati R. Moran?

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.  And truth be told, seeing this reminded me of a song I loved as a youth growing up in what today would be called an fundamentalist immigrant place.  Tennesee Ernie Ford version and church version.

Arctic Sixth Boro

Call me a wimp . . .  but it’s icy out there.  And yet people work outside.  Bravo and hats on for the crews and shipyard workers out there where the spray sometimes freezes.  Some quick fotos I took yesterday.  Would you believe this is the same DBL 140 barge you see in the 5th and 6th fotos here?

Here’s DBL 140 and Lincoln Sea from across the Upper Bay.

Traffic never stops because of some cold.

A tanker with a classic name 

lighters just north of the VZ Bridge.  Here’s the rest of the fleet and more.

One positive about cold, low humidity air . . . it’s clear.  Ocean Leader could never look this good

on a muggy summer day.

Ditto Ruth M. Reinauer moving RTC 102 with an assist from Jill Reinauer.

Anyone handling line on a day like this needs the right gear and

a focus on getting the work done safely.

Bravo and hats on!!

Tale of Two Tugboats

The two tugs in question really have nothing to do with each other, although almost all these fotos have been taken in the past month.  Bluefin, launched summer 2009, waits on the hook with Penn No. 80.  Although the colors haven’t caught up, the unit–one of 16 Penn Maritime tugs and 18 heated barges– is now owned by Kirby, in exchange for almost $300 million.

This foto and the others of this unit you can enjoy thanks to bowsprite.  The red tug–Reliant–is about 20 years older than Bluefin.

Each designed for its own purpose, Bluefin is 111 feet, whereas

Reliant . . . 30′.

Coho, launched November 2008, on paper is an identical twin of the 4000 hp Bluefin.  I took this foto in October 2009.

Here’s a foto I took of Reliant over on the west side of Bergen Point a few years back.

Thanks to bowsprite for contributing the fotos of Reliant over at WorldFi ferry terminal.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

Scale 5

As I write this post, Lincoln Sea is southbound on the Hudson, just south of where Stena Primorsk ran out of the channel a month or so ago.  Weddell Sea/Lincoln Sea foto was taken back in earlier September 2012.

This closeup of the Lincoln Sea-DBL 140 embrace seems small and intimate until you read the gradations on the the barge .  . . those numbers mark feet.

Length and breath of the tug-barge unit

is 597′ x 79.’

Ocean Leader, here coming into the Narrows four days ago and currently in Port of Albany,  is also 597′ loa but a little beamier:  105′ . . .  panamax wide.

I don’t have the tug/barge dimensions of B. Franklin Reinauer/RTC 82, here paralleling Ocean Leader.

Behind tugboat John P. Brown (75′ x 26′) lies Stena Primorsk, in the “hole” undergoing repairs at Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair, and shown

here about a week pre-accident.  Dimensions of Stena Primorsk:  597′ x 131′ . . . . 280,000 barrel capacity.  Lincoln Sea‘s DBL 140 capacity is 140,000 barrels.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.