More Newest Hull 2

The next three fotos come compliments of Rod Smith, whose Narragansett Bay Shipping site does a thorough job of documenting many things including all newbuilds worked on at Senesco Marine, where the new Caddell’s drydock was constructed.   Here’s the launch day, performed by rolling airbags.  See the upper wheelhouse of newbuild Dean Reinauer to the left behind the shed.  Small tug afloat is Hawk, ex-YTL 153.

Although not quite wide enough to contain a football field, it is more than long enough.  It would certainly redefine the game.

Here’s a foto of the drydock taken from the upperwheelhouse of Dean.  Can anyone identify the tug-in-progress directly in the foreground?

Finally, another of my fotos showing the tow just about home entering the Buttermilk Channel.  The octagonal structure to the left is the vent tower for the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

Again, many thanks to Rod for use of these fotos.  If you do Facebook, Rod has just posted fotos of arrival of United Yacht Transport’s Super Servant 4 in Newport, RI.  Now if I were free, I’d head up and watch the float-off process.

Here was my first post on this drydock.

Newest Hull in the Sixth Boro 2

A month ago I caught this small drydock floating in.    Today at noon Doris Moran with James Turecamo assisting dragged

this huge newbuild under the Brooklyn Bridge, the very same

day this tip was added to the WTC1 spire.  Also, it was about 175 days ago that some parts for the spire came barging in like this.

Those are South Street Seaport Museum’s vessels over beyond the drydock.

Someone can refresh my memory of the dimensions this drydock will accommodate, but I can see the Staten Island ferry eyeing it already.

The tow headed through the Buttermilk Channel before

John Watson picked up these shots as they headed across the Upper Bay, passed Robbins Reef Light, and the

KVK, where she will operate.

The last two fotos here come from John Watson;  all others by Will Van Dorp, who got these fotos inside another Caddell drydock three years ago.

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Upriver at Magdalen Island, here’s a followup to Ooops 3 . . . Mary Alice  (1974) brings in bucket on dredge Delaware Bay (2006) to begin process of raising the beached scow.  That’s Leopard Albany-bound on left side of page.  See Leopard anchored  in the sixth boro in the second foto here.

These fotos come thanks to Dock Shuter.

Resolute (1975) heads for a rendezvous with Zim Qingdao.  That’s High Mercury and the ferry terminal in the background.

Anyone know who takes credit for that white arch atop the terminal?

Headon view of the new Mary Gellatly (2000).  Actually, I wish the green trim along lower side of house windows were left . . . even enhanced.  That’s Maersk Caitlin in the background.

Tied up along the salt pile . . . it’s Vane’s Red Hook (2013) and Hunting Creek (2012) They may be the two newest tugboats in the sixth boro.

Catherine Turecamo (1972) closes in to meet UASC Jeddah.

And here . . . high and dry and needing a shave, it’s Specialist.  Here (scroll through to the end) is a foto of the same vessel–house up–three plus years ago.   Is she really a 1956-build?

And finally, heading into the Narrows, it’s

Sea Bear (1990).

Thanks to Dock Shuter for the Mary Alice fotos.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

Unrelated:  Here’s a NYTimes 12-minute documentary update report on the voyage of Break of Dawn and the Mobro barge of Islip garbage.  Thanks to Old Salt Rick for calling it to my attention.

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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.

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Gramma Lee T Moran, 2002

Jay Mchael and Mister Jim,  1980 and 1982

Mister T, 2001

Mister T again

Brandywine and Viking, 2006 and 1976

Kimberly Turecamo, 1980

Red Hook (a first on this blog) and Severn, 2013 and 2008

B. Franklin Reinauer, 2012

Shelby Rose, 1963

Hubert Bays, 2002.

All fotos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.

Crazy Patterns 2

Here was the first of this series, from over four years ago.  And what’s this?  whose wake prints?

Answer?  It’s the flotilla assisting Hanjin San Francisco into Port Elizabeth.  Four months ago I caught San Fran outbound . . . here . . . scroll through.

Let’s do an anatomy of wakes on a curve called Bergen Point.  That’s Marion Moran on the stern quarter, a New Jersey State Police boat overtaking on the port side.  Click here to see a now/then foto of Shooters, the island just beyond the container vessel.

Marion clings, presses while moving “sideways” through the water.

Laura K passes.

In the same general time frame, surveyboat Michele Jeanne

and lube tanker Emma Miller scribe the surface with their own signature, as

does Ellen McAllister and as

a commingling with

Catherine Turecamo.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Orange 5

After these were taken down  from along the paths of Central Park eight years ago, it was reported they were “industrially recycled.”  I’d not til now thought to ask what recycled meant, but yesterday I saw this:

do you suppose . . .

reused was the solution  . . . ?

All these were on a single outbound ship yesterday . . .

Maersk

Ohio, here escorted around Bergen Point by Gramma Lee T Moran.

Top foto by Elizabeth Wood.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

Pretty World

At 0630 today . . .  this vessel was still in Gravesend Bay, flanked by two tugboats.  I recalled it’d been there for about two days.

As the tide turned, one assist tug switched out and others added.

Three hours later . . . it was Margaret Moran, Joan Turecamo, and Marion Moran . . . and

then Gramma Lee T Moran hooked into the bow, totaling over 16,000 hp if needed.  Pretty World looked like a dead ship.

Towing stern first,

Gramma Lee T brought her into Upper Bay by noon and then on to GMD Bayonne.  It looks like time to pop the hood on Pretty World.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Deira

Deira is to Dubai Creek as Richmond Terrace is

the KVK.  See fotos of that Creek today and a half century ago here.

Deira is one of 10 4000-teu containerships operating for UASC since 1998.  Many of that fleet call here regularly.  Dammam is the capital of the eastern province of Saudi Arabia.

Here’s Al-Mutanabbi a while back.   I’ve yet to see any of the UASC fleet launched in 2012, with more than three times the capacity!

Margaret Moran was returning from another job while Gramma Lee T Moran

escorted Deira in, passing Brendan Turecamo on the way.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Check out Elizabeth Simenstad’s blog here, just added to my blogroll.

Back in the Sixth Boro 2

Here was 1 . . . from about a year ago.   But what’s this . . . hoops at a food emporium?

Basketball with new floor markings and maybe new rules?  By the way, assisting along the starboard side of the RORO is Gramma Lee T Moran, the same tugboat featured in Back in the Sixth Boro 1.

No . . . an entertainment and fitness adaptation of RORO Asian King.  Click here to visit a ship.  Click here for the numbers . . . including how many cars this vessel can carry.

And although I lack clear photographic evidence, I did see

two dolphins swimming off Bergen Point, off the starboard side of Asian King.

Happy to be back . . . all fotos by Will Van Dorp, this morning.