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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.
This is the 98th installment of this title. If you’ve any ideas about what I might do with the 100th, let me know. Of course, I could just let it pass by . . . randomly.
All these boats have some things in common, like . .. they passed through the sixth boro although in all types of weather/light in the past week or so. I’l let you know what I’m thinking at the end of the post.
Miss Yvette, 1975 built in Houma, Louisiana (LA), here attending to Kraken.
Freddie K Miller, 1966 . . . Madisonville LA.
John P Brown 2002 Morgan City LA
Atlantic Salvor 1976 New Orleans.
James Turecamo 1969, Waterford NY.
Pegasus 2006 Tres Palacios TX
Pathfinder 1972 Houma LA
C. Angelo 1999 Lockport LA
Margaret Moran December 1979 Morgan City LA
Miriam Moran November 1979 Morgan City LA
And another thing they all have in common right now is that
they all work in trades other than directly pushing oil.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who’d love to hear ideas about the “Random Tugs 100″ post.
Unrelated: I read this line yesterday about a withdrawn lawsuit between the NY Port Authority and a Canadian steel company: ”The deal means the lawsuit will be dropped and the steel for the [World Trade Center] tower antenna can set sail before Canadian shipping channels freeze over in winter.” Here’s the rest of the article. But it made me wonder . . . by what vessel . . . barge or ship . . . will this steel arrive in the Upper Bay. Anyone know? Here’s info on the fabricator of the antenna.
And a Q . . . has anyone seen evidence of construction of the crane(s) to be involved in the Bayonne Bridge raising? I’ve heard rumors, but not read or heard anything authoritative.
Check out the light exactly two years ago . . . here. And my first greetings this morning came from the Easter ducks, who’d heard about an egg hunt, I believe. Mergansers passed too, but dove each time to hide bright colored bills.
Norwegian Gem, her bow painted like a post-modern Easter ovoid, sailed into a harbor entirely tinted with the rosy fingers of dawn, ending a passage from Cape Canaveral.
Bavaria made an attempt to get out to sea.
Nor Gem shrinks the closer she gets to Manhattan’s passenger terminal.
Sea Lion (1980) heads Jamaica Bay bound to deliver a crane.
Buchanan 12, (1972) herself made over and painted anew for an Easter parade, enters the east end of the KVK.
Pathfinder charges forward between MOL Express and Overseas Atalmar. Express left the Panama Canal 12 days ago, and will spend next Sunday in Europe.
A mariner stands watch. What I’d give to be able to tell you his name, history, and his thoughts as he heads for sea on a Sunday morning . . .
And two last beasts . . . unicorn and Oliphant . . . round out our marvelous menagerie
I hope you enjoy this day . . . All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
. . . not nearly so catchy a mnemonic as “right red returning,” but it means the same thing. Thomas J. Brown green left returning,
McCormack Boys green right going,
Kristy Ann Reinauer green port returning,
A nameless Caldwell truckable tug green starboard going,
Miss Gill with scow GPR (green port returning),
NJ State Police GSG,
scow GPR . . .
Miriam GSG,
Atlantic Salvor and scow,
That green 9 in the KVK is a great place to set up fotos, but IMHO, it’s best to stick with “right red returning” as a memory keeper.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Viking and the nose
Captain D (whom I saw first about two years ago) and Miss Gill
Quantico Creek (I almost made the launch) and Bohemia (also from about two years ago)
Kristin Poling and Crystal Cutler
Miss Gill . . . aka “mace gale”
Bohemia (I crossed the river there two weeks ago on Rte 213) and Viking
Kimberly Poling, who had a different paint scheme here two and four years ago. I like the new colors more than the previous.
Dace Reinauer (and its previous profiles and livery)
All fotos in the past two weeks by Will Van Dorp.
If you need to feel chilled, look in on Issuma, lover of cold sailing.
. . . or triplets. How much can you identify about these three eastbound units? Doubleclick enlarges fotos.
Margaret Moran squares off with the bright orange Michele Jean,
semi-concealed Atlantic Salvor and Miss Gill,
Mary Gellatly and Colorado-registered Crow’s Nest, 
Blue Curaçao Citrus and Miller Girls,
near-twin Vane Brothers boats,
several pairs, very roughly speaking, near the Narrows,
Nicole Leigh and Davis Sea,
a pair of deckhands enjoying springtime on Eddie R,
and a pair of early-Cold War Ford tractors at a plowing party.
Happy Cinco de Mayo. All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Doubleclick enlarges. Calusa Sea Coast (1978) pushing Sugar Express comes thanks to Dan Blumenthal, who recently sent along the shot of Stad Amsterdam‘s golden masts and ivory sails here. Thanks, anon., for the correction.
Miss Gill (1970) and Taurus (1979) pass Jag Aparna (2009), as does
McCormack Boys (1982).
And Captain Zeke (1980).
Maria J (1971) arrives from the east.
Christine M. McAllister (1975) pushes RTC 502.
Dann Ocean’s Neptune (1992) and
Ocean Tower (1978) have passed through recently.
But none catches my fancy as much as does Calusa Coast and Sugar Express. Does raw sugar smell sweet if you lean over the edge of the hatch and inhale deeply?
Thanks again to Dan Blumenthal for fotos of Calusa Coast and Sugar Express; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Average age of these boats is . . . almost 33 years old.
It’s Friday afternoon, and the Upper Bay seems congested . . . Yano is being spun in the distance as McAllister Responder and McAllister Girls head east and Amy Moran enters the KVK.
Around the same time, here’s a shot of work in the sixth boro bookending the Yano move between my favorite cutterhead and construction at 1 WTC.
Cold, gusty Saturday the same basic area sees Taurus and Davis Sea jointly leveraging DBL 25 into a berth, and . . .
Duncan Island heads for sea from out behind a dredge spoils scow holding station with Captain D. Ever wonder why a reefer vessel of the Ecuadorian Line is called Duncan Island? It’s Duncan Island aka Isla Pinzon, said to be named for the Pinzon brothers who captained the Nina and Pinta of the Columbus fleet. Here’s a statue of the brothers, quite unknown in North America.
Most congestion as these two Moran groups cross: left to right, Jean Turecamo, Catherine Turecamo, Scott Turecamo pushing New Hampshire, and Linda Moran pushing Houston. Minerva Vaso lies at the dock in the distance.
At the end of this post is a video that really shows congestion, but as background, consider these two AIS screen captures, each showing about 2000 square miles. The one below displays regularly about 100 vessels, whereas
this one . . . about 500 vessels.
Now enjoy as much of this 15-minute video as you have time for: heavy traffic on Nieuwe Waterweg connecting Rotterdam with the North Sea. Included are at least two container ships–MSC Alexandria and Maersk Edmonton– with three times the capacity of any vessels currently serving the sixth boro aka Port of New York and New Jersey.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Without even considering the upper house, I suspect the pins and “cheeks” of Norwegian Sea. . . modify the appearance of the vessel christened as Leopardo Grande in 1976.
Morning sun gives glow to hull of Cape Bird, named for geography in Antarctica, itself named for a crewman aboard a polar exploration vessel named Erebus.
Orange Sun . . . breezes past Fort Wadsworth side of the VZ Bridge and over the horizon in less than an hour, but thanks to SteveW for recalling an incident with the orange juice tanker just over three years ago here.
Miss Gill, launched 1970 and relaunched 2008, (I’m curious about her namesake) is top horsepower boat for Norfolk Tugs.
Stern portion of the barge (name?) towed through the sixth boro Sunday by Navigator.
Conrad S and Norwegian Sea pass near Snug Harbor.
Serendipitous gull along with unique upper house structures of Paul T. Moran and tanker Butterfly in Gravesend Bay. I embedded a link to the wrong vessel Butterfly here.
Evening Mist has turned to morning frost!
Jennifer Turecamo with dry bulk barge Adelaide . . . carrying heavy dry stuff since 1963!
Now I’m stretching the title, but this is the closest up I could zoom as WMEC-615 Reliance passes West Bank Light and approaches the Narrows at this moment, and moments before . . this
was my first glimpse as Reliance passed between Butterfly and APL Sardonyx.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
More snow aftermath here. . . .but work goes on . . . like Eastern Welder, great name for a fishing boat, pulling
in the harbor’s
bounty so that it could be packed away, snow or no snow.
Caspian Sea pushes a snow-whitened
and perfectly-named John Blanche.
Torm Carina, resupplying before heading to sea,
now sports a glazed bulb. Anyone propose a description of that winteryellow sky?
Shovels are out on both tug Penn No. 4 and barge Penn No. 90.
Snow remains where it stuck on Captain D and GL 64.
as well as the assemblage around GL Dredge New York.
Snow highlights recesses in the Global Terminal where London Express and Cap Norte shift containers.
Over toward BAT, from left to right, it’s Beaufort Sea, McKinley Sea, and North Sea. I was hoping to catch Barents Sea.
Snow paints the stern of Laurie Ann Reinauer, here with RTC 85, orca style.
Finally, the identification of the ferry in yesterday’s post, according to Kyran Clune, is Guy V. Molinari, which along with Senator John J. Marchi and Spirit of America, began their journey in Marinette, Wisconsin. Molinari, pre-launch, awaits below.
For fotos of snow elsewhere, check out Essex, MA at Burnham’s. Or Gloucester snow and so much more with Jay Albert; I especially liked his report recently on Ocean Alliance moving into the long-empty paint factory. Issuma feels the cold in Toronto. George Conk watches the ice from just north of the GW Bridge. And finally, from Australia, it looks like snow, but it’s spuma!!
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