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I’ll get to more of the Louisiana and Panama fotos once I “deglitch” something, so thanks to these shots from Isaac Pennock of tugboathunter we can head north.
Do you recognize this shade of blue?
It’s DonJon Marine’s new Great Lakes’ ATB Ken Boothe Sr. and barge Lakes Contender in Erie, on Lake Erie.
And it’s huge. How huge?
Compare it with Witte 1407.
Here’s a video from more than a year ago showing Boothe first in the water. It only gets somewhat more exciting than watching ice melt (like watching paint dry or grass grow) after 3:40 . . .
Many thanks to Isaac for these shots.
Although I have many more “oldcarcity” fotos to share soon, John Watson got the following fotos from his sixth boro cliff yesterday, and they must go up. Kudos , John!
John’s fotos are physical manifestations of the renaissance of South Street Seaport Museum. Lightship Ambrose (LV-87), built 1908 . . . a year after Pegasus, is headed to Caddell’s for some love aka life support.
She made her way across this stretch of the sixth boro escorted
by the gracious Charles D. McAllister.
as well as Elizabeth McAllister. I can’t identify the smaller boat out front.
Again, thanks much, John. Here’s a question from a tipster . . . not me! in ny.Curbed. This is very promising news for the renascent museum; however, like all newborns AND reborns, it needs ongoing support . . . benjamins and members and volunteers.
My last fotos of a lightship in the sixth boro came here exactly two months ago.
Meanwhile, tugster continues a gallivant in the south . . . today off to a high point between Nickajack Lake and Chickamauga Lake.
Unrelated to this post but to one previously, here’s (thanks to Michele) is an interview/TV report from on-board Giulio Verne.
<<This just in! Tugster faces an immediate election!! See note at end of this post.>>>
Here was 10. Here was 3 . . . , and the others you can locate through the search window. Guesses might include new amusement park equipment for Coney Island? Doubleclick enlarges.
exports of the now-discarded Berlusconi?
Au contraire . . . it’s Giulio Verne, having appeared on this blog once long ago here.
I’d love to see a helicopter alight on the house deck.
So why is she in the sixth boro, you ask? To help install a backup and down under power system. Read prysmian’s press release here. Here are mostly land fotos of the project that carries the river’s name.
Click here for the specs and diagrams of the vessel.
When I got these fotos, she was at leisure, but
thanks to Kaya, who surfed QE2‘s wake here some years back, enjoy this foto of her at work last week. On the extreme right side of the foto is Port Imperial, named for Mr. Imperatore, NYWaterways floating homeport.
Thanks much to Kaya for the foto above and for news of and info on GV’s visit. All other fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: When something unidentifiable causes a traffic snarl on the Queensboro Bridge, it might just be Batman and a movie shoot.
More related: Another recent visitor in the sixth boro has been this . . . moltomega motor yacht . . . named Serene. Thanks to eastriver for pointing out the article.
ELECTION INFO>>>
Tugster has been nominated for VillageVoice “best neighborhood (of course the sixth boro IS a NYC neighborhood and an ignored one at that!!) blog” AND for “best photo (even though that’s not how it’s really spelled) blog.” It WOULD really be an honor to win this . . . so please vote vote and vote some more. Ask your siblings and everyone to vote, please.
This just in: an exemplar of French femininity is occupying Bedloe’s Island, and has done so for . . . 125 years!! And today . . . something just had to be done about it. Rubber bullets? No. Tear gas canisters? Nah. Ghostbusters? Daryl Hannah?
Bring in Aphrodite, former motor yacht of a Wall Street financier. And as a testament to the tension between Liberte and Aphrodite, keep a fireboat near by.
Bring in bright lights to shine in the occupier’s eyes.
And when things begin to smolder, Hornblower Hybrid notwithstanding,
turn on the pumps, all
the pumps, and
intimidate with the largest vessel in that part of the harbor following an erratic course.
Cool it down with tens of thousands of gallons per minute.
Well . . . actually . . . let me join . . . bonne anniversaire, Mademoiselle Liberte, she who never sits down at her job. I’m glad you’ve faithfully occupied that island, once used otherwise, all those years and spawned replicas all over the world.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Notice who is and is not represented in the parade.
Ooops! I forgot, click here for “torchcam” and see things from the enlightener’s point of view.
Today marks the end of the four-day historic ship festival and the official opening of Pier 25. Friday and Saturday I worked on Pegasus. Click on that link and you can find details of her history, starting from her inception as Standard Oil No. 16, including a time when she sported the flying horse on her stack. 1907 was a recurring number in the history-oriented tour: the date of Pegasus launch in Baltimore and the date of the opening of the Kenneth M. Murchison-designed Hoboken terminal of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.
Drydock tug Hoboken dates from 1963, but
Yankee ferry, the only surviving Ellis Island ferry, entered service in 1907. Click here for much more about the Philadelphia-built Yankee.
Here’s a view of Union Dry Dock & Repair company . . . from Pegasus.
Also giving tours on the water was the historic John J. Harvey. Type Harvey into the search window on this blog and you’ll see more fotos I’ve taken over the past five years.
Folks including me took fotos of Harvey from Pegasus, just as folks on Harvey zoomed in on us. In the cowboy hat, it’s Mitch . . . of Newtown Pentacle.
Over 150 folks enjoyed a FREE!@#@! Hudson River ride on Pegasus Saturday. Lucky them!! I’m just saying . . . this is a rare treat, and you could make it less rare by joining in this way or that. FYI . . . the engine burns about 35 gallons per hour, if I recall correctly.
If you’re in or around the sixth boro tomorrow, you may see this scene above. I took that foto about a month ago.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who yesterday befriended MV Algolake. a bonafide facebooking, literate ore carrier! Be the first among your FB friends to befriend an ore carrier; for me it’s therapeutic, helping me forget the bulk carrier Alice that has made distance between us!!
Continuing my effort to see the sixth boro from every imaginable angle, I recently walked Hudson River Waterfront Walkway between Port Imperial and Edgemont Marina. This post covers the first portion of the walk. Follow on the interactive map below; click on the map/satellite view to make it live . If you’re from outatown, that’s Manhattan to the lower right . . . specifically the 59th Street Sanitation Pier. But it’s the view from the Jersey side I focus on here.
This set of fotos represents a starting point for me, evidence of a reconnoitre. What is now rows upon rows of “luxury condos,” was at one time sets upon sets of rail infrastructure.
Below is the crumbling pier directly south of Son Cubano NJ. Ironically, not more than a mile south of here were the Seatrain Lines docks with service via Seatrain New York and Seatrain Havana between . . . New York and Havana.
This is the view of the pier “east” of Son Cubano. Notice it, like most of them now, is a loose end, a pier from and too nowhere. Now they are reminders, and should be treasured as such, although I know they will not be here 10 years from now. Click here (bottom of post) for the quote from Rebecca Solnit . . . on ruins as memories . .. or clues to seek out missed memories.
The piers are alive . . . although not with shipping or commerce. Notice the Manhattan passenger terminal on the other side.
Who knows what vessels last cast lines off from these cleats and bollards? Anyone have a sense of where a trove of fotos showing these docks used can be found?
This loose end is off Buffalo Court, but what town looks upon this? West New York? Guttenberg? Will Port Imperial become a town?
More pilings reminding us that a different life was led here 50 and 100 years ago on the Jersey side of the sixth boro across from and slightly south of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument and Riverside Church. In the far distance, the tug is Bohemia; Kristy Ann is the nearer one.
The serviceable pier Kristy Ann Reinauer passes here covers a pipeline. For what . . . I don’t know. Remember, this post just conveys what I saw on the recon walk.
When the area was developed, vessels in the water became starting points for fill. What cargoes did this barge carry and along what routes?
I googled “bulls ferry” and “jacobs ferry” hoping to learn what vessel is depicted. Find out what I got by clicking here.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Coming soon . . . the journey into Edgewater, where Joseph Mitchell more than half a century ago studied the shad fishermen. Any errors of fact . . . they’re mine.
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.
Keeping with tradition: here’s #57. Remember, doubleclick enlarges.
Unidentified kayaks foreground, and middleground from left to right: Layla Rene, Sea Bear, dredge Florida; and background, King Dorian (misspell of durian?).
Unidentified crew boat heading away and Barbara C approaching.
Kimberly Turecamo westbound.
Elk River westbound.
Pati R Moran headed to an anchorage.
W. O. Decker passes W O tanker called Sharon Sea.
Sarah Ann and unnamed blue sailboat painted almost DonJon blue.
McAllister Girls pushing dirt.
More of the kayakers taking Lucy Reinauer‘s stern, making helmsman a smidgeon nervous, I reckon.
Falcon and Houma tandem effort.
Unnamed Moran tug leading Caribbean Princess.
Carnival Glory foreground and some unidentified tugs in the distance.
Sorry about all the unidentified vessels today. Maybe someone can help.
Meanwhile, some stories from the NYTimes this morning: disputed waters between China and Japan AND Seamen’s Institute leaves Manhattan for Newark.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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home of the two Marys. The farther Mary comes and goes, but the nearer one–Mary A. Whalen, hub of the Basin–will
serve as locus for (literally) tons of visiting historical vessels (See Atlantic Basin 1) this summer as well as intangible amounts
of fun. See the full calendar of music, movies, lectures, and visiting vessels on the calendar here. Or just come by to hang . . . during TankerTime. When I tried to interview Mary A. Whalen about the summer, her only response was the smile created by red-white-blue bunting hanging between the portholes on the house.
As to the other Mary, the distant one with a tiara suggested by her name, she’s itinerant. She left yesterday (7/19) and will return
in early August . . . if the schedule is to be believed.
Hail! Marys of the Atlantic Basin. See bowsprite’s adorable rendering here.
This coming Saturday–July 24–is City of Water Day in NYC. Some of the events at Atlantic Basin include a marine security display with a VACIS container scanner, a sniffer dog from US Customs and Border Protection, Urban Divers mobile marine museum, a container mover from American Stevedoring, tours of visiting steam lighthouse tender Lilac, live music, food from local Brooklyn vendors including Kevin’s Restaurant and Kustard King. And more!
See more City of Water Day info here.
Middle three fotos by Will Van Dorp; all other fotos and mosaic here by Carolina Salguero.
Unrelated: Earlier today I asked the following question: Can anyone help identify this large floating object on the Hudson here? Foto was taken by the Mighty Quinn five days after the Willis Avenue Bridge floated by, and a few weeks after the house barge sauntered through. And the answer . . . just in from Richard Canty, captain of Glen Cove: The object in question is a set of “cooling towers for the new power plant being built in Astoria at Steinway Street. They were built at P&M Marine’s dock in Coeymans, NY. That dock may be remembered by some as the old Brickyard. The towers are giant sails. Very exciting driving in a wind….. any wind.”
Thanks, Richard.
And this will be my last post for July. Lake Opeongo has called. It seems some mysteries there need my immediate attention–or I need theirs . . . stuff like deciphering the code of crickets, the flickering of fireflies, the meandering of muskellunge, the wiles of wintergreen, the secrets of snipe, the contours of congress (lower case), the rituals of relating, the protocol of pursuit, the finesse of friendship (oh.. this could be endless) . . . . Ah, the glories of gallivanting.
Til August . . . cheers from tugster.
Oops! Here’s some merry music from Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, and Tom Petty.
BlueBQ? Why blue?
“Blue moon?” I wondered. “Blue eyes, blueberries, or blue chips . . . ?”
No, it’s blue space, the “watery parts” needing consideration in urban planning . . . like green space . . . only aquaeous. The sixth boro is blue space.
BlueBQ: It’s PortSide NewYork’s fundraiser held on July 3, 2010 on Pier 11 Atlantic Basin. See all details here.
All fotos (taken in 2007 and 2008) by Will Van Dorp. If you do Facebook, check out Mary Whalen‘s page here . . . with lots of fotos, including ones from their event last weekend: Concierto Tipico.
Unrelated: Check out the current state on this tugboat, launched as ST 246 from the Levington Shipyard in Orange, TX, in 1943 . . . after surviving WW2 and morphing through French, Italian, and Turkish hands. ST means “small tug.”Be sure to click on the “gallery,” and enjoy beautiful music even if the images are a bit repetitive.
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