Random Sixth Boro 2

I’m always looking for “first-timers” like Sam.

Is this the one . . . Sterling Equipment, built 1972?  And it appears to have a Randive unit on the foredeck.

Viking, North River bound completes Ellis Island.

Reliance heads for the KVK.

Tampa, nearly 30 years old, has seen some intrigue in its day.

Aha!  the small brown vessel beyond Eagle Baltimore . . . it’s December 1 and Eastern Welder has returned fishing to the sixth boro.

And a bit later, an IVS bulker named Kite passes the same tanker.

Doris Moran plows through the KVK.

Indy pushes through the Buttermilk and into the East River.

A USCG RIB passed off the bow of Stena Primorsk.

Enjoy another shot of Annabelle Dorothy.

Now this fits in the Whatzit?!@!?  category.  A sloop named Jazz and a sportfisherman named T2 mooring off some sort of workboat I’ve never seen . . . .  Anyone help?

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Virgin Tugboat 4

Whenever I see a silhouette like this under the Brooklyn Bridge, I suspect it’s a fairly new tugboat.  Today was no exception.

I’m guessing she was launched just before the Sandy event.

Annabelle Dorothy Moran, welcome to the sixth boro.   The last new Moran vessel I caught travesing the port was Mark Moran (last foto)  here and here.  Back in March 2011, I caught Hercules coming through too.

Into an early December foggy harbor she goes.   As of this writing, she’s already off Forked River, NJ.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.