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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.
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.
I’ve headed into a different part of the sixth boro each of the past three days . . . today was the North River . . . passenger terminal, since
three cruise ships came in around 0700 hrs . . . Gem and Brilliance, shown here, as well as Caribbean Princess, still outside the Narrows when this screenshot was taken. John J Marchi is a ferry, and I’ve not gotten confirmation it carried passengers. Anyone ride a Staten Island ferry today? And as of 1830 hrs, all have again departed. Notice the icon for Glory Express in the screen grab below? I believe this is the 2-million-barrel tanker referenced in this article. It’s been outside the Lower Bay for a few days now.
Cruise ship passengers debarking and others boarding in midTown . . . along with closed midTown streets closed because of this bent crane AND
disrupted LIRR and subways . . . made for lots of surly folks, if not a zombie apocalypse then at least an invasion of the cheeriness snatchers. For outatowners, on a normal day, eachtown listed on this Long Island Railroad schedule board would have several departure times listed.
Jersey City and Hoboken, coastal NJ cities across the river from midTown, have experienced their share of disruption. Here Catherine Miller delivers a crane barge northbound as a helicopter (National Guard?) flies to the south.
Vicki M moves another barge near the Hoboken ferry terminal, then
as Lynx moves a load of generators, loaders, and other equipment (not sure what some of it is),
Vicki M plays mobile thruster there before
moving southward to play same role with Jay Michael.
Overhead . . . might Janet Napolitano be in that chopper?
Many thanks to Tom Rinaldi for sending along this link of ferry Binghamton post-Sandy. Thanks, Tom. Check out Tom’s site here.
For an NYTimes-moderated debate on post-Sandy policy, click here. One of the debaters–Philip Orton, research scientist at Stevens–does the SeaAndSkyNY blog.
Unrelated: Kirby’s Siberian Sea in Halifax here.
Ten weeks ago I did this post about Kraken–the best named vessel in the sixth boro. That day, I sat on the west shore of Bayonne looking at Elizabeth. But yesterday . . . with many thanks to Frank Belesimo, VP of Cashman Dredging, I got onto the water for a close-up tour of the Kraken and masterful description of how it works. Here we approach the boat with our backs to Bayonne. That’s St. Patrick’s Church to the right. The red tug is Jay Michael (1980).
The orange /red tint to the water speaks of the red clay soil of the area as well as
the cords that conduct the blast signal into the charges placed below.
Three bore-platforms operate along a rail, drilling into the bottom and placing the charges.
In the background on the Elizabethport shore is the huge now-defunct Singer plant.
This is intense work.
Moving inside the house, notice Elizabeth Marine Terminal/Port Newark in the background, along with the peninsula of Bayonne and the cliffs of Manhattan beyond. And on the line stretched betwen bore-platforms, those nodes at the end of each orange signal cord will
ultimately be clipped together so that when the time comes, a coordinated blast will occur down below, cracking up the
whatever hard bottom material needs to be taken away to reach the contracted depth.
More on this dredging project later. All fotos by Will Van Dorp; getting the tour the same day the Shuttle flew over . . . I positive NASA wanted a close-up view of the project as well.
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