Random Tugs 103

Taken about 10 days ago . ..  Lyman headed south towing Sea Shuttle.

Lyman used to sport a red star on its stack.

Harry McNeal (1965) escorts Clyde, whose vintage I don’t know.  Here’s a very similar scene (foto 4)  from almost four years ago.

Atlantic Coast dates from 2007.

Perennial “repeater” on this blog, Gramma Lee T Moran, waiting to retrieve the pilot.

34-year-old Emerald Coast used to answer to the name Maggie Swann.

Calusa Coast first appeared here six and a half years ago.

Jill Reinauer and Kimberly Turecamo westbound in morning light.

As I went into work this morning, there was no more than 10 minutes of spectacular dawn light, before the clouds dulled it.

Arctic Sixth Boro

Call me a wimp . . .  but it’s icy out there.  And yet people work outside.  Bravo and hats on for the crews and shipyard workers out there where the spray sometimes freezes.  Some quick fotos I took yesterday.  Would you believe this is the same DBL 140 barge you see in the 5th and 6th fotos here?

Here’s DBL 140 and Lincoln Sea from across the Upper Bay.

Traffic never stops because of some cold.

A tanker with a classic name 

lighters just north of the VZ Bridge.  Here’s the rest of the fleet and more.

One positive about cold, low humidity air . . . it’s clear.  Ocean Leader could never look this good

on a muggy summer day.

Ditto Ruth M. Reinauer moving RTC 102 with an assist from Jill Reinauer.

Anyone handling line on a day like this needs the right gear and

a focus on getting the work done safely.

Bravo and hats on!!