Random Tugs 100

I’ve held off moving from 99 to 100 because 100 suggested I do something special, but ultimately, I decided that random means random, so here it is.  Guess the location if not the tug?  It IS sixth boro. Answer at the end of the post.

Almost 30-year-old Franklin Reinauer  entered the Narrows light as Sun Right departed the other day.

Less than an hour earlier, Emerald Coast (1973) overtook the same Sun Right at the turn around Bergen Point.   I’ve seen Sun Round recently (although I didn’t take a foto) here but not Sun Road.  Are there more in this Manila-registered series?

Note the small tug assisting with Energy 11105 barge  . . .

pushed by (?) Liberty Service.  It’s Freddie K Miller, which I first met as Stapleton Service, even though that was not the first identity for this 1966 built tug.

Susan Miller (1981) meets Akinada Bridge –named for a Hiroshima bridge–at the Narrows recently.

Coho lighters G. Agamemnon.  Has repainting started on any of the ex-Penn boats?

Comet (1977) heads under the Bayonne Bridge, while (?) Brian Nicholas following.

Atlantic Salvor (1976) followed Atlantic Coast (2007) into the sixth boro the other day.

Resolute (1975) escorted in  Americas Spirit.

Finally . . . that first foto . . . it’s Diane B southbound in Eastchester Bay (til now a tugster-neglect portion of the sixth boro) with Throg’s Neck Bridge in the background.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Unrelated:  Does anyone know if and when Athena was scrapped?

Touchdown

The body language is clear:  ”Touchdown.”  The surroundings and uniform, however, are way wrong.

Pull back a little and

. .. yup . . . definitely not football or rugby.  It’s Sun Right leaving town for the Panama Canal around 11:30 today.

Watch her make the swing at Bergen Point leveraged by Ellen McAllister at the bow and Marjorie B McAllister near the stern.

She ran the distance from the goal posts at Bayonne Bridge to those at the Narrows in about 55 minutes, and after that

no potential tacklers had

any chance of catching her.  Now it’s a straight shot . . . about 2000 nautical miles, translating to about four days.

All fotos this morning by Will Van Dorp, who has no intention of breaking a consistent record of watching a grand total of zero superbowls since 1967.