This is my version of Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a ...”. Call this “Checking out Docks on a Hazy Morning,” the joy of which is finding the unexpected. Like OSG Vision, here among the giants. The tug just astern Vision’s blue stacks is K-Sea Volunteer, air draft 114′ if my info is correct, making
Vision, docked here in Bayonne, NJ, the highest tug seat I’ve seen in the sixth boro!
Vision looks like a starship, and is as huge as one: 12000 hp!! and 153′ x 51′ x 26.’ Anyone know the air draft?
Find closer-up and clearer fotos of Vision from the fabulous Narragansett Bay Shipping site here, taken about a month ago.
James Turecamo and Zachery Reinauer passed by to
meet and greet (well, that’s interpretation, I know) also. Ships in the distance are: Horizon Discovery (ex-American Liberty, Sea-Land Liberty, Sea-Land Discovery, CSX Discovery… built by Sun Shipbuilding in Chester, PA in 1968) and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Fedora.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Related: OSG Vision‘s daily fuel consumption: 35 tons!
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May 7, 2010 at 8:08 am
sleepboot
Nice pictures Will
Did the fog lift and made the sun come out?
John.
May 7, 2010 at 8:51 am
tugster
it did jan but by then i had moved on to work. if vision’s still around this weekend, i’ll try to get closer up pix.
May 7, 2010 at 10:45 am
Les Sonnenmark
She’s a large, beautiful vessel, but the perspective in your photo of OSG VISION is misleading. I can’t find hard data, but scaling your nearly beam-on photo using 153 ft length, I get 106 ft from waterline to mast top. A VHF antenna, too thin to show in the photo, might add a few feet. Air draft is a variable, so at a lighter load she might poke up a little higher.
May 9, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Robert
Tugster —
Saw Vision depart on her maiden voyage out of Pascagoula. Later, when skiff-ing it to pick up groceries from another dock, passed right alongside her sistership Horizon – launched but still under construction. The air draft is no more than 100 ft or so, about the same as our tug (Paul T Moran.)
What is startling is the freeboard, about 18 ft or so from the load waterline. No pigeonholes or ladders built in, so a pilot ladder would be necessary to disembark from a low dock. The barges have standard ship accommodation ladders on each side. The tug is almost completely in the notch when connected to the barge. Looks like the standard ATB tug you’d see around NY, except no apparent deck for or capacity to tow on the stern.
The Pascagoula pilot told us they were being built for ship-lightering from Bigstone. Almost overbuilt for that.
June 22, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Anonymous
think the vision air draft is 78 ft it says in american tugboat
December 6, 2011 at 11:06 pm
BW
Know its an old post but you have some good pics Tugster. Air Draft is 116′ and a draft of 25′ is maintained 95% of the time. Barge OSG 350 is 650′ and 50′ of the Vision sticks out of the notch making a combined 700′ LOA. No towing capability. “Push-Only Mode ATB”. We are still lightering Bigstone assuming the refineries stay open.
Good Watch,
Mate
OSG Vision/ OSG 350
December 7, 2011 at 6:54 am
tugster
BW, better late than never. thanks much for confirming the stratospheric air draft!