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Part 1 of this series looked like this. Now more.
Madeline, 2008
Duty, 2006
Lindsey, 1989
Brandywine, 2006
More Lindsey
More Brandywine, and Amberjack and Bold.
Of course Brandywine ranges far and wide, and these days, maybe so does Inland Sea heading south here from the Ben Franklin Bridge.
All fotos last week by Will Van Dorp.
To see last year’s post from August 30, click here. For info on the race next Sunday, click here. If you scroll through that previous link, way down in the fine print you’ll read that this year’s race is dedicated to the memory of Don Sutherland. Below is a short video I made at a memorial to Don held in June 2010 aboard PortSide NewYork’s Mary Whalen.
This post is dedicated to those folks who . . . on Labor Day . . . can’t make the tug race or even the family BBQ because they will labor in the house,
Happy Labor Day.
To see an excellent Flickr foto of Gazela by Gregg M, click here. And for an account plus video of Gazela‘s trip to New Bedford earlier this summer, click here. For my earlier pics of Gazela in Atlantic Basin Red Hook, click here.
As Gazela sailed back to Philly between daybreak last Wednesday and late afternoon Thursday, I was fortunate to be a very “green” member of the crew, my first time sailing on a barquentine. Other vessels passed and overtook us, and I’m including those fotos here in hopes that anyone aboard these other vessels who photographed us might be willing to share those shots of Gazela. Please do.
Gazela departs through the Narrows under a drizzle; precipitation had been off and on for three days, delaying departure by 48 hours. (For pics, doubleclick enlarges.)
From midships, looking aft . . . notice the crew wearing foulies.
Tanker British Serenity overtakes us outside the Narrows. By sunset, 10 hours later, we’d motorsailed off Atlantic City, surfing swells and getting soaked with on & off drizzle.
Skies clear overnight, giving us a just-past-full moon. I stand a midnight–6 am watch from Cape May and up Delaware Bay. This is sunrise.
After breakfast, I nap for an hour until a lurch awakens me. “Must be someone’s wake,” I imagine, grab my camera, and go on deck. I believe it was Amberjack, also headed up the Bay.
Astern, two vessels are catching up to us: broad on the port beam were EPA-Bold and Vane Brothers Brandywine.
For info on what Bold is doing in Delaware Bay and its schedule for the rest of 2010, click here.
If you have Thursday morning fotos of Gazela, please get in touch. I have additional Bold shots.
Doubleskin 141 looks formidable as it passes and
southeast of the PSEG power plants. By the way, light was unfavorable to get fotos of the five wind turbines in Atlantic City.
Amsterdam-registered Suomigracht passes us. For more Suomigracht shots, click here and here.
Austin Reinauer was anchored just south of the C & D Canal.
Near the Delaware Pennsylvania line, we cross paths with Aframax tanker Amalthea, which may or may not
have delivered Venezuelan crude.
Gazela was built in Setubal, Portugal; as such, which language might you expect here? A primary wood used is angelique.
A trip that begins in rain might end like this: honey colored sunshine after a trip well done, this member of the crew a little less green.
If you were on any of the vessels above and have pics of Gazela, please get in touch.
All fotos here by Will Van Dorp.
Many thanks to the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild and wonderful crew for the opportunity to sail. If you are interested in volunteering, click here. Gazela expects to be back up through the sixth boro once more this fall.
Two gulls on an H-bitt, a tern on a rudder quadrant below the highlands of the Isle of Staten,
a gull and two night herons (see the second one directly below the first, near waterline) on disintegrating wooden scow,
a loon in the north woods waters of Opeongo,
a solitary heron over the skylines of Bayonne and Manhattan, (about to change?)
a hovering osprey over some potential lunch,
FEDEX coming to a corner of Jamaica Bay to roost,
and my all-time favorite roller bladista reaches to harness the zephyr on the Strand of Coney;
… all these have enriched my summer. I’m off to catch the winds myself.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
The “really random” posts are just that. I believe what follows, is.
Thanks to Jeff Schurr and Dave Boone, behold Bloxom in her better days, in this case during her life as a Pennsylvania RailRoad tug. Bloxom has been on this blog here and here and other places. Anyone else know Bloxom PRR fotos?
Also thanks to Jeff and Dave, Ned Moran below in work mode compared with a foto of the vessel (scroll down to the last one) I took a few months back. I have to say there’s so little left of the vessel now that it’s hard to corroborate their being the same vessel.
Mighty Joe (ex-Maria) in the Hughes Marine portion of Erie Basin yesterday.
This is my first ever sighting of Marquette’s Layla Renee, defying a current trend as a Gulf boat working up here.
When I last posted a foto of a Marquette boat, I also included one of Colleen McAllister. Yesterday she looked powerful pulling a deepladen dredge scow.
Last three fotos here taken by Will Van Dorp, last week. The next two come from Cheryl, an important friend from way back. Both were taken in Holland, Michigan. First, it’s James Harris, one of 10 Army STs built in the first half of 1943 in Sturgeon Bay, WI; and
Haskal, about which I can find no info. The design of Haskal looks older than that of James Harris. Anyone help out?
Again, thanks to Cheryl, Jeff, and Dave for contributing fotos.
Unrelated: I’ve added a new link to my “resources” a list of all (maybe) US-flag operators of tug and tow boats.
Just north of Union Street in Newark, NY, the Canal narrows. And given the foliage on either side, the engine approaching echoed as in a tunnel.
Tender #1 headed east toward Lock 28B right past the still-waiting Grouper and
into the gate, which closed
once the tow was inside
guided by a steady hand on wheel, not joystick.
Once the westside lock door shut, water spilled out
lowering 12′ in less than 5 minutes.
The Lyons-side door opened and
the tow pushed through
towards Lyons.
So here’s my agenda. Click here and you’ll see that voting has already started for the favorite tug at the 2010 Tug Roundup in Waterford. What if I’d like to vote for Tender #1? There’s no place for “write-in” candidates. I’d like to vote for this Canal Corporation tug as my favorite because it just appeared when I needed to hear and see something like Tender #1.
And what a great name!
If you enjoy research, here’s one that stumped me: Tender #1 is reportedly listed as built in 1928. Where?
On my way to searching for this info, I located this image site and this timeline site with lots of follow-through links. Of course, Fred Tug44 has fotos of other tenders, but not Tender #1.
All fotos taken this week by Will Van Dorp.
Oh, and be sure to vote ASAP. And tell your friends and friends’ friends to vote. Use Facebook and the telephone book, but within your network, you really can make ANY boat win if you try.
Three years ago it was my father; now it was my mother: she passed on last week at age 83, and I will miss her. This foto was taken two days ago at Pultneyville, looking north toward Kingston, where her parents are buried.
Near these waters was her home–and mine–for 55 years. And they shaped us.
Ma, you will be missed, and you’d tell us to push on.
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