Winston Churchill said: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” I’ll add . . . doesn’t matter where you go, just gogogo, hither and yon, yon and hither.
Bowsprite and I did not collaborate on this . . . or even confer in any way. I’m delighted by our different takes on the same scene.
In less than a mile of navigable water between Vane Brothers’ Elk River and the Staten Island shore in the distance, a lot can go on. Elk River and DoubleSkin 37 lighter Cape Bird from the portside while Barbara C (not sure the barge) does starboard. Then Eagle Service–just off Blue Sapphire with barge Energy 13502 heads north and beyond them, APL Sardonyx heads for sea. Whatever lies or moves west of Sardonyx, I can’t tell.
A short time earlier, GT’s Navigator with barge on the wire . . . meant only one thing . . .
more mystery parts bound between Narragansett Bay and the Chesapeake. This isn’t a part of a Cadillac, but my immediate thought seeing these barges is this song by Johnny Cash. Michelle Shocked’s version, my favorite, I can’t find.
Sheer beauty and joy came next . . . Orange Sun, headed back to the equator for another load of that ambrosia from Brasil.
Adding to the traffic described earlier . . . way over on the Staten Island side Galahad moves in to drop the hook, while nearer, Energy 13502 slips past Cape Bird and DoubleSkin 37.
A fairly new Desh Mahima lies at anchor while (also fairly new) Firefighter 2 waits at HomePort.
Doubleclick enlarges ost fotos; try it here to see a crewman from Blue Sapphire taking a brush to the Plimsoll marks?
Outside the Narows, Paul T Moran lighters off Butterfly.
APL Sardonyx heads for sea (interestingly . . . for Antwerp, just as Bowsprite’s Barrington Island is!!) while Torm Lene gets escorted in the Arthur Kill by Gramma Lee T Moran.
Homeported in Kittery, Maine . . . WMEC-615 Reliance slips in past Fort Wadsworth. Can you see over a dozen people on her decks? And what does the EO or ED just below the wheelhouse mean?
Temperatures pushed 40 today, and it was a joy to walk the Bay Ridge Shore.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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February 7, 2011 at 6:26 am
JED
Cannot discern the color of the letters which would be relevant. They are most likely departmental awards. Red E – Engineering excellence, O – operations, etc
February 7, 2011 at 8:08 am
tugster
in the shadow . . . even zoomed way in it’s hard to determine color. the “E” might be red
February 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm
mageb
Well, while you discuss the E, I”m enjoying the crush.
February 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Fairlane
I know a very similar barge to the jack-up you posted delivers parts for Electric Boat at Groton. There may be some kind of connection.
February 7, 2011 at 6:43 pm
tugster
i believe they’re headed for norfolk . . . right now the tow is most of the way south on the chesapeake.
February 8, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Fairlane
I’d believe it, she’s probably makes the same run from Quonset Point to Northrop Grumman in Newport News that the SEA SHUTTLE does to Groton.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1251255
February 7, 2011 at 10:23 pm
SteveW
The Orange Sun? RUN!
February 7, 2011 at 10:27 pm
tugster
thanks for the reminder. i knew that collision had involved a juice tanker but forgotten it was “orange sun.” more orange sun tomorrow… run orange sun . .. i like that.