Guess the location? Answer comes at the end of the post.
Janice Ann Reinauer, about to leave aboard Blue Marlin for foreign waters via the sixth boro and all the places it leads to, once graced our fine harbor with this lush pudding. JAR,I will miss you. Foto below was taken in September 2007, at the Tugboat race.
Notice the blank oval . . . is this the result of summer paint maintenance . . . or something more?
Talking summer maintenance, crew of Margaret Moran was grinding away at rust the other day.
Maintenance keeps these boats going and going . . .
What you see here today, you might see in a port faraway the next. Here’s Megan McAllister in Port Jefferson. Foto by Capt. G Justin Zizes, Jr. Is that really a gangplank leading from the dock to the starboard portion of the bow?
Brendan Turecamo escorts in Houma Belle. It looks like Lincoln Sea in the distance toward the Brooklyn shore. Foto thanks to John Watson.
Before I tell the location of this tugboat, here’s a clue . . if you can read it: Ηράκλειο. So it the logo and name on the vessel in the background.
And the answer is Iraklion, Crete. Minotaurus comes thanks to my sister, Cookie Baker. You’d think with a name like this, the tug owner would take a lesson in accoutrements from the good folk on Brangus.
All other fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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June 7, 2011 at 3:31 pm
JED
THAT’S the Lady I remember….
June 7, 2011 at 3:55 pm
tugster
a shorn janice never had the same impact with me, either. i’d love to hear the story of that fleece . . . who put it there and why it disappeared.
June 7, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Harold E. Tartell
I remember when Reinauer took possession of the JANICE ANN in 1969 from Gulf Mississippi Marine Corp. as the GULF HUSTLER. She was only two years old, and set the standard for Reinauer’s present colors (Peanut Butter & Jelly). She was 1700 hp, and put Reinauer ahead, since they had an aging fleet of junk at the time. She pushed the RTC 400, (their biggest barge at the time), and was living up to her former name as a “hustler.” She sank in 1993, was refurbished and re-engined to 2200 hp. She served Reinauer well for 42 years.
June 7, 2011 at 4:48 pm
tugster
she sank?!? tell me about that.
June 7, 2011 at 5:41 pm
HT
She sank dockside in New Havan, her shaft packing let go, and you will see changes to K Sea equipment. Kirby Marine bought them out,so who knows what and if the names and colors will be.
June 7, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Phil P
The Caspian Sea’s oval is blank because the vessel is on charter to American Petroleum and Transport Inc. The owner’s of the Scotty and Patrick Sky. K-Sea stripped her clean before she went out on charter. I believe they left the decal on the front of the house on there. The Caspian Sea now pushes the 10,000 bbl barge John Blanche. She delivers Home Heating oil and Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel to small terminals in the area, mainly Schildwachter in Westchester Creek and Sprague Energy in the Hutchinson River (Eastchester). American also charters the Capt Log from Circle Line.
June 7, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Phil P
If you look closely at the Caspian Sea, you will notice they built up the bow. This was done to accommodate the rather high freeboard of the barge John Blanche. The barge is double hull with no ballast system, so she sits rather high in the water. The barge pushes well with the Caspian’s 2000 horsepower. So you will see her in push gear pushing the barge stern first to the terminal and bow first back to the customer. She does equally well in both directions, so that it’s not cost effective to take the time to turn the barge around. She also runs Hell Gate on any tide. Sometimes making 14 knots with a fair tide.
June 7, 2011 at 8:43 pm
tugster
thanks, phil.
June 7, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Harold E. Tartell
Someone Beat Me To The Punch. The JANICE ANN did sink I believe at Wyatt’s Dock in New Haven. At the time Reinauer was doing some of the shipdocking work in New Haven that Red Star used to do with the tug NEW HAVEN. The JANICE ANN was the tug assigned up there at the time, and while at dockside one of her shaft packings let go, and she took on water and sank. She was raised, and what I had mentioned above was done.