I’m always looking for “first-timers” like Sam.
Is this the one . . . Sterling Equipment, built 1972? And it appears to have a Randive unit on the foredeck.
Viking, North River bound completes Ellis Island.
Reliance heads for the KVK.
Tampa, nearly 30 years old, has seen some intrigue in its day.
Aha! the small brown vessel beyond Eagle Baltimore . . . it’s December 1 and Eastern Welder has returned fishing to the sixth boro.
And a bit later, an IVS bulker named Kite passes the same tanker.
Doris Moran plows through the KVK.
Indy pushes through the Buttermilk and into the East River.
A USCG RIB passed off the bow of Stena Primorsk.
Enjoy another shot of Annabelle Dorothy.
Now this fits in the Whatzit?!@!? category. A sloop named Jazz and a sportfisherman named T2 mooring off some sort of workboat I’ve never seen . . . . Anyone help?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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December 6, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Harold E. Tartell
Vessel Name: SAM M USCG Doc. No.: 546778
Vessel Service: TOWING VESSEL IMO Number: *
Trade Indicator: Coastwise Unrestricted, Registry Call Sign: WDB2224
Hull Material: STEEL Hull Number: 1
Ship Builder: C J LANGENFELDER & SON Year Built: 1972
Length (ft.): 68
Hailing Port: BOSTON MA Hull Depth (ft.): 7.7
Owner: STERLING EQUIPMENT LLC
555 SOUTH STREET
QUINCY, MA 02169 Hull Breadth (ft.): 24
Gross Tonnage: 84
Net Tonnage: 67
Documentation Issuance Date: June 30, 2004 Documentation Expiration Date: July 31, 2013
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes Previous Vessel Owners: ATLANTIC DREDGING LLC
ATLANTIC DREDGING LLC
LANGENFELDER MARINE INC
C J LANGENFELDER & SON INC
December 11, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Aireeca
Oooh, oohhh! I know what Sam M was doing in town…can you find him in this photo?
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/X_I9FNTukdCdjKz3HUJDtwYcboBhyeAEW-xa71-MEEE?feat=directlink
December 11, 2012 at 2:19 pm
tugster
spotted him!!
December 11, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Aireeca
If you had ventured up to the Hoboken Terminal the weekend of Nov. 30-Dec. 2, you would have seen him in action during this endeavor:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/B0hEtPHSUFdi4ubMNC75WwYcboBhyeAEW-xa71-MEEE?feat=directlink
and
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jWDd_U0He_bWM8wezqrrwQYcboBhyeAEW-xa71-MEEE?feat=directlink
I’m not sure if it will be the Sam M doing duty down in the KVK and AK in the coming months, but you’ll notice some sights like these in early 2013.
December 11, 2012 at 3:47 pm
tugster
thanks for the tip, aireeca. i’ll keep my eyes open. as to getting to the hoboken terminal, new york harbor–aka the sixth boro–is a huge place, and i don’t regularly get to some parts of it. again, thanks much for sending along the link to that foto.