I debated calling this Eagle 4 or Eagles 2 . . . but thought both would be misleading.   It’s like this . . . at 1030 this morning, Eagle Boston was turning on the hook just inside the Narrows.   See the 17-year-old tanker’s new baby sister here.

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Around the same time, Ellen McAllister was eastbound on the KVK, although I knew not where bound.   See third foto here for one of my older fotos of Ellen.

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When Ellen arrived, flood tide was used to rotate the tanker and

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get her headed inbound and past the tanker named for the river-god.  I’m guessing Asopus is a variation of the same name as the upstate creek called Esopus.

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The point here serves as an imaginary fulcrum for the turn into the KVK.

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Amy C McAllister has the starboard side.

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That’s a quite deep floating pool of oil.

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All fotos by Will Van Dorp.  Here’s the fleet list.