This NYPD officer of the peace got tugged right into a recent parade. When that happens, you know all things could get downright disorderly.
This last June post is a melange of Pegasus and Lehigh Valley 79 in a setting rays irritating my camera,
Patuxent in the Philly dawn,
Sea Hawk approaching the St. John’s Bridge,
Patuxent redux,
Natoma docked in the Columbia,
Caspian Sea in the Delaware,
Surrie Moran in the same waters,
Aries in Portland,
Madeline,
Black Hawk,
more Black Hawk,
Cape Henry,
again Madeline,
and finally Lewiston.
Rounding things out, it’s Siberian Sea in palm trees country aka the sixth boro, taken about a year ago. I will resume the blog as soon as I can in a land with more palm trees
Thanks for reading the blog and sending comments either here or via email. Sorry if I haven’t acknowledged everyone who’s sent along a tidbit or nice word.
If you’ve never taken a Working Harbor tour in NYC’s sixth boro, here’s info. If you know the sixth boro pretty well–especially the contemporary commercial aspects of it, you might even propose to them to narrate a tour. That’s just me suggesting that, but there are folks who want to better understand the role of shipping and its interaction between the sixth boro and the five terrestrial ones.
Thanks to Seth Tane for the fotos of Aries, Black Hawk, Lewiston, Nahoma, and Sea Hawk. All others by Will Van Dorp who hopes to next post from the obscure January River.
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June 30, 2013 at 2:17 pm
karmami
Thank you for sending your gorgeous photos
June 30, 2013 at 2:29 pm
tugster
karmami– thanks for reading and writing back.
June 30, 2013 at 2:31 pm
karmami
You are welcome
June 30, 2013 at 5:00 pm
tugpower
The photo of the tug SEA HAWK approaching the St. John’s Bridge had to be taken before 2005, or early in 2005 before August. K-Sea bought out Sea Coast in August, 2005 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/k-sea-transport-agrees-to-buy-sea-coast-towing-for-81m, http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=24642. This is long before Kirby even thought of buying out K-Sea. The tug looks like it was just painted in Kirby colors, but the giveaway is, when you look at the front of her wheelhouse on the port side, you will see the last letters “st” of Sea Coast. All of their tugs had the name Sea Coast painted on the front of the wheelhouse.
June 30, 2013 at 11:56 pm
tugster
sea hawk foto also from late august 2006. what was the clue for you, tugpower?
June 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Anonymous
The Aries sunk in the Bering Sea in 2011. When is the picture from?
June 30, 2013 at 11:55 pm
tugster
aries foto was taken in late august 2006.
June 30, 2013 at 9:17 pm
Reid Sprague
I never seem to visit without seeing something I remember! I towed ships out of Wilmington back in the late 90s with the Cape Henry. That’s a dull job she’s doing in the photo, helping shepherd the Crowley barge down the Bay – and hard on lines, too!
And I knew Dave Boone back when he worked for Moran in Philly, before Turecamo merged – I have four of Dave’s prints, including several boats I had over those years. Dave “gets it right” in tugboat art. I haven’t talked with him in some year, and it’s good to see that he’s doing well.
Thanks for the great stuff, Will!
Reid
July 1, 2013 at 12:04 am
tugster
thanks, reid. if you have a chance, get up to philly to see dave’s exhibit before it comes down in august.