What’s this? Answer follows. And I just stumbled onto this blog . . . Crewboat Chronicles. Crew boat or crewboat?
OK . . . asking questions seems to be where this post wants to head. What’s Stagetide? The foto was taken on the hard not far north of Atlantic City and with the help of Fred Mallett.
Here are two crewboats I got a blurry foto of a few weeks ago in the KVK.
Crewboat Sabine plays lots of roles. Is she doing a visual inspection of dredge pipe here?
She also ferries crew and supplies between shore and projects, hydrographically surveys an area pre- and post-material removal, and shoos away non-project boats getting too close to the work. Sabine was built in New Iberia in 1980.
I’ve not been able to find out much about Stagetide.
Circling back to the top foto . . . it was the Swiftboat from the Washington Navy Yard, a vessel whose design alludes to its crewboat origins, I think. Here’s a post I did two years ago on swiftboats.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Related: The Bayonne Bridge logo I’ve used on this blog since 2006 was taken from the USACE vessel . . . Hocking. I believe that’s a crewboat, the first I ever rode in. Anyone know where Hocking was built?
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October 4, 2013 at 5:07 pm
mageb
The San Diego Maritime Museum now has a swiftboat. Big fuss to get it here. I haven’t ridden in it yet tho.
October 4, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Bill
Black and red crew boats exiting Kill Van Kull. Black= Barbara Miller, red boat is GLDD Survey Crew/Boat Miami River, currently working with GLDD DG 55 in Manhattan Passenger Ship Terminal.
October 4, 2013 at 8:53 pm
tugster
bill- i erased the names and you STILL got them right. bravo!! i’m still disappointed i couldn’t get permission from the brazilians to interview the GLDD crew in rio!!
October 5, 2013 at 4:22 am
Jeff S
STAGE TIDE built in Loreauville 1965 as Venezuelan flag RIO BLANCO. 40foot long aluminum. Only vessel i’ve seen registered in Claremont,N J
October 5, 2013 at 1:18 pm
tugster
jeff . . just wondering . . . rio blanco does not show up at this listing: http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/5small/active/breauxsbaycraft.htm is there another shipyard in loreauville?
October 6, 2013 at 6:00 am
Jeff S
Breaux is only yard i know of. Maybe info is wrong or she was too small to list?