Random Tugs 127

To pick up where yesterday I ended . . . Chemical Transporter is not a ship.  Rather it’s the barge married to–or at least in a relationship with–ATB Freeport.

This Workboat article makes clear the circuitous and costly ($91 million !@#@!) route this 150′ tug followed from keel lay to launch.

I’d love to see the interior of this 2007 vessel.

R. L. Enterkin is a tug I’ve seen on AIS for a long time, but the other day,

I finally got a close-up as she went out to pick up a “tail job” at sunrise.

At the head of the tow was Layla Renee.

Click here for many posts I’ve done on Resolute.

Thomas D. Witte–here passing off Wall Street– has carried many names since 1961.

Zachery Reinauer was launched nearly a half century ago at Matton Shipyard . . . up above the Federal Lock in Troy and right across the river from the boyhood home of Herman Melville.

Ellen . . . focus of countless tugster posts… as

has Brendan Turecamo.

HMS Justice–NOT this one–debuts on this blog with the photo below, which almost makes it appear she’s equipped with her very own drone…. but there must be an illusion happening there.

And to close out this post . . . from M. McMorrow . . . the most intriguingly named tug of all . . . Tug of War.

The last photo from Mike and Michelle McMorrow, who’ve contributed photos here before.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

Random Ships 32

Red Hook with Alice Oldendorff in background.

Lia with Stolt Effort on the far side.

Hellas sisters with Left Coast Lifter in the background.  Anyone know when the gargantu-crane will move toward the TZ Bridge site?

Ever Divine has seraphic lines . . .

Zim Luanda follows a sinuous path through the KVK with assistance from Brendan Turecamo…

… as does Hanjin Durban, escorted by Miriam Moran…

maintaining a steady course between the two container ships as MOL Excellence bounds seaward…

and encounters a sister MOL Expeditor waltzed in with Marjorie B McAllister.

So . . . what do you know about this ship?

Answer tomorrow.  All photos here by Will Van Dorp.

 

Transitioning 4

I’ve been thinking a lot about transitionings myself these days.  I might have one coming soon . . . .  More on that in a bit.

One summer as a kid I suffered from impetigo.  I was terrified because I thought I’d end up scarred as badly as a neighbor . . .  .  Charles D looks to be suffering into a serious case of something . . .

most likely “prepacitis.”  Her partner doesn’t seem to have great coating health either . . .

Alam Aman II might have been away from Port Kelang pretty long. . . .  By the way, where is that port?

I had to look it up.

As for my own transitionings . . . well, I go in for a drug test tomorrow, if that tells you anything.

Not worried, though . . . I haven’t even had to study.

 

People on the Boro 16

Here was 14.

And in the photo below, dozens of people occupy  the vessels, mostly invisible even as the weather starts to warm up.

But some work is done outside . .  like preparing to retrieve a docking pilot, whereas

others, after a time at sea, feast their eyes on details of a foreign port . . . one that might NOT look like the legendary port they are entering,

looking at the south side of KVK and thinking, “This is New York?”

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Stormy Aftermath 18 Months

Near the upper left corner is JFK airport and the barrier beach along the bottom is the city of Long Beach, NY. The map makes clear how much of the debris swept off the barrier beach called Long Beach  went into low lying marshes waiting to float off again at any higher tide and clutter the waterways through the green areas, the marshes of southwestern Long Island . . . not far from sixth boro waters.

Here’s where the landing craft from yesterday’s post plays a role.  The vessel is now called Spartina, ex-Beach Comber, Eleanor S, and 56CM 751x,  one of 15 identical landing craft built in Marinette in 1977.

 

The beauty of a landing craft is its shallow draft . . . .

Note the debris piled near the waterway . . . by the marsh ‘uns. When the landing cart arrives for removal, it does need some water, but not that much and not a dock.

If you have waders or are willing to get your feet wet,

or if you pick the right spot in the waterway at the right tide . . .

you can haul away what you would not want floating in the channel.

Other workboats in the delta include survey boats looking for sunken boats and cars, and

various and sundy other equipment moved by the tiniest of tugs.

Can anyone identify this vessel CW 12?  I haven’t been able to yet.

Many thanks to Josh Horton of Horton Dredge & Dock for the ride along.   I first met Josh at the Greenport workboat festival here and  here almost seven years ago.

Here are some other Sandy Aftermath posts.

Whatzit 20

Here was 19.

I just got off a long day on the water, and am too tired

to tell much.  Check out the logo and

study the details in distance here.

Story soon.  All photos today by Will Van Dorp.

 

Thanks to David Silver 2

Here’s the first in this series.   David sent me some photos earlier this week and offered to write the commentary as well.  Hence the quotation marks.

“Marie J. Turecamo steam harmlessly through the harbor.”

“James Turecamo makes a splash as she heads towards the Kill.”

Lincoln Sea sits patiently in the notch of the DBL 140.”

“Two displays of heritage in the form of New York State Marine Highway tug Margot and Ellis Island.”

“Herbert P. Brake pushes a scrap barge (possible future additions to her hull?) through the harbor.”

“Crystal Cutler pushes the Patricia Poling as Andrew Barbieri bears down upon her.”

My take:  if a waterborne Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep 80 years ago and awakened today, the bridge and the light might be among the very few structures he would recognize.

“Stephen Reinauer steams lite through the harbor towards her next assignment.”

“Ever ready, ever vigilant.”  

Thanks, David.    The sixth boor’s the star here, IMHO.  To post some corny doggerel in Poetry Month “collaboration is the game and “sixth boro” the star’s name!

 

Transitioning 3

Mako . .  .  in early April, and

a day or so later.

I’ll be keeping my eyes open to see the beautiful color-combo on those stacks transitioned away.

Thanks to “secret salt” for shots of the painting in progress.

Sea Junk

Happy Earth Day.  Well . .  every day should be that, and although I recall and participated in the very first one in 1970, I’m no longer so enamored of the name.  Planet Day would be better, and of course every day should be that as well.  Actually . .. I’m rather more attracted to declaring this and every day Sea Day.   Actually, every day already is, with a parade of random vessels making their way past the KV buoy every day all day.

See that random stuff floating in the foreground on KVK waters?

This was at my feet that same day, all arranged by tide and wind and buoyancy.  And here’s more.

Some these pics I took a month ago, a day I’d just heard about the search for the tragic Malaysian Flight 370.  What struck me as strange was the reporter’s reference to “sea junk” …  a term that seemed to suggest the sea was responsible for debris of all sorts floating there.

Calling it “our junk” would make more sense.

Today is also the 50th anniversary of the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair.  If you don’t think the world has changed much in a half century, watch The Magic Bus, a video about a journey from California to the World’s Fair.

Go back a century . . . 1914 was also the year of opening the Panama Canal, the Cape Cod Canal . . . and more.

OK . . . let’s go back to today.  I got work to do.  Look at this desk junk . . . my desk.  Note the logo on cup and guarded by the feline.

Let mer see . . . happy see day.

 

Review: Preserving South Street Seaport

First, if you’re free today and within travel distance of Lower Manhattan, do yourself a favor and attend this event, 4 p. m., a book signing by Dr. James M. Lindgren.  His new book is a much needed complement to Peter Stanford’s A Dream of Tall Ships, reviewed here a few months ago.   Details in Preserving South Street Seaport cover almost a half century and will enthrall anyone who’s ever volunteered at, donated to, been employed by, or attended any events of South Street Seaport Museum.  Lindgren laments SSSM’s absence of institutional memory saying, “Discontinuity instead defined the Seaport’s administration.”  Amen . .  as a volunteer I wanted to know the historical context for what seemed to me to be museum administrations’ repeated squandering of  hope despite herculean efforts on the part of volunteers and staff I knew.

As my contribution to creation of memory, I offer these photos and I’d ask again for some pooling of photos about the myriad efforts of this museum over the years.

Pier 17.  April 17, 2014.  According to Lindgren, this mall opened on Sept 11, 1985 with a fireworks show.  Its demise may by this week’s end be complete.

April 12, 2014.  Photo by Justin Zizes.

Feb 23, 2014.

Jan 21, 2014 . . . Lettie G. Howard returns.

Sept 20, 2013.  This is the last photo I ever took FROM the upper balcony of Pier 17.

Sept 12, 2013.

July 2012.  A fire had broken out on the pier, and Shark was the first on scene responder.   Damage was minimal, despite appearances here.

Now for some photos of vessels that have docked in the South Street area in the past half century.

July 2012 . . . Helen McAllister departs, assisted by W. O. Decker and McAllister Responder.

June 2012.  Departure of Marion M as seen from house of W. O. Decker.  Photo by Jonathan Boulware.  The last I knew, Marion M is being restored on the Chesapeake by a former SSSM volunteer.

Lettie G. Howard hauled out in 2009.

2009. The Floating Hospital . .  . was never part of the SSSM collection.

2009.  Maj. Gen. Hart aka John A. Lynch aka Harlem.

Helen McAllister with Peking and Wavertree.   Portion of bow of Marion M along Helen‘s starboard.

Mathilda posing with W. O. Decker in Kingston.  2009.

Moshulu now in Philadelphia.

2005, I believe.  Spuyten Duyvil (not a SSSM vessel) and Pioneer.

Thanks to Justin and Jonathan for use of their photos.  All others by Will Van Dorp.  For many stories on these vessels, that mall, and so much more, pick up or download these books and read them asap.