This photo of Doris Joan Moran that has been circulating on FB this morning. Sorry . . . I wish I knew who gets the credit for this unusual shot. Anyhow, it reminded me of a post I did five years ago here.
Here’s a Doris photo I took last week . . . uncoated.
So one reaction to the cold is to bundle up, grit your teeth, plod on, complain a little more . . .
But you have to admit, winter in the northern latitudes gives us new senses of hulls on snow bases, or
levitating above it.
Here’s roughly the same angle . . . as I took it in September 2012.
Thanks to Bob Stopper for the photo of tug Syracuse and to Erich Amberger for the winter photo of Wendy B. The others I took, except for the top photo, and I’d still like to know who took that.
Uh . . . I just mis-read the FB info on the frosted over tugboat above. It was spelled j-o-a-n, and I transferred that as d-o-r-i-s. I’m sloppy sometimes. Maybe I need an editor.
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February 20, 2015 at 4:33 pm
Eastriver
That’s not Da Doris in the top image… could be Joan or Sheila Moran. Look at the tower – Da Doris has a tube, not an erector-set tower.
February 20, 2015 at 4:54 pm
tugster
eastriver .. . i stand corrected. and here’s news7 photo to suggest it was Joan: http://7online.com/weather/photos-frozen-on-the-hudson-/527001/#gallery-4 now i’ll have to go back and see if i read FB right. thanks for the correction.
February 20, 2015 at 5:01 pm
tugster
also, i plumb forgot to look up info i had seen back in 2012 about Wendy B. Enjoy all this: http://stevebriggs.netfirms.com/osmrm/xlynneb.html Jason LaDue . . thanks for looking this up and passing it along.
February 20, 2015 at 5:48 pm
eastriver
That Wendy B. is lovely! Where was the picture taken?
Whose boat is Yankee?
February 20, 2015 at 6:26 pm
tugster
The summer Wendy B photo was taken between Troy and Albany. The winter one was taken very recently at Scarano’s in Albany. And Yankee . . I assume still operates for the Sandy Hook Pilots . . .
February 21, 2015 at 12:43 am
sfdi1947
Re: the Photo of the Ice Coated “Doris M” bet she was awful tender with all that Ice up. I had my crews (though I had quite a few more than the typical commercial tug) on my Army BG Class [that you’ve shown in previous posts] out with the Steam Jenny and Air Chippers in the Norwegian Sea way before I got to that stage.
February 21, 2015 at 2:14 am
Joseph Chomicz
That’s Joan Moran not Doris Moran.
February 21, 2015 at 12:56 pm
tugster
yup . . thanks for the correction.