Random Tugs 170

Here’s a seldom-seen tugboat, delivered in 1977 by Gladding Hearn, who builds everything from rowboats to pilot boats to tugboats . . .   it’s Tappan Zee II, 

dedicated to serving the bridges  (for now, plural) and waters called the Tappan Zee.  In the distance is the renowned Left Coast Lifter.

Here’s a photo of Patriot, which had a mishap the next day from when I took the photo.

 

Here’s Fred Johannsen, formerly known as Marco Island.

 

Here comes Kimberly Poling with Edwin A. Poling, rounding the bend between West Point and Garrison.   Can anyone identify the yellow/tan house on the ridge line?

 

In roughly the same location, it’s Mister Jim with some very deep stone scows.

 

And I’ll end today’s post with an unidentified tugboat near Newburgh.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s back in the sixth boro but recapitulating the trip west . . . a task which could take a month.

I hope to see some of you at the screening of Graves of Arthur Kill at the the Staten Island ferry terminal on August 13.