Chandra B 2

It appears I’ve not put up a batch of photos of this handy floating fuel station since here, but I’ll have to check the archives later today.  For now, these are photos of Chandra B and her hard-working crew I took last week.  Know the location?

The two buildings through-lit by sunrise are Nouvel’s 100 Eleventh Avenue and Gehry’s IAC Building.

And in the recesses along Chelsea Piers, Chandra B is well into its workday as the sun rises.  Here she tops off Utopia III.

Chandra B‘s crew is ready for lunch before most people have breakfast.

Click here for some of my Chandra B photos from Professional Mariner magazine.

 

Something Different 22

People on land like to look out over the water.  Folks working on the water need to pay attention to water spaces, but sometimes they study the banks too.  Here’s the town of Castleton-on-Hudson, east of the river.  I should visit and walk around town one of these days.

So let’s follow Brooklyn down through part of the Hudson River Valley and see what we see.  The two bridges here are the Castleton Bridge and the Alfred H. (not E.) Smith Rail Bridge.  

Can you guess this busy port?

Above is Coeymans, another place to visit.  And below is Coxsackie, west of the river.  Residents of this town signed a declaration of independence and called for opposition to the intolerable acts of the British Parliament from more than a year before that other document by the same name was signed in Philadelphia.  I should go there too.

What house is this in southern Athens NY?  I was there once, but I need to return there too.

I think this is the old Lehigh Cement plant.

I believe this is Clermont, a Livingstone home and supposedly where Robert Fulton docked his North River Steamboat so much that the house name started being applied to the boat.

Saugerties Light . . . I met one of the keepers last week.  Wanna stay over?  Here’s the info.

I’m looking to identify the building in the next photos, all between Saugerties and the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge.  Any help?  I know Bard College is nestled in along there, and I’ve been there a long time ago.  Maybe I should go back.  What buildings are these?  Maybe they’re just conspicuous private homes whose owners wish to remain anonymous.

A.   ?

B.  ?

C.  ?

D.  Blithewood Manor, another building on Bard’s campus?

E.  ?

And finally, on the west side of the Hudson, beyond the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge or George Clinton Memorial Bridge, that “castle” on the midsize mountain is the Mount Community at Bruderhof. That George Clinton is here, uncle of DeWitt of canal fame, and not related to this George Clinton, I suppose.

 

Will Van Dorp took all these photos.

 

Random Tugs 179

Katanni and

Sawyer I, these photos I took in September along the Saint Lawrence.

I took the next photos in October.  Evans McKeil was built in Panama in 1936!   The cement barge she’s paired with–Metis— was built as a ship in 1956 and converted to a barge in 1991.

Wilf Seymour was built in 1961 in Port Arthur TX.  I’ve always only seen her paired with Alouette Spirit.  Here she’s heading upbound into the Beauharnois Lock.   The digital readout (-0.5) indicates she’s using the Cavotec automated mooring system instead of lines and line handlers.

Moving forward to Troy NY, I don’t think the name of this tug is D. A. Collins,   

but I know these are Benjamin Elliot, Lucy H, and 8th Sea.

Miss Gill waited alongside some scows at the booming port of Coeymans.

And the big sibling Vane 5000 hp Chesapeake heads upriver with Doubleskin 509A.

And one more autumnal shot with yellows, browns, grays, and various shades of red, and a busy Doris Moran and Adelaide.

Will Van Dorp took all these photos.

 

Random Tugs 178

And let’s make these mostly blue . . . Ocean Groupe, and mostly tugboats.  I took this photo six weeks ago in Montreal.

Ocean Stevns and Ocean Delta were at the home dock in Quebec City.  Birk Thomas had caught Ocean Delta here once four years ago.

Here’s Ocean Rusby, an incomplete and nameless vessel (Cecon Excellence?), and an Ocean pilot boat.

Ocean Henri Bain and a small fishing boat lie across from the pastoral Ile d’Orleans.

Kanguk II –a NEAS (Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping) small tugboat–appears to be a sister to Qimu here.  Along the port side of Kanguk II are barges for delivering containers from ship to shore.

In Montreal, it’s Ocean Serge Genois and (possibly) Ocean Intrepide.

Closer to the city, it’s Ocean Pierre Julien and Ocean Georgie Bain.  I don’t know the names of the two smaller boats to the right.

These smaller workboats include OC 32

La Trenche, and an unidentified boat underneath this bridge to NYC.

 

Will Van Dorp took all these photos.

Time Warp 2

I did this once before here.  This time I was deleting near duplicates to limit the size of my photo library to accommodate the many photos I brought back from the gallivants, and my mind quickly formed today’s post.  Enjoy all these from August through October 2009 and marvel at how much the harbor changes.   As I went through the archives, this is where I stopped, given the recent developments in Bella Bella BC.

For background on this tug, check here.

Notice also the Bayonne approach to the bridge.

IMO 8983117 was still orange back then.

King Philip, Thomas Dann, and Patriot Service . . .

…

Odin . . .  now has a fixed profile.

And these two clean looking machines — Coral Queen and

John B. Caddell — were still with us.

This is a digression to March 2010, but since I’m in a temporally warped thought, let me add this photo of the long-gone Kristin Poling.

Back to 2009, Rosemary looked sweet here in fall scenes.

John Reinauer . . . I wonder what that tug looks like today over in Nigeria.

And Newtown Creek, now the deep Lady Luck of the Depths, sure looked good back then.

And while I’m at it, I’ve finally solved a puzzle that’s bugged me for a few years.  Remember this post from three and a half years ago about a group of aging Dutch sailors who wanted to hold a reunion on their vessel but couldn’t find the boat, a former Royal Dutch Navy tug named Wamandai A870?  Well, here’s the boat today!  Well, maybe . . .

Another boat you can dive on is United Caribbean aka Golden Venture.

Photos and tangents by Will Van Dorp.

 

Gallivanting to the Sixth Boro

If you depart at 0400, there’s not much to photograph.  Light beckoned as we approached Newburgh/Beacon.

I saw Mt. Beacon as I never had before;

ditto Storm King in sunrise that even dappled

the wave tops.

Once around Gee Point, we saw the statue (to the left on the ridge)

of Kościuszko’s, fortifier of West Point.

Once south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, passengers traveled upstream

for seasonal seesighting.

Scrap was sought.

Sloops sailed and

work boats waited their time.

More statues sighted, and

vessels waited their time.

 

And we had arrived at a place where at least two boros approached each other.

Will Van Dorp, who took these photos, is back in the boros for a while.

Gallivanting to the Rondout

In the drizzle, BBC Alabama awaits cargo in Port of Albany.

Pocomoke transfers cargo,

Brooklyn heads south,

Hudson Valley sentinels keep vigil no matter

how much rain falls,

Doris hangs with Adelaide,

as does Coral Coast with Cement Transporter 5300,

Strider rests from striding,

Union Dede docks at a port that 10 years ago was sleepy,

HR Pike (?) rests on rolling spuds,

Saugerties Light houses B&B guests,

not far from Clermont, home of the father-in-law of the father of steam boating on the Hudson and then the Mississippi,

Comet pushes Eva Leigh Cutler to the north,

 

Spooky‘s colors look subdued in the fall colors, and

two shipyard relatives meet.

 

Will Van Dorp took all these photos in a 12-hour period.

Gallivanting to Troy

As we progress toward winter as well, the daylight hours shorten, making less to photograph, but I was happy we passed lock E8 in daylight to capture the crane GE uses to transship large cargos, like the rotor of a few weeks ago.

The changing leaves complement the colors of the vintage floating plant,

locks,

and even Thruway vessels.

Venerable Frances is a tug for all seasons as is

the Eriemax freighter built in Duluth,

both based near the city of the original Uncle Sam, which splashes its wall

 

with additional color and info.

Once this Eriemax passenger vessel raises its pilot house, we’ll continue our way to the sixth boro.

Will Van Dorp took all these photos in about a 12 hour period.

Gallivanting to Amsterdam

These photos I took over three different days as we entered Oswego and then overnighted in Amsterdam, NY . . .  that is.

Robert S. Pierson arrived after we did, discharged over a dozen thousand tons of salt, and left soon after dawn.

A horseshoe dam at Minetto was swollen.

The morning departing Sylvan Beach was

red, a warning, and yes it rained much of the day.

 

Dredging went on near Rome–BB 153, T2, and Hydraulic Dredge No. 5.

And at Utica, the was T4 and the dragon (?) dredge.

There were two eagles in this tree, but they refused to fit nicely in a single frame.

 

Will Van Dorp took all these photos.

 

 

Gallivanting to Alexandria Bay

You saw this vessel in an earlier post.  It’s back from the Arctic for the season, most likely.

We steamed through the night, so here’s our vessel already in Ogdensburg on a rainy morning. The river separating the US from Canada here is about a mile wide.

 

There was a time when folks who backed the wrong horse fled the US as refugees.

 

 

 

 

The land you see in the background is US.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.