All photos today I took in May and early June of 2008. Odin, configured this was in 1982, is now known as Jutte Cenac, after considerable reconfiguration. You’d no longer look twice at her now, as you would back then.
Scotty Sky, the Blount-built tanker launched in 1960, was rendered obsolete on January 1, 2015 by OPA 90, and now calls the Caribbean home.
When I took this photo along the South Brooklyn docks, I had no idea that it was to become the Brookfield Place ferry terminal.
I had no idea until looking this up that Joan McAllister is the current Nathan G.
Juliet Reinauer now works as Big Jake.
For Lettie G Howard, another decade is somewhat insignificant, given that it’s been afloat since 1893. Currently she’s sailing up the St. Lawrence bound for Lake Erie. The NJ shoreline there has changed quite a bit, beginning with the removal of the Hess tanks there around 2014.
Crow was scrapped in 2015. I caught her last ride powered by Emily Ann here (and scroll) in May 2014.
And finally, back in 2008, this living fossil was still hard at work,
gainfully plying the Hudson. This Kristin was scrapped sometime in 2012.
All photos taken in late spring 2008 by Will Van Dorp.
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May 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm
George Schneider
Joan McAllister is in a former Navy AFDL. The beams at the upper outer edges are remants of the struts under her gun tubs. Is that “Crandall Drydocks” on the side of it?
Have a wonderful adventure on the Lakes!
May 23, 2018 at 5:47 pm
tugster
Yes, George. Caddell Dry Dock…
May 23, 2018 at 5:06 pm
ws
Nice!
God Speed Scotty Skye!
Hess’s tanks are gone now the R/E developers, and Edgewater are fighting
over that prime waterfront acreage
December 7, 2020 at 11:35 am
Roy Bailey
Great blog Tugster. My father worked on tugs for 40 years in the harbor and up the Hudson and as Captain the last 30 years of his career. He work at Ekloft Marine and then K-Sea, his last tug was the Odin. Sadly, he passed in 2007. Keep up the great work.