Faber Park aka the swimming pool has become one of my favorite places to watch the behemoths pass.The next set of photos I took in about 10 minutes.
I’m in awe of the skills involved . . . navigation and communication.
This is a tight turn.
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Four tugboats–Ellen, Rowan, Capt. Brian, and Eric–keep it in the channel and the track such that two of these ships can negotiate the turn.
And they make it look routine.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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December 16, 2018 at 3:22 pm
Daniel J Meeter
Will, this was magnificent. So simple, so straightforward (but not “strait”-forward, ha!), and yet magnificent.
December 16, 2018 at 3:24 pm
Daniel J Meeter
Will, can you try your hand on writing a series of detective mysteries all having to do with the sixth boro?
December 16, 2018 at 3:49 pm
tugster
Thx, Dan. Maybe i should retire from this and take on that challenge? It sounds compellng . . .
December 16, 2018 at 4:22 pm
JosephT
I’m thinking of similar to passing through the Panama Canal. Seemingly inches between each vessel but it’s part of the daily routines.
December 17, 2018 at 8:45 pm
Charles Danko
Simple yet so fascinating. How times have changed. When I was a kid growing up in Bayonne in the 1950s all we ever saw were T-2 tankers and Liberty & Victory ships rounding Bergen Point A far cry from the big boys that transit the KVK nowadays.
December 17, 2018 at 10:17 pm
Patrick Geiger
I worked for McAllister for 19 years. In general, they do not make it a habit of meeting at Bergen Point like that. There must have been a lot of traffic that day. Usually they meet at the strait parts of the Kills, not the turns.