I had no idea what I was seeing until I zoomed in on it here and recognized it as one of the small Miller tugs with a deck barge.
Linda L Miller heading across the Upper Bay, where
QM2 was in port.
Later, I saw Linda L sans barge, passing two anchored Reinauer units.
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A couple days earlier I saw this and initially failed to identify what I was looking at.
I took photos anyhow and then realized it was Miller Girls with the northeasterly wind splashing a mess of water over the bow.
Here from earlier this year are photos of Miller Girls in a previous lifetime, 1974.
Earlier this year I’d seen her with skimming outriggers on, working in Poughkeepsie.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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December 11, 2019 at 5:14 pm
Daniel J Meeter
This is marvelous. Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small. Curious, Why the outriggers?
December 12, 2019 at 4:15 pm
Les Sonnenmark
On each side of the boat, a boom is attached near the stern; the other end of the boom is held outboard by the outrigger, forming a U shaped pocket for collecting oil or debris. A pump–either floating, or internal to the boat, or part of the back of the boom–is used to suck up oil from the pocket. Debris would be scooped out mechanically. An arrangement like this is often set up as a VOSS–a vessel-of-opportunity skimmer system. It can be stored ashore, then temporarily installed on any appropriate boat that’s available near the spill.
December 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm
tugster
Thx, Les. i knew you could explain it so much better than i could . . .
December 11, 2019 at 5:15 pm
Daniel J Meeter
Make that, “Thy sea is so great.”