The sixth boro, like any location, offers infinite perspectives, compounded by equally countless nuance of season, hour, weather, and activity variation. This view of Kimberly in the stalls at Caddells the other day differs considerably from the dynamic ones of the past 18 months.
Just a few days different but quite different location and atmospherics . . . Weddell Sea came into the Narrows the other day as we began feeling the effects of Fay. She had Penn No. 90 on a wire.
Further to the west in another spot, Discovery Coast was on the outside, mostly blocking Brooklyn, who’s been in here for a few months already.
In clear weather, land would be visible beyond the tug, but Fay changed that for a while.
Dace Reinauer was high and dry in Dry Dock No. 7.
And finally, just west of Dry Dock No. 7, stacked up were at least seven Bouchard boats, sadly waiting.
All photos, WVD, who’s starting to think about random tugs three hundred. If you have a photo of a tug never depicted on this blog, send it along. The big three hundred COULD be all never-here-before tugboats.
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July 14, 2020 at 4:16 pm
mageb
Why are they “…sadly waiting?”
July 14, 2020 at 6:50 pm
tugster
Mage– The company has seen a number of accidents with loss of life. As a result, the USCG has sanctioned them and revoked authorization to transport petroleum products for most [all?] the company’s equipment. This has resulted in many of their boats to be tied up. For a time, many of the crews were not being paid, then they were paid. I’m not sure whether the boats are crewed now. But for a half year, all involved are sadly waitingfor resolution. Here’s an older article: https://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-pursues-enforcement-action-against-bouchard-transportation/2020/02/28/
July 14, 2020 at 6:51 pm
tugster
It’s NOT a small company: http://www.tugboatinformation.com/company.cfm?id=44