I’m always out looking for new sightings, and this is one . . . James C. Miller, based in Port Jefferson.
By the amount of freeboard in the stern, I’m guessing she could take on a fair amount of cargo.
Emily Miller is a sweet launch.
To me, this work boat was complete unidentifiable. It appears to have had a rough life.
This anchored Parker might be in the channel? Nah . . . foreshortening with such a large ULCV is misleading, and the Parker here is doing “bridge safety” work, while keeping a fish line working too.
This Bayonne line boat had me fooled at first; with the orange collar, I thought it was doing a USCG inspection.
USCG 28144 26144 . . . I’m guessing this is a Metal Shark 28 Courageous 26′ trailerable ATON boat.
This small cat survey boat called Ronald P. Jensen is one of the Rogers Surveying boats you see in the harbor, and beyond. Red Rogers is another.
Sweet Love appears to be a Ranger tug. They started small but now go up to 41′. I love the bicycles up high here.
And finally . . . this crowded Hunter 45 is called Naked Truth. Interesting naming, her tender is called Little Lie.
All photos, WVD.
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August 16, 2020 at 5:18 pm
George Schneider
Small boats! Nice! JAMES C. MILLER is certainly a handsome boat. She was built in 1981 by Horton Boats of Bayou la Batre AL, which specialized in shrimp trawlers. I find no record of her until 1992, so I’m guessing she was built for oilfield work and wandered out of the Gulf after the oilfield shutdown of 1985. She’s certainly a tiny version of the oilfield “Utility boats” of that era, equivalent in size to a crewboat and certified for passengers, but a displacement hull instead of planing, giving up speed for cargo capacity.
If you see the Aluminum boat with push knees again, see if that’s a state license number on her bow. The Coast Guard’s PSIX database has quite a lot of state licensed boats in it, and even includes names at times. Bare aluminum boats usually start looking “rough” as soon as they leave the yard.
Unfortunately, the orange ex-CG RIB doesn’t show up in the PSIX database, even though you got the number clearly on her. I’m reading it as NY6650HL.
I haven’t seen evidence of a CG 28-foot class aluminum boat, but your shot does look like the CG 26100 class built by Metal Shark. Any chance she’s 26144, or do your shots prove it’s an “8”?
Thank you as always. -George
August 16, 2020 at 5:38 pm
tugster
Hi George- Thx for the history on James C. Miller. The RIB is NJ6650HL,, not NY. There’s also a NAIAD logo on the orange collar. And you are right about the alleged 28′ boat; the number i misread . . . it is 26144. Sorry about the mis-read and thanks for your info.
August 16, 2020 at 10:18 pm
George Schneider
Thank you for the correction, Will. Still no joy on finding her original number.