Colonel came into town a week ago with the new ferry.
Caitlin Ann has been here as long as I’ve been paying attention . . . although she had several names since then.
James D and Ellen McAllister pin YM Width to the dock.
Jill Reinauer . . . she’s been here from before tugster . . . AT and BT should be part of my new time nomenclature. BT runs backward from this post.
Atlantic Salvor has been here over 20 years, and among my favorite photos of her was here from the 2010 Labor Day race.
This has to be my clearest photo of Carolina Coast. Know that tugboat in the distance?
I believe Julie Anne just recently arrived in the sixth boro, and this is my first time seeing her.
And from a distance, it’s Mary Emma, formerly Evening Light, but now all in tan and green.
Let’s stop with Ellen again, here passing in front of what must be the busiest background: Geoquip Saentis, Cape Edmont, and Oasis. Ellen is one of about a dozen reutilized USN tugboats in the McAllister fleet. See more here.
All photos this week, WVD.
tugster: a waterblog 
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August 21, 2021 at 1:55 pm
vivian
I have a question about staffing and crewing the tugboats in the sixth borough.
On the BC west coast there are three week crew who work 80 hours a week/ in six hour shifts the Big Towboats that pull log barges full of 500 leggings trucks worth of trees. The crew is 10 people , one of whom is a cook who makes three meals a day. Then there are the two week outside boats, 80 hours a week, crew of five, which usually includes two cook deckhands, a Captain, first Mate and engineer. Then there are day boats in the harbour that maneuver the cruise ships, freighters the container ships, fuel barges, rail ferries, crew of three usually self catering types. Some crew prefer a two or three week boat which gives them quite a bit of time off. The car ferries to Vancouver Island who have crew who have a 11 day shift of five days, a day off, 5 nights and then 5 days off. etc., working 8 hour shifts, home every night.
Just wondering. Thanks