Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
tugster: a waterblog 
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February 11, 2023 at 9:38 pm
Reid Sprague
Will, I had one of MARGARET MORAN’s sisters, I believe – the CAPE ROMAIN, last tug I captained for Moran. She was, for some years, the ‘flower pot’ in Baltimore, and a powerful boat. Far outclassed by today’s tractors, of course. Thanks for the great shots!