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See the tugboat off the stern of the barge train towed by Buchanan 5?
Excited, I thought I could catch up and get
photos of Handy Three in the sixth boro.
Unfortunately, this is the closest I got although I tried to hail a motoscafo or vaporetto or some other speedy conveyances and get out front, but none were handy.
Eleven years ago, though, I did catch Handy Three in the tropical waters of
beautiful San Juan Puerto Rico.
Here was a sunny day photo of the stern.
During my stay, a sister vessel, originally Handy One, came into the port through the swells and wind.
Handy One, then as now, was called Don Raul. Don Raul is currently assigned to the USACE. I tried unsucessfully to get photos of her in USACE livery in Cleveland last summer several times, but she was mostly obscured behind a wall in the Cleveland yard.
Back in December 2017 below, I caught Handy Four, aka San Jose, in Portsmouth NH harbor. That morning, as happened yesterday, I had tried unsuccessfully to get photos of San Jose as it came it from sea and from the Great Lakes before that. I put together a blog post of Handy Four using photos taken by other contributors and ones I’d taken both that date and earlier in Cleveland.
All photos here, WVD. Did anyone manage to get photos of Handy Three transiting the sixth boro yesterday? AIS says she’s Portsmouth bound, but as of this morning she’s at the Senesco dock in Quonset RI. She’s been a Moran tugboat since 2015.
Rowan M as seen looking southwest over Queens . . . that’s an unusual perspective for this blog. Rowan was on its way to assist the SUNY training ship into its berth.
As JRT assisted this boxship out to sea the day before, it was so foggy
that the WTC, which should have been visible in the shot of Morgan Reinauer below, was masked.
Closeup that made for rich colors, and cold rain
grayed out what the fog didn’t. Maybe what I labeled as cold rain making me wet was just very wet fog.
A bright spot was seeing Lucy venture out. It has been a long time since I last saw Lucy underway.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Click here for NSMV 1 arrival last September, its departure on mission 1 just over two weeks ago, and more.
After flying across the Sound yesterday, she appeared just beyond Stepping Stones Light yesterday around 1400. I say flying because at one point I noticed she was doing 19+ knots! Ellen McAllister went out to meet her.
Home base for the SUNY Maritime-operated training ship is just below the north end of Throgs Neck Bridge. If you were crossing the bridge and unfamiliar with the geography, you’d not even notice it.
From my vantage point, I couldn’t see the assist into the dock by Ellen and Rowan M. McAllister.
Welcome
home,
plankholders. The term plankholder was defined by an interested party yesterday.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
For interesting side stories of Throgs v. Throggs, read about the namesake and his descendants, John Throckmorton here and here.
My “scale” posts go way back to 2007 here. I’m still wowed easily, and I’m not apologizing for that. You’ll see what I mean here.
Earlier this month, Teal Ray was assisted into her berth by Laura K. Moran and Kimberly Turecamo.
Imagine the view of the ship’s deck from Kimberly‘s upper wheelhouse, compared with the view of Titan here from Grace.
Here Bruce A McAllister assisted Zim Atlantic last weekend.
Yesterday, Capt Brian did assist on an outbound Dubai Express.
Ross Sea and got assisted in by Kirby.
Compared with the view above of Kirby, check out the perspective from JRT of CMA CGM Callisto.
All photos, any errors, WVD
I missed something again. The other day, January 21, I noticed “low emissions” on Capt. Brian. Wow . . . that’s new, I thought. As it turns out, it was newish but not quite new.
Here from December 21, it was already there and
not prominent, but it was there and I hadn’t noticed.
On December 17, I saw it first on Grace
and imagined the technology involved might distinguish Grace from Capt. Brian.
I had to go back all the way to October 26 to find a photo of Capt. Brian without the “low emission” banner.
So, it’s relatively new, but I’d photographed Capt. Brian with the sticker in December but just not noticed it was there. I know, it’s a tiny detail and nobody sees everything, but I missed it. Recognizing omissions and limitations is not a bad thing. Next time i see Ava, I need to check. I predict it’ll be there.
All photos, any errors, all missed details, WVD.
Behold two hulls, and both sent along by Tony A. Neither hull is less than a half century in service; one has simply received more recent attention than the other. If you’re unfamiliar with what you are looking at, the image directly below is in a floating drydock . That’s a yellow walkway between the “wall” of the drydock [invisible off to the right] and the tugboat. The tug was likely built as a single screw, and modified later.
This boat is actually newer, but it was never upgraded to twin z-drives. Also, the hull’s not been cleanedup and repainted.
Behold Rowan M. McAllister in a night scene. Thanks for this to Capt Olio.
And the rest of these photos come from George Schneider, a frequent commenter and contributor, recently in a much warmer place than the sixth boro. No one writes better about his sightings than George himself. “The ROBERT J. EYMARD was built as the twin-screw, 600 hp tug MOLLY LEE in 1966 by the St. Charles Steel Works in Thibodaux LA. Five names and a rebuild later, she’s now 1000 HP, all a good Cajun boat handler needs to work miracles.” All I’ll add is that she’s 56′ x 20′.
This one getting TLC caught my attention. George writes, “ATLANTIC POWER (1059685 / IMO 9163348) is an anchor-handling supply boat, 255 feet long, also built by Halter in 1998, but at Moss Point, MS. Until recently she’d been GERARD JORDAN of Seacor Marine. She had been reported scrapped in 2019, but apparently was picked up for a new life before the work began.”
From George: “Rigdon Marine‘s ESPLANADE (1173548 / IMO 9285330) became NFE REIMAGINE, and is one of two I saw sitting idle at Amelia.” Here’s more about Larry Rigdon, and here’s more on history of the boat.
George again, “As she passed, I was surprised to see the sign “Hornblower Wind” on her side. WINDEA INTREPID (1338575 / IMO 1019333) (Note the 1-series IMO number for a non-yacht) is a newly built “Crew Transfer Vessel” (my first) on her delivery trip from the Gulf Craft Shipyard in Franklin, LA. Although estimated for a 2024 delivery, she was complete and soon reached the Vineyard wind farm in Massachusetts before New Years Day.” I believe she’s in the port of New Bedford this morning. Like George, I was surprised to learn of Hornblower Wind when I first read it and to learn of the company’s entry into that sector.
Many thanks to Tony, Olio, and George for these photos.
How many times do I have to look before I see? Click here for the post from a few days ago, where I saw a barge and a Moran tugboat. Granted, it was snowy. But I missed
seeing/correctly interpreting the puff of black smoke on the far side of the barge. Also, I missed the white superstructure and mast as well as a tugboat stern lower right projecting beyond the rake of the barge.
Yesterday, thanks to Bjoern of New York Media Boat, here’s a photo of what was on the far side of the barge. Denise Foss was there all along in that photo from Saturday, but it took actually seeing it all from this perspective to “see” that. Her sister Michele, older by one year, is currently working at Vineyard Wind, south of Martha’s Vineyard.
Many thanks to Bjoern for this photo.
Unrelated: If you’re interested in Day Peckinpaugh, consider registering here for an online Erie Canal Museum Lunchtime Lecture tomorrow, January 25, at noon.
I’m not sure what was going on the other morning, but I was there to record it. Maybe it was just a warm-up or a training run, but
despite the chill, maybe because of the cold air,
Henry Girls looked good as she
sashayed east, sashayed back west,
and then disappeared round the bend.
Here she was 10+ years ago.
All photos, WVD.
The view of three of the boros–Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the 6th–from Fort Wadsworth is spectacular, but it does not typically show the season, although winter tends to have clearer air, as was the case yesterday. See digression pushed to the end of this post.
I went to the Fort to get photos of Daring, a Robbins tug I’d seen on AIS but never in actual steel.
Daring has been working on various dredging projects along the Jersey shore.
It turns out Daring is a lugger tug design, perfect for dredge work.
Heading south with Daring was Bayou Dawn, here moving another crane barge through the shadow the VZ Bridge casts so clearly on winter days.
Here finally was a clear indication of seasonal temperatures.
Can you read the coated raised lettering?
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Here’s my digression: Winter light is clearer [less hazy] than summer light because cold air can “hold” less water vapor than warmer air . . . is it as simple as that? What does “holding” mean in this case? I never understood physics the way I did other sciences.
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