More Hays

Back in November I posted this photo of Linda Sue working in the sixth boro.

On the Delaware, the Hays family has operated tugboats and launches for some decades.   Their distinctive livery and lively names make their vessels unmistakeable.   You may remember Joker spent a lot of time transiting through and working in the boro a few years back.  In the photo below, a Moran tug assists a bulk carrier while nearby, with the yellow band around the bulwarks and a purple stack with horizontal bars, that’s Hays’ Grape Ape.

 

 

I’ve not spent much time in Philly in recent years, and I was happy to see how busy the Hays boats are, as well as how busy Philly is.

 

 

Besides Grape Ape, 

 

Purple Hays was working the Delaware.

 

All photos, any errors, WVD.

Way back a decade and a half ago, John Curdy gave me a great tour of that stretch of the Delaware, and we passed the Hays docks here.

Also, if the lines of Purple Hays look familiar, she was a regular in the sixth boro until recently, and then known as Emerald Coast.