Leap Post 2024

Some of you will know this location as well as the tugboat depicted immediately.  Answer follows.

Lower left and the photo below . . .  what is that boat?  Answer follows.

Prominent about this boat, other than the complete lack of signage as well as safety equipment and fendering, are the knees lacking rubber pads and the top deck railing.

Blue/gold tugboats and tenders . . . if you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ll know what they look like, what they are, even if they have no markings, as below.

Tender 10 and all its siblings and cousins . . . you’ve seen them before here. 

This nameless or not conspicuously named tugboat I’d call the Stanton class, although some of you might contest that class name.  Here (and scroll) is why I call it that.    It’s got a variable-height wheelhouse, essential for low bridges.

A few miles away, another nameless (?) Stanton class  boat was in the water supporting winter maintenance efforts in that location.  It seems to differ from the Stanton boat out of the water above by the chrome exhaust extensions.

 

In the distance is that same bridge again;  just beyond the sheet piles and to the left is that chrome-tipped Stanton.  Under the bridge and to the right you can just barely make out the railing of the mystery boat from photos 2 and 3 above.

Here the location, E-28B in Newark NY as it looks drained.  The sheet piling mentioned above keeps the water on the “lake Erie” side. 

And here’s identity of the mystery pushboat under the bridge, and absent a name, I’ll dub it a Port Jackson class boat.  Note what all needs to be added in safety eqipment and of course an upper wheelhouse, non-telescoping.  Apparently, it’s just newly delivered. 

The photo below I took in June 2019.  Scroll here to find another Port Jackson photo. 

All photos, any errors, WVD.  Previous leap days’ posts are here and here and here.