1964 Sixth Boro c
This next batch were all taken from the deck of tug Dalzellaird. Steve writes: “Captain Bob Munoz helped us aboard the tug Dalzellaird at 0800 hours. His tug was normally the Dalzellera, but it was out of service for many months because of damage to the variable pitch propeller and awaiting replacement parts from Holland. […]
1964 Sixth Boro b
In continuing reportage from Steve Munoz: “On Sunday, July 12th, 1964, my family sailed out of Paerdegat Basin in Jamaica Bay on the Evelyn Mae (below) and arrived at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, still under construction and not to be opened until late November [1964]. Throughout that afternoon we drifted and steadily rolled in a southeast […]
1964 Sixth Boro a
Many thanks to Steve Munoz for these photos. These were all taken on July 14, 1964, the first OpSail held in conjunction with the NY World’s Fair. The “rendezvous of 11 ships from 9 nations” appeared on the front page of the NYTimes the next day. What I attempt in this post is to match […]
Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Ambrose Channel late morning yesterday saw the arrival of this vessel, 321′ x 41′ and with that pennant flying from the masthead at 157′. Launched in 1914 in Bremerhaven, and having changed national registry many times, Statsraad Lehmkuhl is on its One Ocean Expedition, having left Norway in August. New York is one of 36 […]
Random Tugs 350
Here’s a sampling of boats working I saw in the sixth boro the past week; the variety of boats, though, is greater than these would suggest. Frances . . . was launched on Long Island in 1957. Scroll through here and see photos of Frances I took in 2010 when she still had the Turecamo […]
Random Tugs 320
A new tug in town . . . Osprey? Built in 1961, she’s a sibling of Kodi. Photo thanks to Tony A. B & B . . . it’s Brendan Turecamo in the distance and Bruce A McAllister. It turns out they are not clones: Brendan is a year newer, and Bruce A. is few […]
Random Tugs 324
At first light, Navigator passes a docked Saint Emilion. This 1981 build has called the sixth boro her home since 2015. Saint Emilion (2007) has been here in two previous liveries and names. Barney Turecamo was launched in 1995. Note her cutaway forefoot. Barney, married to Georgia, gets an assist from Doris Moran, 1982, as […]
Canal Tug Project M3
First I need to make a correction: in M2 I stated that Tigre would have traveled through the Panama Canal; she did not because she worked out of the Peruvian Amazon in the area of Iquitos! Thanks to Paul Strubeck for the image below. That would have been an interesting delivery!! Next, photos and details […]
Retro 2014 Waterford Tugboat Roundup
2014 was the year I was working on Urger. Here she’s tied up above lock E-2 while Bejamin Elliot steams by, downbound. Some time later we’d all steamed down to Albany, here (l to r), it’s a Lord Nelson Victory tug yacht, a tender, and C. L. Churchill, a 1964 boat built in Cohasset MA. […]
Retro Piscataqua Mouth
Yes . . . I’ve been off wifi and away from the sixth boro, sometimes admiring images like the one below. I’m back now and have more photos from July 2010 to revisit the Piscataqua, and a watershed where I canoed, kayaked, and just generally roamed from 1986 until 2000, along with some hiatuses out […]
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