Bronze 9
To start, let me reiterate what I said over a half year ago here: “Way back in 2007 I started this series, and I now think I should never have called it “bronze” since it’s more like a golden brown.” I recently saw Josephine pushing a fuel barge, and then light, pirouetting in the current, […]
Bronze 8
Way back in 2007 I started this series, and I now think I should never have called it “bronze” since it’s more like a golden brown, but no matter, this post is all the same fleet. Name the fleet and the tug? Talking fleet renewal . . ., Reinauer has a young fleet. Janice Ann […]
Non-Random Tugs 12
The idea of recent posts in this series is to look at a single fleet. As temperatures cool off, my perception is that demand for fuels rises, especially in the Northeast. Let’s look at the Reinauer fleet, starting with a light Nicole. Haggerty Girls exited the KVK into the Upper Bay a few days back. […]
Non-Random Tugs 9
Sometimes you need a spell out of the routine to spawn new ideas. My long sweltering time in the GOM this summer communing with alligators and sugar cane may have had that effect. In this case, the “new” idea–as it often is–is to go back to an old idea, but twist it in a new […]
Whatzit 43 Redux
This overcast day contributed to photos that appear to gray-out all but the range of bronze, red, and orange. But what is this cargo and why is the title here a “redux”? Here’s a closeup and an even closer up. I counted a total of 14 of these Kalmar straddle carriers aka straddlers on deck. […]
Random Tugs 317
If you follow this blog, you know I look for novelty: new vessels, new roles, new perspectives I don’t always even initially or ever understand. Here’s for me a new boat, Cape Fear, 2018, another Sassafras class tug. Brendan Turecamo, 1975, has appeared here many times, but in the past week, I’ve seen her […]
Arthur Tickle Engineering Works
Arthur Tickle Engineering Works (ATEW) is now gone, but other marine service businesses (MSBs) remain. I’ve long thought to do a series of posts about the MSBs like Caddells, GMD, Bayonne Drydock, Hughes Marine . . . and many others. A while back, Steve Munoz sent these along, and it’s taken me a bit to […]
Bronze 7
Lucy Reinauer, according to Birk’s site–has an interesting history, acquired by one of her owners from lottery winnings. She came off the ways in 1973, from Jakobson, source of many older boats in the sixth boro. Franklin is a few years older, built in Louisiana, and formerly called Ocean Tower and Matthew Tibbett‘s, both names […]
Bronze 6
Another day I went out and lots of Reinauer boats were around, like Gracie M., which I’d not seen up close. Launched in the second half of 2016, she’s the fourth of their Twins series and the newest vessel in the fleet. Here’s the first Twins post I did and here’s another where she […]
12 Lights b
The answer to the question in part a of this series is . . . Faro San Giorgio Maggiore, “faro” meaning “light.” And today, the winter solstice, with only 9 hours and 15 minutes of daylight in the sixth boro, has to be the best time to do another post about lighthouses. Before we get […]
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