Random Tugs 387
Daisy Mae . . . time flies and this 82′ x 30′ and 3200 hp boat has been around since 2017 already. Crystal Cutler, 67′ x 26′ and 1500 hp, I remember when she first arrived in the boro. I mist be getting old here. Evelyn Cutler, 117′ x 32′ and 3900 . . . […]
Random Tugs 360
Over in Stapleton only one Bouchard tugboat remains. That was true when last I looked, which was last week. Jane A. is no longer where I saw it, outside the dry dock in Bayonne. Evelyn Cutler was hauled out on the MOTBY peninsula. Barry Silverton was headed south past the CNJRR Terminal. Atlantic […]
Random Tugs 368
Five tugs are grouped in the photo below. Let’s follow these two. Ava and Ellen are off to assist a tanker into a berth at IMTT. Shortly afterward, Kimberly Poling passed by with Noelle Cutler and Evelyn Cutler followed with Edwin A. Poling. Beyond Energy Centaur, that would be Kimberly heading upriver. Meanwhile, Ellen […]
Random Tugs 331
Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product. Christiana heads out as Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in from sea, out of the haze. Christiana was launched in Marinette WI […]
Evelyn Mae 2
Compare the verticality of Evelyn Mae’s “windshield” in the photo below with the rake in the next photos. The photo was taken in April 1946. The interior photo below shows the helm and the modified “raked” windshield. Here Evelyn Mae gets some emergency work done at the floating dry dock at Matton’s in Cohoes in […]
Evelyn Mae 1
There are summer yachts, and then there are summer yachts of yore, those ones magnificent back then and then magnified by time. Evelyn Mae, platform for these posts from last month, is of this second and extraordinary sort. Photos and reminiscence come from Steve Munoz. Enjoy the photos and I’ll tell you more later in […]
Random Tugs 315
Here’s a new one, Stephen B with James Joseph. I’ve not seen Stephen B with that barge in quite a while. Maybe I just have not been looking carefully. Kristin Poling is moving Eva Leigh Cutler. When we’re past the first of November, usually the number of barges increases, even if the outdoor temperatures are […]
Random Tugs 312
It’s the season. I wonder if the Kimberly crew has marked other holidays and I missed it. I did catch the red-clad guy almost a year ago. Mary H and her barge Patriot is likely headed for Newtown Creek. The 1981 build, such a clean looking tug, has been working in the sixth boro for […]
Random Tugs 305
I’m always on the lookout for “first-timers” in the harbor, but I’m equally thrilled to see the “seldom-seen.” I realize that some people might see these boats everyday. The “seldom-seen” relates to me. This is true of Pelham. The 1960 built is on her sixth name, if I count right. She started out as Esso […]
Really Random Tugs 48
We’re going west to east to south to farther east in today’s post, starting with the Missouri River north of Omaha by about 50 miles at the port of Blencoe IA. From here grain and soybeans are barged all the way to the New Orleans area for transshipment to foreign markets. That’s MV Tony Lippman […]
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