KVK Traffic Flow 3
That stretch of waterway can be pretty busy, though not nearly as busy as the automotive traffic arteries of the five boros. Count them below . . . seven tugboats contained in a single photo frame!! You can try to name them. Let me know if you need help. One by one, though, they are […]
KVK Traffic Flow 2
In part 1, Treasure Coast slowly made her way to mid KVK, and I thought it was to get fuel, but it was soon apparent that she was there for an assist, to help ATB Galveston and Petrochem Producer to get off the dock. The scale of Galveston is apparent from the workboat; the tug […]
KVK Traffic Flow 1
I’ve mentioned before here that I used to freshwater fish, a lot. Canoe fishing at daybreak was the best, although there were days when nothing seemed alive in places where other days the waters fizzed with life and I could have several meals of fish in the boat before most people were awake. The same […]
KVK Dawn 7
Here were previous iterations of this title, as well as here, an AK Sunrise. If this effort were for a work published when complete, inconsistencies like dawn v. sunrise would be aligned, but this has always been a work in progress, a wandering that could end at any time. So yesterday morning I was at […]
KVK Concatenation 2
Where’s there’s a “1”, a “2” must follow, right? Let’s start with Brendan Turecamo on the starboard side of APL Dublin. Enter a Maersk ship with Bruce tendering the port side. APL Dublin has Kirby on the stern. Gerda has Capt. Brian A. on her stern, and Patrice and Ava. That makes a total of […]
KVK Concatenation 1
Excuse the obscure word; it’s not one I regularly use, but concatenation, i.e., a series of interconnected things or events, random and unlikely ever to recur, came to mind as I put together this set of photos. Follow along. Early one morning recently, Kristin Poling made up to a loaded Eva Leigh Cutler, and Normandy […]
KVK Dawn 6
Steve Munoz took the first three photos in October 1986 from Borenquin. The tug identified as Kathryne E. McAllister appears to be the one from 1975, now known as Brendan Turecamo. Borenquin lived many lives between launching in Vancouver WA in 1945 and scrapping in Beihei CH (near the northeastern border of Vietnam) in 1989. […]
Trinity
For scale, the “small” tugboat on the near side of the tanker here is over 100′ loa. That means … there’s a lot of crude oil capacity in the vessel she’s assisting. however, to complete the scale comparison, this tanker is 816′ loa. The largest tanker currently operating–Euronav Oceania–is 1246′ loa, and the largest ever–Knock […]
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 17
Cape Canaveral passed me the other day, and it seemed something had changed . . . Had I previously seen this green/blue symbol, like a flame or a drop? I suspect it may refer to dual fuel capability or aspiration. Is this a single boat symbol or the unveiling of a new part of the […]
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