Winds of March
It’s March in the boro, so Sunday the temperatures surged up to 70, and this morning’s rain turned into snow at 36 degrees; yesterday was windy, with dramatic clouds scudding across the sky on chilling gusts. So when Jonathan C. Moran headed back into the KVK after assisting a ship out the door, this was […]
Random Tugs 369
Happy spring. All photos in this post were taken in winter two days ago and over a six-hour period. Before noon, the five boros and the next state were obscured out of existence. I really think they didn’t exist during those hours, just like the imaginary sun crossed (??) the imaginary equator at 11:33 NYC […]
Rose In Again
Not quite half a year ago, I caught Rose from the sunny side. This undifferentiated mass in the Ambrose Channel yesterday was quite impressive as well. As a reference, the towers of the VZ Bridge towers in 693′. The length of the tugboat in the foreground is just under 90′. I’ve not pointed out […]
Exotics 16
Here the previous posts on exotics, vessels not typically seen in the sixth boro. I take the label from birders, as they use it to classify birds. Regulus is a 2014 product of Thoma-Sea in conjunction with TAI. She left to go offshore yesterday, but she’d been at the Bayonne dry dock at least a […]
Random Ships 82
What’s visible for now is Pegasus and Maersk Seletar, but behind the container ship and soon to emerge is Mukaddes Kalkavan. A few hours later, I saw Seletar doing 22 kts heading south along the Jersey coast. Seletar is an area in Singapore. Ava escorts Mukaddes Kalkavan into the port from the starboard bow. Scot […]
Random Tugs 283
How’s this as an unusual perspective, East Coast coming through the Narrows and under the VZ Bridge, barely visible at top of photo, with a sugar barge, not sure which one. I believe that’s a Sandy Hook antenna and West Bank Romer Shoal Light off starboard. Kimberly Poling heads into the Kills past Robbins Reef […]
Retro 2012 Waterford Tugboat Roundup
The 2010 post had a photo from 2009, so let me start this one with one from 2010. This photo made the cover of a NYS Restoration publication devoted to boats, but I lent my copy to someone and it’s never returned. If you know the publication, please let me know. OK, let’s see one […]
Retro Sixth Boro 22
Happy 2020, so let’s go a decade back, and see a selection of photos from January 2010. Ross Sea escorts Rebel eastbound past Atlantic Leo in the KVK. Lucy Reinauer, bathed in morning light, approaches Howland Hook in the AK. Miss Gill and Lucky D head for the smaller Bayonne Bridge and Goethals Bridge, off […]
Random Tugs 251
Here’s a different perspective on the sixth boro, different from my more usual ones. And in this morning light, Sarah Ann looks like a beauty as she heads somewhere past Robbins Reef Light and well . . . along that island. Let’s continue trying to get some different POVs. Patricia has some fine lines here […]
Government Boats 43
It’s been a few months since I last used this title here . . . USNS Gilliland has been alongside the Bayonne dry dock for a few weeks now, and the other day I had the chance to see her alongside a bit closer. This Danish hull has been in the water most of the […]
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