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Just photos will appear here today, and I realize I’m contradicting that statement by writing this sentence and the others. However, inspiration was failing me, so I decided this post should be not photo-driven, but photo-dominated. Names are provided in the tags.
Sunday started sunny, but then clouds moved in.
To highlight the variety, this post will focus on size, horsepower, and age.
Matthew Tibbetts, 1969, 92′ x 27′, 2000 hp. All numbers rounded up if .5 or more.
Brendan Turecamo, 1975, 107′ x 32′, 3900.
Crystal Cutler, 2010, 67′ x 26′, 1500.
Bruce A. McAllister, 1974, 112′ x 30′, 4000.
C.F. Campbell, 1975, 100′ x 31′, 3400.
Ava M. McAllister, 2018, 100′ x 40′, 6770.
Saint Emilion, 2007, 105′ x 38′, 4800.
Christian Reinauer, 2001, 119′ x 40′, 7200.
Magothy, 2008, 100′ x 34′, 4200.
All photos, WVD.
Two blog-related issues: Sarah Dann and the big blue crane are now below Quebec City. And, bidding has begun on Grouper and Chancellor.
Last week I did a lot of driving, to the Outer Banks and back for a project. I saved some time headed north by crossing from Lewes to Cape May by ferry. Although it was quite foggy, I did see a few vessels. Can you identify these?
By now, I suspect some of you have identified this tug . . .
Of course, it’s the 2007 tug formerly known as Barbara C and Arabian Sea and now called Saint Emilion. On the ferry crossing, I caught these photos at 1700; after an overnight and some work, I was headed home and caught her here at the VZ Bridge, 18 hours later.
So, 18 hours then to run the length of the Jersey coastline, and switching from towing to pushing once at the southern edge of the sixth boro.
After catching these photos of Saint Emilion, I waited a bit longer and caught these photos of Calusa Coast, traveling light, on a voyage from the GoM to the watery boro.
All photos here all foggy, WVD.
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
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 she departs the dock.
Meaghan Marie, 1968, follows a box ship into port but is not involved in the assist.
Meaghan Marie is a former fleetmate of Margaret Moran, 1979, doing the assist.
Emily Ann, 1964, moves a sanitation scow.
And finally, coming in from sea with a dump scow, it’s Captain Willie Landers, 2001.
When she first appeared on this blog in 2015, she had a prominent mast, not an upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
It’s winter, and that’s when I did all the previous posts by this name. It makes sense, since this is the northern hemisphere. Saint Louis registered Saint Emilion pushes a light A87 for refilling. Poor air quality days have the benefit that backgrounds beyond a half mile are obscured.
On the same foggy morning, Lois Ann L. Moran takes it slow, waiting for its berth. Brendan Turecamo assists alongside barge Philadelphia.
Normandy assists in keeping the barge off the dock
as Genesis Vigilant moves astern.
They cross, and the Moran unit goes into the same dock.
Once they’re in, Charleston-registered Sea Eagle sails past with Philadelphia-registered TMI-17. In the distance, Normandy assists the genesis unit into a new dock.
All photos, WVD.
Bobbie Ann departs the sixth boro with some GLDD equipment.
Little did I know at the time that Bobbie Ann had left the sixth boro a decade ago, then as Vera K.
Ernest Campbell wrestles along a double hull bunker barge. I wonder why the Centerline Logistics lion has not yet been added to her stack.
When tugs like Mary Turecamo assist a deeply laden tanker, the perspective from the upper wheelhouse is so much different than when assisting a ULCV, with their much higher freeboard.
Sometimes the 46′ x 15′ Rae is just the right size. Recall Rae‘s role in getting Wavertree back into her berth after the big renovation?
One of the newest tugboats in the boro, Cape Canaveral, 105′ x 36′ and generating 5000 hp, has the most evocative name.
She has two siblings, Cape Henry and Cape Lookout.
Again, is it me? I don’t believe I’ve seen Justine in a long while. She’s also 105′ x 35′ and 4000 hp. She has an elevating wheelhouse, which you can see here, scroll.
This is crowded: (l to r) Diane B, Saint Emilion, Meredith C. Reinauer, Lois Ann L. Moran, and Pathfinder.
Escorting from a distance astern, it’s Kimberly.
And finally, a photo from some time back, Vane’s New York, now working on the Great Lakes, Vane’s only freshwater unit . . . that I know of.
All photos, WVD.
I know I did part one less than two months ago, but one morning last week I saw her pushing a loaded barge, and all the lights were in view.
She’s been Barbara C and Arabian Sea, and now has the unusual port of registry in these parts . . . Saint Louis MO . . .
Saint Emilion here pushes A87 toward a North River and then up the Hudson.
All photos, WVD.
It’s the end of another month, and maybe because everything’s been so bleak of late, let’s just admire and enjoy the complexity of the sixth boro.
Diverse people work here on diverse missions.
Places like NY Harbor School and M.A. S. T. as well as SUNY Maritime College and King’s Point MMA are here.
On foggy days a narrow navigation channel gives the illusion of being as expansive as the ocean.
Keeping it as ideal a place as possible is the mission of many people and much infrastructure, seen and unseen.
Professionals pass through the sixth boro without ever technically entering the space, both a boon and a bane to all involved,
and their safe passage is ensured by the named and the nameless.
Work and recreation can happen in the same space because of
professionalism. If you have a lot of time, you can binge watch these videos by a pro who works the sixth boro and beyond. Now, when I hear his voice on VHF, it’s familiar. There are books as well.
The universal language of gesture is powerdful.
The sixth boro has at least as much specialized equipment as the other five boros combined; another way to put it, the specialized equipment of the sixth boro enable the other boros to perform.
And if the land boros have spirit, don’t imagine the sixth boro lacks anything.
Photos and sentiments, WVD.
There’s this below from ancient Roman vineyards in Gaul, near this monolith church . . . Also, about 30 miles away in Bordeaux is the repurposed WW2 submarine base . . . repurposed for art. But I started out beyond left field here and have digressed in an even more oblique direction.
Saint Emilion is this tugboat with angles . . . and three rectangular windows, wheelhouse and upper wheelhouse . . . Note the difference in lines with Joyce D. Brown.
She’s angular indeed, a bit reminiscent of a Nighthawk. The livery of white with yellow trim accentuates these angles.
To see the time of her transformation from Barbara C to Arabian Sea, click here and scroll a bit. To see her in many jobs as Arabian Sea, click here.
Anyone know why Apex chose this name?
Compare many points of her random partner on the KVK, above and below.
All photos, WVD.
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