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“Backing down” is a term I’ve heard used to describe a ship assist in which the tugboats control the sternwise movement of a vessel away from a dock. Most of the work here seems to be tide current driven, if I saw it right.
Let’s pick this up at 16:28 hrs.
The evolution waits for incoming traffic, in this case Seoul Express, which I watched getting backed down half a decade ago here and here. Margaret Moran was involved that time as well.
At 16:49, Seoul Express, accompanied by Kirby Moran, is passing and Margaret throttles up, catching
the attention of a crew member on the superstructure of Seoul Express.
By 16:51, Heina is well away from the dock, and now
James D.Moran needs to get the stern out, but I’m not well placed to capture that.
Margaret moves around to the bulb. I love how the load markings mimic the tug profile.
By 16:58, Heina is at least two ship lengths east of the salt dock, and
by 17:07, Heina has begun to rotate counterclockwise in preparation to head under the VZ Bridge out to sea. By now, she’s south of the Bahamas.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, to whose untrained eyes this all seemed to evolve with masterful control.
As to the meaning of “heina,” try this.
Icy roads are here again. Well, even if they’re not–not yet– in the downstate area, New Yorkers place a value on being prepared. You might call that a NY value, but I’m not going any further there. And more accurately, preparing for the future is a universal value.
And in this season, bulkers arrive with beautiful names like Lake Dahlia and with holds filled with dozens of thousands of tons of “de-icer,” this load being off a desert in Chile. A previous ship had come from this part of Mexico.
In less than a handful of hours after “all fast,” clamshells start discharging at the rate of 30 tons per scoop.
Two operations happen simultaneously . . . cranes empty the holds and
loaders fill the trucks.
When that ice starts coating the roadways,
you and all the others thousands of drivers have a lot
better chance of staying on track to
your intended destination. The photo below suggests it’s coming time for another truckster post.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Many thanks to Brian DeForest of Atlantic Salt.
No, I haven’t left the sixth boro. Just yesterday I crossed paths with Allie B here at Atlantic Salt, purveyor of a safety product and patron of the arts.
It took a gray day for me to notice that the house colors along the KVK are reminiscent of those in coastal Canadian maritimes towns. Allie B has been one of my favorite tugboats since I saw her depart on her epic tow here and here back in 2009.
Then I passed Evelyn Cutler, here with Noelle Cutler at Caddell Drydock. Those are basic Wavertree masts in the background. I first saw Evelyn
Here’s a first good photo of Dylan Cooper, the Reinauer tug that arrived in the sixth boro later last year.
I hope to get another of her here in a few years when that bridge is completed.
I believe Eric is the newest of McAllister tugs in the sixth boro. And yes, here Eric is using her 5000+ hp to assist Atlantic Star, ACL‘s brand spanking new CONRO vessel into port yesterday on her maiden voyage. I hope to have a post dedicated to Atlantic Star completed for tomorrow.
Eric is a product of the same Rhode Island shipyard that produced Dylan Cooper. In the distance that’s one of ACL’s previous generation of CONRO vessels, Atlantic Concert. Here’s an entire post dedicated to Atlantic Concert from 2009.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, with thanks to NY Media boat.
And yes, I still have more of Barrel’s vintage USACE photos to share.
Click here to scan the many posts with KVK in the title. Here’s a new one inspired by arrivals that had many folks, aship and ashore, paying attention.
Wavertree is suddenly and lavishly being regaled with sights of 21st century merchant vessels
Products tanker Polaris, delivered 129 years after Wavertree
and crew from all over the world are paying attention.
And a mile farther east, at the old gypsum dock, tugboats like Laura K Moran and
Stephen B pass.
If you want to read a good book about when and how the US took possession of Eagle, read Captain Gordon McGowan’s The Skipper and the Eagle. The book has an introduction by Peter Stanford, a foreword by Alan Villiers, and the journey starts out from NYC’s own LaGuardia.
I have many more closeups of the barque; maybe
I’ll put them up if I get encouragement. A previous posts featuring Eagle can be seen here. For a comparison of steering apparatus on Eagle with other vessels, click here.
Here Swallow Ace crew check out an Eagle.
The long street on the landside of this portion of the Kills is called Richmond Terrace. For photos and explanation of what is and used to be there, click here and here, from the ever fascinating forgotten-by.com. Click here to see an image of a square rigger bulk carrier docked in front of Windsor Plaster Mills, now an Eastern Salt facility, in its heyday.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Kodiak . . . is ex-Vane and Allied.
Hunting Creek is Maryland-built for Vane.
Charles A has carried at least four previous names.
Specialist, I believe the oldest in the set today, . . . has low sleek lines for an almost 60-year-old vessel.
When this Pegasus came into the sixth boro, she lacked the upper wheelhouse.
Atlantic Salvor has for some years–since this one left–been the largest tugboat in the sixth boro. Rivaling Atlantic Salvor a few years back was the rescue tug turned super yacht called Lone Ranger.
And finally, for today, it’s Eric McAllister passes Ultra Colonsay, discharging salt over at Atlantic Salt.
All photos over the last few days by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous posts in this series. In today’s post, one word appears in every photo.
That word–Neutrino— seemed unlikely, given its New York harbor context. Some of you might remember Town Hall and Son of Town Hall, creations of Poppa Neutrino, inhabitants of Pier 25 a mere few decades ago.
It was all before my time here. But if you have stories and/or photos, please share them.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
. . . or I could call it “blue friday plus 700-something days.” Here was “plus 21 days.” Anyhow, on this day associated with shopping, Hayward and others were out for harbor maintenance,
Chesapeake Coast and others were out pushing fuel,
Seastreak New Jersey and others were moving passengers . . . (maybe here), and
crews on ship and shore were moving bulk materials like salt here from Key Hunter.
And if you wonder what it looks like at the base of that tower, whose antenna arrived in the harbor 723 days ago, here’s a photo from Fulton Street I took two weeks ago when the news trucks and lots of others were hoping that two workers would soon be rescued.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
For a sense of how the Lower Manhattan skyline looked from New Brighton area of Staten Island about four years ago, click here.
Here was the first in this series.
The first three photos below–Weeks 535 to the left and Weeks 529 to the right–I took on December 3, 2013.
The rest of the photos here–taken by Brian DeForest–show cranes including Weeks 535 taken in mid-July 2014. Note the orange-helmeted man at the lower left point in the crane barge hull.
Here are the cranes of Howland Hook where Grande Morocco
prepares for her run along the coast of West Africa.
Finally . . . a unique perspective for landlubbers . . . Weeks 573 working on the Goethals Bridge southeast side.
Many thanks to Brian for these photos.
Here was 17, a reminder of what this series is about: I’m avoiding the word miscellaneous.
First, from Birk Thomas . . . a closer-up of another Blount this week. Doesn’t it share some spirit of 1960 Ford blue?
From bowsprit, who wanted to know why a scalloper was headed southbound along Manhattan the other day, the windy day? Well, I’m resisting the chance to set up an April Fool’s post . . . it was actually in the sixth boro to escape the stormy seas and 30′ PLUS waves out where it normally works. Endurance is no timid scallop boat . . .
I’ve been eager to share this assemblage of old calendar, baseball card, and mermaid bottle openers from Greenport, a place with a distinctly New England ship-building history feel. Are any of these anywhere still extant? Click here for a photo of a City Island, NY yard that once built them.
Anyone know which sixth boro regular is a triple screw? Answer follows.
Here’s Bayou Dawn getting some new skin a few weeks back.
I’m putting up this post with my apartment windows open . . . spring has vanquished winter . . so it’s time for a few photos of winter’s recent oppression. Ever wonder how the loader gets to the bottom of the hold of a bulker?
Odigitria came here with salt a few weeks back and those holds that were then filled with gleaming white minerals might now be filled with dull black stone now.
As summer gets cooer, I’m imagining doing some research on these boats and the larger tenders. When I see a buoy boat, I imagine an Elco in industrial disguise.
I took these photos less than six weeks ago, and my finger are only just now thawed out.
Thanks to Birk and bowsprit for the first two photos. All others by Will Van Dorp.
Let me know what you think that triple screw is.
Time to clear the decks for spring!
By the way, did anybody catch a photo of DSV Joseph Bisso coming through the KVK this morning?
There are birds . . . . like (?) this winter plumage loon and
this common merganser male. And
there are birds . . . here. The rest of these photos come from Brian DeForest.
What I’d still like to see this winter is one of these, though.
Many thanks to Brian DeForest for these photos.
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