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How had I not noticed? or When did that change? Can you spot it after looking at this post from almost two years ago?
Also, I’ve never found out any info about the repurposed coffee barge alongside the tugboat. Anyone help with that?
An hour of so later, I again sailed in close proximity, but with the shifted “position of the sun,” the color in this light is different. Note the subway train crossing the bridge directly beyond the tug’s mast?
What I was asking about above is . . . when did Deborah Quinn get the new paint? Two years ago in that link above, she was red. Also, this East River project has been immense. When will it be complete?
I hope you enjoy this shifted perspective on sixth boro traffic. More on Deborah Quinn, ex- Puma and ex-Jean Turecamo, here. More on Breakwater Marine here.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’d love to learn the covered aka coffee barge story.
Here’s a new name on this blog: Posillico, operator of Breakwater Marine and tugboat Deborah Quinn, the 1962 one. Does anyone know the intended outcome of this work on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge?
As it turns out, there’s another tugboat that once carried the Deborah Quinn name.
This Quinn is a large boat: 92′ x 27′.
Sea Lion is a regular on the East River, here heading into Newtown Creek.
At 65′ x 27′, Lion dates from 1980.
Brinn Courtney is fairly new in the sixth boro, and
appears to be keeping quite busy.
The first time I saw her she still had some red livery on her here.
All photos, WVD, whose previous iterations of this title can be seen here.
Let’s start with a photo by John “Jed” Jedrlinic, one of Alp Forward, currently off the eastern Scottish coast. She’s a 213′ x 61′ anchor handling tug from 2007 with over 200 tons bollard pull.
From there, let’s go to the Connecticut in US coast and some local boats with
some Seakite by PanGeo Subsea gear aboard. I’d love to see what this package projects onto a screen.
Both Berto L. and Josephine K Miller were up at Lew’s port earlier this spring.
GO Pursuit, fleet mate of GO America, called in there also. “GO” expands to Guice Offshore.
The reminder of photos here come in the past days from Tony A, starting here with Deborah Quinn.
He caught her several times in the East River, and here
with an unidentified covered barge. In the photo above, the Taco Cina sign intrigues me.
In roughly the same stretch he passed Brinn Courtney, whom I’ve yet to see.
And finally, he noticed Nicholas Vinik doing the do si do with Sea Monster, moving her over near the Sandy Hook Pilots station. I’m not sure what that means about Sea Monster. Anyone know?
Many thanks to Jed, Lew, and Tony A for sending along these photos.
Meanwhile, the robots are still doing their unmonitored best at tugster tower while WVD is in the lowland of alligators, shrimp, sugar, fleur de lis and beaucoup de plus for an unspecified time.
Dana Alexa is another seldom seen tugboat in the sixth boro of NYC;
although painted DonJon blue, she’s now a Breakwater Marine boat, I believe.
It was good to see the 1958 54′ boat with a barge of what appears to be sheet piling.
William F. Fallon Jr. has appeared here several times recently.
Robert IV has worked in the boro for over 30 years.
Linda L. Miller originally was called Frog Belly. I like that name.
And finally, you most likely by now have heard about the barge carrying scrap metals that caught fire on Delaware Bay and you may have wondered how scrap metals could burn. What follows is a series of photo I took in mid-April of a similar load.
This load was towed by Mackenzie Rose; the one that caught fire was towed by fleetmate Daisy Mae. Loads like this have been fairly common on the run from the sixth boro to the Delaware River.
Of course an investigation of the fire, which was confined to the barge, will take some time,
but scrapyard fires are fairly common. Here‘s an unrelated though germane article from the BBC.
All photos, WVD.
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