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I didn’t hear any wind speeds for yesterday, but it was blowing . . . winds of November according to the date, but fortunately not a November witch.
Chem Wolverine scudded through the Bay,
Kings Point went on with her routine,
Gabby Miller returned to home base,
Joyce aimed for the Kills,
Mister T slung a scow,
Crystal pushed Patricia E. Poling,
ONE Ibis had some containers shuffled after spending time off Long Beach,
Fort Schuyler dispatched Double Skin 30,
and Chem Wolverine, on her way to Albany, passed Dace Reinauer.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes a safe day to all.
Previous excessively windy days posts can be found here.
Here’s a calendar’s worth of harbor tugboat shots, starting with Sarah D., looking brand new although built in 1975, her colors matching the shades of Manhattan building materials in the background.
Brian Nicholas (1966) moves into the Upper Bay, her blue repeated in the sky and water and more.
Buchanan 12 (1972) heads down bound and then
back upbound, day after day and year after year. It’d be interesting to quantify the tons of aggregates she’s moved out of Hudson Valley quarries.
A Blount-Barker product from 2002, Brooklyn moves from Brooklyn over to Bayonne.
HMS Justice is one of the newer boats in this post, launched in 2012.
Kristy Ann is the newest boat in this post, having arrived here last year to replace the nameplate of a boat from 1962.
James E. Brown, here assisted by Janet D, both 2015 products of Rodriguez Shipyard, brings a daily load of rail cars across the harbor.
Ruth M.Reinauer (2008) heads back to her barge.
The 1979 CMT Pike . . . I can’t not think of Odin when I see her.
JRT Moran (2015) rounds the KV buoy with Kristy Ann in the distance.
We started with Sarah D and we’ll end with her.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Back in the sixth boro . . . it’s a head-on shot of Thomas J. Brown, with multiple icons of the harbor behind her.
Mister T pushes some loaded barges out east beneath the 59th Street Bridge in the photo below,
and tows twice as many empties westbound in the next photo.
Mary Turecamo shifts deck cargo barge New York from Red Hook over toward the other container ports of NYC/NJ, keeping a good number of trucks off the roads and bridges.
Meredith C. Reinauer moves RTC 150 out in the direction of the Sound.
Philadelphia pushes fuel barge Double Skin 503 into the Kills, over to where Ellen McAllister assists Genesis Liberty out of her IMTT berth.
Then Genesis Liberty moves GM 11105 around and outbound.
Robert Burton, usually pushing compacted garbage barges, the other day was doing
rock scow duty.
And rounding out this post, Ava M. McAllister, still in her first half year of working in the sixth boro, heads out to escort in a vessel just in from sea.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp.
It’s been a few months since number 265, so let’s catch up.
Kimberly Poling had brought product upriver via Noelle Cutler, and you can tell some time has passed since I took this photo by the foliage.
Edna A was assisting a crane barge working on the power lines near Hudson NY.
Challenger came in through the Narrows yesterday, delivering a crane barge. A few years back she delivered what was initially a mystery cargo here.
Eli stood by as salt was transshipped from scow to large truck.
Mister T was westbound for the Upper Bay with four scow to be filled.
Pokomoke brought petroleum upriver.
Memory Motel, the original exotic, . . . I wondered where she had gone until I saw her high and dry up by Scarano.
Betty D and Mary Kay . . . they were docked just south of Albany.
Mary Turecamo brought container barge New York from Red Hook to Port Elizabeth . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has many more saved up from the summer and early fall.
I sometimes refer to a golden hour, but recently I heard someone talk about the “blue” hour, when the sun is still or already below the horizon. The light is dramatic in both, or through that whole continuum, as seen here.
Fort McHenry heads east . . .
as does Amy Moran, who technically is moving later than the blue to gold but still enjoys the subdued light.
RTC 80 is pushed westbound by
Dace Reinauer.
Treasure Coast waits with its barge amidst the industrial landscape of IMTT.
Viking (sometimes pronounced “vikin“) moves toward the AK with DBL 134.
Buchanan 12 heads for the fuel dock.
Ruth M. Reinauer takes her barge to the AK as well.
Evelyn Cutler moves her barge to the west, and
fleet mate Kimberly Poling crosses the strait to tie up at Caddells.
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Sheesh . . . someone forgot to sweep all the leftover letters from the garage floor after work.
All photos and lack of sweeping by Will Van Dorp.
Navigator looks great in the yellow trim. For some quantifiable info, she dates from 1981 and reports 1200 hp.
Ellen always strikes me as a brawler, more so than identical YTBs. Maybe it’s the ships’ hull paint she’s rubbed off with the bow rendering. For numbers and facts, she dates from 1967, built in Marinette WI, and currently has z-drives putting out 4000 hp. Click here for photos I took in Marinette this past summer.
Dory looks great, having added an upper wheelhouse. Click here and scroll for photos of Dory over the years, pre-upper wheelhouse. Who operates her now?
Amy Moran and Atlantic Salvor meet under the bridge. As an indication of winds, notice the bridge “curtains” movement. Numbers: AM 1973 and 3000 hp. AS 1976 and 6480. For previous Atlantic Salvor posts, click here.
If Buchanan 5 looks like she has new paint, she does. It used to work around here as Taft Beach. Numbers: 1983 and 2600 hp.
Normandy benefits from a simple and classical paint scheme. 2007 and about 1900 but with triple screw. As I understand it, she used to work in Colombia. Anyone have info on her propulsion plant?
Kimberly Poling got a makeover almost 10 years ago and she is just a beauty. 1994 and 3000 hp.
I’ve long heard Thomas D. Witte once worked the Erie Canal as Valoil, but I’ve never seen photos of her superstructure from that time. Anyone help? 1961 and 1500 hp.
And finally, Matthew Tibbetts once won the most attractive tug at a North River Tugboat Race, and she truly looks good. 1969 and 2000.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
One satisfying thing to me about these retro posts is noticing how much the local fleet has changed. All these photos I took in November 2008. Coral Queen was scrapped at least eight or nine years ago. Maersk Donegal has had two name changes since 2008, now know as Santa Priscila, and no longer calls in the sixth boro.
SPT Guardian, still under the same name, is currently operating out of Lome, Togo. Note the NJ State Police boat alongside. I don’t know if they are still using that boat.
ITB Groton is gone as well.
The huge K-Sea fleet in the boro has dispersed. Solomon Sea is now Emily Ann,
Falcon, I believe, is still Falcon but wears Vane livery,
Davis Sea still has the same name but Kirby colors and operates in the Gulf,
and Aegean Sea carries the same name but works for Burnham Associates in my old stomping grounds north of Boston. NYK Diana has moved to the Pacific to the US West Coast.
This Rosemary McAllister has been replaced by another Rosemary McAllister, and has spent only part of one day in the sixth boro.
Stapleton Service takes the prize for the greatest number of name changes, three since 2008. She’s now Michael Miller.
Buchanan 15 has become Dory, although I’ve not seen her in a while.
Coral Queen‘s smaller fleet mate was John B. Caddell, which became a hurricane Sandy victim: grounded, sheriff auctioned, and scrapped.
I made a jaunt upriver aboard the only and only Half Moon–now sold abroad– in November 2008, and saw
Champion Polar but she’s now
–ice bow and all- dead and likely scrapped, as well as
a more intact Bannerman’s Castle.
All photos by Will Van Dorp in November 2008.
It’s been a few months to do a sixth-boro look around here. Of course it’s never the same. Never. Not even from one day to the next. Let’s start with Weeks tug Elizabeth. If I’m not mistaken, this machine’s carried that name ever since it was launched in 1984.
James William has been a regular in the sixth boro the past five years or so, but she started as a Moran tug in 2007. Note the eerie fog around the base of the Staten Island-side bridge tower.
Choptank [which the pesky auto-correct insists should be spelled Shoptalk] passes in the foreground; Mary H in the distance. Choptank is back from several years in the Caribbean.
Paula Atwell is almost 20 years old, having started out as Crosby Express.
Northstar Integrity . . . quite the mouthful of syllables . . . seemed an unknown to me, until I realized I knew her as Petrel . . .
Not long ago I caught Marjorie at work on the Hudson down bound.
Mary Gellatly emerges from the fog.
Evening Star rests B. No. 250 at anchor with Brooklyn in the background.
Mister T heads for the mooring . . .
All sixth boro photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a backlog of so many collaboration photos that I might be alternating much-appreciated “other peoples photos” posts for a while.
The day brightens a bit, but I stayed between Newburgh–to my back–and Beacon.
Whenever a boat passed, the gulls followed, feasting on the small fish stunned by the props.
The town below gets its name from the mountain, Mount Beacon.
Local squalls obscured the area north of Newburgh-Beacon.
Following Sarah Ann northbound was the indefatigable Buchanan 12.
A few miles upriver Buchanan 12 swapped these scows out for a loaded set, and in a few hours, returned southbound.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Pre-foliage spring is optimal time for seeing the landmarks along the Hudson. This one is near Wilderstein (scroll), but I’d never seen it before.
Esopus Meadows cannot be missed either down bound or up. Get on the wrong side, and you’ll regret ever being here. Click here for tugster posts showing the light in all the seasons.
I wonder what the crew on the anchored bulker thought of the Beaux-Arts structure on the bank. I wonder what some of foreign crews coming up river think of the river as a whole?
Comet heads northbound with segments of dismantled TZ Bridge. The first specific example I’ve heard of reuse is here, in Mount Vernon.
At first glance, I thought this was odd snow accumulation on the banks,
closer up . . . an auto auction lot.
Tilcon operates one of the most conspicuous quarries along the river, seen here last week from the water and here
from the train. Quarrying has been a major activity along the river. And here finally I see the derivation of “trap rock,” which this crushed aggregate is sometimes called: trap, as in stairs, for all those Dutch speakers out there.
I’ve been curious about this large crane near Chelsea NY since last summer. Now my best guess is that it’s related to NYC Water Tunnel No. 3. Any DEP readers help out?
Just below the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, we meet the Buchanan 12 and her herd of barges, heading up to Tilcon for trap rock. For many more views of Buchanan 12, click here. We met her just as she left the sublime highlands.
Of all the many posts I’ve mentioned Bannerman’s in, here and here are my favorites. For close-ups, click here. In this era of gun questions, here’s an article with specifics of his unregulated trade.
Breakneck Ridge looked particularly ominous with afternoon sun cast shadows. It appears MTA trains will stop there if you have a ticket.
And movement on a ridge in Little Stony Point . . . a photographer. Like me. And the “point” . . . it was once an island.
South of here, more beautiful scenery awaited, but I got distracted and took no more photos in the fading light of late afternoon.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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