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After a number of “misfires” this past week, I’ve made some changes.
To inaugurate these new protocols, I’m pleased to share photos you’ve sent in.
First, from Great Lakes Mariner, a few photos of Cheyenne in her new Lake Michigan waters. These photos were taken in Manitowoc, which some of you will recognize from the context. Here is a post I did on the Manitowoc River. Here‘s one of many from Sturgeon Bay. William C Gaynor (1956) has spent her entire life on the Great Lakes.
See the patina red tug to the left is Erich. You have seen that before here.
Next, from John Huntington back in March, Jaguar escorts the 1942 oyster schooner Sherman Zwicker to a berth in Gowanus Bay. Notice Loujiane Loujaine in the distance to the left, and I believe Highlander Sea foreground left. Previously you’ve seen Jaguar here, here, and here.
And is that John D McKean to the far left?
Seeing parts of “US naval vessels to be” transiting the East River has long been common, but extralime recently caught Patrice McAllister doing the tow, now that Gateway Towing has disbanded. One of the Gateway tugs that used to do this run is now called Meredith Ashton and is currently in Lake Michigan.
And finally, from tug Hobo, here is a much improved wheel from the one you saw in one of my posts from yesterday.
Many thanks to GL Mariner, John Huntington, xlime, and Donna at Hobo for these photos.
Gott passed just south of Detroit, so let’s pick up the journey there.
On their way to Tall Ships Erie, Niagara above and Denis Sullivan below down bound under bare poles.
At a steel plant, Herbert C. Jackson offloads coal.
CSL Baie Comeau heads down bound.
Bushey tug transplanted to fresh waters, it’s Cheyenne reinventing herself.
Passing us near midtown, it’s the many-times reinvented Lee A. Tregurtha,
sailing into a storm.
We’d not even gotten into Lake St Clair when the storm caught up with us . . . and this dinner boat heading south.
All photos by Will Van dorp.
Check out these shots of Cheyenne –a former staple in the sixth boro–recently in her new ecosystem.
Cheyenne recently assisted this unit getting out of a waterway in Detroit.
Powering the barge to a port on another Lake is Evans McKeil, built in Balboa, Panama, in 1936! In comparison, Cheyenne (1965, Brooklyn) is a youngster.
The lights from steelmaking in Detroit are truly unique.
Niagara Spirit is a large barge . . . 340′ x 78′ with a carrying capacity of almost 8000 metric tons. In this case, the cargo is just over 6000 tons of coke . . . . That’s not Coke.
And when the job is done, Cheyenne returns to her berth along the Detroit river, resting up for the next job.
All photos by an anonymous mariner.
She was still self-propelled and earning cargo credit in September 5, 2017, when I saw her near Mackinac Island . . .
Ditto two days later in windsor and a bit later
she was running down bound past Wyandotte,
allowing me a close-up of her oxidation.
But today, thanks to Fred Miller II for these photos, she’s down bound again, but behind a tow line of Evans McKeil, with
tail steering provided by the iconic Cheyenne.
Many thanks to Fred for the last two photos. All others by Will Van Dorp.
How about some irony: Evans McKeil, shown here n Montreal in October 2017 with barge Metis,
was built in Balboa, Panama in 1936!! Algoway‘s keel was laid in 1972 in Collingwood, and she’s headed out for scrapping in Turkey.
Cheyenne has appeared on this blog many, many times, most recently after I caught her in the Oswego River in September 2017 as she headed for Detroit.
Here was the first post with this title, from almost 9 years ago! But for the first image of Cheyenne, I can go back to February 2007 here.
Anyhow, less than a half hour after leaving the dock in Port Newark, she rounds the bend near Shooters Island,
departs the modified Bayonne Bridge,
exits the KVK for the Upper Bay and North River . . .
and a half day later, shows up in Poughkeepsie, as recorded by Jeff Anzevino and
Glenn Raymo.
Jeff and Glenn, thanks. Uncredited by Will Van Dorp.
And Cheyenne, tugboat of the year but not present then at the 2015 Tugboat Roundup in Waterford . . . she’ll be there this year on her way to a new home a good 1000 nm to the west. Here and here are my photos from 2015, which already seems long ago. I’ll miss the Roundup this year because I’ll be eastbound on the waterways from Chicago, but there’s a chance we’ll pass Cheyenne on the way!!
Is she the last Bushey tug to leave the sixth boro? If so, it’s a transition in an era or something . . . .
Safe travels and long life in the fresh waters out west.
All I know about these photos is that they were in frames in the Baldwinsville Lockmaster’s office. He didn’t know who took them or what year they were taken. Can anyone answer those questions or identify any of the people shown in the photos of Sheila Moran, Cheyenne, and the Great Lakes tugs (I think) called Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The top photo comes thanks to firegirl; all other are by Will Van Dorp, who wishes he could say at least half of the boats on the Canal ARE like Cheyenne . . . commercial.
Here was the first time I used this title, which clearly needs to be used again.
Let me start here at 13:38. Note from far to near, or black hull to black hull . . . Cartagena, Four Sky with Lee T Moran, Red Hook, and Genco Knight.
Twin Tube slides through the opening between Bow Kiso and Genco Knight.
Even the bow of Genco Knight is crowded as their vessel prepares to dock and resupply the salt depot.
Kimberly Turecamo works the bulk carrier’s stern as Evening Star passes with B. No. 250.
Add McAllister Girls in the foreground and Ellen McAllister in the distance against the blue hull, which will appear a bit later.
McCrews heads westbound and Four Sky now seems to be doing the same.
Are you out of breath yet? Only 10 minutes has elapsed.
Linehandler 1 cruises blithely through it, supremely self-assured.
Cheyenne adds color.
Another line handler boat scouts out the set up . . . as a new blue hull arrives from the west, as
. . . does Charles D. McAllister.
Crew on the blue hull–Nord Observer–stows lines as they head for tropical heat, escorted
by Catherine Turecamo although
at the turn on the Con Hook range they meet Mare Pacific heading in with Joan Turecamo and Margaret Moran. At this point . . .
14:12 . . . the mergansers decided to hightail it . . . or at least follow their crests. And I hadn’t even turned around yet to see the congestion on land behind me.
All these photos in a very short time by Will Van Dorp.
My thanks to Brian DeForest and Atlantic Salt, whom Genco Knight was arriving to restock.
Here was a post about a dense traffic day as well as a busy day.
Here was number 6 in this series. It occurred to me this afternoon to rename the whole series “weather overwater,” as a tip of the hat to Dr. Jeff Masters and his site. His 18-minute TED talk at the link with his name on it is worth the 18 minutes. And what do you imagine happens on and over sixth boro water on a day like this . . . ?
The usual. Diane B pushes a fuel barge, leaving BW Amazon behind,
Cheyenne consolidates scrap,
Davis Sea pushes oil somewhere up river as she did here and here,
Susana S, in the same location here a year ago, takes on bunkers. . .
. . . along with Stavanger Breeze.
Fishing goes on, and pilots
do their thing no matter the weather since 1694.
More bad weather coming . . . so what. Not that it’s easy, though.
Here was 3, about a year ago.
These fotos were all taken yesterday afternoon and evening. Shannon McAllister . . . a new one for me, an ex-Winslow boat, although here’s a sister Winslow boat that appeared here more than five years ago. Yes, the Colgate clock is in the process of being reconstructed.
It’s yacht Manhattan, heading for the Statue under a glorious crepuscular sky.
While waiting for the appearance of the holy grail, I chanced to looked at all the lights in the Manhattan sky, including this one which I
documented arriving and positioning a little less than a year ago.
And here, transporting Bakken crude down and out the Hudson, it’s
Afrodite, which recently appeared here. While on the subject of names, my sister recently passed King Coffee, and a tanker currently in the sixth boro goes by Chance. Might there be a vessel out there somewhere named Random? Here’s the closest I could find.
And here–with many thanks to Dock Shuter–who credits the links to Patrick Landewe, keeper of the Saugerties Light, something rare special also pictured here the other day, Cheyenne pushing a BLUE 737 upriver to Albany a few days ago!!! Here and here are parts of the story. Many thanks to Dock and Patrick. Here are some previous Dock fotos.
Since Shannon McAllister is new to me, let me end this post with her passing Shelby between lower Manhattan and Jersey City late yesterday afternoon. Here’s Shelby with a unique cargo a year and a half ago.
Unless otherwise attributed, all fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: In fall 1997, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree traveled down river from Stony Point on a truck ON A BARGE. Does anyone know where/how I can find any photos of this event, this trip? Here’s the kids’ book version.
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