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Spring, for a few more weeks, means it’s no longer winter. Warmer temperatures bring mariners out, to clean glass,
to plan the docking procedure,
to flake out the lines,
to retireve the boom . . . although these boom guys have to be out all year round, as do all the crew above.
Spring temperatures just make it more pleasant to stay out,
on the way to work,
catching fresh air,
or just contemplating all the oceans this cargo vessel has already transited and will still transit in future months.
All photos recently, WVD.
Sailors come out of hibernation to catch some breezes.
Container ships head south to shuffle containers elsewhere.
Aggregate work goes on as it does all year round.
Shearwater continues to plumb the bottom terrain.
They all meet up somewhere…
but a better lens than mine catches it.
All photos, WVD, who loves springtime, when all the fish eggs are about to burst.
Mackenzie Rose and Paul Andrew are eastbound, and Mary Turecamo, westbound.
A light Haggerty Girls westbound,
passing Laurie Ann Reinauer.
Kimberly Poling moves a barge out of the Kills.
A bulker in the anchorage gets bunkered by
Kings Point. Katya Atk needs to repaint the name on the starboard bow.
And Helen Laraway makes her way east.
All photos, WVD.
The light could not have been more beautiful as I swooped into the boro, metaphorically speaking: Peace Victoria in the foreground, Coral Queen (not the other Coral Queen) loading scrap mid-distance, and that ridge the Watchung Mountains defining a horizon. Note the Tsereteli monolith mid left margin of the photo.
Closer than Peace Victoria, Zola dispensed Egyptian rock salt.
Note the front end loaders shifting salt within the scow?
Down at water level, Curtis Reinauer squeezes into the notch of RTC 42.
Helen Laraway heads over to Zola to shift scows filled in the salt dispensing.
Jill has been called to assist Curtis out of the dock,
passing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer base, adjacent to the Moran base, marked by the white “M”.
The assist begins and
soon Curtis is eastbound.
And this is just the start of my focus of 1/100th of the doings in the boro.
All photos, taken between 0700 and 0800, WVD.
Entirely unrelated but fascinating, here’s a NYTimes article and video on oil smuggling into North Korea.
Salt 14 dates from November 2017, with previous installments going back to 2009, when bulk carriers could not yet dock at the current location of Atlantic Salt aka “the salt pile”. As of this time, there’s not much of a pile at the salt pile.
With our mild weather for the early part of this winter, no salt resupply happened until recently. Strategic Unity brought in a load,
which she discharged using her own buckets. Those are big buckets though.
Then Katerina brought in a load. Katerina left port last night. I forget which, but one of these was from Mexico and the other from Egypt . . . imported road safety product.
Meanwhile, Pacific Talent is still here, from India.
She lightered in the anchorage
discharging off both sides
for a few days.
before moving to Duraport, where she is currently.
All photos, WVD.
This photo of aframax BW Thalassa I took on Friday. Note the green BW slash about a third of the shiplength back from the bow.
Here’s a photo from Saturday, 24 hours later, after rain and fog have moved in. Note the green BW slash on the tanker beyond the Evergreen ship?
Ever Focus appears to have a maximum load aboard as she speeds toward Colon PA. A bit beyond Ambrose, AIS showed her at 19.2 kts, 22 mph.
See the Manhattan skyline? Not much. A few outlines appears along the shore of Manhattan, but nothing more shows. The new Janice Ann Reinauer is among the tug/barge units anchored there.
Bruce A. heads for a job,
as do Miriam and Helen.
CL Christina was inbound for Claremont, but again, fog obscured the bright shiny detail. Of course, the scrap loaded in Claremont has no bright shiny detail either.
All photos, WVD, who finds the fog frustrating even though it was around 50 degrees F, but this is how the harbor looks sometimes.
Unrelated: I just finished Shadow Divers, an account of the discovery of a U-boat wreck 60 miles off Point Pleasant. It’s a compelling read. It turns out there’s a counter-narrative also, Shadow Divers Exposed by Gary Gentile.
I recall my first time seeing the KVK, astonished by the density of commercial traffic. Of course, I’d just come from northern New England’s freshwater meandering rivers, surfable sandy coastlines, and marsh creeks.
Patrice steamed westbound, light,
Kimberly eastbound,
Josephine,
Daisy Mae, moving a half acre of scows…
Helen Laraway,
Daisy Mae again a few seconds later.
But to put it all together, here are Pegasus, Josephine, and Cape Henry.
Pegasus and Patrice,
Josephine, Kings Point, and Cape Henry….
It was a busy morning. All photos, WVD.
I’m fortunate to live within easy distance of all this activity: Nathan G, Treasure Coast, B. Franklin Reinauer, an ULCV, Doris Moran, and who knows how much is obscured behind these . . . And then there’s the crane atop the building to the left and the gull lower right.
Or here . . . Margaret Moran and a tanker off her stern.
Or here, HMS Justice and Mary H . . . .
Philadelphia outbound with her barge and Ava M. McAllister inbound with an ULCV.
Mister Jim crosses in front of the slower moving Captain D with a Covanta barge. Note the cranes at Caddells, with the diagonal lines off the left from Left Coast Lifter.
Jonathan C Moran, Doris Moran, and Kimberly Turecamo . . . follow a ULCV and
and here head east for the next job.
Tugboats cross.
All photos, WVD.
A new tug in town . . . Osprey? Built in 1961, she’s a sibling of Kodi. Photo thanks to Tony A.
B & B . . . it’s Brendan Turecamo in the distance and Bruce A McAllister. It turns out they are not clones: Brendan is a year newer, and Bruce A. is few feet longer and packs a few more horses.
Curis Reinauer is the third tug to carry that name. This Curtis dates from 2013. The previous one was sold to Nigeria, and the one before that has been reefed.
Emily Ann dates from 1964; she appeared on this blog just a few weeks ago but out of the water then.
Mister Jim, 1982, has been in the sixth boro for about eight years.
Doris Moran, also 1982, is a powerhouse.
Navigator, 1981, is the only boat currently operated by Balico Marine Services.
Gulf Coast, 1982, got her upper wheelhouse up at Feeney‘s on the Rondout.
Patrice, 1999, has so far spent half its life working on the Great Lakes.
Shannon McAllister is a rare one in the sixth boro, but she passes through here once in a while. like this week. She dates from 1991.
Thx to Tony for that first photo; all others, WVD.
I caught this small open boat eastbound on the KVK.
She passed Ernest Campbell. Clearly by her markings, she’s a survey vessel.
Between traffic, they seemed to focus their work near the transition between the KVK and the ConHook Range . . .
returning to their area of interest, as I said, between traffic.
Work completed, they headed back west
from where they’d first come.
That might be a cold job with minimal protection for employees of Aqua Survey Inc. in
a crowded waterway . . .!
All photos, WVD.
It appears that Aqua-Survey Inc. (ASI) has another boat called RV Tesla, which I’d love to see. I caught R. E. Hayes here over 10 years ago, also an ASI boat.
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