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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.
It still says Eastern Star Dawn, but now it’s Toula!
She’s going to look great all buff and green.
Barry Silverton finally
has a lion on its stack! All those birds? It’s water teeming with the bunker, the bunker that recently drew a humpback into the Upper Bay.
Pelham, launched in 1960, is always a pleasant sight. She has a list of previous names almost as long as my seasonal wish list this year.
Here she took a wake on the bow.
James William used the waters off the salt pile
as a turning basin.
And finally, after a long hiatus down south, CMT Pike has returned. When i caught her, she was being pursued
by this container ship.
All photos, WVD.
Unrelated but of interest, below . . .
yes, Grain de Sail is a 72′ schooner coming into the sixth boro with a 50-ton cargo hold, some of it refrigerated, bringing in French wine. She’ll set up a market in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for about a week. Contact info and an e-shop can be found here, although you’ll have to use a machine translate if you’re not up to functionality in French.
Grain de Sail is involved in triangular trade, French wine to here and the Caribbean, and then Caribbean chocolate and other products to France . . . . Something similar in sail freight domestically has been done by Ceres and more recently by Apollonia. The most recent international sailing cargo into the sixth boro that I know of was Black Seal, a three-masted schooner.
This is an impressive load of scrap, pushed along on a barge CMT Y Not 2, which I’ve usually associated with piles of sand.
Given the height of the pile relative the wheelhouse,
a watchstander is positioned to maintain a clear view of the waterway.
Pushing this load is Mackenzie Rose,
Surprisingly, this load was headed for the Delaware River.
A decade ago, Mackenzie Rose was green and called Vernon C.
Back in June, I saw a similar load but on CMT Y Not 1 and towed by Daisy Mae.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a new one, Stephen B with
James Joseph. I’ve not seen Stephen B with that barge in quite a while. Maybe I just have not been looking carefully.
Kristin Poling
is moving Eva Leigh Cutler. When we’re past the first of November, usually the number of barges increases, even if the outdoor temperatures are in the 70s.
Mister Jim, for the first time that I’ve noticed,
has a bunker barge, this one Richardson Sea, a Centerline Logistics barge.
Evelyn Cutler was moving a fully loaded Edwin A. Poling.
Genesis Eagle
had a deeply loaded GM 11103.
And finally for now, RTC 80
gets moved through the Kills with Kristy Ann.
All photos, WVD.
. . .and barges, of course. Someone or something has to pay the bills. This unique bow is the leading edge of RTC 135, 460′ x 72.5′ here building up a lot of water,
getting moved along
by Nicole Leigh Reinauer. They both date from 1999.
Crystal Cutler, always a joy to see,
moves a light Patricia E. Poling. Crystal is approaching her 10-year mark.
A surprise tug
moving this past week was Evening Breeze.
although she was light. I first posted photos of this 2019 boat a year and a half ago.
McAllister tugs seem to rotate bases. I hadn’t seen Charles D. for a while, but she’s back.
and working hard. She dates from 1967, when she was launched as Esso Garden State, part of a large Esso shipping fleet.
Helen Laraway (1957) has been working in a harbor a lot these days.
Seeley (1981) with a Weeks barge and Frances (1957) heading for fuel were westbound here.
All photos, WVD.
Long Island, eastbound, gets overtaken by a small fishing boat.
B. Franklin, light, heads to the Reinauer yard.
Doris Moran, light, heads east.
Ellen McAllister assists a Maersk ship through the channels to her berth.
Helen Laraway heads east to pick up a scow.
HMS Justice pushes HMS 2605 through the KVK.
Charles A. and Matthew Tibbetts follow a ship so that they can assist as needed when called upon.
Ava and Kimberly head out to different assignments.
Brendan Turecamo provides port assist.
Mister Jim follows Seeley.
Gulf Coast has been a Dann Marine vessel since it was launched way back in 1982.
All photos, WVD.
It’s the season.
I wonder if the Kimberly crew has marked other holidays and I missed it. I did catch the red-clad guy almost a year ago.
Mary H and her barge Patriot is likely headed for Newtown Creek. The 1981 build, such a clean looking tug, has been working in the sixth boro for 33 years.
We’ve had a spate of foggy days. Beyond Franklin here, notice the bright lights at Bayonne Shipyard where work proceeds on Mendonca even at night.
The mechanical dredge J. P. Boisseau here gets moved to a new worksite by Sarah Ann, with Brian Nicholas standing by.
A Maersk ship came in recently with a gaggle of assist boats: l to r, Ava, Ellen, and Matthew. Not visible is Charles D. McAllister, and the visible Thomas J. Brown is not assisting.Yes, Matthew Tibbetts is doing a fair amount of ship assist work these days, and why not.
Here are two more photos of Matthew Tibbetts doing ship assist.
Helen Laraway passed through with a load of scrap.
Poling & Cutler’s Crystal and Evelyn pass in opposite directions.
HMS Justice has eluded my eyes for quite a while, but here she is, with the Centerline Logistics feline on the superstructure.
All photos, WVD.
Larry J. Hebert has been in the boro a few months, following a GLDD dredging project. She’s from 1981 and rated at 3600 hp.
She headed eastbound in the KVK here with a fair amount of wire out, it seems to me.
Helen Laraway, light, heads west. She’s the oldster here, 1957, and 2000 hp.
Bergen Point, 1958 and 600 hp, heads east
and ducks behind an Evergreen ship.
Kristy Ann, the youngster in this batch, launched in 2018, and 4560 hp, left her barge in the anchorage and came in . . . to check in a the yard on Richmond Terrace.
James William, 2007 and 2800 hp, brings two light scows out of the Kills.
and gave the photographer, I believe, a friendly whistle.
Virginia passes by, the first time in an age that I’ve seen her. She’s from 1979 and generates 1400 hp.
And Genesis Vision makes an impressive turn in front of Caddells. She’s a 1981 boat with 3000 hp of push.
All photos, WVD, who is solely responsible for any errors.
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