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Another TBR is in the books. Where else can you see very upclose and personal some much-loved boats. I can and might do a post on each of these boats, but for now, just a survey.
Shoofly . . . complete name is Shoofly Pie. If you want actual detail, click here and scroll; you’ll see some profile of each of these boats (and others). All I’ll say about Shoofly is that she’s a WW2 naval vessel evolved into a rat rod (We need a new term for this category.) vessel. It has also likely sailed the greatest number of places, freshwater and salt. I’ve photographed this boat before, but somehow, it’s never made it onto this blog. Some explanation follows.
I frame this as a comparison of push knees on Edna A and J. Arnold Witte.
How about this as a frame– l to r, Nathan G, Margot, Benjamin Elliot, and Edna A. — involving two-thirds of the NYS Marine Highway boats participating in the event. Then another set of NYS Marine was not present . . . working . . . .
CMT Otter . . . represented Coeymans. I learned some modification history of this boat last weekend. It was once Delta Ram and looked like this.
This vessel is the fourth in the series of Atlantic Hunter boats. I had photos of Atlantic Hunter IV (under a different name last year) but those photos like those of Shoofly . . . disappeared.
My Pal Sal is not the latest government boat purchased by NYS Canals, although you might suspect otherwise. To stray down a tangent though; Sal has a song named for her; we really need a popular ditty about canal tugboats . . . any or all of them. Lobby your favorite songwriter or channel your own inner songwriter muse.
W. O. Decker looked spectacular! Last time I saw her some details were not the same.
Joncaire is several years into her new livery; she used to be the red of NYPA Niagara River boom maintenance fleet, as seen here (scroll).
Here’s the view from the 4th Street Bridge, and
here from the 2nd Street Bridge.
All photos yesterday, WVD, who got out there before many people were crowding the bulkhead.
I missed a lot of folks who were there because I stayed in the welcome center most of the time, listening to the talks.
Let’s jump back to the present . . . and Doris Moran, both light
and moving containers across the harbor to the other container port back fields. If I count right, that’s 160 containers not on chassis pulled by trucks on the BQE, SIE, or other such clogged arteries.
Brinn Courtney is moving a scow, as
is Eastern Dawn.
Mister Jim and all the CMT boats seem to
be getting
a makeover.
Marjorie B. might be going to pick up her daily train cars.
Kimberly Poling basks in the dawn liight.
All photos, recently, in the sixth boro, WVD, who won’t be in the boro for the rumored tugboat race this weekend. If you’re out there, take photos, especially ones with splash!
Here was the first post in this series.
If I’m not mistaken, this sand comes from the freshwater sources of sand in SW New Jersey; I posted photos of the loading and transit of such sand here back not quite three years ago.
My vantage point here was Little Island, and in midafternoon, I was shooting more into the sun than I’d prefer.
Yup, that’s Hoboken’s W hotel and the north end
of the bluff where Stevens Institute of Technology is located.
All photos, WVD, who encourages you to visit Little Island if you’ve not yet done so. The highest point, where I took these photos, is about 60′ above the river surface.
And unless I get the robots more photos/fodder, there may be some days sans posts coming up.
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.
Let’s get back to some Pete Ludlow photos. Co Morgan has such a long history of names going back to 1951 1965, I’m just going to paste it in here.
A high vantage point helps convey appreciation for the train of three Mister Jim tows through Hell Gate.
Ditto Navigator. From this perspective, her smart color scheme is clear.
Meghan Marie heads into Hell Gate with a destination somewhere along the Sound or farther.
All photos by Pete Ludlow. Thanks, Pete.
Flux. “Everything changes and nothing remains still; and you cannot step twice into the same stream.” Heraclitus said that, or maybe he did not, but I’ve attributed it to him before.
Click here for the 1966 Charles Burton and the 2010 Charles Burton. Above and below, that is the one from 2010, but the missing “V” in the nick in the green band suggests a livery change soon.
Over on the KVK, I first thought I was seeing one specialized barge, but
a closer look shows that CMT is getting not just new tugs but also new barges, CMT Y Not 5 and 17. I hear tell there are more new ones also.
The ship is not new: Polar Colombia dates from 2017.
But with Polar Colombia and Polar Peru both calling in the sixth boro in the same week,
I read that as a new line or at least new Hamburg-Sud names on their North-South trade? Polar Colombia has already departed the sixth boro, called and reloaded in Costa Rica, and is heading back north!
Zhong Gu Shan Dong appears to be a new direction. The ship dates from 2007 and it’s small . . . only 3400 teu, but it is registered in China.
Maybe a Chinese-reading person can translate both the vessel name and the characters on the hull?
But some of the containers are interesting, with Zhong Gu Logistics (upper left corner of the green containers) being something I’ve not noticed before.
Even more interesting to me, nerd of nerds, is what’s on the brightest orange containers . . ..
Alibaba.com!! I know they are huge, but do they have their own shipping containers now? Here’s more on Jack Ma‘s Alibaba Group, including the name origin story, which I’ll quote below.
All photos recently, WVD, who’s always seeking novelty.
Here’s that story: “One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking Alibaba is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said do you know about Alibaba? And she said yes. I said what do you know about Alibaba, and she said ‘Open Sesame.’ And I said yes, this is the name! Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and asked them, ‘Do you know Alilbaba’? People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China… They all knew about Alibaba. Alibaba — open sesame. Alibaba — 40 thieves. Alibaba is not a thief. Alibaba is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village. So…easy to spell, and global know. Alibaba opens sesame for small- to medium-sized companies. We also registered the name AliMama, in case someone wants to marry us…” quoted from here.
Tony A sent this along labeled as “m-o-a-t,” mother of all tugs, and Pacific Reliance is truly a large tugboat at 121′ x 42′
with 9280 hp turning two 12′ diameter propeller and pushing around a 560′ tank barge that carries 155k barrels of liquid product. But there are larger tugboats. Justine McAllister gets called in to assist the Crowley unit into the dock.
CMT Pike heads north about to be obscured by an incoming MSC ship.
Seeley pushes along a block of four scows.
JRT and Kirby prepare to sail a Minerva tanker. Minerva, Roman goddess of war and other things, seems appropriate these days.
The indefatigable Ellen McAllister passes Barney Turecamo on her way to a job.
Catherine C. Miller moves Weeks crane 577 to a lift site.
Emily Ann returns from a job.
Nicolas Vinik gallops off to a job,
following Liz Vinik, herself
follwing Gregg McAllister.
And the beat goes on . . . all photos, WVD, except of course the one from Tony A, to whom I am grateful.
Two separate parties sent me this article from the LA Times. With a title including the phrase “humble tugboat,” I was interested but not prepared for the fantastic photos. Thx John and George. Enjoy. Meanwhile, here are some more of my recent photos.
James D. Moran assisting on a towline above and Robert Weeks leaving the fuel dock below,
Andrea walled off from her barge above and Sarah Ann light below,
Gregg McAllister returning to base and Pegasus heading to work,
A light William Brewster and an equally light Daisy Mae,
Mackenzie Rose and Philadelphia, and
to close out this installment . . . Kimberly Turecamo assisting a ULCV.
All photos, WVD, who never associated the adjective “humble” with tugboats or their operators, and that’s not a bad thing.
If you’re new to this blog (or even if you are not), I’m always looking for photos from other people and places, especially, tugboats seen in South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australia.
Yesterday’s post ended with Timothy L.
Sarah Ann, and
Treasure Coast at different amounts obscured by the fog.
Treasure Coast spun around before my location to set Cement Transporter 7700
into the Lafarge North America Bayonne
dock with assist by Pegasus. I wondered about the vintage of Cement Transporter 7700; she was launched from Todd Shipyard in Houston in December 1981 as Ideal II, then Midnight 1, and now its current moniker. Todd Shipyard has a distinctly Manhattan origin in the form of DeLameter Iron Works.
Meanwhile, from the western end of the KVK came
a Manzanillo-bound Lars Maersk assisted by James D. Moran.
At that same moment, Pegasus, after having completed the Treasure Coast assist, heads west of the Bayonne Bridge.
From that same fog bank west of the Bayonne Bridge emerge Daisy Mae pushing a light scow and
Cape Henry, returning to its barge at the west end of IMTT.
All photos, WVD, who is happy days will soon be getting longer.
Tugboats move quite the variety of materials around the boro on barges. The brand spanking new J. Arnold Witte here moves Delaware Bay, a bucket dredge.
Doris Moran moves containers around the boro much quicker than trucks can.
I had to throw this in . . . a late 1950s Chevy pickup was moving a motorcycle southbound on the BQE.
Sea Fox transported a scow with its own clamshell (I think) in the upper bay.
Helen Laraway had some rich light on her as
she came west in the East River, passing Lower Manhattan, with
some cubed metal.
The seldom seen Liberty II was bringing maintenance equipment to the Statue island, when I noticed an interesting detail. See the blue Thrustmaster engine covers?
A closer up of that part of Liberty II shows she’s twin engine and her starboard engine is not in use.
Closing it out, Durham is moving a mini scow into the Kills.
All photos, WVD.
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