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OK, I know today is blue skies and clear air, but yesterday I stood in the rain at the Narrows waiting for an exotic vessel that I knew wouldn’t arrive for a while. But around virtual sunrise . . . virtual because the sun never rose or set all day . . . this was in the offing.
Since Mary Alice was involved, I had assumed it would be a floating crane or a dump scow. Mary Alice is to the right, light blue, DonJon blue. But along with her are Normandy, Treasure Coast, and Sapphire Coast.
By this time, I’d put together that I’d learned that the “dead ship” that had arrived about two weeks earlier was the first of two coming to GMD Brooklyn. They were moving “slow bell,” which was fine by me, because the vessel I’d come out to see was still . . . at sea.
Some changing-up took place in the alongside-tow before they came through the Narrows.
I mastered holding an umbrella while framing the shots; the secret was repurposing a garbage can against the railing, which worked because there was drizzle but no wind.
Once I got the photos home, as so often happens,
I could make out the “riding crew” on the dead ship. Previous dead ship posts on tugster can be found here.
Sapphire Coast (4860 hp) by now has moved to the apparent port side.
Normandy brings 1900 hp and Mary Alice . . . 3000.
Here’s more riding crew.
Scan through here to find context for these vessels . . . C4-S-58a . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who thinks some vessels look just right on rainy days, better than on sunny days.
All the photos in this post I took over a two-hour period Friday. I post this in part in response to the question raised by a commenter recently, how many tugboats operate in the sixth boro, aka the waters around NYC.
They pass one at a time,
you see them in twos . . . . and that might be a third with the crane barge off the Battery in the distance,
a trio might be assisting a single ULCV,
foreshortening might collapse four into a single shot, and
if you look across the repair and docking yard, you might see five tugs plus one science boat.
And finally for now, move the huge box ship away, and six of more are revealed.
This is the sixth boro, folks, one of the busiest ports in the US.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Kristin Poling 2006
5000 hp.
Severn 2008
4200 hp
CMT Otter 1980
1200 hp
Gulf Coast 1982
2400 hp
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has more to say . . . just not today.
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.
I didn’t plan it, but this past week, I’ve seen a lot of Dann Marine boats, so that’s why this post.
Running against a NW wind, Pearl Coast handles some spray quite handily as she tows Cement Transporter 1801. She’s a big boat: 127′ x 40′ with 5600 hp. Click here for previous appearances of her on this blog.
Into that same wind, here’s Ivory Coast heading light along the Delaware shore. Click here for previous posts with Ivory Coast.
I believe this is my first time to add East Coast to this blog, although she’s been in the Dann Marine fleet for several daces.
Welcome then. She’s on the Sugar Express run between Florida and Yonkers. See previous Sugar Express posts here.
And another Dann Marine boat I suspect I’ve not seen before . . . Sun Coast,
inbound at the Narrows.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
It’s Cornell, westbound under the Bayonne Bridge. Now that’s a sight not often seen. Cornell (1949) occupies a niche likely quite unexpected, as documented here. In this post (scroll), you see Cornell in 1978! Hear her inimitable whistles (wait for it) here.
Ivory Coast has truly an unusual name, but I’d never call her Côte d’Ivoire. That’s been her name now for 20 years; previously she was Crusader for over 30 years.
Nicole Leigh Reinauer is the first (of three? ) Atlantic II class tug.
Her dimensions and design are similar if not identical to Lincoln Sea, but Nicole has CAT engines instead of EMDs. This class of ATB is the product of Bob Hill, whose boyhood home in Troy NY gave him a front row seat to an earlier generation of tugs and barges.
Looking very similar to Nicole Leigh Reinauer, it’s the newest ATB in the boro . . . Bert Reinauer, photo thanks to Lisa Kolibabek. Bert, almost two decades newer, has the same dimensions as Nicole Leigh, but with GEs generating 8400 hp, versus CATs at 7200.
Viking has operated out of the sixth boro since 1992. Before that, she spent 20 years in the fleet of Nolty J. Theriot, whose rise and fall is documented in Woody Falgoux’s excellent book, Rise of the Cajun Mariners.
For various Viking appearances on tugster over the years, click here.
Discovery Coast spent a lot of time in the sixth boro a few years ago, but these days she’s rarely here. Here’s her first appearance in this blog, in 2012.
And the newest ship assist tug in the boro is Capt. Brian A. McAllister. Here’s a Professional Mariner story about the tug.
The photo of Bert Reinauer thanks to Lisa Kolibabek. All other photos here in the past week by Will Van Dorp.
Let’s do the numbers again. No, Pelham is NOT becoming a tugantine in the tradition of Norfolk Rebel. Seeing Pelham out of the water really reveals a beauty I hadn’t noticed before.
OK, numbers, built in 1960 and rated at 3000 hp.
Atlantic Coast, 2007 and 3000hp.
Genesis Vision, 1981 and 3000hp.
Margaret Moran, 1979 and 3000hp.
(l to r) Fort Schuyler 2015 and 3000hp, Patuxent 2008 and 4200, and Kings Point 2014 and 3000.
Note the difference in “neck” length leading to the upper wheelhouse; that hints at the difference in engines.
Resolve, 2007 and 9280hp.
Brownsville, 2008 and 12,000hp.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is playing in the Great Lakes by this time.
Ivory Coast
Christian Reinauer
Ross Sea
C. Angelo
Scott Turecamo, New Hampshire, and Brendan Turecamo
Curtis and RTC 82
Mary Alice and Nan Lin Wan
Pearl Coast and Cement Transporter 1801
MSC Maureen, Jonathan C. Moran, and Kirby Moran
All photos taken in April 2018 by Will Van Dorp.
The harbor of NYC . . . the watery parts I call the sixth boro . . . is quite diverse. Bridgebuilder 22 (2012) I caught in Erie Basin,
where I also saw Miss Aida (2002), formerly known as American Muscle. Now that’s a name!!
Stephen B has been on the blog before, but this is the first time I had my camera with me as I passed Westchester Creek.
Treasure Coast was at Caddell Dry Dock and Repair earlier this month . . .
as were Evening Mist and Genesis Glory and
Pearl Coast.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
On a day in the sixth boro, you’ll see a lot of working boats that’ve been around a while. These are randomly chosen. Lynx dates from 1967.
Stephen Dann from 1999.
Weddell Sea from 2007 and Lincoln Sea, 2000.
Joyce D. Brown, 2002.
Buchanan 1 . . . is she aka Buchanan 10? If so, 1967.
Marty C, 1981.
Little C, 1988. She looks somewhat similar to Lil Rip.
Pearl Coast, looking huge out of the notch, 1978.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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