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BW2M, being “backwards to Montreal” and here, it’s aggregate land. Once it was about coal and brick coming down river and into the systems…. long before my time…. but today it’s earth products moving both ways.
You can’t have the supertall buildings of 57th etc. or the new streets and bridges without rock.
Frances stands by as the crushed Catskill is conveyed in.
Two loaded Witte barges wait for a prime mover
with what appears to be slightly different cargoes.
Meanwhile, Mister Jim pushes a barge load of sand upriver for projects there.
I’m not sure the function of this equipment.
Doesn’t this look like southern New Jersey sand?
Cement moves out and
down bound, while
salt comes upriver to nearly salt country from the ocean.
Later, Frances arrives in the sixth boro with barges from two different locations for materials for projects in the dryland boros
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes he got all of that right.
Today’s post takes us from Port Colborne to Cleveland.
I’ll do another post about the MRC yard later. You can click here to see what these two looked like last year.
Algorail is nearly gone and work has already begun on Algoway.
At the Buffalo breakwater, Kathy Lynn was standing by with barge to receive concrete rubble, I think.
NACC Argonaut departs the Buffalo River for Bath, ON.
Manitoulin heads west.
Paul L. Luedtke tows scow #70. Is that Ashtabula in the background?
GL Cleveland assists barge Delaware out of the Cuyahoga…
until Calusa Coast clears the RR bridge and Cleveland returns to the barn.
All photos Will Van Dorp
The 1963 Patricia is always a head-turner, and she was especially so the other morning. The longer I look at the photo below, the more I imagine it framed.
Her throaty sound catches the ear as well. Am I mistaken or has that color scheme changed a bit?
Carolina Coast makes the sugar run all year round, but that billowing spinnaker clearly states the season.
Nathan G has been spending a lot of time of late on runs outside the VZ Bridge.
Here, a busy distant Bayonne port as seen from Owls Head, is Genesis Victory with barge GM 6506 and a very busy background, as
she gets assisted into a lightening position by Pegasus.
James D. Moran escorts a quite empty Leo C.
toward Port Elizabeth.
Discovery Coast here takes on Edwin A. Poling. It amazes me that the sylvan shoreline beyond the unit is actually in New York City and masks a dense residential area.
Moments before she was headed in from an anchorage area.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who favors another shot of Patricia.
This post, beginning with Miriam Moran juxtaposed with downtown Newark NJ, is intended to demonstrate just how diverse the sixth boro is, in terms of vessels and shorelines. Has Miriam been in the sixth boro all of its 40-year career?
Ernest Campbell is 10 years older than Miriam, and did the better part of a decade up in Alaska.
Sapphire Coast, stemming here in the East River just off Rockefeller University, was launched in 1982.
In the KVK, Stephen B, 1983, is trying to pass as Hen B.
Pacific Reliance, launched in 2006, was designed for long hauls.
Kenny G, in its distinctive blue livery, has appeared on this blog several times, but I’ve never learned where and when she was built. Here she’s working on refurbishing to Pier 40. Check out this link to Pier 40 as a prep to a series I’m starting in a few days.
At one point, C. F. Campbell was in the same fleet as the vessels that became DonJon’s Atlantic Salvor and Atlantic Enterprise.
And finally, it’s Harbor II, as before, in the Harlem River with the 44th precinct NYPD station in the background.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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.
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