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Enjoy this sampling of boats and the dates associated with their launch starting from Arabian Sea (2007) on Dry Dock No. 7,
Stephen Reinauer (1970) nearby on 4,
Miss Circle Line . . . (1954 as ST 2124 and later Betsy) ,
Alex McAllister (1985),
Joyce D. Brown (2002) headed home after completing the daily chores,
Crystal Coast (1983) and Justin (1981) heading south into the Chesapeake,
JRT Moran (2016) holding onto an argosy,
Ivory Coast (1967) waiting on the next job,
All photos by Will Van Dorp (1952).
Unrelated, for a long interpretation of Moby Dick (1851) and connections between “grammar school literature” like the Odyssea (est. 1000 BCE) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) and connections with folk songs, listen to Bob Dylan (1941) making his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2017) here . . . It’s the best 27 minutes of listening you’ll do today, I believe.
Sometimes I like to start new categories so that the numbers don’t get so high, boats no longer extant or frequent get a second look, and we realize that time is passing pretty fast. So all the photos here I took more than seven years ago. Some have been on the blog before, but not together and not edited exactly as they are now.
Like Norwegian Sea, she used to be a wintertime staple running up the River, easily recognizable by her upper wheelhouse.
Juliet is still around but not very busy under her new name . . . it seems.
This boat, like her namesake, is gone too soon. Pegasus is still around but no longer looks this way.
Zeus was on the Great Lakes after working in the sixth boro, but I’ve lost track of her.
Volunteer, another unmistakable profile, now long time gone from here.
Zachery . . . still around and still working. High Peace is now registered Vietnamese and goes by Pvt Dolphin.
Just to break the pattern here, here’s a photo I took of Zachery a few days ago.
Take my word for this last photo . . . the distant unit I can’t identify although I’m guessing a Reinauer boat, but the closer vessel is outrageous. Actually I mean Outrageous. That’s the name. Click here (and scroll) for a previous photo of Outrageous, which I believe used to be based in the sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Kirby Moran here seems to have some symbiosis going on with the gulls,
and Jonathan C comes in for a closer look.
Zachery Reinauer repositions light under the parking lot forming on the lower deck of the Bayonne Bridge.
Diana B moves another load of product, likely to the creeks.
Thomas D. Witte is on the paper recycling run, I think.
Does anyone have a photo of her working up in the canals?
I’ve not yet seen Sapphire Coast light.
And finally, the unique paint scheme on Balisco 100
moved into the Kills by Navigator.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
With apologies all around . .. I am tardy in posting some of the photos I enjoy getting from you all readers. Tardiness . . . my only argument is that I am very busy with projects that will come out at some point.
Like this one that Ted M sent in response to my Turmoil post some weeks ago. Jason Reinauer is towing Turmoil–an older iteration– astern. I believe I saw Acadian Freedom in Chelsea last year, but don’t have a photo to prove it. Here’s what I did put up from that reconnoitre.
And thanks to Jed, here’s Pearl Coast, taken recently, and
photo 4 MARCH 2017
Pati R Moran, taken not so recently.
photo date 16 OCT 2008
I once had photos of the green boat below and below, but I think I deleted them out of frustration of NOT being able to determine its history. It stood here in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for a while, but scuttlebutt is that it has been scrapped. These next four photos come thanks to Paul Strubeck, busy with projects of his own.
Can anyone fill in any of the blanks as related to this green boat?
Paul also made a trip around part of Lake Michigan recently and took these photos in Green Bay–GL Texas and North Dakota—
and below the bow of Stewart J. Cort, my guess is Minnesota and Oklahoma. The GL tugs are really amazing, with combined thousands of years of work. As to Cort, she’s back at work, bow that the Great Lakes has reawakened.
The Maraki crew is underway again also, in the Bahamas, but before leaving panther land, which generated these and these unusual photos, they got these photos of Rikki S and
Jane.
Thanks again to Ted, Jed, Paul, and the Maraki crew for these photos. how does the French saying . . . (mien vast hard due jambs. eh?) Wow, that’s what autocorrect did with my foreign language. I’ll try again: Mieux vaut tard que jamais.
Today’s spotlight’s is Emerald Coast, Long Island, Tangier Island, Sassafras, and Brooklyn . . .
Hats off–No
keep hats and gloves on– but bravo to the folks who safely move
our fuel.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the two previous posts by this title, and more.
Juxtaposed boats invite comparison, allow perception of subtle difference, here between Marion and Doris.
It also gives a sense of the random traffic patterns, here about to pass the impatient Peking are (l to r) Michael Miller, Charles Burton, and way in the distance Robert E. McAllister.
Here , a few seconds later, Charles Burton‘s barge CVA-601 is about to obscure Chandra B–on a ship assist?– and Miriam Moran.
Here, from l to r, it’s Sapphire Coast, Charles Burton, Evening Mist, Ellen S. Bouchard, Robert E. McAllister, Scott Turecamo, and Erin McAllister. 
And a quarter hour later and from a different vantage point, it’s Stena Companion, Cielo di Milano, a Miller launch, Maersk Phoenix, and NCS Beijing.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Thanks to all of you who send me photos. M & M McMorrow sent this photo taken at Atlantic Highlands just before Christmas. And yes,
Delta is the best Christmas red. I can’t seem to find a tugboat in the NMFS.NOAA registry called just “Delta.” Someone help out?
Richie Ryden took these photos just before New Year’s, sending them along with the note “I took these pic’s on 12/28/16 on the Hackensack River between Rt 3 east & west Bridges , It looks like they a are rebuilding the marina there !!! I saw Reliable from Coastline Marine Towing out of Belford NJ switching barges empty for a full one with old pilings on it ! look at your blog all the time keep up the good work !!!! Happy New Year !!!!”
Happy New Year, Richie! And I have to admit I can find nothing about previous owners of Reliable also, although the late great John Skelson had a photo of her from a while back sans the upper house here. Richie’s photos also helped solidify my image of what this vessel looks like compared with another Reliable that languishes up on the Oswego Canal.
Jed sent me this photo just after the start of 2017 with the note “Happy New Year from Maryland. Here is your first tug of 2017, the ten-year-old Belgian Union Grizzly that I saw on the Scheldt in 2012.” Thx Jed. And since that time, she’s sent a half dozen more photos of European tugboats, which I’ll post soon.
And Tyler Jones must be losing his patience: he sent me this photo back on November 1, and I still have not put it up. What I love about this photo, Tyler, is the fog giving the impression that Coral Coast pushing a cement barge upriver at Poughkeepsie is weightless, floating lazily on the clouds. Thx much, Tyler.
Jan van der Doe periodically sends me photos from Canadian Lake Ontario ports. He didn’t identify this boat although I’m wondering if it’s Lac Manitoba, which capsized on the Ottawa River back in June 2015.
In Hamilton harbor, here’s (l to r) Florence M, Tony Mackay, and James A. Hannah. Hannah is a sister of Bloxom, the cover model for my documentary about the Arthur Kill graveyard and the most intact tugboat in the graveyard on the Arthur Kill.
And finally, on December 12, here are more McKeil boats tied up in Hamilton.
Thanks much M & M, Richie, Jed, Tyler, and Jan.
I realize that snow days occur here every year, even though not as frequently as they might farther north, but the movement of a squall across the boros rewards with interesting photos in spite of the cold.
At 0925 the other day, Maersk Edgar was in the clear although a squall concealed the lower Manhattan skyline.
Here’s zoomed in closer because I hoped to confirm the unit to the left as Kirby’s Rebel, which I’ve not seen in ages. I hope I see her close up before she leaves town.
Corpus Christi was clear.
At 10:00 Weeks’ tugs Thomas and Shelby moved in to retrieve a crane as soon as they completed the salt pile job. That’s Dreggen in the background. Nearly eight years ago Thomas and a crane were involved in a job that involved fishing out a certain geese-ingesting aircraft from a forgiving North River.
Red Hook moves a barge past a snow-cloaked IMTT.
Emerald Coast heads out at 11:37.
Peking appears from the edge of space.
And here by noon, I was disappointed in my hopes to get a photo of Hyundai Pluto, entirely invisible beyond ACL Atlantic Cartier. The port may have been closed around this time because Hyundai Pluto had arrived inside the Upper Bay, then spun around–not a lightly undertaken feat–and headed out to the Long Beach anchorage. Atlantic Cartier anchored in Gravesend, and Atlantic Conveyer did the same off Stapleton, not a common occurrence for a containership. Or maybe I just misunderstood what what going on, my perception beshrouded from myself.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
On the cusp of wintriness if not winter per se, the Hudson Valley is spectacular. Let’s start with Fred Johannsen pushing this crane barge northward. That’s the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge aka George Clinton Memorial Bridge (DeWitt Clinton’s uncle) in the distance.
Here Treasure Coast urges Cement Transporter 7700–one I’ve never seen before–the last mile to the cement dock.
This reflection was so magical, I needed to include this closer-up.
Emerald Coast pushes a fuel barge downstream.
Sarah D moves a motley pair of scows upstream.
Eastern Dawn moves a fuel barge downstream.
Mr Russell shifts a barge near the TZ Bridge. What is in those tanks?
Might that be Marion Moran pushing sugar barge Somerset up toward Yonkers?
I believe this is Doris Moran moving cement barge Adelaide downriver.
And as a last-but-not-least photo today, here’s Cornell conducting a TOAR sign off session. Here’s a post I did three years ago with the same activity but using a different barge.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a proposal below:
If you are working Thursday and therefore having lunch and/or dinner at work–whether on a vessel or in some other work setting–and you choose to take a photo of the dinner–any aspect of the meal–and send it to me, please do and I’ll try to devise a post with it on Friday this week. Thanks for the consideration.
Also, you may be “choosing” ed out by now, but here’s a set of thoughtful, well-reasoned and -articulated perspectives on the Hudson anchorages question that is open to public discussion until early December.
Also, if you’re planning to be at the WorkBoat show in New Orleans next week, I’ll be wandering around there, maybe looking for some extra work. I hope to see you.
What’s prompted the reappearance of the past here is that I’ve been sorting my archives.
So let’s start in April 2008, and this vessel will reappear tomorrow. I miss that orange in the harbor.
This is November 2009. Where is McAllister Brothers (built as Dalzelleagle) these days?
This is what Eagle Service (now Genesis Eagle) looked like in March 2010.
Here’s a closer up of the vintage Horizon ship. Is she still in lay up?
Ivory Coast, headed into the KVK here on a foggy morning, appeared almost to be floating on air above the water’s surface.
And here, a mysterious swimmer, Edith Thornton (now in Trinidad as Chassidy?), and a Hanjin ship.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders who says things stay the same.
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