Random Tugs 121

Guess the locations here and . . .

here?  Answers follow.

This one should be obvious.  What’s the Philly-bound tug?

It’s Lucky D.

Here’s Chesapeake Coast, probably North River and then Hudson River bound.

B. Franklin Reinauer is Sound-bound.

And some light tugs . . . Elizabeth,

Joan Turecamo,

Chesapeake,

Megan McAllister, 

. . . Margaret Moran and Pegasus.

The top two were . . . locations were Chao Phraya River in Bangkok and the Staten Island side of the Narrows, with tug Gulf Dawn outbound.   Click here for some Thai tugs from almost seven years ago.  Thanks much to Ashley Hutto for the first photo.

Random Tugs 120

This first foto is by a secret salt . . . showing Dory (1978) and Captain Zeke (1980) tandem towing  beach-lounging 125′ deck barge back onto the water.

And  . . . attributed by the watermark . . . fotos from last week before Janus chilled the town,  Atlantic Conveyor gets an assist from Charles D. McAllister (1967).

Shelby (1978) also worked in the January fog.  Thanks, Brian.

And the rest of the fotos are mine:  the seldom-seen Specialist (1956?), here close and

closer.

Two Coasts . . . Chesapeake (2011) and Emerald (1973).

Resolute (1975) about to pass Düsseldorf Express (1998),

And from Philly . . .  High Roller (1969) with The Recycler (1989 . . . from THE George Steinbrenner’s yard in Nashville, TN.  Here’s some history on The Recycler and its twin.

Many thanks to the secret salt and Brian DeForest for their fotos.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

Half Hour of the Narrows

Here was 30 minutes from another vantage point.  Yesterday I left for work early and had a half hour or so to kill from Fort Wadsworth.  Seeing Ital Laguna and CMA CGM Matisse leaving together convinced me to stop there.    Meanwhile a larger and

smaller fishing boat arrive.  I recognize this boat, although I don’t know its name.  See it the last foot here.

First Coast moves in from somewhere beyond Norton’s Point.

Rays now rake across the top of the manifold on Freja Nordica as it enters the Narrows and

passes an outbound Franklin Reinauer.

Recognize the profile?

It’s Ellen.   I’ve no horse that shakes harness bells to suggest I move along, but I know I have –if no promises to keep–then . .  work to do, appointments to meet.

All fotos by Will Van Drop.

 

Other Peoples Fotos 27

Darell T. Gilbert took this foto . . .  a hot air balloon over the water in Red Hook around the 5th of January.  WTF?!@#@!!  Anyone know the story?

Thanks to Sam Zapadinsky . . . can you identify this creature walking on the icy upper Hudson?  Coyote?  Here’s a post from a few years ago of eagles on the mostly frozen river.

Sam also took this foto from the tug Frances, which

is the forwardmost tug in this foto by Bob Dahringer.    Frances and Kathleen Turecamo move crude oil tanker Afrodite into the dock in Albany, one of many water tasks that happens whether the temperatures are 0 or 100.

And finally, Mike Abegg took this foto of Alice Oldendorff in the Brooklyn Navy yard, taking on

fuel.  Quantico Creek and a Dann Marine boat (either Chesapeake or Discovery Coast) assist with this operation in the ice-choked area around the docks.

Thanks much to Darell, Sam, Bob, and Mike for these fotos.

Click here for Bob Dahringer’s YouTube videos, recently with a lot of ice.

Check this video report on USCG ice-breaking in the upper Hudson as well as this one of Ellen McAllister shifting ships safely on cold days.

Now here from Harbin, China is a completely other reaction to cold weather.

Random Sixth Boro 6

It’s snowing in the sixth boro now, but Sunday–between threatening clods–it looked like this.

Let’s start with Discovery Coast and GCS 236.

Shelby passing Grace D of

D & G Launch Service . . .

Buchanan 12, again light . . .

And a close up of Discovery Coast . . .

and another ending with Robbins Reef Light, which looked like this in 1951.

All fotos taken on Sunday by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you can come to the auction at Noble Maritime this Friday evening.

Random Pretty Scenes

See it there on AIS between Samuel Newhouse and Grave Grace Victoria?  Pretty Scene . . . and I missed getting a foto of it!!  I also recently missed getting fotos of potentially pretty scenes–or mediocre pics of vessels with interesting names like African Jaguar, Afrodite, and Great Reward.

Given that “pretty” is as subjective as the ocean is wide, you can judge whether you find these random scenes at all pretty.   Can you guess the tug to the right?

Try this . . . the pair of Brown family  boats with a couple of Weeks crane barges, or

G. B. Corrado by day at the salt pile where the Weeks crane barges  transfer the cargo and

by darkness at the same location passing a large MSC Sindy, 

a McAllister tug escorting out a RORO, or

a Dann Marine tug backing into a dock to pivot in place a bunker barge, or

a Moran tug putting power on the stern of a container ship?

I think they’re pretty scenes all.   And that tug up on the drydock in the first foto . . . Marjorie B. McAllister.

Here’s another from Erie Shipping News . . . Yankee has arrived in Erie for her makeover.   Here is the last time this same Yankee–the 1976 tugboat–has appeared in this blog.

Random Tugs 111

Robert E. McAllister has quickly become my favorite tugboat in the sixth boro.  I know how fickle that sounds . . .  But here, muscling Victorious Ace around under cover of darkness, Robert E. is incomparable.

Of course, Margaret Moran nudging in Carnival Glory is no slouch either.

As many in the sleeping city have eyes closed, not everyone does.  Mary Alice (I think) grabs scows by the pair.

Sarah Dann and scow have invisible bottoms as WTC1 has no top.   I hope to put up some nekkid hull pics soon.   To see nekkid car carrier hulls like Victorious Ace, click here.

Behold Discovery Coast, sleepless in the sixth boro.

Ellen,  . . .  whom I’ve long admired and still do, I’m happy to meet

your sister.   According to this 2004 article, McAllister had at that time converted over a dozen of these.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Random Tugs 110

Random, recent, and variously sourced.

The closeup of Nanticoke pushing Doubleskin 57 toward the Goethals Bridge below comes compliments of Allen Baker.

I took this foto of Robert E. McAllister.

Marie J. Turecamo here assists Barney Turecamo, pushing

the 118,000 barrel barge Georgia.

Four of the Dann Marine tugs:  l to r, Emerald, Chesapeake in the distance, First,  and Calusa . . . all Coast.

Pegasus . . . the former John E. McAllister and so much more . . . the only tug in the sixth boro that today still excurses (yup . .  that’s a word!) for the public.

First Coast, the former

Morania No. 18 . . .  See the traces of “R–A–N” in the painted metal?

Over in the East River, it’s Bruce A. and

Charles D. McAllister.   See the McAllister striped Rosenwach wooden water tank on the building upper skyline left?

From l’amiga .  .  it’s another shot of Patricia, a 1963 tug built in Port Deposit, MD.

And last but not least . . .  just cellphone-snapped by chance by Birk Thomas yesterday, it’s Miss Lis, which at this writing is about to steam past Sandy Hook on her way out of the sixth boro.  What’s remarkable about this foto is that Birk caught this Tradewinds tug in the last two miles of a journey that started in LA!   I feel like there should be a brass band playing or some other celebration of completion.   Click here to my previous “seeing” of another Tradewinds tug.

Click on this foto below . . . and if you have a Facebook account, you should be able to see Tradwinds Towing’s FB page.

Fotos should be credited as I tried to indicate;  non credited ones by Will Van Dorp.

Other Peoples Fotos 23

Here was 22.

Fotos today come from David Gardiner and Paul Strubeck.  David took fotos 1 and 3 on September 1 at dawn.  More of David’s beautiful work can be found at DaveGarPhoto.

Paul–who has frequently contributed fotos  on this blog including one of my all-time favorites here–says both fotos here were taken in the Welland Canal.  The one below dates from 1978.

Another of David’s fotos of Discovery Coast.

This one from Paul dates from 1974.

And a half hour before David took the spectacular sunrise fotos in Gowanus Bay on September 1, I took this one of James Turecamo, an indefatigeable 44-year-old.

Many thanks to David and Paul.

Around the Sixth Boro 3

Here was ASB 2.  There might be eight million stories in the naked city, but in its primary boro aka the sixth boro at least half again that number of other stories could be told  . .  by the collective whoever knows them.

Captain Zeke moves with the diverse stone trade past folks waiting below our very own waving girl and

all those folks waving and taking fotos from the ferry and every other water conveyance.

The 1950 Nantucket‘s back in town . .  for the winter.

Yup . . . no one could have predicted these . . .

back when Shearwater was launched in 1929.

A cruise ship shuffles passengers as Peter F. Gellatly bunkers.

Kristy Ann Reinauer stands by a construction barge.

Mary A. Whalen . . . is a survivor from another time.

A barge named Progress has returned to South Street Seaport Museum, here between Wavertree and Peking.

Emerald Coast is eastbound on the East River.

Two views of Adirondack, one with WTC1 –or is it 1 WTC or something else–and

another with the Arabian Sea unit.

And Sea Wolf heads north . . . .

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.