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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.
Here are the previous weather posts. Below . . . that’s easy: it’s a local shower; Evening Tide and Evening Light were in the rain, and I was not, yet.
But a half hour later at the opposite end of the KVK, the clouds were truly wild. Is there a word for these conditions? Again, it wasn’t raining at my location.
Air currents swirled beyond the busy waterway, l to r, Stolt Loyalty, Stone 1, Phoenix Dream, Kimberly Turecamo, and Hoegh Seoul assisted by Bruce A. McAllister.
The Stolt tanker passes Graecia Aeterna before meeting the wild swirl head-on.
Add one more tug to the mix.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d like to know what you call this type of fast-moving dispersal of fog.
Suppose we go back to “random tugs 2,” which was 10 years and two and a half months ago. What might be the same? Answer follows. These photos I took last week. Alex and Capt. Brian were not around when I did the #2 post.
Craig Eric Reinauer was, but the barge RTC 103 likely was not.
In 2007, Diane B had a different name and was a Kirby machine. Now she’s a creek-specialist and pushing John Blanche.
Here’s the best photo I got of Millville and 1964, the newest unit most likely to pass through the harbor.
Emerald Coast heads westbound.
Oleander passes Normandy. Anyone know why Bermuda Islander (I got no photo.) was in town last week?
And Evening Tide is eastbound in the KVK. So just by chance, if you look at Random Tugs 2, Evening Tide is there as well.
And since we started with a team of escort boats, have a look at these: (l to r) JRT, Miriam, James D, and Kirby Moran.
All photos taken last week by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous posts in this series. So what is this?
It’s an ultra deepwater geotechnical drilling vessel. It’s not drilling in the Upper Bay . . .
although it has the gear to do so.
With that helo pad above the wheelhouse, it looks to be what is associated with ports like Rio and Fourchon.
“Fugro”? The name goes back to 1962: “On 2 May 1962, Kees Joustra launches his own firm, whose name translates as Engineering Company for Foundation technology and Soil Mechanics, in short ‘Fugro’. ”
Above Fugro Explorer takes on fuel from Emerald Coast. I was fortunate to get these photos–she’s been in and out of the harbor several times in the past half year–before she made through the East River bound for New Bedford, where she has now arrived. She would have been a sight to behold on the East River, but omnipresence is not easy to manage, even in our sci-fi 2018 world.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s more on Fugro, “Ingenieursbureau voor Funderingstechniek en Grondmechanica.” Fugro provided one of the vessels involved in the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
And speaking of sci-fi, I’ve recently immersed myself in augmented reality experiences…
As this blog evolves, I sometimes try to show what’s up in those hills, as seen from the hills like this one in March 2017, instead of
what you see in instances when then light is unfavorable.
Olana is the hilltop mansion above the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, built by an artist whose commercial success allowed him to travel, become inspired by the 19th century “near east,” and scrap his plans to engage architect Richard Morris Hunt and instead design and build a neo-Persian palace on the site where once he painted with his mentor Thomas Cole, whose home was just across the bridge in Catskill.
The photo below looks down the Hudson Valley toward the south.
This looks along the south side of the house facing west and the town of Catskill. Kaaterskill Falls is lost somewhere below the front of the jet trail.
Looking out a south side window, there’s a northbound tug/barge just barely visible.
Directly behind me are these treasures. Mark Twain–see his own house here— once stood on that stage and discoursed on all things wise, hilarious, exotic, and jaundiced.
I used the word “treasure” above because here’s a closer-up of that unit approaching from the south–it’s Pearl Coast with a cement barge.
And now a more focused view along the south side and toward the Rip . . . Bridge, see the tug/barge there southbound?
It’s Treasure Coast, with another cement barge. I know there’s a work of Church’s with a steam ship on it, but it’s so far eluded me.
Olana is just one place up on the hilly banks, and so other many places along the river I hope to visit . . . one of these months or years.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has posted Hudson Valley photos here and here, and in many other places as well.
As to seeing Olana from the river, here’s what morning light does,
and here below, late afternoon.
Go visit Olana some time in 2018, and while you’re there, visit the Cole home across the river..
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