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Sticking to the format, days 5 and 6. Enjoy these from Salinas to Sacramento, traveling in the rain at the speed of light. I chose this representative group while drinking morning coffee as well as while sleeping. I’ve tried to arrange in chronological order.
It was too early to try the deep-fried artichokes at the “center of the world.”
Elkhorn Slough, and buildings of what once a dairy farm.
Pescadero Beach looking south and
north
Sausalito
includes a houseboat made of former City of Seattle and
barrage balloon barges.
Beached locals and
and grounded Polaris at Rodeo.
Sandra Hugh assists.
Delaware bunkers.
Cape Fear LASH in Saisun Bay.
Then farther into the Delta [the size and complexity of which I had grossly failed to appreciate] to transit the Sacramento River on The Real McCoy II portion of Route 84 and
then ride the levee looking for
All photos, any errors, WVD, with thanks to George Schneider for local knowledge. Not included here are the other 500+ photos I took.
It’s early in the month, so let’s do another look back a decade.
In 2014 the 1902 Philip T. Feeney was way beyond limbo but her tired shell was still on the bank at the foot of Port Richmond Avenue. I did lots of posts about the former canaller, but what a history we’d have if we still had her logbooks.
The 1905 ferry turned restaurant Binghamton was still trying to be there too, although her fate had been guaranteed by Hurricane Sandy, a fate she met in 2017. She too was the subject of many tugster posts.
Former Circle Line -II redubbed Diplomat was still afloat as well. I’m traveling and therefore without my library. Anyone help with her history?
Jennifer Turecamo here in the foreground has been working in the boro of late as Linda Sue. Gramma Lee T and James are still active. I can’t, but some of you might be able to identify the two other tugboats in the background, upper wheelhouses visible.
The 1982 Gulf Coast was working off the Carolina coast when last I checked.
Houma, a Jakobson Long Island product, was scrapped at its almost half-century mark in 2017.
The 1982 Huron Service, with its classic Candies lines, became Genesis Victory. Sydney Candies visited the boro in 2021 as Kurt J. Crosby. Here’s Huron Service in Hornbeck Offshore colors.
All photos taken 10 years ago this month and any errors, WVD.
A decade ago, Capt. Log delivered vital juices to boats around the sixth boro. On this particular February morning, we traveled the North River to feed to Classic Harbor Line fleet, here Manhattan.
Then, we crossed over to Brooklyn to top off the iconic Water Taxi fleet. Capt Log then and Chandra B now, this fueling happens, rain or shine, sweltering or
glazed. This vessel’s namesake was city royalty. Water conveyance using the sixth boro to link the other boros has grown in the past decade.
Stephen Reinauer pushed RTC 80 northbound.
Later, just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, Stephen Scott headed down through the Highlands with RTC 42.
Line crunched her way up to the Newburgh dock and then
eased out out and
made its way up to Saugerties, while Doris returned light from a mission. That’s the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.
Farther upstate at lock E-20, Governor Roosevelt and a bevy of NYS Canal tenders hibernated, some frozen in
and other just drained and frozen. Tender #7 was later reefed. Tender #4 was electrified, used for several seasons, but will be moved (has been?) permanently ashore in Amsterdam NY. I’m not sure we ever figured out what the third tender was.
All photos and any errors, 10 years ago this month, WVD.
Related, Fred Tug44 recorded E-20 here, and I did by water here and by bicycle here.
New Year’s dawn interests me much more than old year’s countdown away. These are some sights I saw in the first daylight of 2024.
Integrity and her barge were alongside IMTT; currently they’re Galveston bound and off Cape Hatteras.
Lincoln Sea has already been from IMTT to Providence and is heading back west.
Denali is New England bound as of this posting.
Count the boats here?
I’d say a dozen of more.
Teal Ray was just coming in, and has now
headed out for Tampa.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
Choosing a random starting point, I went to my photo files closest to each of the Thanksgivings between 2008 and 2016.
The holiday fell on the 27th that 2008. Of the photos I took –this one on the 23rd–here’s one I remember taking. ITBs were not very common in the sixth boro then, extinct now. Maybe someone reading this was then working on the now-dead 1982 ITB Groton. More on ITBs here. And 18,000 horsepower!? pushing 360k+ barrel barges, were they cost effective? Presque Isle, a laker, is technically an ITB. I saw it once this past season, but in darkness and the photos are mostly just a blur.
From 2009, here’s a shot of Volunteer. K-Sea equipment was omnipresent in the boro back then. Volunteer was launched in 1982 as well, and scrapped in 2018.
Thanksgiving 2010 I was in Philadelphia, where I am today. That day I was impressed by this crewman, likely at prayer, on the bow of this bulk carrier undaunted by the seasonal precipitation.
In 2011, just before Thanksgiving, the walkway was still on the west side of the Bayonne Bridge. In the distance that’s the ghost island of Shooters, with a Donjon dredging operation and a Bouchard unit on the north side.
I loved watching traffic pass from that walkway, as with Maersk Kentucky getting an assist around Bergen Point from Elizabeth McAllister. Resolute was forward on the port side and out of sight. Elizabeth McAllister was scrapped in 2021, but Maersk Kentucky is currently near Colon, Panama, so I guess these vessels are not all ghosts.
In 2012, Zim Virginia headed out of town with some pickup trucks, Barbara McAllister alongside. The Zim ship is currently off Spain, and Barbara is now Patsy K, with another company. The pickups . . . I’m not sure where they are.
In 2013, John F. Kennedy still regularly transited the Upper Bay
Thanksgiving 2014 I was in Philadelphia again, checking out some of the equipment there. USNS Guam (T-HST-1) today is in Okinawa.
2015 on Thanksgiving I was exploring the boro with the good folks at NY Media Boat, and here meeting Amy C McAllister. I don’t know her disposition and whereabouts at this moment.
Let’s end today’s post on Thanksgiving Eve 2016 in Little Falls NY, where former Belgian cargo barge Sojourn was exiting lock 17, downbound for the sixth boro. That looks like Robert on the forward deck, too. And those streaks, that’s some more seasonal precipitation, which we’ve been spared so far in the the sixth boro this year.
All photos, any errors, WVD. If you’re interested, I could do the same with Thanksgivings 2018 up through the present.
Meanwhile, I hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving Day today.
I’m late to posting, but I wasn’t late for sunrise.
Solar Madelein rode the flood tide at anchor,
Regulus headed out to where farms might be while ferry John A. Noble shuttled the early folks across the Bay
a ULCV followed the inbound channel beneath a large incoming aircraft,
Laura K tested out the fire monitor,
another big pink ULCV followed in another . . . one from Halifax and the other from Charleston,
a large soaring bird certainly not a turkey surveyed it all,
and Doris went to a job along with
Yankee.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’d like to send out this PSA: if you get a FB request from anyone, first check if you might already be friends with that person. Spoofers lurk out there impersonating real folks.
A geological surprise for me is that Manitoulin Island–as are the Bruce and Door Peninsula–is part of the same structure better known as the Niagara Escarpment . . . . I’d say a new name is needed to cover the totality of that same huge dolomite cap.
Manitoulin is an island of many distinctions . . . twice now, though, I’ve driven only Route 6, as well as sailed past Great Duck Island.
Behold the “great canoe” arriving in South Baymouth.
If you couldn’t open the link above [because you don’t have FB], try this one. About that paint job, it’s not paint.
During the crossing to Tobermory, Sharon M I crossed ahead of us, on a trip to Little Current.
Pollen floated everywhere.
I was told Cove Island has an isolated population of black bears, but I find no evidence of that online.
Several companies run glass-bottom boat tours around Fathom Five National Marine Park for sights
like these sea stacks and
shipwrecks, this one seen right over the side.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Let’s start with Poverty Island . . . and the light considered the US most endangered lighthouse.
Candace Elise used to operate as Stephen Dann.
Manitowoc makes its way west into Lake Michigan.
Buckthorn backs out of Mackinac Island and heads for Lake Superior.
In a short time, two footers passed by: American Integrity headed west.
Corsair brought in the hay and flowers . . for horses and bees maybe.
Burns Harbor made its way back up to Superior. Burns and Integrity are two of the 13 “footers” working on the upper Lakes.
John D. Leitch has an unmistakeable profile.
Two more “footers” awaited us before we got to Sugar Island.
That’s Sugar Islander II in between the two boats, and that’s where we’ll start next post.
I love the hanging benches and bicycle on the balconies of American Century.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
This post encompasses two legs, but WiFi has not been cooperative.
Minimal comment: this is the eight-mile Confederation Bridge. Toll to cross by car: $CD 50.
Bridge Lady is pilot boat to retrieve the pilot who departed with us at Charlottetown.
After a rough passage north along the Gaspé coastline, we enter the lower estuary, where a cold welcome awaited.
Near Les Éboulements aka “the landslides,” this tug Felicia still adorns the shore.
From the ferry dock near there, Svanoy shuttled over to Isle aux Coudres.
As we approached the end of that first leg at QC, Ocean Guide came by to exchange pilots.
Kitikmeot W, Nordic Orion, and Spruceglen were in port.
as were the two powerhouses, Ocean Taiga and Ocean Tundra.
Departing I had my first opportunity to see Vincent Massey. Four years ago she was undergoing transformation here.
Torm Timothy headed for sea.
A pilot exchange happened just downstream from Montreal,
where Uhl Fast was in port.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
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