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Here are more photos from May 1. Betsy Ross is a product of Yank Marine in Tuckahoe, New Jersey.
Here, r to l, are three generations of sixth boro people movers . . . Betsy Ross, Garden State, and the new NYCFerry known as H202 for now. Garden State was launched in 1994.
H202 crosses the bow of the mighty Helen Parker.
By an hour later, Betsy Ross is already roaring back from across Raritan Bay.
Closing shot is H202 wheelhouse as seen from the upper passenger deck . . . approaching the Marine Parkway Bridge.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is preparing to head back northward on the ICW, which I’ll call Gallatin’s Ditch.
I read the sign and decided to
wait until the greeters had left and then
bought a round trip ticket at Pier 11 for less than what I’d pay for a bagel and coffee
and got on the next ride to the Rockaways. If you want to know specs and dimensions and such right now, click here. Or wait, and guess who built the power plant and what the passenger capacity is, and I’ll tell you some of that at the end.
After a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, we zoomed out towards the VZ at 25 knots, past Coney Island,
through the goalposts at Marine Parkway, and
to the new Rockaway dock,
where shuttles gathered or distributed potential passengers.
Then it was back to Pier 11 in the
pea soup thick
fog.
So the power plant is Baudoin Marine. Passenger capacity is 150. The captain requires a 100-ton license. Here’s the NYTimes story.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s headed for the confluence of the Saluda, Congaree, and Broad soon.
Lomer-Gouin and
Alfonse Desjardins are twin 1971 ferries, or traversiers operating between Quebec City and Levis, but the organization has ferries between many other points on the St. Lawrence as well.
The word traversiers is easy to trace and associate, but the derivation of ferry is from Norse.
These are no double ended ferries like those big orange ones in the sixth boro.
And the bow seems designed to ride up on and crush the ice.
Now I don’t know if there are still openings, but the sixth boro will soon have a more inclusive set of ferry stops as well. I believe you can find the notices here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who was too late for the ice canoe races this year, but next year, I’ll be there. You have to see the photos in that link.
Hats off to the small boats that work all year round . . . crew boats,
patrol boats,
fishing boats,
line boats,
pilot boats,
dive boats,
more fishing boats,
more crew boats,
government boats,
more —soon to face major cuts--government boats
more line and boom boats,
and here’s a special . . . a historic life boat, long atop Binghamton, which is still intact as far as I know, and a bit longer ago had
guys in hazmat suits doing the last ever lifeboat drill aboard the 112-year-old condemned ferry.
And finally, of course there’s the New York Media Boat.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who gives a hat tip to all the crews in small boats on the big waters.
A week and a bit ago just after noon one day,
I caught CMA CGM Moliere heading for Port Elizabeth
and the next morning just before 9, I caught her bound for sea.
I’ve no idea how many boxes were shifted, but that’s not a lot of time in port.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who thinks you might be interested in reading this Workboat article about the new fleet of passenger boats heading from MetalShark to the sixth boro soon.
Let me start with the oldest ones not yet published. There’s something timely about Tracy, the vessel below. I took the photo from mid river between Ogdensburg NY and Prescott ON. Are you hankering for a project? Details below.
The next day I got this photo as we entered Oswego. RV Kaho was christened in this post I did a little over two years before. Its mission is research on habitat and fish in Lake Ontario. Here’s an article on that christening that mentions the meaning of the name in Ojibwe.
I shot this last week as it was tied up at the dry dock in Bayonne, and wish I could have gotten closer. Ferdinand R. Hassler was christened in 2012. Its namesake is this gentleman, distinguished in two countries.
Line has had light work this season in its role as a 65′ ice breaker. Here’s an article I did on this 54-year-old vessel a few years back.
I’m not sure where 343 is these days; Feehan seems to be covering the North River these days. Click here for photos of Feehan as she transited from Lake Ontario to the sixth boro.
Fire Fighter II passes the hose rack–not water hoses–on the KVK.
And here’s a twofer… a Staten Island ferry and a small USACE survey boat, I believe.
So here’s why the top photo of Tracy is timely; it’s for sale. The minimum bid is $250,000 Canadian, which is a mere $189,880 US, given today’s exchange rate.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
If you depart at 0400, there’s not much to photograph. Light beckoned as we approached Newburgh/Beacon.
I saw Mt. Beacon as I never had before;
ditto Storm King in sunrise that even dappled
the wave tops.
Once around Gee Point, we saw the statue (to the left on the ridge)
of Kościuszko’s, fortifier of West Point.
Once south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, passengers traveled upstream
for seasonal seesighting.
Scrap was sought.
Sloops sailed and
work boats waited their time.
More statues sighted, and
vessels waited their time.
And we had arrived at a place where at least two boros approached each other.
Will Van Dorp, who took these photos, is back in the boros for a while.
Here’s the series that this follows, a series that shows how busy this craneship still is at certain times of the year. Of course, this could also be called what do you do with an obsolete New York City ferry, a vessel delivered by Electric Boat on October 14, 1929 and replaced by a bridge in fewer than 10 years.
Yes, this is the bow of the craneship, and until I spent a day on board last fall, I assumed the bow wheel was non-functioning if even present.
Excuse the rain spot.
Closeups of bow and
stern.
Here’s a shot from the deck of Wards Island from the incredible warm late November day last year when we pulled a day’s worth of buoys from Oneida Lake, and at the
end of the day, getting a glimpse of the builders plate in the engine compartment.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I’ve made myself back to the sixth boro by train now, and I’m succumbing to “train lag,” which means I’m allowing myself a few days to put up chronologically arranged photos before focusing on some scene that caught me and haven’t let go. The Quebec City-Levis ferries are part of a huge network.
The Coast Guard base is just below–way below–Château Frontenac, where a fateful conference took place in 1943.
An excursion boat has as namesake a Quebecois–same guy the extra ‘l’ notwithstanding– who undertook a significant journey with a priest.
Ocean has a huge base in the old port. I plan a host of Ocean posts soon.
I don’t know if Nordik Express still makes this journey, but I intend to find out.
Django dates from 1928, but more than that, I know nothing.
And finally, back from a job, Ocean Henry Bain returns from a job, passing the pilots’ station.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who recalls this morning as a day that lives in infamy. In remembrance, check out the first photo here.
On the river Rouge, SS Ste Claire languishes, a slightly younger sister of SS Columbia, both designed by Frank Kirby. I’m reminded in saying this that I have some updated photos of Columbia, but plan to devote an entire post to her.
City of Algonac is one of two ferries that traverse the St. Clair River between Algonac and Walpole.
Here’s the other, the Walpole Islander. For some info on Walpole Island, click here.
Now cruising the river between Detroit and Windsor, Macassa Bay used to run out of Bull Arm Newfoundland to an oil platform.
Pearl Mist is a fairly large cruise ship on the Great Lakes.
Friendship operates out of Wyandot, as
do the Diamond Jack River Boats.
And here was a surprise … a Maumee River excursion boat Sandpiper.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And somewhat last-minute but important announcement, Dr. Richard Zuczek, Deputy Department Chair and Resident Historian United States Coast Guard Academy, will speak THIS Thursday–August 4 at 6 pm, aboard Nantucket Lightship, docked at the northern edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 (BBP Pier 6). FREE. It’s one of many many events down at BBP.
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