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It’s a 24/365 proposition for a petroleum hub. Here Potomac stands by while
DoubleSkin 58 lighters Kuwaiti crude from Odori.
Tanker Boxer settles in with assistance from JRT Moran and
Jonathan C Moran to hold her in place while dock lines get set out. More on the line boats doing their part in a future post. I’m intrigued by Boxer as a name for a tanker.
Meaghan Marie assists as Philadelphia eases
DoubleSkin 503 into a west end dock at IMTT.
For a time, I thought Genesis Vigilant and Justine McAllister were drifting
randomly in proximity to each other, but when the Genesis tug moved into the notch to make up to GM 8001, it was clear there were an assistance plan.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Coincidental, here’s what I found when I looked up the term “odori.”
Here are previous “moving fuel” posts.
Twins today, but as with any twins, one will be deemed older. Do you know which?
Genesis Vigilant used to be called Michigan Service. Launched in 1981, she’s 99′ x 34′ and propelled by 3000 hp. The barge GM8001 is 348′ x 75′.
Years ago, i errorneously assumed she was an ATB.
This barge is slightly shorter, narrower and about a decade newer.
GM 6506 is being towed by Genesis Victory,
same dimensions as Vigilant and slightly newer, although still from 1981. Genesis Victory used to be Huron Service.
All photos, WVD.
Almost exactly a year ago, I had a glimpse of sea smoke in the sixth boro here. Basically, it can be seen when “cold” air comes into contact with warmer water; as soon as the air is warmed by the rising sun, the mist dissipates. Photos taken during the window it’s visible, in combination with the twilight colors, have rich colors.
Above and below, that’s Sea Lion transiting the swirling wisps of smoke.
Fort Schuyler appeared next, passing
through the warm exhalations of the warm water of flooding tide, backlit by the rising sun.
A bit later, the golden hour of dawn was no more, but
the smoke was visible,
as Genesis Vigilant glided past.
Once it was alongside my location, with the sun to the right of the photo, no smoke could be seen.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
More sea smoke can be seen here and here. Ice, on the other hand, looks like this.
Some things you can only see from the water, like these exquisite sights recently sent along by Capt. Sunbeams. An illustration for “smoke on the water, fire in the sky” i.e., sailing on the Delaware while pushing
something along to earn a living.
Meanwhile there’s lots to see like a cooling tower, Genesis Victory and her barge,
Ruby Coast and
Knot Refined . . . her very new barge,
an incoming Rhea . . . which makes me wonder if she’s here to do what Miss Rui didn’t,
and then a spectacular sunset.
All this adds up to another maybe routine but certainly spectacular run down Delaware Bay.
All photos thanks to Capt. Sunbeams.
Sitting on the levee in Nola, I note a variety of watercraft passing by no less assorted than the revelers in the French Quarter. Well . . . How about as differentiated as the contents of the best 15 bloody marys in Nola? Well, let’s see the photos below , or see past Nola posts here.
Seeing a deeply loaded kayak like that coexisting with commercial traffic is quite unusual, but the gear there tells me that is a long-haul and experienced paddler.
Above and below, MV John Pasentine fights a lot more gravity than the paddler does.
Janice Roberts and Presager keep a healthy distance apart,
each carving an arc in the current.
Upbound inside the curve, Rodney is about to disappear beyond Pan Unity.
Less than a minute later, Pan Unity splits the distance between Shiney V. Moran on our side and an unidentified tugs stands by with
After doing some work and returning to the river, I return to a river that continues flowing assisting and resisting those whose business rides there.
Robin R. with a crane barge, two tugs with fuel barges upbound, and more and more.
What hearkens to the past, of course are vessels like the kayak above and paddlewheelers like the 1991-build riverboat City of New Orleans, or the 1983 Creole Queen, or 1970s steamboat Natchez. For info on the Lake George NY connections of the family associated with all three paddlewheelers, click here and scroll.
I have more, so I’ll have to do Dense Traffic Nola 2.
All photos and curiosity and any errors, WVD.
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A new assist boat in town bringing 3800 hp to the job?
Right . . . I was kidding. It’s Jones Act non-compliant anyhow.
Genesis Eagle is a 6140 hp pin boat.
JRT Moran and Capt. Brian McAllister do an assist of an ULCV.
Pegasus gives Mount St. Elias an assist as it moves DBL 82 out of IMTT bound for New Haven.
Andrea gives HMS Liberty an assist as it delivers a bunker barge to Port Elizabeth.
Miriam Moran delivers a pilot to the ship.
Mary Turecamo assists a container ship.
Doris waits for a job to approach in the Upper Bay,
and finally, Kirby Moran moves in closer to an incoming ship.
All photos, WVD.
“Random Tugs 001” I posted in October 2007, 14 years ago. The motivation for such a post then, as now, comes from the observation that what passes you by, either on the water, the roadway, or even the sidewalk or hallway, is often just random. It’s foolish to look for meaning or significance where there is none. So here’s installment 339.
Genesis Glory, 1979, 3900 and 120′ x 34′
Janet D, 2015, 1320, and 67′ x 26′
Sarah D, 1975, 2000, and 90′ x 29′
HMS Justice, 2013, 2000, and 75′ x 30′
Sarah Ann, 2003, 2700, and 78′ x 26′
Charles D. McAllister, 1967, 1800, and 94′ x 29′
Durham . . . I’ve seen her a long time, I believe she’s operated by Ken’s Marine, but I don’t know anything more.
Kodi with Hayward back by the bridge. Kodi dates back to 1974, under 500, and 43′ x 15′, I think.
L. M. Caddell works near the floating dry docks. The upper wheelhouses at the Reinauer yard in the background, I’d guess Dace, Stephen, and JoAnne III. I’m sure I’ll be corrected. I don’t believe the shorter “upper house” to the right is installed on a tugboat. Now I’m really sure I’ll be corrected. As for simple specs on the Caddell yard tug . . . sorry.
Coho, 2008, 4000, and 111′ x 36′
All photos, WVD, and happy “fly the official flag day.“
The other morning was without wind and busy, so this next “hour” is actually 30 minutes, and these are only a few of the photos I took between 0900 and 0930 of this extraordinary morning from my single vantage point.
A team of Dann Marine tugs leave the dock, framing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer dock.
Vane’s Brooklyn leaves her dock; notice the Moran barn (red with the white M) and Pegasus at the Metropolitan dock.
Charles D heads to job.
Bulker Maina heads for sea, passing Elandra Blu and
Marjorie comes to retrieve the docking pilot. Do you see four people in the photo below? Elandra tankers are based in Latvia.
The calm here is barely broken by MSC Korea.
Brendan waits to retrieve the pilot. Note the scrubber and its effects on emissions?
Over by IMTT Glory and Potomac sand by with their barges.
And we’ll leave it here, actual 28 minutes elapsed . . . name that approaching ship?
All photos, WVD.
In a real way, this post is about cargo also. Look at this top photo . . . any guesses what’s unique about the cargo?
This is the only the second time I post a photo of Double Skin 510A, here pushed by Wye River, but it’s the first time I call attention to it as an asphalt barge. In other words, cold as it was outside, the cargo in the barge is
being transported at a scalding 300 degrees F. Unless you knew, you might not have imagined that. This hot product might finally cool off when it’s squirted with some crushed stone into a pothole somewhere.
You can tell the temperature out by the snow accumulated on the stern of Genesis Glory, here with GM 11105.
Soon afterward, she spun around and
left the barge at the dock.
I’ve seen this tug in several liveries as Sea Bull and Labrador Sea, as well as without and then with an upper wheelhouse.
DBL 25 appears here for the first time though.
In the years I’ve been doing this photography, I’ve learned a lot, and have paid attention to different things as I’ve learned new things. Barges are the money makers.
All photos, WVD.
If you subscribe to Professional Mariner, you’ve seen the article I published there in the March issue. If not, it’ll be available online in a few weeks.
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
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