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Try this: a cruise from Buenos Aires to . . . Milwaukee!! These folks are currently doing it.
Below is my screen capture as they were leaving the sixth boro. Here‘s my blog post of them along the west side of Manhattan.
Post by the robots as WVD is away.
The year is in its last hours, and these vessels saw their last hours in this year as well. Of course, this is a subjective list, made up of mostly photos I’ve taken over the years of sixth boro and Great Lakes vessels. This list is not definitive. If you know of others, you might add them in the comments section.
Many photos of Helen McAllister have appeared here over the years, but time caught up with the 1900 Helen, who began and ended her life on Staten Island. I caught her doing her last dance –a tango or a waltz– here.
More than 10 years of silence passed between the photo above at the McAllister NY yard and the one below in Tottenville. Eagle-eyed Tony A. caught her stripped of her identification and ready for the scrapping jaws last month.
The 1907 Pegasus saw her end this year as well. I spent many hours on Pegasus, and regretfully, sometimes the scrappers’ jaws are the most humane end for boats.
The 1970 Joanne Reinauer III also saw its end. I learned a lot about the modifications made to tugboat from her and from photos of her tranformations supplied by readers. My photo below is from 2009.
The 1972 Viking also saw a series of modifications. You might think a powerful machine like this . . . like these . . . would never wear out, but like you and me, they do. I believe it was 2021 that she was scrapped, but it may have been earlier. The photo below is from the September 5, 2010 tugboat race.
The Great Lakes shed some vessels also. Mississagi began work in 1943. I took the photo in Lake St. Clair in August 2016. She was towed to a Sault Ste. Marie scrapyard in October 2021.
Manistee dates from the same year and has the same dimensions–620′ x 60′– as Mississagi. This photo I took in Toledo, where she had been laid up for some time. More on Manistee here.
Ojibway, a 1952 bulker, is currently underway in the Saint Lawrence River, bound for Port Cartier with a load of grain. After that, she’ll lay up awaiting an uncertain future. For what it’s worth, she came off the ways the year I was born.
And on a sad note, the 1975 St. Clair was relatively new for a Great Lakes bulk carrier, but a devastating fire during winter layup in February 2019 condemned her; she arrived at the scrapyard in Port Colborne just a few weeks ago. Photo here is credited to Corey Hammond.
Thanks to Tony and Corey for their photos; all others, WVD, who wishes you all a healthy and happy 2022 and the fulfillment of all your goals.
And unrelated to this post but entirely germane to this day of reflection/new goal setting before a new year, check out Ellen Magellan’s expeditions. That’s not her real name but it’s so clever I wish I’d come up with it.
In Mackinaw City four and a half years ago, I took and posted photos of the very rusty 1938 fish tug Kari A, one of which you see directly below. But a lot can happen in that period of time, further decrepitude or thorough rehabilitation.
Above, that’s before, and what follows, is now.
Many thanks to Darrin Lapine, who wanted updated photo of his boat. The good news is that Kari A. has been rejuvenated and is ready to fish again in 2022.
Kari A. began life at Burger Boat in Manitowoc and christened Hustler, as seen here.
You notice there’s no name on the bow?
When 2022 is upon us and it’s fishing time, the name Hustler will be repainted on the boat, her once and future name.
Many thanks to Darrin Lapine assisting in updating this post. After all, suppose you imagined that my still unfinished 1948 beast still looked like the first photo here and not the last photos here.
Many previous posts with fish tugs can be found here.
Meagan Ann is not new, but that blue coaming on the barge looks to be.
Witte 3301 came into the harbor via Ambrose the other day for the very first time.
pushed by Meagan Ann. Recently launched in Erie PA,
the barge, which I estimate to be about 220′, was brought to the sixth boro by Zeus, returned from the Great Lakes after at least five years up on the fresh water.
Zeus, the first boat this October I see with pink trim,
moved both 3301 and 3302 around via the Saint Lawrence, but then handed one of the barges off to Meagan Ann just outside the VZ Bridge.
Welcome back, Zeus, although soon after dropping off the barges, she headed off to the Dann Marine base in Chesapeake City.
One stop of the new barges was captured by my Halifax counterpart, Mac Mackay here.
All photos, WVD.
How to structure some at photos sent along by eastriver while at sea had flummoxed me too long. But looking through some old titles, a eureka moment happened . . . I’d used this title once before . . . here.
Twilight on a hot asphalt-hauling steel barge
looks pretty good.
When the horizon retreats, twilight has a bigger canvas on which to fling color over a bigger expanse of sea and sky. The photos remind me of ones in this tugster post, also taken at sea under Maxfield Parrish skies.
Thanks, east river . . .
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