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Just to reiterate . . . random in the sixth boro these are. And the other day, I felt blessed for reasons you’ll understand by the end of this post. Here Atlantic Enterprise emerges from the Arthur Kill and heads for home in Newark Bay. That church, “a scaled down copy of the great cathedral at Cologne,” makes this seem quite a European-inflected image.
I took all these photos that weather day last week . . . note how the rain in downtown Elizabeth washes out the Union County Courthouse tower.
A bit later Mister Jim enters the east end of the Kills and then
feigns a ship assist.
The mighty Patricia travels east for a scrap run.
as Janet D moves in the direction
of her base.
Why did I feel blessed . . . ? In the same but of morning, I saw both Atlantic Enterprise and Atlantic Salvor
although not in the same frame, they must have met up in the DonJon yard over in Port Newark.
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.
Kudos to Ginger, who guessed what the anniversary alluded to yesterday was. Today begins year 12 of this blog. So in the midst of all the references to CYBER- this and that, I’ll be my default contrarian self and call the next series a CYPHER series, lots of posts beginning with the number 12. In today’s I took a photo from the top “hit” month in each year since 2006.
So in 2006, December was the top month, and the photo below (or one like it) appeared in KVK.
In 2007, September was the top month, and this was from Historic Tug.
In 2008, June, and this was from Transitioning.
September in 2009 and from Divers 2.
In 2010, November, and this is from Pilot and the Princesa.
June 2011, and context is Like Groundhog Day 3.
2012, May, and Blueing Beyond the Sixth Boro.
2013, March, and Looking for a Ship.
2014, March, and Botruc Plum Isle.
March again in 2015, and this has context in Highway 4.
March yet again, 2016, and Backing Down Heina.
And finally, the greatest number of hits in 2017 was in July, likely because of the posts related to Peking‘s move.
A reason to glance backward periodically is to see what has changed. The corollary then is that a reason to do a daily waterblog is to record what was present when. And doing that permits me to see changes in myself and my tools. Blogging, as you might guess, takes a fair amount of my time and guides a bulk of my focus, but it rewards me enough to continue. I can’t say for how long, nor do I have to. I’ve always refused to sign my boss’s multimillion dollar contract, although that might cost me the cover story on some high-profile magazine . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And let’s hear some applause for Ginger.
Different day . . . different character . . . the Hudson can have thick patches of fog, which
allow Dorothy J to slip past structures on a mysterious shore.
Farther along, Miss Gill guards some incongruous piles of
coal that surely did not arrive through the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which I visited recently but didn’t dip my foot into.
Wendell Sea waits alongside a fuel barge, and
Christiana–not a frequent visitor in the sixth boro–does in her own way
up by the GW Bridge.
Helen Laraway stands by scows of different sized crushed stone.
And this gets us down to the sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
No need for much language here. I started these photos around 0830. Despite some rain, conditions were ideal for this loading . . . or engulfing.
Here Dorothy J gently moves the antique barque foot by foot closer to Hamburg.
Combo-Dock III, the engulfer, lies in wait.
Robert IV assists when needed.
Without the zoom, I imagined the gentleman with the yellow helmet to stand by on the helm.
We have 20 meters and closing . . .
With big power on minuscule tolerances, Dorothy J eases her in.
The barque floats gently forward in the hold.
Lines to capstans on the heavy lift ship are doing the work, as the tugs stand by until released from service.
Peking is now engulfed. Time is about 1130. Operations to make fast and secure now begin before they head out into the Atlantic for Germany.
Many thanks to Jonathan Kabak and Jonathan Boulware for the floating platform.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who is thrilled to have seen this today.
By June, I’ve heard, Peking will be in Germany, and after watching the barque in the sixth boro for over a decade, I’d have to go abroad to see her next transformations. Glenn Raymo, whose beat generally keeps him up river, happened to be having lunch in Bayonne yesterday and caught her move from her berth of the past has year to the one she occupied late last summer.
Many thanks to Glenn for permitting me to post these here, as not all of you do FB or off you do, are friends with Glenn. Foxy 3 and Robert IV do the honors with
the mighty L. W. Caddell on the far side. Note the salt pile and bulker Sakizaya Wisdom out beyond Peking.
Many thanks to Glenn for his serendipitous and striking photos.
Here’s the previous in the series . . .
but for December 2016, Robert IV leads the way with season’s wreathings, at least the first I’ve seen. All these photos were take on a windy day a week ago.
Quantico Creek crosses westward toward the Kills . . .
while at about that same moment, Marie J Turecamo heads in the opposite direction, passing
the Lafarge barge Alexandra (It’s likely Doris Moran standing by off her stern) and JRT Moran escorting in Auriga Leader.
Bering Sea also heads eastbound,
as does Joyce D. Brown . . .
while the longtime HMS tugs Liberty and
St Andrews. With them virtually side-by-side, I can see some livery nuances distinguishing them.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
A random gallivant around the sixth boro the other day showed these boats, starting with Iron Mike (1977) under the Williamsburg Bridge.
a trio of Navigator (1981), Susan Miller (1981) , and Quantico Creek (2010) over by Con Hook,
Robert IV (1975) a little farther north and east,
Scott Turecamo (1998) headed for the Kills,
HMS Liberty (1978) in the anchorage,
Amberjack (1981) facing Yonkers,
Barry Silverton (2015) swinging toward the Palisades, and
Rhea I. Bouchard (1982) making way for a point up north.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Who else greeted Wavertree on the rest of the way home? John J. Harvey is always in on celebrations.
Lettie G. Howard was there,
as was the helicopter. Feehan presented herself on the far side of Rae.
Pioneer accounted for
herself with crew in the crosstrees.
Pioneer and Lettie teamed up at times.
Wire showed up.
New York Harbor School had two boats there, including Privateer and their
newest vessel Virginia Maitland Sachs, about which I’ll post soon.
Melvillian throngs came down to the “extremest limit of land” on Pier 15 and 16, for one reason or another, but who were about to be treated to some excellent ship handling.
Rae took the lead, showing the need for tugboats of all sizes.
The larger tugs pushed and pulled as needed to ease into the slip
until all lines were fast and
and the shoreside work needed doing.
Bravo to all involved. If you want to take part in a toast to Wavertree, you can buy tickets here for the September 29 evening.
If you haven’t read the NYTimes article by James Barron yet, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes I left no one out and who as before is grateful to the South Street Seaport Museum and the photographers’ boat provided by US Merchant Marine Academy and crewed by a set of dedicated cadets.
Often folks ask how one can learn about the harbor or is there a book about the sixth boro. Volunteering at South Street Seaport Museum is a great way available to all to get access to the water, to learn from like-minded folks, and to start on a journey of reading the harbor and its traffic for yourself. Each volunteer’s journey will be unique, and willing hands make institutions like this museum survive and thrive.
Almost exactly 16 months ago, Wavertree left Pier 16 for a lot of work at Caddell Dry Dock. Here was my set of photos from that day, and here, subsequent ones at several month intervals. Yesterday she made way, back to Pier 16.
Here’s looking back west. Compare the photo below with the third one here to see how much work has been accomplished on the Bayonne Bridge during the same 16 months.
Yesterday, Rae helped, as did
Dorothy J and Robert IV.
The combined age of Rae, Robert IV, and Dorothy J is 139 years, whereas the beautifully restored flagship they escorted in is 131 years old.
And as the tow approached the Statue, John J. Harvey joined in.
These photos all by Will Van Dorp, who is grateful to the South Street Seaport Museum and the photographers’ boat provided by US Merchant Marine Academy and crewed by a set of dedicated cadets.
For some interesting history on Wavertree and info on a fundraiser on board on September 29, 2016, click here. For the story of how Wavertree came from Argentina to New York, read Peter & Norma Stanford’s A Dream of Tall Ships, which I reviewed here some time ago.
More photos of the return tomorrow.
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