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This morning I was looking for something, I thought happened in spring 2008. Alas, I had the date wrong, but this research led me to these photos, some of which I may have posted before, all taken between April 10 and 17 2008, i.e., a decade ago exactly. Back then I’d go into work an hour or so early, and because I had not yet plugged into AIS on my phone–I had a flipper–it was catch as catch could. Revisiting these photos stunned me with how much specific equipment has changed.
Baltic Sea and Coral Sea have gone over to West Africa. Maybe a gallivant there is in order. I last left West Africa forty years ago!!.
Maryland is still in the area; I caught a glimpse of her in Jamaica Bay last week as Liz Vinik, but not close enough for a photo showing anything but a speck. Check out Birk’s site’s info on Vinik Marine Services.
Nathan E. Stewart came to an ignoble end.
Both K-Sea and Allied have been purchased by Kirby. Petrel has gone to Philadelphia, where she’s working as Northstar Integrity. Below, she was pushing Sugar Express, up to the plant in Yonkers.
Crude oil tanker Wilana (now Kamari) arriving at dawn on a very calm slack water Arthur Kill was the high point of that week, especially because it was the first tanker I’d watched coming into Linden. I’ll not forget how silent the process was.
On the starboard bow was Catherine Turecamo, now working in freshwater near the Great Lakes as John Marshall.
On her stern was Laura K Moran, now moved to another Moran base. And, notice the Bayonne Bridge now longer has the geometry as shown below.
Any time I feel that stuff never changes, guess I should look through my archives.
All photos taken in mid-April 2008 by Will Van Dorp, who wonders if anyone out there read Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. It was published almost a half century ago but I think he was on to something.
Jack Ronalds took this photo of Ontario (Jeffrey K. McAllister) and Erie (Missy McAllister) in Canso back in August 2016.
John Jedrlinic took this in the sixth boro in December 2008.
I took the photo below a few months earlier in 2008, as the transfer from Normandy to Ross Sea was happening.
Grouper has been featured here many, many times over the years, but you’ve never seen this much of her out of the water; it’s “draw-down” time on the Erie Canal near lock E-28A. These photos come from Bob Stopper a few weeks ago.
From Bangkok, Ashley Hutto sends along photos of a decidedly pastel Thai tug
with two barges
on a hawser.
Thanks to Jack, Jed, Bob, and Ashley for these photos.
Sea Power has been lurking in and around the sixth boro the past few days, and I will continue trying to get some good photos of her, but on 9-22-16 Jack Ronalds up at the Canso Canal caught these photos of her as she headed into Lake Erie to pick up her barge constructed in Erie PA.
Remember, if you need photos of a vessel traveling between the Great Lakes and the west Atlantic Coast from the Maritimes southward, Jack’s your guy. See some of his work (2440 photos) here.
4-24-08 Dean Reinauer passes NYK Daedalus. This Dean left NYC for Nigeria in June 2011.
6-16-08 Juliet Reinauer pushed oil a decade ago. She’s still in the harbor working as Big Jake.
6-23-08 Odin . . . no longer has an adjustable wheelhouse and may be laid up, and ITB Groton, single-hulled tanker, . . . was sold in later 2008 to Nigerian interests first to ship grain and then returned to petroleum trade. It was sent to Alang and scrapped in late 2013.
9-13-08 Viking seen here out of the notch has made its way to Kirby and is currently very busy on the Hudson.
9-05-10 Here’s another showing Viking out of the notch and all gussied up, and (it seems) terrifying W. O. Decker.
And finally, another from 9-22-16, a shot of Sea Power heading north through the Canso Canal and ultimately to Lake Erie to pick up its mated barge. In the background is the 60+ year-old quarry now operated by Martin Marietta Materials in Aulds Cove, where vessels like and including Alice Oldendorff pick up the aggregates. Last year, four million tons worth of rock was shipped from here.
Many thanks to Jack for use of his photos. All others by Will Van Dorp, who has learned that as of this morning, Sea Power is sailing for Charleston SC.
I’m working on some tougher posts, but here’s an easy one. Let’s flip the calendar back approximately 10 years, give or take a month. Then it was Barents Sea, not Atlantic Enterprise. Rowan M. McAllister is still around, although in Charleston SC. And the container ship under the “un-raised” Bayonne Bridge is Zim Qingdao, currently eastbound across the Atlantic. The other McAllister tug I don’t know.
Melvin E. Lemmerhirt, now Evelyn Cutler, eastbound toward the Brooklyn Bridge . . . well, all’s quite changed about all this.
Maryland –I’ve yet to see her as Liz Vinik–was bunkering the brand new Queen Victoria.
Peking was then–as now–out of the water, although currently her dry dock is in Germany.
Penn No. 4 still goes by the same name, but it’s now a Kirby boat.
George Burrows was never a regular here, and I’ve no idea of her current disposition.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you enjoyed this backward glance.
I have a bunch more “cypher 12” calendar-ready ideas to come, but time flows, changes and evolution press, and I don’t want to get left behind. Again, I’m NOT selling calendars, but they are easy to make.
Back eight years ago I did a post called Labrador Sea. There she is below, photos I took yesterday. You’ll notice a radically new paint job. There’s a name change as well. She’s still pushing the same barge, but now she’s Brooklyn, the latest Brooklyn.
DBL25 she’s pushing was the same formerly Kirby/K-Sea barge, and if you scroll through here, you’ll see DBL25 as paint was making her transition from a K-Sea to a Kirby barge.
Below is a photo from February 08, 2017 showing her in Kirby livery. I’m wondering if the crews moved over to Vane with the boat.
All photos–yesterday’s and February’s–by Will Van Dorp.
As tugster continues its CYPHER series, this is the 3633nd post, and almost 2.1 million hits. Thanks for staying with me.
On the other hand, if I were selling calendars, the number 12 would be significant. So for the next few days, let me offer some diverse dozens chosen quite subjectively, although what the photos have in common–besides subject–is that I like them.
Here’s a November 2016 photo along the Gowanus under the BQE. This tug looks good in blue, but I’ll never forget her in orange.
Here’s a November 2015 when the upper deck of Bayonne had yet to be assembled, and the lower disassembled. Amy C last appeared here as she nudged Empire State into her Fort Schuyler dock.
Here’s 2014. She’s recently worked in the Keys.
Here’s ’13. Where is Houma today?
’12. Ellen‘s a regular on this blog.
’11. Tasman has been doing this work since 1976!
’10. Is ex-Little Bear in Erie along with Bear?
’09. She now makes her way around the lower Caribbean . . . and currently anchored in Trinidad.
’08. And I’m adding another photo right after Linda (launched in ’08) of
Scott Turecamo (below) launched in 1998 but radically retrofitted in 2005, originally quite similar to Greenland Sea, here see the photos by Robert J. Smith. How many of these ATBs does Moran now operate? .
’07. This was the only time I ever saw Penobscot. Anyone know where foreign she went?
’06. Note the size of the yard workers around the wheels on Ralph E. Bouchard.
Again, some of these photos show what has changed in the sixth boro, spawning ground for this blog.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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.
It turns out, I’ve done a post like this once before . . . in 2012 here. When I took the next two photos on Tuesday, I’d thought all the fleet week vessels had already departed. Well, wrong . . . there went LHD-3 USS Kearsarge . . .
which reminded me this would be
a good time to use a photo by a jolly tar back about 10 years ago. Notice the long-gone, long transformed Odin bunkering LHD-3….
Mid afternoon Tuesday this was a sight to behold along the East River, here approaching the Williamsburg Bridge . . . whatzit?
It’s another of the fleet leaving town . . . USNS Yuma (T-EPF-8). The photo above and next two come from an alert Tony A doing his commerce on the East River. In the photo below, it’s the green-fronted UN Building along with river with Trump Tower (dark) rising behind it.
When I caught notice of this, I thought I could hurry to Fort Wadsworth to catch photos of Yuma with Manhattan behind it, but my underestimation of EPF’s speed and the coincidence of hitting every stoplight on Bay Terrace meant that when I got to the Fort,
Yuma was already making almost two dozen knots and headed for Norfolk, a trip that took less than 24 hours.
The EFTs are a further evolution of the HSTs, which I posted about here. By the way, Alakai was renamed USNS Puerto Rico, but then later that name was removed, since there’s a new EFT with the name USNS Puerto Rico in the offing. So is the former Alakai now nameless?
Many thanks to Tony A for sending along the East River photos. Thanks to JED for the Odin/USS Kearsarge shot, and all the others by Will Van Dorp.
Happy June!
Sometimes I like to start new categories so that the numbers don’t get so high, boats no longer extant or frequent get a second look, and we realize that time is passing pretty fast. So all the photos here I took more than seven years ago. Some have been on the blog before, but not together and not edited exactly as they are now.
Like Norwegian Sea, she used to be a wintertime staple running up the River, easily recognizable by her upper wheelhouse.
Juliet is still around but not very busy under her new name . . . it seems.
This boat, like her namesake, is gone too soon. Pegasus is still around but no longer looks this way.
Zeus was on the Great Lakes after working in the sixth boro, but I’ve lost track of her.
Volunteer, another unmistakable profile, now long time gone from here.
Zachery . . . still around and still working. High Peace is now registered Vietnamese and goes by Pvt Dolphin.
Just to break the pattern here, here’s a photo I took of Zachery a few days ago.
Take my word for this last photo . . . the distant unit I can’t identify although I’m guessing a Reinauer boat, but the closer vessel is outrageous. Actually I mean Outrageous. That’s the name. Click here (and scroll) for a previous photo of Outrageous, which I believe used to be based in the sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I did this once before here. This time I was deleting near duplicates to limit the size of my photo library to accommodate the many photos I brought back from the gallivants, and my mind quickly formed today’s post. Enjoy all these from August through October 2009 and marvel at how much the harbor changes. As I went through the archives, this is where I stopped, given the recent developments in Bella Bella BC.
For background on this tug, check here.
Notice also the Bayonne approach to the bridge.
IMO 8983117 was still orange back then.
King Philip, Thomas Dann, and Patriot Service . . .
…
Odin . . . now has a fixed profile.
And these two clean looking machines — Coral Queen and
John B. Caddell — were still with us.
This is a digression to March 2010, but since I’m in a temporally warped thought, let me add this photo of the long-gone Kristin Poling.
Back to 2009, Rosemary looked sweet here in fall scenes.
John Reinauer . . . I wonder what that tug looks like today over in Nigeria.
And Newtown Creek, now the deep Lady Luck of the Depths, sure looked good back then.
And while I’m at it, I’ve finally solved a puzzle that’s bugged me for a few years. Remember this post from three and a half years ago about a group of aging Dutch sailors who wanted to hold a reunion on their vessel but couldn’t find the boat, a former Royal Dutch Navy tug named Wamandai A870? Well, here’s the boat today! Well, maybe . . .
Another boat you can dive on is United Caribbean aka Golden Venture.
Photos and tangents by Will Van Dorp.
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