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. . . a sixth boro set on a day that was predicted to bring rain.  When I first saw the photo below, I thought the McAllister tug was assisting a DonJon unit?

A few seconds later it was clear that Alex was overtaking the slower Paul Andrew.

 

Dr. Milton Waner–named for a plastic surgeon!!— here travels light.  Harley does have this focus on medicine in their recent namings, like Fight ALS and One Cure.  That’s Durham in the distance with the spud barge.

 

Around the same time, Eric McAllister, Thomas D. Witte, and James E. Brown appear, headed for the Kills.

 

Mr Russell comes out of the Kills.  And can you name the Vane tug in the distance?

Philadelphia!

It must be the newest Vane tug in the sixth boro, and I don’t know if she’s even more recent than Capt. Brian A. McAllister. For all I know, this could be her first week in town….  And from a full decade ago, here’s the previous Philadelphia in town, the ITB Philly.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

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First, thanks to Peter Eagleton, Philip T Feeney in the 1970s.  I haven’t the heart to go see her in her current condition.

Next, Miss Ila, resplendent as a springtime cardinal!

Haggerty Girls nudging RTC 107 out of the Kills,

 

Helen Laraway passing TS Kennedy over by ConHook,

James William leaving Mister Jim over by the scows,

James E. Brown taking some rail cars past a wall of containers . . .

and finally . . . is that Durham setting up Willy Wall?  Is that what it’s still called?

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, except that first one supplied by Peter, whom I thank.

Small Craft 15

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.

 

Pairs in Springtime 6

I don’t care that it’s February, but the number of subsequent days with temperatures over 50 degrees in the sixth bor0 tells me it is spring–or has been.

Notice the difference between Severn and Fort Schuyler?  Here proximity highlights the difference in height of the upper wheelhouse,

but Severn is of the 4200 hp class and fort Schuyler, the 3000.

Ah, the line and boom boats.

Joan is one of the Moran “giraffe” boats and see HR Otter?

She reminds me of the long gone Odin.

 

Here’s a closer-up of the HR Otter, a name that immediately conjures up Kenneth Grahame.

 

Some different pairs are possible here, and they’d be the same.

See the pair there?

a pair of hands.  Is there a word for the painted design centered on the bow of some vessels, like figureheads but not?

Hope they clap for mardi gras!

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Where There’s Pigs . . .

ooops, new pigs, there must have been an incident.

A little background . . . .  A conductor of the The Timbuctoo, Khartoum & Western Railway Marching Band & Chowder Society emailed me yesterday about what they said was “strange small boat activity” just north of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.   Since I was in the area, I thought I’d check it out, and what I saw would be

considered at very least unorthodox nets on small boats, now that we are in harbor “fishing” season.  Pannaway is dredging for critters, I believe, although I’m puzzled by her New Hampshire registration, if I’m not mistaken.

See the rig with “sock” skimming the surface?

These rigs are designed to soak up stuff that should not be in the water, as opposed to critters that find it acceptable habitat.

Ken’s Marine does a lot of types of work, and

responding to spills is one of them.

 

The news had nothing I could find, but I’m guessing

there was something under-reported here.  By the way, a flat oil absorbent product is often called a diaper.

Again, thanks to the good conductor for the tip.

All photos and speculation by Will Van Dorp, whose already taken but too few rides on the Timbuctoo, Khartoum & Western Railway.

An added plus of my trip here was to have another look at Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which I’ll feature in an upcoming post.

 

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We’ve seen James D., Kirby, and JRT.  And now . .  welcome Jonathan C Moran.  Another photo of the 6000 hp newest in the port later in the post.

For now, also resplendent in the June dawn . . . Jane A. Bouchard,

the unique B. Franklin Reinauer,

and so let’s add another of this facet tug,

Evening Light (the former Frederick E. ), 

the lean, green James E. Brown, 

the age-defying Durham,

the indefatigable James Turecamo,

and finally another shot of Jonathan C Moran.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who needs to get back to work.

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The first photos here comes from John Jedrlinic, who took the one immediately below in Norfolk in August.  So far as I know, Julie Anne has not yet seen the sixth boro.

I’m also not sure A. J. McAllister has seen the sixth boro.  Believe it or not, A. J. dates from 2003, built in Panama City, FL.  Jed snapped this shot as she passed USS Bulkely.  Unknowable from the Oct. 16, 2015 photo, the tight light on A. J. was attached to bulker New Spirit.

Can you guess this one?

It’s a nicely tidied up Quenames, New England bound.

Charles A has been in the harbor since at least this summer.

Coming in out of the rising sun, it’s Marie J. Turecamo and Kirby Moran.

And headed in that direction, it’s Elizabeth McAllister.

Now let’s size down . . .  Robbins Reef is 42.4 ‘ loa,

Helen Paker is 39′,

and Ava Jude is 25′ . . .

This last photo I can’t identify, although I count at least four crew.  Photo comes thanks to Phil Little.

Thanks to Jed and Phil for the first and last photos here;  all the others are by Will Van Dorp.

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Curtis Bay Fells Point built 1956.  Taken 1987.  Click here for Fells Point with more of the fleet.   Scuttled in 2008 at Redbird Reef near the mouth of Delaware Bay.

James Turecamo built 1969 . . . in my first 2015 photo of her.  In the dry dock directly between James and the WTC, it’s MSC Harry L. Martin.

It’s the classic 1965 built Bushey-built Cheyenne. Here she was in Oswego in June 2014 about to head into the Great Lakes, making her a truly anadromous vessel.

Miriam Moran built 1979.

Bruce A. McAllister . . . built in 1974.

Ruby M . . . built in Oyster Bay in 1967.

Robbins Reef . . . 1953

with entourage that may have salvaged the white fiberglass boat on the barge.

And the current Fells Point, Maryland built in 2014.

Photos of both vessels Fell Point come thanks to Allen Baker.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

Hail to the New

Sorry for the hiatus in posting.  I was out at sunrise New Years Day . . . but more on that in a moment.

Part of my silence was attributable to verizon.  The rest . . . was because I decided to ACT on new year’s resolutions, not just make them.

The first photos after sunrise January 1 . . . Buchanan 1, who must have been towing a loaded dredge spois scow out as the new years whistles were blowing and fireworks blasting.  Bravo, Buchanan 1.

The linemen/boom managers were out working, as

were the crews of Lucy Reinauer and pilot boat Yankee.

Jay Michael headed out with a scow load of dredge spoils, evidence that dredgers worked their way from 2014 to 2015.

And Bering Sea . . . heads west into the Kills, having passed Gotland Marieann.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Name that tug?  Answer follows.

Kodiak . . . this is a new one for me and a one-off trip for the vessel?

The tug here is

Liberty Service.  And yes, that’s Chesapeake Coast in the distance.

McKinley Sea leads Bluefin in from the anchorage.  I’m not sure why Bluefin is still gray.

This is an impressive lineup in the late fall afternoon light:  the McAllisters Kate, Bruce, Helen, Brothers, Brian .  . and more.

This vessel I truly don’t know.  It’s new in the harbor, and I have a hunch . . . but will keep that to myself.

And the mystery tug at the start of this post was none other than W. O. Decker.  Here’s one of my favorite set of old photos of Decker.  Here are many others.

All photos very recently by Will Van dorp.