Random Tugs 135

First time photo of this tugboat underway . . . Stephen B pushing James Joseph.  AND first time photo on this blog by Glen Dauphin, whose work I have admired on FB.

If I’m not mistaken, this is the same tug–previous name–and sans upper wheelhouse.  I took the photo on New Years Day.

Haggerty Girls and  RTC 107, with an assist from Matthews Tibbetts . . . getting underway.

Franklin Reinauer pushing past . . .

Kimberly Poling with Edwin A. Poling, no doubt headed up to where the ice is thicker.

Eric McAllister precedes her.

And finally Pacific Dawn . . .

. . . coming in from Gravesend Bay, where . .

can anyone explain what part of the gas project–if any–they’ve been working on just off Coney Island’s western tip?

Thanks much to Glen for the first photo above.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

50 Shades of Spray 2

Many thanks to Pierre Kfoury for sending along this very clever photo in shades of black, white, and gray of Bruce McAllister he took up by New Hamburg, NY.  In Pierre’s photo, I like those gray shades and gray reflections too.

More shades of spray take us to Emerald Coast, passing Chesapeake Coast.

Sitting out on deck has to be evidence of a warm heart on a vessel

that will miss Mardi Gras in a warm place.

Frozen spray reinforces the fenders maybe?

The glaze coats the hull with a very light-gray layer.

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Even on this vessel with a hot name . . . the icy shading is present.  Is it true that this tanker was briefly in port to deliver the love drug –phenethylamine– to those of us crowded on the edges of the sixth boro?   A few years ago, this vessel was in the sixth boro with the name Golden Venus;  for photos of her and other vessels with fantastic names, click here.

So . .  50 shades of spray?  How about 56 or 65 or  . . .spray, gray, play . . . ?  The number is only limited by the imagination and the eye.

I had gone looking to get a photo of this vessel, but by the time I got to my favorite cliffs, they all have headed to warmer waters.  And given the usual fashion of mermaids, I can’t blame them.

Thanks again to Pierre Kfoury for his photo.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

Really Random Tugs 24

Here was 23.  In today’s post, there are boats from the just north of South America, at the south edge of the Chesapeake, and in the busiest part of the KVK.   Mero is from 2008,

Captain Willie Landers from 2001,

Chesapeake Coast 2012,

Eric McAllister 2014,

B. Franklin Reinauer 2012,

and Marjorie B. McAllister . . . the dean today, from 1974.

Wait . . . there’s one more, Lincoln Sea, shot in NYC’s sixth boro in September 2012 and built in Tacoma in 2000.  She’s just traversed the Panama and is now back in her home Pacific waters.

Thanks to the Maraki crew for the first photo and to John Jedrlinic for the second.  All the other by Will Van Dorp.

 

Fog 16

When Walter’s building looks like this in the center of the island,

the sixth boro looks like this.   Here Ava Jude pushes a Hughes barge past Ruth M. Reinauer wedded to RTC 102.

Eastern Welder fishes as Emma Miller services Asphalt Star.

Wolf River does hydrographic work while

Chesapeake Coast lighters Elixir, and just beyond

Amazon Brilliance belies her name.

Awaiting orders or favorable tide and each with a barge, it’s McAllister Sisters and McKinley Sea.

Here’s to hoping for fog to dissipate.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Ice Work on the Hudson 2

Here was the first in the series five years ago.   Allen Baker took this photo of Thunder Bay last Friday near Newburgh.  Four thousand horsepower can get you nowhere sometimes in conditions like these.  It’s hard for me to believe I may never have posted a photo of WTGB 108 on this blog.

Foreground . . . Thunder Bay.  Middle . . .  Bannerman Island.  Distance . . . northern section of Hudson Highlands Park.

Amy C McAllister grunts the Bouchard barge upriver.   For some views of an August day frolic in relatively the same location, click here.   Also for a post comparing summer and winter in this location, click here.

And looking back at the track through ice left by the tug/barge as they headed for West Point . . . it’s straight and sharp.

Many thanks to Allen for these photos.  Be safe.

Ice 5

Taken Feb 4 by Bjoern Kils . . . the spearhead.

Taken this morning by bowsprite, the onslaught of frazil ice.  Is that Amy C. McAllister pushing the Bouchard barge? Anyone guess the light tug in front of Ellis Island?

And taken yesterday by Allen Baker looking over the stern of Mediterranean Sea northward toward Albany, the state of the Hudson right now . . .

ditto all . . . here’s the view from the wheelhouse of Mediterranean Sea.

And as if by magic . . . some pics of the same unit by Allen from a remote vantage point . . . coming with

a sign of caution, unheeded

in this photo by Bob Dahringer of a coyote on ice up near Catskill.  According to Bob, “Stephen Reinauer was following us upriver, they said the poor thing fell into the water when they went by him, but he got himself out.”

And finally . . . from Ashley Hutto and taken on Monday this week . . . the NSFW belle of winter in the sixth boro. . .

Thanks to Bjoern, bowsprite, Allen, Bob, and Ashley for these reports on the ice.

Random Ships 34

An unusual vessel working for a line with an unusual name . . . with  . . . is that Gabby Miller in the background?

It’s Genius Star VIII, of the Wisdom Marine Group.

And here’s Laura K Moran, escorting in Durande, with an unusual port of registry on its stern.

Marseille . . . a place on my “wanna-see, gotta gallivant” list.

And another . . . by the color it’s Maersk, escorted in here by  . . . Ellen McAllister, I think.

But look, there amidships . . . just above the word “LINE” . . .

. . . is that an Oshkosh?

Damietta!

There’s never a shortage of surprises in the sixth boro.  All photos taken in the past few days by Will Van Dorp, who has learned of these forthcoming and unusually large vessels on the horizon somewhere.

 

Ice 4

Storm Juno was all hyperbole in the five boros . . . not as  harsh as  in eastern Long Island and southern New England, but it was cold the day after.  Nevertheless, Mary Alice and Cheyenne were hard at work,

as was Mister Jim.

The same is true for Barbara McAllister and 

Charles D.

Buchanan 1 was at work.

The government boats were out like Liberty V and

Driftmaster.

Of course, cold means demand for fuel . .  and Matthew Tibbetts was moving it , as

was Crystal Cutler.

Joyce D. Brown was moving the railroad and

Treasure Coast had a barge astern headed south. Anyone know what cargo was/will be in the barge?

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who went out to see the sights after the storm.

Random Tugs 134

On a cold winter’s morning, what’s going on in the harbor?

The usual . . . .  Kathleen heads out with a scow,

Eric R. Thornton muscles scrap,

Evening Tide reconnects with an oil barge,

Diane B disconnects from John Blanche for a spell,

Joyce D. Brown heads out to a job,

Red Hook, wreath still in place, shuttles between barges,

And Ellen McAllister

shows Performance out to sea.  And in response to my cuz . .  JS . . . Ellen performs her magic on the container ship . . .

And tugster, who took these pictures, needs to warm up and get to work himself.

 

Other Peoples Photos 41

These photos come thanks to Allen Baker, whose most recent photos you saw here.

I’ll just use his description:  “Heading east in the Long Island Sound on 27 December, just an incredible sky looking aft as we made our way east….

Tangier Island heading across the upper bay with the lower Manhattan skyline as a back drop,

Bering Sea overtaking …  out of the old Port Mobil, Staten Island,

Crowley ATB Coastal Reliance, assisted by the Chas. D. and Bruce McAllister, inbound on the Con Hook Range, and

close up of the Coastal Reliance.”

I can be really happy to escape the winter temperatures, but nothing beats winter light!

Many thanks to Allen Baker for all these photos.