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Sarah D makes for Global Terminal,
Helen Laraway passes an inbound container vessel,
Ava M. guides a ULCV in beside a cruise ship,
Rebecca Ann moves a light scrap barge,
Capt. Brian A. tails a box ship into her berth,
Genesis Glory passes GM 11105,
Eric McAllister assists a tanker into its berth,
Rhea I. Bouchard heads westbound light in the KVK,
and Frances pushes a scow.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who loves that the sixth boro never sleeps.
And now one more, taken this morning in San Juan PR by Capt. Neftali Padilla, it’s the arrival of the cranes towed by Capt. Latham after not quite an 18-day run. See the tow departing NYC here. Thx much, Tali.
Let’s start with Alice Oldendorff, inbound with a hold full of Nova Scotia stone and about to turn to starboard on her (almost) final approach to Brooklyn. Alice and I have a long history.
YM Wind makes the final approach her into Global Terminals, her first call at sixth boro docks. In contrast above, Alice has already made hundreds of calls here, always transporting aggregates. Visible assisting Wind are Alex McAllister and Ava M. McAllister.
E. R. Montecito is a large ship, but containers are stacked 17 across, versus 20 across for Wind above.
Undine here takes on bunkers and other supplies. The small black/red/white vessel long her stern is Twin Tube, the venerable 1951 harbor supply vessel. In dry dock in the distance it’s USNS Sisler.
MOL Emissary travels the last few miles before Port Elizabeth.
Uniquely named tanker Forties waits in the Stapleton anchorage.
COSCO Vietnam enters the Kills and passes Houston at the dock.
Since Kriti Amber is Greek-flagged, I’m guessing that’s a variation on “Crete,” but that only conjecture.
QM2 takes on fuel while transferring passengers on the port side.
And let’s call it a day with Unique Explorer.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who considers himself fortunate to live in this large port.
Ava M McAllister has assisted at least three ships already, and she’d been in the sixth boro less than 36 hours when i took these photos.
No doubt her largest so far was YM Wind, which she’s assisting here with her twin Capt. Brian A. Barely less than a year ago I missed the dual christening of Capt. Brian A. and Rosemary . . .
For scale, notice the orange-clad ship’s crew both above and below.
Capt. Brian A., Rosemary, and Ava M. are all 100′ x 40′ and powered by two 16-cylinder Tier IV Cat 3616E engines.
How new is she? Check out the white hand-lettered numbers on the fendering just below the word McAllister.
Long and safe may she sail.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
It’s that time again . . . a glance back at exactly a decade ago. Back in June 2009, the 400th anniversary of the Half Moon going up the Hudson kicked off with a 20th century version of the Half Moon going up the Hudson. Note the banner hung to the old TZ Bridge along the right side of the photo. That replica is now in the Netherlands, looking for a new home, and that bridge–parts of it–have become fish structure somewhere off Long Island.
A newish boat in town was Peter F. Gellatly, now Vane’s Long Island.
Bounty–alas her fate–was still an irregular visitor to the sixth boro. Here she’s made up to Harvey just outboard of Frying Pan.
Brian Nicholas moves a scrap barge out of the East River.
Paul T. Moran made one of her really rare visits to the sixth boro.
Container vessels calling in the ports of NY and NJ had not yet become UL . . . ultra large versions
Harvey follows Half Moon northbound on the Hudson.
Michigan Service and Erie Service gather near IMTT.
Sisters assists with a tanker, and
here’s more of the River Day procession marking the year of Half Moon the first.
All photos taken in June 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
Ten years ago I did a series called “meditations” as I was pitching about to structure my days. The series was keyed to the alphabet, A to Z. The L meditation focused on “line.” Picking this back up has been prompted by the photo below.
Notice anything unusual about the line seen here? By the way, CS Peony was underway when I took the photo.
Contrast the line in the images above and below. Notice how taut the one from the OOCL ship is.
See the somewhat diagonal line between the port side of the green vessel and the Moran tug? It’s tightly stretched.
Below . . . both lines are tight.
Ditto . . . below.
And along the other side of CS Peony . . . bar tight.
In a different context, a tightrope walker like Philippe Petit could navigate that non-sagging line.
But here . . . I find this unusual.
Any ideas?
Photos and observations by Will Van Dorp.
Memorial Day weekend 2019 . . . and we should all remember the meaning, whether we’re working or vacating from work.
You can read the names on the vessels or on the tags.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d included no links in this post except the one that follows and which I hope you read in its entirety here.
It’s that time of year.
Some small commercial fishing boats do stay around in winter, but
I don’t recall seeing Never Enuff in frigid weather.
Catamarans like Good Karma might sail all winter, but down south ….
Jackie C . . . a dive boat?
I didn’t catch a name on this trap boat.
Nor here . . . .
Twisted Sisters has a load of traps.
I caught the name here . . . Renegade.
But not here . . .. although I know it’s a Florida Bay Coaster,
which is roomy inside but insignificant when juxtaposed with a 1200′ ULCV.
And then there are the jet skis . . .
….
This process of assembling this post has suggested a new
series, a summer series
called Mixed Craft, mixed use of the waterways. Be safe.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
See that lineup . . . it can mean only one thing, and it’s not the invasion of 300 enemy warships.
Here are some of those meeting the fleet . . .
And here the fleet, part of the vessels . . ..
Three Forty Three does the honors.
The lead gray ship has a unique appearance, seen on this blog here from about a year ago.
LCS-5 will be docked on Staten Island, a tour I might be interested in doing. For the complete schedule, click here.
Ellen McAllister, following her to the dock, is another product of Wisconsin shipbuilding.
Following the LCS was DDG-109, USS Jason Dunham. Please read the story of the namesake here.
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More tomorrow, but here, passing in front of USS Jason Dunham and USS Milwaukee, is the 98-year-old HMCS Oriole, with an interesting bi-national history you can read here. HMCS Oriole has appeared on this blog twice before, once on the West Coast and once on the Great Lakes.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose previous fleet week photos can be seen here.
By now you’ve seen a trend in several posts . . . my showing you what my eyes want to misperceive. Does this not look like a tug with a heaping deckload on a barge? I took the shot Sunday in the rain, camera protected by an umbrella. Precipitation diffuses the subject.
A minute later, what is approaching has become more apparent.
It’s Gargano, which I’ve watched for a spell now on AIS. Built in 2002, she’s been transformed from an OSV to a wind farm construction support vessel. Read more here.
Her crew was catching some photos from the underside of the VZ Bridge here.
For relative size, that’s Capt. Brian A. McAllister,
at the Narrows to meet what was not a barge at all. The “barge” in the top photo was Maersk Kowloon.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who just learned that Gargano is the location of a wind farm off the east coast of Italy.
Alternate classification for this post could be under “specialized” or “whatzit“.
I hope you all are enjoying these glances back a decade as much as I enjoy putting them together. If you weren’t paying attention back then, this hints at how much the traffic in the harbor has changed, just as it has on the roads. If you were watching back in spring 2009, you might have this same appreciation at the changes; In addition, you might be amazed how quickly time has passed. Maybe you’ve forgotten about some of these boats.
Pegasus, quo vadis? I’ve heard some ominous scuttlebutt, the kind you’d hear about any 112-year-old vessel. Your project site is still up. Here she was in front of the Hoboken Terminal, which opened the same year–1907–as Peg was launched.
Starboard view and port . . it’s the 1968 McAllister Girls . . . if she’s still around, I’ve not seen her in quite some time. In the background over near the Jersey City river’s edge, Clipper City and Pioneer sail toward each other.
Ditto the 1977 Sisters.
Ellen (1967) and Amy C (1976) are still active in the harbor, but it’s been years since APL Cyprine has called here.
The 1978 Mary Gellatly has been sold up down east, and last I knew, working as Alice Winslow for Winslow Marine Inc. out of Southport Maine.
The K-Sea fleet in the sixth boro in 2009 was quite large. Norwegian Sea was a workhorse on the Hudson; now she’s Miss Rui operating for Smith Maritime.
Houma (1970) has been scrapped.
Taurus (1979) recently reappeared here as Joker.
Onrust was launched into the Mohawk River in May 2009, and I believe she will again be sailing out of Essex CT. Her splash up and over the riverbank trees was quite spectacular.
All photos a short 10 years ago by Will Van Dorp.
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