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Here are previous posts, and yes, it’s twelve o’clock somewhere . . . which means POSTING Time.
What would be your guess for the nationality of the mariner on the tug? How about the mariners on the ship?
I’ll let you ponder a clue that might be here.
It’s like spotting a unicorn to see a US-flagged tanker in the sixth boro.
She’s 2009 NASSCO built.
I can’t say much else about her, but it was good to see.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Here’s a fact I stumbled on yesterday: although there are ships and boats named for former presidents on the US, can you name one that’s namesake for two US presidents? Answer is here.
Beyond Capt. Brian . . .
Stena Penguin prepares to exit the KVK for the Upper Bay and up to the Saint Lawrence.
Anchored in the Upper Bay, it’s Stenaweco Elegance and
Venus R. now both away south . . ..
Eric McAllister here passes Harbour First, and later
escorts in RHL Agilitas.
Meanwhile crude oil tanker Alpine Confidence, somewhat down by the bow, turns in the tide just inside the Narrows.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who always finds change in the sixth boro, whether it be every day or every decennial.
By the way, see Tugster Tower in the distance . . . somewhere out there in the haze.
Previous installments can be found here.
Thomas and Ellen,
Thomas and Meagan Ann,
Meagan Ann and DS 71
Meagan Ann solo
Emily Ann and SMM 157, and
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but it seems Amy C McAllister‘s been out of the sixth boro a while. May it reflects that I have…
A bit later Evening Tide passed, crossing the imaginary line between the ice-encrusted 9 and the WTC1.
Amy C left eastbound again . . .
Eventually Evening Tide did also, but I wasn’t there for the photo.
And finally, I’ve always thought the wheelhouse (s) lines on Lucy and Tide look a lot alike, although they were initially built three years apart, one in NY and the other in LA…
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Margaret shines “brightly” over by Fort Wadsworth.
Scott Turecamo transfers commodity over at the east end of Bayonne.
I think it is Miss Julia, but I still know nothing about her.
Of the Seaboats fleet absorbed into Kirby, Weddell Sea is the only one I see these days, and here she
gets assistance to the dock from Normandy.
Gracie M. was the newest Reinauer boat at least three boats ago.
With the ongoing renewal in the Reinauer fleet, Morgan must be among the oldest boats they operate.
And I’ll never forget an tempestuous morning when first I heard Evelyn‘s sound, when she was working as Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
And that returns us to Margaret.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Part of today’s post follows on yesterday’s, the arrival of NYK Blue Jay. Although she is no larger than the other ULCVs now serving the sixth boro, the fog obscuring the Staten Island in the background creates an illusion of size. Miniature tugs follow this vessel appearing the largest thing ever to enter the harbor. If the 1920s launched an era of skyscrapers on boro of Manhattan, then the past year and a half that has ushered in the ULCVs is truly an era of coast scrapers, certainly hoping not bottom scrapers. Out at the entrance to the Ambrose, pilots climbing from the pilot boat must feel they’re beside a rolling, pitching, yawing skyscraper.
If painted orange, Robbins would look like a traffic cone.
Note the three tugs totaling combined 18000 hp lined up alongside, and
fog downsizes the heights of the skyscrapers.
Let’s switch gears and embrace the merger of tanker names and popular culture, specifically the villainous organization at the heart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Since my son has caught me up on Hydra, this seems one of the strangest vessel names I’ve seen… If you know the reference, it rivals King Barley and Turmoil.
Siirt I’ve seen before.
Undine heads in with Brazilian oil, I believe. Un-dine . . . has intriguing semantic possibilities, or well, it’s just the name of a type of water fairy. Since I mentioned popular culture earlier here, Undine would fit right into the Australian show Tidelanders.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you understand the educational and therapeutic benefits he gains from haunting the port.
In only ten years, a lot of changes have happened in the sixth boro. I wish I’d started this blog 30 years ago to document even more, but 1988 predated blogs, the internet, and digital photography. Wow . . . how did people relate back then?
Joking aside, let’s see some that have moved on. On January 11, 2009 Kristin Poling, the 1934 tanker, still operated.
January 12. Sun Right, built 1993 and already dead, moved westbound in the KVK escorted by Eileen McAllister. What’s remarkable to me is how large the tug looks in compared to the ship in contrast to tugs today looking miniature on the stern of a ULCV.
Five minutes later . . . Odin. Indeed I was smitten by this unusual vessel, which has since moved to the South and lost her ability to rise up as if on hind legs. I’ve no sense of what it was like to work on her.
January 15. Never did I imagine then that this Dean Reinauer would be replaced by this Dean.
January 18 The boro’s big story of January 2009, of course, was the plane crash in the Hudson. Here the efforts to lift the USAir Flight 1549 out of the water have just begun. Thomas stands by Weeks 533.
January 29 NYC DEP’s Red Hook had just arrived in the harbor, and it seemed she was escorted everywhere by James Turecamo. Sine then, NYC DEP has added a whole new generation of sludge tankers aka honey boats.
January 31 Taurus has become Joker, another intriguingly named tugboat operated not in NYC but Philadelphia area by Hays Tug and Launch, with fleet mate names like Purple Hays, High Roller, Grape Ape, and more.
Let’s leave it there. Happy new year’s greetings still ring in my ears, leaving me with an ongoing inexplicable smile and desire to treat all with respect. Go out of your way to smile at someone today.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose smile gets hidden by a respirator whenever he goes into the archives on Tugster Tower.
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning through photos in the blog library, not overthinking it.
January. Gunhilde Maersk with James, Kirby, and JRT plus Miriam Moran. the year of the 1200-footers aka ULCVs becoming commonplace in the sixth boro.
February. Ocean Henry Bain serves as a safety boat during the ice canoe race I documented in my Carnavalons posts.
March. Cerro Grande here escorted a Caribbean-bound LNG ship, one of all the Panama Tugs posts
April. When I saw this section of drained canal bed between O-6 to O-7 in Oswego, I thought the work’d never get done before the season began, but I was wrong. Of all my 2018 NYS Canals posts, this and this posted with the greatest urgency.
May. Reliable pushed seaward by Lucy H. As of today, Reliable lies under the sea gathering fishes and entertaining Davy Jones near Shinnecock.
June. Jay Bee V headed out on a high-profile mission. Has she returned to the sixth boro yet?
July. I missed Rosemary‘s christening because that’s what happens when you don’t look at your calendar. First come first serve for a few tugster lighthouse calendars. Send me an email with your mailing address. As I said, I ran a few extra when I made up my Christmas gifts.
August. Kimberly Selvick with AEP barges was one of the treats I saw in Calumet. This day south of Chicago planted a seed of curiosity about the Lake Michigan/Mississippi River link I hope to be able to explore in 2019. Many thanks to Christine Douglas.
September. J. W. Cooper delivers a pilot in Port Colborne at the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal. Because I hadn’t a satisfying enough fix from the canal earlier, I returned there in October.
October. One Stork, a pink ULCV, came into town. It wasn’t her first visit/delivery, but it was the first that I caught. She’s currently in the sixth boro.
November. Morton S. Bouchard IV rounds Shooters Island light, Bouchard celebrated a big anniversary this year.
December. Ruth M. Reinauer heads west into the Kills in December, the start of heating oil season.
And that’s it for the year, time for me to securely lock up Tugster Tower and prepare myself to meet 2019. The older I get, the more profound is my awareness that although I make many plans for a new year, I might not see the end of it. It’s just how it is. Every day is a blessing. Last year had my own personal ultima thule; I pray that 2019 brings its new ones.
Thanks to everyone who read, commented, and assisted me in 2018. Happy and constructive new year day by day to you all.
“Leaning out” is the layperson term that comes to mind, but I’m supposing a technical and standardized term exists: indirect towing.
Let’s watch the evolution with Capt. Brian and OOCL Berlin. At 12:01, the line is slack.
12:02. As the tow approaches Bergen Point, line is tightened and
by 12:04, the line lengthened, and the tug appears to be headed in a diametrically opposite direction, in spite of OOCL Berlin‘s much larger mass.
Capt. Brian is now using the hull as a brake.
Three other tugs are working alongside the ship.
A different day, Capt. Brian is working on Gjertrud Maersk using the same technique.
All photos and conjecture on the language by Will Van Dorp. Here’s one of my sources. I hope someone corrects or confirms my understanding here.
I missed Josephine Reinauer (actually I saw her but couldn’t get a clear shot) when she visited town recently, but I did catch Jacksonville, the latest Vane machine in the harbor.
For some reason I expected her to look different, but it’s an Elizabeth Anne class tug, which’ll look a lot like most of the rest of the Vane fleet.
Eric and the other McAllister escort tugs have been quite busy recently.
Ernest Campbell has been here about a half year doing bunkering, I believe.
Trevor usually works as a dredge tender, focusing on the Jersey shore this fall.
Brooklyn was called Brooklyn Service when I first discovered the sixth born.
Daisy Mae is just over a year old.
Normandy came to the sixth born from Colombia a few years ago.
Rowan has been working in the sixth boro of late.
In fact, almost seven years ago, it was Rowan that brought Patrice McAllister into the boro after the tragic fire during her delivery from the Great Lakes to this salt water. These days, Patrice is looking great.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has heard about but not yet seen Hunter D.
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