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This is my title for times I’m feeling ADHDed out . . . when I can’t focus on a big picture for all the divergent details. So, who’s home court is this?
AS Felicia‘s crew, that’s who. Any guesses on AS Felicia‘s teu capacity?
RN Weeks is a split hopper TS dredge, like Ocean Traverse Nord (OTN). See OTN dumping spoils by splitting her hull here.
Between the islands of Governors and Manhattan, specialized conveyances are used.
SeatheCity must be gaining popularity, if they’ve added a boat II to their fleet. I need to make my way over to the Morris Canal to check them out again.
As they head for sea, these crew are working on the ladder and gangway.
When I first saw this utility boat, I thought it was unmarked, but when I zoomed in
the red D and half ring were clear, although I can’t tell whose logo this is.
And let’s leave it here with explanation coming tomorrow . . . why’s Maverick towing that orange ball?
All photos, WVD.
This title goes back to 2006!! here. Since that time, I’ve been inside one, although not as it free fell into the sea.
It’s standard equipment on vessels of all sorts. For what’s inside, click here.
Sometimes they make their way inland and form encampments. Just kidding, but this is an intriguing sight in these photos send along by Sean McQuilken.
If this were an Air B & B, I might consider staying. Likely these are for sale or are used for training, or both. Actually, people have turned these into yachts, as in this video.
But the other day when USNS Pomeroy was still in town, I noticed that one of the enclosed lifeboats was beside the hull, floating in the water. It was no doubt a drill before the T-AKR-316 left town after a thorough refurb.
Drill complete, crew transferred from the lifeboat into a launch, the lifeboat got hauled back into its cradle,
and the crew made their way up the long companionway back aboard ship.
Thanks to Sean for sharing the photos. Previous photos from Sean can be seen here. The others, WVD.
Here’s an article I did on lifeboat drills some years ago.
It’s not the best photo maybe, although–hey– it was the golden hour when B. E. Lindholm came into the boro recently. They’ve been working along the east side of Sandy Hook.
Some small craft traffic the boro all seasons of the year. I suspect this is going out fishing, but I’m not sure.
Daisy Mae here southbound along Newport . . . in a clash of horizontal lines.
This morning had Meaghan Marie, Eastern Dawn, and Evening Mist rafted up in Red Hook.
I’ve often seen David Auld Scudder on AIS, but not until the other day had I seen the boat,
diminutive beside Pegasus Star.
As have appeared here before, Millers Launch has a lot of small workboats like Erin Miller.
Discovery Coast has been working a fair amount in the boro in recent weeks.
Too distant to tell, but Twin Tube here is lifting new life rafts onto Nordic Harrier.
Hayward dates from 1974, when the drift collection vessel came out of a Boston shipyard.
And there we’ll leave it. All photos and any errors, WVD.
Overcast midwinter light has its own beauty.
And here in that beauty, Linda L. Miller eases alongside the sulfurous yellow color of this Stolt tanker.
Minimal gear or not, the approach is the same.
The crew makes fast.
Work can begin.
I’m not sure what the job was.
All photos, WVD, who’s currently heading north.
These small craft operate all year round in the sixth boro.
I’ve seen at least two Clean Harbors boats in the harbor, 32 and maybe . . . 33. But the company is hardly local. I once saw one of their trucks on the NY Thruway west of Syracuse. Click here for the history of this Massachusetts headquartered business.
Evidenced by the unique Donjon blue, Sea Explorer is one of the sixth boro company’s survey boats. Of course, Donjon certainly doesn’t operate only locally either.
Here the small boat was eastbound in the direction of the Sound.
Miller’s Launch has a lot of boats, including a handful of launch boats like Nicholas Miller here.
Axopar is a relatively new Finnish boat manufacturer. These don’t appear to be work boats like all the others here, but they are certainly workboat design inspired.
Here are two
separate boats I’ve seen in the boro of late.
Maybe a reader can comment further about these boats.
The first Axopar I saw half a decade ago on the Erie Canal . . . the last one here.
NJ State Police has quite a fleet, but their website has not been updated to reflect the vessel below.
Rounding out this post . . . this Billion Oyster project boat was round the Battery the other day.
For more on the reefs restored in the sixth boro, click here. In. a few years, might the program be renamed the Trillion Oyster project? Wasn’t it originally called the “million oyster” project?
All photos, WVD.
Even on overcast days, the sixth boro aka NY harbor offers sights. It’s long been so; here’s much abridged paragraphs 3-5 Chapter 1 of Moby Dick:
[People] stand … fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning … some seated … some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China… [some] pacing straight for the water… Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land… They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand… infallibly [move] to water… Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy [youth] with a robust healthy soul… at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning…. we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans … the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.”
OK, so that might be over the top, but I find at least as much entertainment along the water as in all the other places in NYC. Maybe that makes me a hermit, but that’s irrelevant. Can you name these boats?
At less than 10 miles an hour, trade comes in, commerce of all sort goes on.
different hour different goods,
different tasks,
different energies
and errands
by different
companies . . .
All photos, WVD.
And in order, Jonathan C Moran, Meaghan Marie, Ellen McAllister, Andrea, Schuylkill, Rowan R McAllister, Thomas D Witte, Susan Miller.
Christy Anne is a small tug that I’ve not seen in 15 years!! I posted it here, after seeing it in the Hackensack River, a place I see rarely. Unrelated: where are those buildings on the ridge in the distance? Is there some Fata Morgana effect going on there?
With the placement of tire fendering fore and aft, I had the impression of an amphibious craft, the hull shaped around the tires almost like fenders on a flat-fender Jeep. Here’s the late Fred “tug44“s post about the boat.
When I saw this boat sailing in the other day, with its serious lines, I had to learn its story. It’s Sparrow, an Open 50 racing sloop, preparing for the Global Solo Challenge. More on the boat here.
Nicholas Miller, 33′ x 11′ crew boat, is picking up a pilot on the fly as
MSC Elodie, 980′ loa, comes into the harbor. Nicholas matched the ship’s six-knot speed, sidled up, and stuck the rubber to the ship’s hull; once the pilot was safely aboard,
powered her way to overcome the physical forces and get away from the ship.
Ocean Venture is a purse seiner that comes through the boro periodically.. Some concern exists about the menhaden fishery.
She was possibly headed for her base on the Penobscot.
The seiner skiff helps deploy the purse net.
What was curious, I thought, was that UConn’s 90′ loa Connecticut came in right behind Ocean Venture.
As seems true a lot these days, I suspect there’s much more to the movements of these vessels
than I will ever know.
All photos, WVD, who’s just being his customary curious.
Lightning is here and has been for at least four years, and Thunder is on its way.
From 2014 and therefore two years newer than Lightning, Adeline Marie, previously Denise A. Bouchard, was heading over to the Industry Day on Wednesday. I caught a few photos of her as Rubia in between her original and her latest livery.
The 2006 Kristin Poling first came to the sixth boro as the 5000 hp 111′ x 36′ Chesapeake. Here was my first good view of her as a Poling/Cutler tugboat.
Atlantic Enterprise has been keeping busy with runs with dredge spoils from the North River passenger terminal out to the dump site aka HARS. For a day’s worth of reading, click here for a July 2022 report on HARS.
The 1981 Susan Miller pushes a small deck barge through congested waters here. She’s been working in the boro for as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
The 1968 Marie J. Turecamo has worked in the Moran livery for over 20 years.
Scale is clear from this side-by-side photo of the 2007 Saint Emilion (105′ x 38′ and 4800 hp) and the 1982 McCormack Boys ( 74′ x 26′ and 1200 hp), both hauled out over at Bayonne Dry Dock.
The 2007 Normandy (79′ x 27′ and 1900 hp) has been in the boro since 2015.
The 1981 Navigator (64′ x 24′ and 1200 hp) has to be one among the busiest boats in the harbor and the region.
The 1975 Mary Emma (100′ x 31′ and 3900 hp) has worked under this livery since 2021. I caught her transformation here about a year ago.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who thanks you for continuing to read this blog.
Cormorant and I talk sometime; yes, the one on the piling and not the former DEP boat. Anyhow, cormorant prompted me to get these three photos.
So, evidence here is that I did. A red . . . Freightliner Summit Hauler was preparing to tow an odd bundle off M8001 barge held in place by Michael Miller. Might those be bundled barricades? Any idea where this post is going?
Then another Hauler backed onto the barge to tow off another oddly loaded trailer. This was Monday, I believe.
Then last night, I was messaging with some friends and learned about this . . . to the right side of this photo . . . a building on Governors Island. Know it?
It appears that this week, in addition to being UN Week, is New York’s leg of a global show jumper tour, and if not the horses, then certainly all the bleachers and everything else arrives on the island . . . by barge. I’m not knocking anything in this post, but the fact that Governors Island hosts such an event boggles my mind, although you’d think that after living in NYC for 20 years now, nothing would surprise me. Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, it’s not, and Staten Island hosted those horses over 130 years ago!
Three top photos mine, WVD. Previous Governors island posts can be seen here. Hat tip to cormorant.
Millers Launch pushes a lot of interesting cargo around the harbor, like this one (scroll) from July 2014, this one I missed in September 2018, and the five boros sometimes spill out onto the sixth boro with their show business pursuits. And consumer side of show business, I think this 2020 concept was nixed because of Covid?
The previous 70 “something different” posts can be seen here. Not included is the 2006 “floating island.” Recall any other odd barges in the sixth boro?
Let’s start with a photo by John “Jed” Jedrlinic, one of Alp Forward, currently off the eastern Scottish coast. She’s a 213′ x 61′ anchor handling tug from 2007 with over 200 tons bollard pull.
From there, let’s go to the Connecticut in US coast and some local boats with
some Seakite by PanGeo Subsea gear aboard. I’d love to see what this package projects onto a screen.
Both Berto L. and Josephine K Miller were up at Lew’s port earlier this spring.
GO Pursuit, fleet mate of GO America, called in there also. “GO” expands to Guice Offshore.
The reminder of photos here come in the past days from Tony A, starting here with Deborah Quinn.
He caught her several times in the East River, and here
with an unidentified covered barge. In the photo above, the Taco Cina sign intrigues me.
In roughly the same stretch he passed Brinn Courtney, whom I’ve yet to see.
And finally, he noticed Nicholas Vinik doing the do si do with Sea Monster, moving her over near the Sandy Hook Pilots station. I’m not sure what that means about Sea Monster. Anyone know?
Many thanks to Jed, Lew, and Tony A for sending along these photos.
Meanwhile, the robots are still doing their unmonitored best at tugster tower while WVD is in the lowland of alligators, shrimp, sugar, fleur de lis and beaucoup de plus for an unspecified time.
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