Invisible Gold 1

What is this?

How about a little more of the same shot?  Now can you guess?  Cashman is a familiar New England company .  . . but that tug, Todd Danos, is not exactly a name known in these parts.

Have you figured out the location?  Dace Reinauer and Senesco are the best clues here. Of course, this is the Narragansett Bay.

Weeks tugs Robert and

Elizabeth sometimes work in the sixth boro . . . as here in June 2012.

“Invisible gold” is the term used at the event below–subject of tomorrow’s post.  The speaker to the right is Jeffrey Grybowski, CEO of Deepwater Wind, the project to place wind turbines in +70′ of water southeast of Block Island.  It’s happening now, and all the photos in this post–except the one below–were taken in July and early August by Nate Lopez.

And providing supply and crew support to get “steel in the water” are Rosemary Miller and

Josephine K. Miller.

Again many thanks to Nate for these photos.  More on this project in tomorrow’s post.

 

 

L’Hermione Arrives in the Sixth Boro

Back in March, I posted these photos taken by Xtian Herrou.  Xtian . ..  today I return the favor.  Tomorrow too.

Pilot arrives at L’Hermione

BZH-Association of Bretons in NY greet L’Hermione

Tricoleur is hosted at the stern.

Gunners prepare the guns for the salute.

Hands hook the anchor ring for further hoisting.

 

Hands on the wheel

L’Hermione enters the Narrows and passes Fort Wadsworth

James Turecamo delivers a docking pilot just off the French Statue.

 

And I’ll pick up the story here tomorrow.  Many thanks to Bjoern Kils and the NYMedia Boat for a fun ride.  After a night of thunderstorms and rain, daybreak brought blue skies and sunshine.  All photos by Will Van Dorp.   Also, merci Lafayette!

City of Water All Summer

While I was out documenting the excitement of the annual merfolk migration, there was an equal amount of excitement on all the waters that comprise the sixth boro.  Of course, your focus is your choice.  All photos here were taken by David Grill and used with permission.

Pegasus’ last run for now.  See the note on the left sidebar.

The Liberty Challenge brought in racers from all over the watery parts of the globe.

Outrigger Canoe Race

Vintage and contemporary petroleum vessels populated the KVK.

S/V Wavertree and Evening Star

Lehigh Valley 79 moved by Freddie K Miller.

Hats off to the passengers and crew of Pegasus and all the others out enjoying what makes NYC special .

It’s Gerry Weinstein, showing evidence of being in the engine room and

and Pamela Hepburn.

Captain at the helm

 

By the way, if you haven’t read–and don’t own– Ben Gibberd’s book of profiles, I highly recommend it. It has great photos by Randy Duchaine.

For the photos in this post, hats off for David Grill.

SUNY Maritime Summer Sea Term Day 1

You saw it here back in October as well as here just almost exactly a year ago at the start Summer Sea Term 2014.  More info on the itinerary here.  The first five photos come thanks to Jonathan Steinman and Rand Miller.

Hell Gate does not often see vessels of this size and style.  For a vessel past the half century mark, TS Empire State VI has classic lines.

Here she leaves the top end of Roosevelt Island to port.

The rest of these photos I took.

TS Empire State passing Evening Tide at U Thant Island

Williamsburg Bridge

One of the two assist tugs–I’ll include more photos of the assist tugs later–was McAllister Brothers.

The East River is spanned by eight bridges.  These two are the Brooklyn and the Manhattan Bridges.

She traverses the Upper Bay,

stopping only briefly as Rosemary Miller comes alongside, before

heading through the Narrows and

out to sea.  The plan to to drop the hook off Montauk overnight to do some drills before heading for Delaware Bay, the C & D Canal, the Chesapeake, and then Chareston SC before heading across the Atlantic.

There are calls for a newer training vessel for SUNY here.

Many thanks to NYMedia Boat and Sean Shipco for conveyance.  Have a great summer at sea, cadets.   And again, thanks to Jonathan and Rand for photos from the “east” end of the East River.

 

Random Ships 38

Recognize this northbound tanker?

Afrodite.

Another orange PCTC . . . escorted in by Margaret, I think.

Tulane.

Torm Lotte . . .

The Peter Max vessel headed for Florida and back by next weekend?

Breakaway.

Conrad S . . . she of the

whaleback forecastle to lessen greenwater loading?

And another PCTC . . .

Hoegh Inchon escorted in by Margaret again . . . .

All photos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.

Random Tugs 138

Most if not all of these vessels have appeared here before, but bear with me because a surprise follows.

Gramma Lee T Moran,

Margaret  Moran, 

Brendan Turecamo, 

Ruby M with dredge Glenn Edwards in the distance,

Eric McAllister,

Emerald Coast going head-to-head–not really–with Red Hook,

Paul Andrew eastbound on the East River,

heading in the same direction about the same hour are Catherine Miller and

Susan Miller.  By the way, in the pic above here’s a close-up of that green sculpture almost dead center of the photo.

Ok, now we’re getting to the “different” part.  Note Maryland in December 2008 and

in early April 2015.

Ditto Baltic Sea in August 2009 and –gasp—

last year.  I concur with someone on FB who said it appears she’s been whitewashed with some trim made out of crude oil mixed with pulverized charcoal.  This is sad to see.

And these photos are from an ad that’s now over a year old.  I wonder if they changed hands . . .

Can anyone identify the other tug in the center of the photo below?

All photos except the last three by Will Van Dorp.

Really Random Tugs 28

This is the series with tugs from all over.  So let’s start in Miami last month with photos by John “Jed” Jedrlinic.  Miss Niz was in the sixth boro some time back.

Also from Jed . . .it’s Akashi Maru in Yokohama, 2008. He has more photos of Japanese tugboats.

Darrin Rice sent along this photo of the classic Hercules, built at the John H. Dialogue yard in Camden NJ but having worked its entire career on the West Coast, which it arrived at by circumnavigating the southern tip of South America.   The Camden yard of John H. Dialogue also built these classics.

Previously, Darrin sent along some photos of decaying classics here.

From Jan Oosterboer via Fred Trooster . . . what appears to be a just delivered (March 2015 just!) German-flagged tug FairPlay IX operating in the Netherlands.

Brake is also an almost new boat.

And  . .  yes, I do get out and take photos myself . . . here is Robert E. McAllister passing RORO Grey Shark . . . which it towed in from sea half a month ago after the RORO experienced mechanical difficulties. Beyond the dry dock buildings is Quantum of the Seas.

Here Freddie K. Miller passes Robbins Light.  This vessel first appeared on this blog going on nine years ago here!

And last for today but certainly not least, from Rich Taylor, it’s Chale, a classic tug at the half-century mark.

Rich also sends along Istria, Italian-built . . . almost the same vintage.  Istria has been featured on this blog about two years ago here.

Thanks to Rich, Jan, Fred, Darrin, and Jed for this look at a diverse set of vessels all referred to as tugboats.

 

Sixth Boro Movers

. . . I haven’t figured out what the shakers are yet.  But of course, people are the primary movers, even for movers of people like Martha’s Vineyard Express.

There are silt movers like Stuyvesant.

And of course all manner of movers of fluids to be respected like Loya and

Red Hook and

Orange Blossom.

There are movers of boxes like Vega and

Josephine K. Miller, who can do local moves for cargo boxed or bundled or . . .  other.

There could be a category of movers of movers like this and

direct movers and

indirect ones.

Maybe I should spend some time today trying to figure out who the shakers are.  All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who was being given a tour of traffic in San Francisco Bay and noticed this interesting assemblage of names of movers.

 

Small Craft 11

Here’s an index of previous posts with this title.

And a lot of photos of small craft.  Given recent temperatures, it’s notable that all these vessels would NOT be able these days to navigate waters much north of the sixth boro or on the Great Lakes, because of ice conditions.  Given the significant clues, can you identify the vessel and location below?  Answers follow.

Here’s Julia, a sturdy all weather boat out with McKinley Sea.

Here’s Julia a few weeks ago–when the whelp of Hudson River ice still went out into the Lower Bay–

retrieving personnel from NS Lotus.

Taking the stern of Kimberly Poling . . . a small USACE I don’t recognize.

See the small unidentified boat beyond Mako‘s stern.  I believe it’s the Vane crew boat, not

to be confused with Grace D.

ABC-1 was out with supplies a few weeks ago, no matter the single-digit temperatures.

These temperatures could kill, but small fish boats like Pannaway are out there.

And if I’m reading that right, Pannaway is registered in a New Hampshire, my home state as you can read on the “about tugster” page.

Harbor Charlie is out with the small NYPD boat.

Now, let’s mix things up a bit.  Seth Tane took this photo in the sixth boro back in the late 70s or early 80s.  Can anyone identify this boat, Karen L?  I ran a lot of photos from that era by Seth in a series here almost two years ago.  In this case, Karen L seems to have just returned four jolly tars back to their ship in the anchorage as another crewman watches from the rail.

Rich Taylor took this photo recently off St. Lucia, four different very balanced tars in a long narrow boat.

This photo comes via Fred Trooster in Rotterdam showing line handlers there. Here’s a post I did over three years ago of line handlers in the Kills.

And this somehow returns us to the mystery vessel at the top of the post:  Knight Rider following the FDR just north of the United Nations, the blue flag in the top photo being the clue.

Thanks to Rich, Seth, and Fred for the photos already attributed.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

Sixth Boro Spring Signs

As you know, today is the first full day of spring, and this morning roar man looked like this.

My neighborhood looked like this, and

a local shipyard looked like this, with snow obscuring the name entirely or

partly.

But lest you think I’m glum  . . . my day blossomed as soon as I saw

this . . . juices–at least orange juice–flowing, infusing by the ton into the port.  And this . . .

new life–at least a vessel new to me in the sixth boro.  Welcome Josephine K. Miller.

And you guy below and friends, you gotta go.

All photos by Will Van Dorp. Snow obscured tug is of course Little Toot, only recently employed in North river icebreaking.