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Mackenzie Rose and Paul Andrew are eastbound, and Mary Turecamo, westbound.
A light Haggerty Girls westbound,
passing Laurie Ann Reinauer.
Kimberly Poling moves a barge out of the Kills.
A bulker in the anchorage gets bunkered by
Kings Point. Katya Atk needs to repaint the name on the starboard bow.
And Helen Laraway makes her way east.
All photos, WVD.
Where’s there’s a “1”, a “2” must follow, right? Let’s start with Brendan Turecamo on the starboard side of APL Dublin.
Enter a Maersk ship with Bruce tendering the port side.
APL Dublin has Kirby on the stern.
Gerda has Capt. Brian A. on her stern, and
Patrice and
Ava. That makes a total of four tugboats on Gerda Maersk.
Note the rust stains on Maersk Columbus, a US-flagged ship.
Yet, no tugboats work the port side of Columbus,
but on her starboard side, Margaret has been all along, and Kirby has left APL Dublin to assist Columbus as they head for the bridge and Bergen Point.
All photos and interpretation by WVD, who’ll never see this identical concatenation repeated. Hat tip to all the crews who make this happen.
Can anyone explain the story of the rust stains on Maersk Columbus?
Looking back a year, here‘s where April 11, 2020 found us.
April 1, 2011 … and this was not a joke. More on this distressed vessel at the end of this post.
McCormack Boys and
Turecamo Girls with Barney Turecamo. All three are still working in the same liveries, I believe.
Long Island-built Escort was phased out as a certain coal-fired power plant shut down. She’s taken on new life as Northstar Innovator, based on NJ’s
Maurice River, although I’ve yet to see her.
Stad Amsterdam is not currently in Amsterdam; she’s not far away though in Scheveningen. If you want to pronounce this shibboleth as a Dutch speaker would, have a listen.
Spring sunrises . . . Coming into port is the 2017-scrapped Atlantic Cartier
escorted by Ellen McAllister and
passing Bow Clipper and Maria J. That tug is now Nicholas Vinik. Bow Clipper is now in Santos Brasil.
The venerable Chemical Pioneer was ushered in by Ellen McAllister and McAllister Responder. I say “venerable” because she was built using the stern of Sea Witch, after a massive conflagration in the port, told here by the Fire Fighter site. .
Two small USMMA boats made their way through the fog. I’m not sure the name of the vessel to the left, but the one to the right was Growler and she’s back (though hidden away) in the sixth boro.
Of course, I post a photo of Kristin Poling, which had only a few months of service left at this point. She started service in 1934 as Poughkeepsie Socony.
Marion M . . . I’ve been told she was sold to parties in the Chesapeake who planned to restore her and put her up for sale in 2018. Does anyone have an update on that?
And finally, we return to Le Papillon . . . the 48′ steel schooner was dragged off the beach but I lost track of her after that. I believe she was cut up.
It all seems like stuff from long ago . . all photos, WVD.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
This photo is out out order in this sequence, just to show scale.
Before a tanker leaves, the boom gets removed by these small boats, which
also help handle the lines.
Miriam came in to deliver the pilot(s). She then gets a line toward the stern to pull the tanker off the dock.
Marie J. gets a line on the bow to pull it away from the dock for the turning.
The top photo would come here; once the bow has moved off the dock sufficiently for Marie J to get behind the bulb, she does so . . and pushes the bow around while Miriam holds the stern.
She’s now more than 90 degrees off the starting point, and turning into a flood tide, if I remember correctly.
Once the tanker’s turned 180 and pointed into her desired course, Marie J. speeds ahead to get onto the port side of the tanker.
All photos, WVD.
Kudos to Allen Baker for catching this boat coming through, and as of Friday morning she’s still in the boro even though she’s headed for Norfolk, I believe.
Have a look at her and see if you can tell any differences between this new boat and a long evolutionary string of Moran boats depicted here and culminating in the 6000s like Kirby Moran….
And the difference is . . . she’s all different: shorter (by almost 10′), cleaner (Tier IV), and with an all-different propulsion (Cat/Royce turning 94″ wheels v. EMD/Schottel turning 102″). It would be interesting to see them side by side as well as from the interior. There are other differences as well.
Again, kudos to Allen for catching this boat coming through on delivery south.
Coincidentally, just last week I reread Tugboat: The Moran Story by Eugene F. Moran and Louis Reid, published in 1956. That book covers 1850 to 1950, and I’d love to see installment two of the Moran story, covering the 65 years since Tugboat came out. Is anyone writing it? I’d step up . . . for what that’s worth.
A starting point is here, and in the Towline archives you find there.
March 25, 2011 was a busy day. L to r, Maurania III, USNS Yano, Resolute, McAllister Responder, McAllister Girls, Amy Moran . . . with a K-Sea barge at the mooring, and some iconic structures. None of these vessels in currently in the sixth boro. Amy Moran is now John Joseph.
Let’s follow the USNS vessel first, as it’s assisted into the graving dock. Yano is in Newport News at this time, 2021.
Yano is an example of a US-flagged non-Jones Act vessel.
A bit later, more to the west, Davis Sea stands by to assist Taurus
and DBL 25 into a dock. Taurus recently came to the boro from Philly as Joker. Davis Sea is now Defender.
The following day, Maurania III and
McAllister Girls sail British Serenity off the dock. Maurania III is now in Wilmington, and British Serenity is now Champion Timur and is in the Black Sea on a voyage that began in Indonesia. Girls is laid up.
An hour later, Jennifer Turecamo assisted the big OSG 350 moved by
OSG Vision westbound. Jennifer is in Tampa, and Vision runs in and out of Delaware Bay.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who notices the old Bayonne Bridge profile above.
For an update on Ever Given, click here.
And the answer to yesterday’s what and where: Jay Michael off Bridgeport, CT….
FB won’t display a preview photo because I made them full size. Oh well.
Picking up from yesterday, Kimberly released her line on the lower recessed bitt of MSC Bilbao and spun around to head back home. Jonathan C goes to retrieve the docking pilot.
Victoria Highway comes in . . . .
Life saving steel cage?
Lines are prepped for the next job.
Brendan Turecamo is on the stern.
Meanwhile, over in Global, there’s a lot of shifting going on.
See the crane operator’s cabin beneath the rail just to the right of the red/white tip of the rail? An operator sits there the whole shift shuttling backing and forth lifting and lowering containers more than a hundred feet below.
Frances leaves for her next job.
Emily Ann moves a brace scows . . . likely to Claremont.
And Bruce A. comes over to hang on the wall between jobs.
Here ends my spring morning series. On a day like this, I couldn’t be happier. I’ve posted only ten percent of the photos I took, of course, in the interest of creating some narrative. Obviously each of these photos could develop into a narrative in itself. And other photos creating differing narratives remain in my archives . . . for now.
All photos, WVD.
Following from yesterday, which covered 0900 to 0930, today we pick up from the mystery vessel and do 0930 to 1000. Identify this blue ship?
Here’s a clue and a hint that traffic is busy, as another vessel comes around Bergen Point.
As MSC Bilbao clears the bridge, you get a sense of all the boats over on the NW side of Staten Island. Anyone know the passenger vessel at the shipyard to the left? I don’t.
As MSC Bilbao approaches from the west and Adams heads out to sea, a RORO arrives.
The random curves of waves and reflections seem just perfect as a vessel named Bilbao passes by.
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Kimberly has released the line to Bilbao and is about to rotate to starboard and head back west.
All photos, WVD.
The other morning was without wind and busy, so this next “hour” is actually 30 minutes, and these are only a few of the photos I took between 0900 and 0930 of this extraordinary morning from my single vantage point.
A team of Dann Marine tugs leave the dock, framing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer dock.
Vane’s Brooklyn leaves her dock; notice the Moran barn (red with the white M) and Pegasus at the Metropolitan dock.
Charles D heads to job.
Bulker Maina heads for sea, passing Elandra Blu and
Marjorie comes to retrieve the docking pilot. Do you see four people in the photo below? Elandra tankers are based in Latvia.
The calm here is barely broken by MSC Korea.
Brendan waits to retrieve the pilot. Note the scrubber and its effects on emissions?
Over by IMTT Glory and Potomac sand by with their barges.
And we’ll leave it here, actual 28 minutes elapsed . . . name that approaching ship?
All photos, WVD.
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