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Saturday morning . . . sunrise . . . Gran Couva.

Same time . . . MTM Hamburg.

An hour later, Stolt Bobcat heads for sea.  Can you make out her original name in raised metal letters?

Golden Legend.   That’s Firefighter II overtaking to port and a boom boat to starboard.

MTM Hamburg inbound the Kills leased by Gramma Lee T Moran.

Voge Paul  in Gravesend Bay with Twin Tube and

Gran Couva Trinidad bound and

not a half hour later Afrodite in the offing bound

for Albany, where as of this writing, she’s not yet arrived.

All photos yesterday morning by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Eastbound and from left, it’s Sunny Williams, Sarah Ann, and Ellen McAllister.

Around the same time, it’s a light Patrice McAllister eastbound.  Compare the April 2014 shot below with these April 2012 ones of her first arriving in the sixth boro after the tragic fire on Lake Ontario.

After all the ice work Kimberly Poling has done the past few months, Sunday was a welcome sunny day, I’ll assume.

It wasn’t until this tow turned away from head-one that I understood what I was looking at . . ..

but closer in  . . . it was clearly Stephen Dann (I think this is her first appearance on this blog) towing

crane barge Strong Island.

Off Owl’s Head, it’s Pacific Reliance and Discovery Coast (I think) off to the west.

Pacific Reliance appeared here about six weeks ago.

Catherine Turecamo stands by near Gulf Pearl.

Parting shot . . . following up on the opening shot of this post.

All photos the past few days by Will Van Dorp.

Landmarks 5

Here was 4.

So I ‘ve had a problem today:  I tried to do a portrait of Gage Paul Thornton, and that tall building and confederates jumped in the way.

I took another . ..  and the green lady interrupted.

I attempt a solo shot of James Turecamo, and the green lady AND the orange ferry need to get involved.

So I thought I’d try it again . . . a bowshot of the 1930 charter yacht Diplomat . . . same effect.

Ditto . . . Dorothy J.  Well, maybe background context is important  . . . like to show that the New york York Media Boat is timely as well as punctual

or

maybe it’s time to listen what the woodchuck told me yesterday, go home, polish my lens, have some really hot tea . . . and wait for warm sunshine.

All photo by Will Van Dorp.

Tankerin’ 4

I thought I had done a post called “pushing oil,” but I seem to have mis-remembered.  The closest I can find is here, and looking at this post, it’s clear to me how much I’ve learned since starting this blog.  Here’s another related one from last year.

Clearly . . . that’s not a tanker below.  Thanks to Ashley Hutto for this fine photo of Captain Zeke doing a job that might have been done by small tankers a few decades or less back.

Capt. Log is one such small tankers, and her life doing what she does so well is winding down.

Here two Moran tugs–Brendan and Catherine Turecamo, I think–push a tanker into a berth on the KVK.

Davis Sea . . . once this would have been done by a tanker.

Ditto Dace Reinauer.

Thanks to Ashley for the top photo.  All others by Will Van Dorp.

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It’s Margot, last included on this blog here.  Guess the location?

And a former fleet mate of Frances, it’s  Catherine Turecamo . ..  with Gage Paul Thornton way in the background.

Here’s a closer-up of Gage Paul with Robbins Light in the background.

New York Central No. 13 . . . changing at a glacial pace and probably regressing, not progressing.   My last photo of this boat might be here.

Here’s Robert leaving the sixth boro this morning with a tow that

includes dredge McCaskill, which I previously featured here high and dry  and here from the inside.

East Coast meets west coast this morning alongside Corossol.

The newer Dean headed eastbound on the KVK and

and finally . .  another configuration of Marjorie B. McAllister.

All photos taken this week by Will Van Dorp.

Oh . . . Margot‘s location in the first photo is Tottenville NY, with Outerbridge Crossing in the background.

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Guess the locations here and . . .

here?  Answers follow.

This one should be obvious.  What’s the Philly-bound tug?

It’s Lucky D.

Here’s Chesapeake Coast, probably North River and then Hudson River bound.

B. Franklin Reinauer is Sound-bound.

And some light tugs . . . Elizabeth,

Joan Turecamo,

Chesapeake,

Megan McAllister, 

. . . Margaret Moran and Pegasus.

The top two were . . . locations were Chao Phraya River in Bangkok and the Staten Island side of the Narrows, with tug Gulf Dawn outbound.   Click here for some Thai tugs from almost seven years ago.  Thanks much to Ashley Hutto for the first photo.

Ice and Fire 2

Here was 1.  And for reasons I’ll explain at the end of this post, this title might not be the best one.  Maybe by that time, you’ll figure out a better one as well.    The idea came from here–Nord Snow Queen I took in March 2012 in Panama, and then a friend’s photo from Cappadocia, which I’ll add at the end of this post.

So a better name might be ovens and freezers, or heat & ice, given that photos 2, 4, and 6  . . . as well as 1 were taken in temperatures close to 100 F (Bonneville Desert) whereas photos 3, 5, and 7 were Hudson River in this winter I now wish would subside into history.  Here’s the photo from Tuz Golu (Salt Lake) in Turkey.

The Turkish photo by Lauren Tivey;  all others by Will Van Dorp.   And one place I’d like to get to is here.

Congestion 2

Here was the first time I used this title, which clearly needs to be used again.

Let me start here at 13:38.  Note from far to near, or black hull to black hull . . . Cartagena, Four Sky with Lee T Moran, Red Hook, and Genco Knight.

Twin Tube slides through the opening between Bow Kiso and Genco Knight.

Even the bow of Genco Knight is crowded as their vessel prepares to dock and resupply the salt depot.

Kimberly Turecamo works the bulk carrier’s stern as Evening Star passes with B. No. 250.

Add McAllister Girls in the foreground and Ellen McAllister in the distance against the blue hull, which will appear a bit later.

McCrews heads westbound and Four Sky now seems to be doing the same.

Are you out of breath yet?  Only 10 minutes has elapsed.

Linehandler 1 cruises blithely through it, supremely self-assured.

Cheyenne adds color.

Another line handler boat scouts out the set up . . . as a new blue hull arrives from the west, as

. .  . does Charles D. McAllister.

Crew on the blue hull–Nord Observer–stows lines as they head for tropical heat, escorted

by Catherine Turecamo although

at the turn on the Con Hook range they meet Mare Pacific heading in with Joan Turecamo and Margaret  Moran.  At this point . . .

14:12 . . .  the mergansers decided to hightail it . . . or at least follow their crests.  And I hadn’t even turned around yet to see the congestion on land behind me.

All these photos in a very short time by Will Van Dorp.

My thanks to Brian DeForest and Atlantic Salt, whom Genco Knight was arriving to restock.

Here was a post about a dense traffic day as well as a busy day.

100 Days’ Changes

Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, late October 2013.

Same bridge February 4 2014.

WYTL 65611 Line and Doris Moran passing under that same bridge  February 4 2014.

Looking south toward Bannerman’s Castle late October 2013.

From not as close . . . but that’s Bannerman’s slightly off to the left.

Northside of Bear Mountain Bridge in October 2013 and

yesterday with Stephen Reinauer with RTC 80  north bound and

and Stephen-Scott with light barge RTC 20.

Doris meets the train.

Here’s looking south from Newburgh dock mid November a few years ago, and

here’s the same view from earlier this week.

All fotos of two of the faces of the Hudson River by Will Van Dorp.

Ice 3

Here was a post I did four years ago.  Scroll through and the second image from last is an icebreaking run I did with Cornell in the Kingston NY area.  Here were my posts Ice 2 and the first Ice.

Below . . . a foto from Gerard Thornton showing Gary Nelson on Gage Paul Thornton.  Gary seems to be keeping relatively good humor in spite of the cold.

Gulf Dawn returns a dredge scow to the AK.

See the icicles on an anchor which less than a month ago was splashed with tropical water.

Margaret and Laura K. Moran assist Valle Azzurra in from sea.

McAllister Sisters heads upriver with

RTC 60 and –I’m speculating– lots of heating oil for New York state homes.

McAllister Girls –here passing Sassafras–is a boat I haven’t seen in a while.

Thanks to Gerard Thornton for the first foto;  all others by Will Van Dorp, who believes that one reason to put up such cold fotos  is so that we can look back in July and feel delightfully cooled by these images.