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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.
I haven’t used this title in half a decade, but today I couldn’t resist. JRT waited at the Staten Island side of the VZ.
But so were the geese, the brants.
Lots of them.
As well as the gulls.
James D joined JRT as an escort gull whizzed overhead.
Now you see it?
Now?
Jonathan C meets NYK Blue Jay!!
More birds soon.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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.
I sometimes refer to a golden hour, but recently I heard someone talk about the “blue” hour, when the sun is still or already below the horizon. The light is dramatic in both, or through that whole continuum, as seen here.
Fort McHenry heads east . . .
as does Amy Moran, who technically is moving later than the blue to gold but still enjoys the subdued light.
RTC 80 is pushed westbound by
Dace Reinauer.
Treasure Coast waits with its barge amidst the industrial landscape of IMTT.
Viking (sometimes pronounced “vikin“) moves toward the AK with DBL 134.
Buchanan 12 heads for the fuel dock.
Ruth M. Reinauer takes her barge to the AK as well.
Evelyn Cutler moves her barge to the west, and
fleet mate Kimberly Poling crosses the strait to tie up at Caddells.
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Sheesh . . . someone forgot to sweep all the leftover letters from the garage floor after work.
All photos and lack of sweeping by Will Van Dorp.
Navigator looks great in the yellow trim. For some quantifiable info, she dates from 1981 and reports 1200 hp.
Ellen always strikes me as a brawler, more so than identical YTBs. Maybe it’s the ships’ hull paint she’s rubbed off with the bow rendering. For numbers and facts, she dates from 1967, built in Marinette WI, and currently has z-drives putting out 4000 hp. Click here for photos I took in Marinette this past summer.
Dory looks great, having added an upper wheelhouse. Click here and scroll for photos of Dory over the years, pre-upper wheelhouse. Who operates her now?
Amy Moran and Atlantic Salvor meet under the bridge. As an indication of winds, notice the bridge “curtains” movement. Numbers: AM 1973 and 3000 hp. AS 1976 and 6480. For previous Atlantic Salvor posts, click here.
If Buchanan 5 looks like she has new paint, she does. It used to work around here as Taft Beach. Numbers: 1983 and 2600 hp.
Normandy benefits from a simple and classical paint scheme. 2007 and about 1900 but with triple screw. As I understand it, she used to work in Colombia. Anyone have info on her propulsion plant?
Kimberly Poling got a makeover almost 10 years ago and she is just a beauty. 1994 and 3000 hp.
I’ve long heard Thomas D. Witte once worked the Erie Canal as Valoil, but I’ve never seen photos of her superstructure from that time. Anyone help? 1961 and 1500 hp.
And finally, Matthew Tibbetts once won the most attractive tug at a North River Tugboat Race, and she truly looks good. 1969 and 2000.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I love the morning, and I’ve never gotten a better photo of Tasman Sea. She’s a product of Main Iron Works, class of 1976.
Kirby Moran heads out on a job. There’s no angle from which these Washburn & Doughty 6000s look anything but stunning.
Ernest Campbell, from Southern Shipbuilding’s class of 1969, comes by to pick up a barge.
James E. Brown, a recent product of Rodriguez Shipbuilding, leaves the dock and heads to the railroad, rail float that is. Daisy Mae came out of the same yard two years later.
As Robert Burton makes her run with a less than loaded barge, I hope commuters appreciate that this stuff is not traveling by road.
Lucy Reinauer is a powerful local 1973 product; she came out of Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay.
I’m planning a post on nothing but Brown boats, but I put Thomas J. in here because she’s bathed in that same rich morning light. She’s a 1962 product of Gladding Hearn and is rated at 1000 hp, same as James E.
Elizabeth McAllister has a dramatic and rich history, which you can read here. To summarize, in May 1988 as Elizabeth Moran, she was t-boned in the fog in Lower New York Bay.
And finally, two of Brewster Marine‘s workhorses . . . Helen Parker (2005) and Ava Jude (2013). In the distance is Neptune, built 1992 and sailing for Dann Ocean since 1996.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Sorry about the washout colors below; what happened was the dawn light was intermittently too bright or dull, as winds washed clouds across the sky.
Nevertheless, I headed out because I saw a Spliethoff vessel in the offing, heading into the sixth boro. Painted a unique copper brown, Spliethoff vessels all have names ending in -gracht, or “canal” in Dutch. Saimaa is a lake in Finland. since they carry unique cargoes, I wondered what Saimaagracht would be carrying. I’ll direct your eyes, but won’t tell you until the end of this post. Some of you maybe have guessed from the photo below.
Vertical beams connected to high-up horizontal one, cabins, and wheels.
Closeup of cabins on 182 and 170. Ladders and landing.
Some of them are differently loaded, cabins positioned on the starboard side of the vessel.
Side view of Saimaagracht, showing escort Moran 6000 and all the machines. Who knows what’s in tweendecks–if anything–and holds.
Slightly different angle of cabins, and
cabins in their full context.
Just guessing here, these machines are 25′ to 30′ high, with a spread of just under 9′ or 10′. That actually a clue.
See the scudding clouds. I’m now curious about something else . . . the structure on the starboard side of the superstructure and connected by horizontal ducting. I didn’t zoom in on that in the moment.
My verdict is . . . they are a set of new Boxrunner straddle carriers, aka straddlers, by Kone Crane. The ship was arriving from Finland, so the manufacturing may have been done there. A next generation will be automated, just like self-driving cars, trucks, tractors, and ships.
And my conjecture is that starboard side stern structure is part of a sulphur oxide (Sox) scrubber plant.
All photos yesterday by Will Van Dorp. For previous photos of –gracht vessels, click here. I was unable to find a photo of Spliethoff vessel from the 1920s, when they began, but here I learned BigLift–with their Happy vessels– is one of their subsidiaries. Spliethoff was involved in a pilot container project between Europe and Cleveland a few years ago.
Unrelated: read this and listen to the audio . . . NY Media Boat takes journalists to the islands off the VZ Bridge.
I’m rushing December, but I’m eager to get through winter and back to spring. All photos here date from December 2008.
Bowsprite took this from one of her cliff niches: June K (2003) here is moving the Floating Hospital (1974, Blount) up to the Rondout, where she remains. Is she really now called Industria at Sea.
The geography is unchanged, but McAllister Responder (1967) is no longer in the sixth boro, and Sea Venture (1972) is dead and likely scrapped . . . .
Maryland (1962) has become Liz Vinik, after operating with Maryland in the name for more than a handful of companies.
Choptank (2006) is back in the sixth boro and environs. My autocorrect always wants to call this tug Shoptalk. Puzzling. NYK Daedalus (2007) is still at work, just not here. TEN Andromeda is still on the oceans as well, still transporting crude.
Now called Charly and working the Gulf of Guinea, Janice Ann Reinauer (1967) used to be a personal icon in the sixth boro. Note that 1 World Trade does not appear in this photo, as it would today.
Closing this out . . . Margaret Moran (1979 and the 4th boat by that name) passes APL Jade (1995 and likely scrapped by now) in the KVK.
I’m hoping you’re enjoying this glances back a decade as much as I am.
With the exception of the first photo, all these by Will Van Dorp, who alone is responsible for research errors.
Unrelated: Win a trip on a Great Lakes freighter/laker here.
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