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I didn’t hear any wind speeds for yesterday, but it was blowing . . . winds of November according to the date, but fortunately not a November witch.
Chem Wolverine scudded through the Bay,
Kings Point went on with her routine,
Gabby Miller returned to home base,
Joyce aimed for the Kills,
Mister T slung a scow,
Crystal pushed Patricia E. Poling,
ONE Ibis had some containers shuffled after spending time off Long Beach,
Fort Schuyler dispatched Double Skin 30,
and Chem Wolverine, on her way to Albany, passed Dace Reinauer.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes a safe day to all.
Previous excessively windy days posts can be found here.
It’s been a few months since number 265, so let’s catch up.
Kimberly Poling had brought product upriver via Noelle Cutler, and you can tell some time has passed since I took this photo by the foliage.
Edna A was assisting a crane barge working on the power lines near Hudson NY.
Challenger came in through the Narrows yesterday, delivering a crane barge. A few years back she delivered what was initially a mystery cargo here.
Eli stood by as salt was transshipped from scow to large truck.
Mister T was westbound for the Upper Bay with four scow to be filled.
Pokomoke brought petroleum upriver.
Memory Motel, the original exotic, . . . I wondered where she had gone until I saw her high and dry up by Scarano.
Betty D and Mary Kay . . . they were docked just south of Albany.
Mary Turecamo brought container barge New York from Red Hook to Port Elizabeth . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has many more saved up from the summer and early fall.
i.e., the 19th month in a row that I’ve posted photos from exactly 120 months before. Well, although it’s not always this hazy, the Statue still looks the same, but
Responder no longer carries that boom or works in the sixth boro, and neither that bridge nor Coho looks the same.
Coral Sea Queen has been reconfigured into a trillion recombined molecules, and
June K is no longer orange.
That part of the skyline is the same–maybe–but Lil Rip has not been in this harbor in quite a while.
This Rosemary is no longer here nor painted this way, and
John Reinauer . . . I’d love to see her since she transited the Atlantic to work in the Gulf of Guinea.
Flinterborg released these Dutch sailing barges in the waterways of another continent . . . and Flinterborg has not returned that I know of.
Penn No. 4 is laid up, I think. Does no one use the term “mothballed” any more? I’ve never mothballed clothes, for what that’s worth.
Laura K Moran works in Savannah, with occasional TDY in other ports, I’ve noticed..
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who himself is no longer the same person he was in October 2009.
Last year I called it the same but without a date. See here . . here . . . and here for all the rest.
We’ll start and end with Dylan Cooper. Is anyone shocked by this tow tube behind the small boat?
Mary Alice returns with a dredge spoils scow.
Bear?
Durham and rebar?
Remnants of the TZ Bridge. . .
and “chewing” hard on other remnants.
Stony Point Light . . .
Tug Kristin Poling heads for Jones Point, and
Dylan Cooper moves toward the tanks in Newburgh.
All photos on Monday by Will Van Dorp, and this was Manhattan to Newburgh.
This feature of the blog serves to look back at this month exactly a decade ago, i.e., photos from my archives from exactly 120 months back.
John B. Caddell was still kept compliant, spruced up, and –I assume–profitable.
Nathan E. Stewart commemorated a tragic incident but it worked on the East Coast to redeem itself. That certainly did not pan out.
K-Sea must have been at its peak back then: in this one shot are Greenland Sea, Baltic Sea, and Houma.
Hornbeck Offshore worked out of a footprint now occupied by Vane. Their boats like Patriot Service and
Spartan Service and others had a distinctive appearance.
Janice Ann Reinauer seemed much beloved, possibly because of the lush bow pudding missing in the photo below.
Of the boats so far in this post, Freddie K II is the only one that still works in the sixth boro these days. Of the others, only Patriot Service and Greenland Sea still operate in the US, and at least three of the others here have been scrapped.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you a happy and safe August 2019.
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The 1963 Patricia is always a head-turner, and she was especially so the other morning. The longer I look at the photo below, the more I imagine it framed.
Her throaty sound catches the ear as well. Am I mistaken or has that color scheme changed a bit?
Carolina Coast makes the sugar run all year round, but that billowing spinnaker clearly states the season.
Nathan G has been spending a lot of time of late on runs outside the VZ Bridge.
Here, a busy distant Bayonne port as seen from Owls Head, is Genesis Victory with barge GM 6506 and a very busy background, as
she gets assisted into a lightening position by Pegasus.
James D. Moran escorts a quite empty Leo C.
toward Port Elizabeth.
Discovery Coast here takes on Edwin A. Poling. It amazes me that the sylvan shoreline beyond the unit is actually in New York City and masks a dense residential area.
Moments before she was headed in from an anchorage area.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who favors another shot of Patricia.
Here for some context is a post with drawings bowsprite did exactly a decade ago … .
I took the photo below of the same setting.
Whole fleets that existed a decade ago are gone. For example, K-Sea has been subsumed. Some boats like Maryland are still in the boro,
others are still on the East Coast but in other fleets like this Falcon.
But still others like Coral Sea and
and Baltic Sea have gone to another continent.
Others might be scrapped . . . like Volunteer and
Bismarck Sea.
Others like Adriatic Sea have crossed over to the other side of North America….
Another fleet subsumed under Kirby–as is K-Sea–is Allied. Here in July 2009, Sea Raven–now scrapped–and another Falcon have rafted up. Here’s the link to read in this post: how Sea Raven was built!!
Hornbeck had a fleet in the sixth boro, with their base in Brooklyn at the current Vane base. I don’t know what Atlantic Service is currently doing, if anything.
Spartan Service has been sold to a Mexican company,
Sandmaster was still sand mining with this rig. She was since sold to the Caribbean, and according to AIS, now flies the flag of Niger, which to me says she may be scrapped.
Cheyenne was still red back then, and has since changed colors twice, and exchanged salt water for fresh. She’s also won the International Tugboat Race on the Detroit River for the past two years.
And this Kristin Poling, 1934 built, still plied her trade, always a treat to see.
All photos from 10 years ago by Will Van Dorp, who is amazed by the amount of equipment change in the sixth boro in the past decade.
Thanks to Joseph Chomicz, it’s Capt. Latham in Port Elizabeth . . .
standing by the barge Atlanta Bridge . . . So here’s my question . . . and answer will be located at the end of this post . . . in quo vadis?
I’ve not seen this boat in a while . . . the 1958 Blount-built Vulcan III.
The “D” stands for Derrick Marine of Perth Amboy.
The current Kristin Poling stands by as Aramon is lightered before it enters the Kills.
Doris Moran moves Portland into the Kills, headed here for Shooters Island before following the channel around to the north.
Jonathan and JRT make their way home after an assist.
Mary Turecamo assists a lightered Aramon to a berth on the Arthur Kill.
Many thanks to Joe for the Capt. Latham pics; all others by Will Van Dorp, who lacked his real camera to document the answer to the “where goest they?” question above.
Some older cargo cranes go San Juan-bound aboard Atlanta Bridge between Capt. Latham and Atlantic Enterprise.
For folks who’ve been watching sixth boro traffic much longer than I have, Lyman must conjure up a sense of ressursction that I don’t have whenever I see the profile. Then called Crusader, she was tripped by her barge and sank just over 30 years ago. I’ve almost always seen her with
barge Sea Shuttle, towing sections of subs. For a spectacular view of this tow in the East River seven years ago click here.
Rockefeller University’s River Campus makes an unusual backdrop here for Foxy 3. See the support structure for the campus being lifted from the River here.
Treasure Coast . . . offhand, do you know the build date?
Carolina Coast,
with sugar barge Jonathan, which you’ve seen some years ago here as Falcon.
Pearl Coast with a cement barge off the Narrows remaking the tow to enter the Upper Bay.
In the rain, it’s Genesis Victory and Scott Turecamo, and their respective barges.
Franklin Reinauer heads out with RTC 28, and heading in it’s
Kimberly Poling with Noelle Cutler.
And let’s stop here with JRT assisting Cosco Faith.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who’s been inland for a week now and sees Shelia Bordelon on AIS at the Stapleton pier this morning. Anyone get photos?
Stephen B heads light westbound about to pass under the Bayonne Bridge, as
Mary H, especially busy during the cold times of the year, pushes some petroleum product in the opposite direction. Soon leaves will decorate Shooters out beyond her. There’s a pool hall in Queens by the name Shooters, so to clarify, here are some Shooters history posts from way back.
Mr Jim moves some aggregates, also eastbound out of Newark Bay.
James D. nudges Dublin Express as needed into Howland Hook.
Eric and Capt. Brian A. assist a CMA CGM box ship.
Evelyn Cutler moves some petroleum along the supply chain.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s burning high octane himself these days.
Related: Let me reiterate Lee Rust’s question of a day or so ago: What is the current working estimate of operating tugs in NY’s sixth boro? For starters, I think it’s hard to count because of the dynamic, transient nature of traffic. Just ballparking it without breaking it down by company and enumerating, I’d say 75 at least. For consistency, let’s say we can count a tugboat as present if it shows up on AIS/VHF/traffic control at least once a month. I’d love to hear you estimates.
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