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Random is  . . . well the word comes from French which comes from German which comes from some extinct language describing the galloping horses,  going just going without a pattern.  I might assemble in patterns, but they’re not really there.

So, first up it’s Helen Laraway, based in the burgeoning port of Coeymans.

Next, it’s the fairly new Crystal Cutler pushing Patricia E. Poling.

 

Color scheme give this away?

It’s Quenames . . .

 

And finally, as Quenames heads away from us, it’s Bering Sea (once known as Cougar and later Stacy Moran) on the approach

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wouldn’t remember any of this if not for Birk’s site.  Thx, Birk.

 

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Name that tugboat?

Or this one?

Or these two?  Answer follows.

Enjoy the rest of these for what they are . . .

Bruce A. McAllister above and Fort McHenry below.

Meredith C. Reinauer on a sunny but

cold morning.   Ready for the answers on the first three?

Well, the first was Kimberly Poling, then

Dace Reinauer, which I first saw looking like this.

And finally Emily Ann, which reminds me of an email I once receivedfrom a reader named R. Pena, who wanted to track down the boat to which he owed his life after his own had sunk between Cuba and Florida.  I embed the link to that post here because it’s a story that bears repetition.

And finally pushing New Hampshire around,

it’s Scott Turecamo.  As a former resident of that state, I thought no one ever pushed New Hampshire around!

All photos this week by Will Van Dorp.

 

Three Minutes in Eerie Light

I’ve done posts with titles like 15 minutes or 18 . . . but here’s a set shot in just three minutes, just after that strange cloud–comet’s tail?–passed the day the temps went up to 65 midday for a few hours, setting a NYC record for that day.

Here’s Jonathan C from head-on, with Shooters Island off the stern.

Zooming out shows Pegasus and Kimberly Poling using Edwin A. Poling, and the cranes at Howland Hook.

 

 

It looks like some refinishing is happening on Pegasus.

Mary H pushes Patriot heading the other direction.

That church in a lot of photos is Immaculate Heart in Elizabeth NJ.

 

 

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Thanks to Jonathan Steinman, who once a week has a moment to look out his window at work, here’s an angle on Kimberly Poling showing a weight bench just behind the wheelhouse.   In pleasant weather, that must make a great gym.

Chandra B meets Morton Bouchard Jr with the Goethals Bridge–old and new–as backdrop.

Ditto Ellen S. and Erin McAllister, with added details of the Linden refinery.

A closeup of Erin, as she plows eastward.

Ellen S.  and Evening Light meet near the salt pile.

And to close out today’s post, it’s the too long absent Vulcan III passing Gracie M.

How about a flashback to June 2009.  Cheyenne looks different today, but so does the shoreline of Manhattan, now that Pier 15 has institutionalized itself over on the far side of where Wavertree rests.

The first photo by Jonathan Steinman;  all others by Will Van Dorp.

Time Warp 2

I did this once before here.  This time I was deleting near duplicates to limit the size of my photo library to accommodate the many photos I brought back from the gallivants, and my mind quickly formed today’s post.  Enjoy all these from August through October 2009 and marvel at how much the harbor changes.   As I went through the archives, this is where I stopped, given the recent developments in Bella Bella BC.

For background on this tug, check here.

Notice also the Bayonne approach to the bridge.

IMO 8983117 was still orange back then.

King Philip, Thomas Dann, and Patriot Service . . .

…

Odin . . .  now has a fixed profile.

And these two clean looking machines — Coral Queen and

John B. Caddell — were still with us.

This is a digression to March 2010, but since I’m in a temporally warped thought, let me add this photo of the long-gone Kristin Poling.

Back to 2009, Rosemary looked sweet here in fall scenes.

John Reinauer . . . I wonder what that tug looks like today over in Nigeria.

And Newtown Creek, now the deep Lady Luck of the Depths, sure looked good back then.

And while I’m at it, I’ve finally solved a puzzle that’s bugged me for a few years.  Remember this post from three and a half years ago about a group of aging Dutch sailors who wanted to hold a reunion on their vessel but couldn’t find the boat, a former Royal Dutch Navy tug named Wamandai A870?  Well, here’s the boat today!  Well, maybe . . .

Another boat you can dive on is United Caribbean aka Golden Venture.

Photos and tangents by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Time to recapitulate the “go west” journey and post the many photos of tugboats I’ve omitted . . . .

Passing Senesco, we saw Buckley McAllister approaching us;  I photographed the boat as someone there photographed us.  I’m not sure which Reinauer tug that is in the background.

In the East river the next morning, we passed Cornell at the Brooklyn Barge, a food and drink venue I need to make time to visit.

 

Over by the Circle Line pier, it’s–well–Miss Circle Line, a reinvention of a Matton tug launched in 1955 and previously called Betsy.  Thanks to Paul Strubeck for reading the name board lettering here before it’s applied . . .  That was a joke, but thanks, Paul.

James William moves stone Mississippi River style down the sixth boro into the gargantuan building site encompassing the other five boros.

Near 79th Street, this unidentified tug was supporting a pier project.

Along the Palisades north of the GW Bridge, Comet pushed Eva Leigh Cutler.

 

And Miss Yvette moved a scow not far from where

Carolina Coast waited for her sugar barge to be emptied into the maw of the Domino plant in Yonkers.

 

All photos by will Van Dorp, who hopes to see you at the screening of Graves of Arthur Kill at the the Staten Island ferry terminal on August 13.

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Summertime and the living is easy . . . and Sassafras is bringing fuel to MSC Marianna.

JRT Moran is preparing to assist MSC Busan out of its berth

Another section of Rockefeller University’s River Campus is shipping in aboard Witte 1401 moved by Emily Ann, 

passing Zachery and Jason Reinauer and

and Dean.

Crystal Cutler moves Patricia E. Poling westbound . . .

Brendan Turecamo assists MSC Busan back out

on its way

to Norfolk.

All photos taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp, who is leaving the area for a while.  Details tomorrow.

 

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Land mass area can be quantified in square miles, but I’d love to work with a mathematician to measure the area within NYC limits which is navigable, i.e., the sixth boro.  Of course, “navigable” would need defining too. Immeasurable, of course, is the number of photos  taken daily of vessels with the sixth boro.

Like this one of Crystal Cutler pushing

Patricia E. Poling westbound at the Brooklyn Bridge.

Taft Beach pushes BMLP 703 and 305 in the opposite direction.   Also working recently have been

Paul Andrew with scrap,

Sarah Ann with more scrap,

Thomas D. Witte with crane barge Columbia,

James E. Brown with a spud barge,

and Fort Schuyler in various locations.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Unrelated, here’s an interesting video on the salvage of  Modern Express . . . passed along by JM.

Also, as we near the mermaid parade, here are details on a performance to get you in the mood, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s the “Fisherman and his Soul.”

 

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I suppose I could call this RT 163b, since the photos in both were taken the same day, same conditions of light and moisture.

Let’s start with Charles D. McAllister with Lettie G. Howard bare poles in the distance.

Evelyn Cutler with Noelle Cutler is tied up alongside a barge with Wavertree‘s still horizontal poles. Click here to see Evelyn as I first saw her.

Viking is high and dry, post the winter work.

Timothy L. Reinauer is back in town after a very long hiatus, at least from my POV.  This may have been the last time I saw her.

Mary Gellatly gets some TLC as well;  click here for the previous time she was in a “random” post.

Beyond Mister Jim, a pile of sand is growing in the yard just west of the Bayonne Bridge on the Staten Island side.

Elizabeth and Marjorie B. McAllister head out for a job.

Tasman Sea heads for the yard as

Amberjack departs.

 

And for closure, it’s Marjorie B passing in front of a relatively ship-free Port Elizabeth.  Click here for a photo of Marjorie B high and dry a few years ago.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

And in contrast to all that, in Niigata earlier today, here’s some great vessel christening photos from Maasmondmaritime.

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Let’s start with Marie J. Turecamo (1968).  And then let’s look at others out around this springtime morning:

Like Joan Turecamo (1980), built near the confluence of the Hudson River and Erie Canal,

heading out here with James D. Moran (2015);

Caitlin Ann (1961) doing a recycling run;

Emerald Coast (1973) leaving the U-Haul;

North Sea (1982) heading for the Kirby yard;

Robert E. McAllister (1969) heading out for a ship;

Quenames (1982) moving a barge alongside;

Crystal Cutler (2010) getting some maintenance; and

that brings us back to Marie J. Turecamo and a photo taken only a minute of so before the lead-off photo in this post.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.