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All photos today I took in May and early June of 2008. Odin, configured this was in 1982, is now known as Jutte Cenac, after considerable reconfiguration. You’d no longer look twice at her now, as you would back then.
Scotty Sky, the Blount-built tanker launched in 1960, was rendered obsolete on January 1, 2015 by OPA 90, and now calls the Caribbean home.
When I took this photo along the South Brooklyn docks, I had no idea that it was to become the Brookfield Place ferry terminal.
I had no idea until looking this up that Joan McAllister is the current Nathan G.
Juliet Reinauer now works as Big Jake.
For Lettie G Howard, another decade is somewhat insignificant, given that it’s been afloat since 1893. Currently she’s sailing up the St. Lawrence bound for Lake Erie. The NJ shoreline there has changed quite a bit, beginning with the removal of the Hess tanks there around 2014.
Crow was scrapped in 2015. I caught her last ride powered by Emily Ann here (and scroll) in May 2014.
And finally, back in 2008, this living fossil was still hard at work,
gainfully plying the Hudson. This Kristin was scrapped sometime in 2012.
All photos taken in late spring 2008 by Will Van Dorp.
Joyce D. Brown with a resplendent paint job on a bright spring morning.
A new boat entering the Narrows in springtime. Know it?
Sea Oak, which I last saw in Southport, NC.
Crystal Cutler, also looking great in the spring sunshine.
The extraordinary Bosco, passing the boscage of Shooters Island.
The vertically oriented Genesis Vision, previously known as Superior Service.
Paul Andrew, once sported a respectable Christmas tree here (scroll).
Another great name . . Sea Fox.
Marjorie B McAllister, perfectly positioned with the arrow on CMA CGM Almaviva,
Rebecca Ann, with a great origin story that maybe someone who reads this knows better than I do. All I remember is that it was locally built . . . with spare steel . . . I hope I’m right about that. And she’s currently involved in a project that might place her in tomorrow’s post. I believe she first appeared in this blog in 2010 here (scroll).
Any guesses?
Answer below.
Yes, Seeley, which was once a Vane Brothers boat called Vane Brothers.
All photos taken in april 2018 by Will Van Dorp.
It’s good to see crisp letters, smart paint.
This was my first unobstructed view of the boat.
as Kristen passes Kirsten.
Here from a year ad a half ago is IMO 9378759 in a previous livery.
The previous Kristin Poling has a very long life; click here to see a record of her long life, including one of my photos Auke didn’t credit me for. Hey Auke . . . let’s talk. Photos of the 1934 motor tanker below are from January 2009
and June 2008.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. For more of the previous Kristin, click here.
What does a 70+ degree temperature day in February in the sixth boro look like? Well . . . see for yourself. Cornell light and likely back from a TOAR training, rafts up to Mary Whalen in Atlantic Basin.
Along the Brooklyn shore, there was Genesis Glory with GM11105.
Brooklyn–ex-Labrador Sea–light was headed for the Kills.
An anchored Crystal Cutler stood by with Patricia E. Poling. Over in the distance is Malik al Ashtar, another 13,000+ teu container ship. See Crystal light, high and dry here.
Over near the foot of Atlantic Avenue, Linda Lee Bouchard stands by alongside B. No. 205.
And finally, along the BQE and Brooklyn Heights, C. Angelo with EMA 1152, the EMA standing for Express Marine, the outfit that used to deliver fuel to the sixth boro’s coal-fired plants. Express Marine tugs Consort and Escort used to be regulars in the port. I believe they are currently “laid up.”
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
For a 2015 coyote on ice, click here and scroll. If a coyote came up behind these critters right now,
there’d be movements in the cycle of life. Benjamin Moll took this amazing series of shots a few days back on the Hudson.
I was wondering whether these deer approach the open water to drink. Anyone conjecture?
I’m wondering . . . was there a whistle involved?
Many thanks for use of these photos to Benjamin Moll.
It’s always a joy to be under way on the Hudson. Enjoy these shots from last week.
Stephanie Dann passes a chimney of what may once have been an ice house.
Click here for previous Stephanie Dann photos.
With the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in the background, Sapphire Coast approaches pushing Cement Transporter 1801.
Near Catskill she passes Coral Coast with another cement barge.
And here my first time to see the rebranded Kristin Poling, moving Eva Leigh Cutler.
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All photos by Will Van Dorp.
A lot of time has elapsed since this first installment of this series here.
Here Evelyn pushes north with Edwin A. Poling loaded.
And not even a few hours later, Kimberly headed southbound in the same location with Noelle.
All those photos above date from mid-October, but a few days ago, I caught Crystal
crossing the sixth boro with Patricia.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who understands the need to upgrade, but I still miss the gravitas of the old Kristin Poling and the Queen.
First, thanks to Joseph Chomicz . . . it’s Rebel and Dolphin over by the Philadelphia Navy Yard . . .
Quo vadis, Rebel?
And the second batch comes from Ingrid Staats with likely the most unusual backstory ever on this blog . . . Ingrid took the photos from a room in New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where her healthy baby was born. She writes, “We had an amazing view of the East River and for four days as Mom & babe recuperated. I amused myself by capturing as many tugs as possible.” Congratulations to all and here they are:
Sea Lion above moving recyclables and and Evelyn Cutler pushing petroleum product.
TJ and Catherine Miller . . . and is TJ really doing all the work here?
And finally . . . Navigator light and Gulf Enterprise pushing a petroleum barge westbound.
Many thanks to Joseph and Ingrid for these photos. And I’m happy to hear that one of the next generation of tugboat watchers has been born.
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.
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.
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