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Enjoy a few more from that day it was raining and I was waiting around. Another detail is that I was charging the battery on my camera #1 and used my older #2.
Jason Reinauer looks just as good with this camera, but I’ve developed a new interest, harder to satisfy, seeing their hull design. It was built here in 1968 as Walton. Cabot [now Harold A. Reinauer] and Daley [now Vincent D. Tibbetts Jr.] were likely the same plans. Correct me….?
As for the next two boats once part of the same fleet, close to 40 years passed between the two, their superstructures are quite similar although their actual dimensions are slightly different. The Beatrice has more power and slightly larger dimensions.
Susan Rose has less powerful but lower emissions engines. As recently as four years ago, Susan Rose looked like this, and before her transformation and intermediary livery looked like this.
I like the current livery but I still wonder how different these two boats are below the waterline.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who bases his info on tugboatinformation.com.
Speaking not of hull design but fuel innovation, I’m curious about the latest on the Amogy project. Anyone help?
In the last decade, I got this photo of Evening Star and B. No. 250 and others like it. Little did I know at that time
. . . what I had dismissed as scuttlebutt, that things were not sustainable.
Enter RCM 250. Some of you know the connection, the one that’s been there for a few years already now.
I’m not sure I understand the substance of the change(s) announced in articles like this and this.
The transition was gradual, but
what’s on the surface looks good.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick.
The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that
was getting towed. Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched? Decide that for each of these and arrange them by age, before checking the answers at the end?
Carolina Coast came in light the other day, possibly just off a sugar barge.
Meagan Ann was eastbound, maybe heading north for scrap.
Michael Miller was moving who knows what. As a reminder, have you decided the launch date on each of these as you’re going through? Answers are posted at the end here.
Miss Madeline a bit earlier was working on a dredge project.
Charles A was in from another dredge project.
Susan Rose was pushing oil.
Stephen Dann has since gone to Bridgeport.
Charles James is still the the boro as of this writing.
And that’s where we leave it today.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Maverick 1967
Carolina Coast 1970
Meagan Ann 1975
Miss Madeline 1976
Charles A. 1979
Charles James 1985
Stephen Dann 1999
Susan Rose 2019
Here’s a post I struggled with yesterday. The photos are not the best to document what I saw: a convergence of tugboats that all used to wear the same livery but now bearing new names.
Susan Rose used to be Evening Breeze. Although you can see part of the name plate, the stack has not yet received the blue/gray Rose Cay paint.
Next in the anchorage was Adeline Rose, now a Centerline boat but formerly Rubia and before that Denise A. Bouchard. See the scant but be-shadowed orange forward of the engine room vent.
A bit farther south in the anchorage were two more former Bouchard units. Left to right now are The Beatrice and Jeffrey (or Jeffery) S, with barges B. No. 282 and B. No. 280.
Jeffrey S used to be
Rhea I. Bouchard is now The Beatrice. I’m eager to see these two–ex-Rhea and Ellen–light so that I can confirm photographically the name update.
Jordan Rose is now clearly visible with her blue/gray stack, although I’m not sure the stack color matches that on Lynne M. Rose.
Maybe it’s just the quality of post-fog light.
All photos this week, WVD, who never saw all these changes coming or he’d have invested in marine paint.
Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River? Its current name?
Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook.
Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no one.”
Continuing in that direction to the south of Erie Basin, a Dann Ocean fleet waits: l to r, Captain Willie Landers, Sarah Dann, and Ruby M.
In the anchorage, Susan Rose awaits her next appointment with the RCM 250.
Fells Point heads to the Narrows to retrieve her bunker barge.
Bruce A. McAllister escorts bulker Thor Fortune into Claremont for a load of scrap.
And finally, Everly Mist is the newest renaming I’ve seen. Ellen S. Bouchard has also been renamed Jeffrey S, but I’ve not caught a photo yet.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve compartmentalized my photos from the Pioneer sail the other night, in part because in a short two-hour sail there was so much to see. For starters, Stephanie Dann had earlier just rushed eastward and came back with Cornucopia Destiny, a dance partner on her starboard side. I can speculate about this, but I don’t know the details.
As we headed into the Buttermilk, we met Susan Rose AND
Jordan Rose, ex- Evening Breeze and Evening Star, respectively.
This sweet downeaster passed.
I suspect Jordan came along to assist
Susan into the notch.
Meanwhile, a ways down the piers, Stasinos Jimmy and currently still Evening Tide were rafted up for the moment.
Whatever brought Jordan to the Red Hook piers, by the time we had sailed passed the gantries, she was overtaking us.
On the return, as night began to fall, we met Thomas D. Witte and
then her fleetmate Douglas J.
At this point, my photos were pixelating, but I still managed to get Eastern Dawn, heading back to the “barn” at dusk.
All photos, WVD, who has handed the keys to the tower over to the robots again for a while.
Years ago [in 2008] I caught a mega-Bouchard tug in the KVK. It was Danielle M., now Rebekah Rose.
But yesterday I saw the much newer sister of the boat from 2008. Escorted into the Arthur Kill by Ellen McAllister and another tug,
and pushing RCM 270, a 250,000 bbl barge, it was
the massive 144′ x 44′ and 10,000 hp tugboat
wearing the livery and stack logo of Rose Cay Maritime.
Welcome
Lynne M. Rose. Check the spelling.
According to AIS, she made a six-day eighteen-hour trip to the sixth boro from Corpus Christi, a port I’ve yet to visit, although I will only go there in winter months.
Any errors and all photos, WVD.
While doing this post, I came to realize I’d seen this very boat before, back on December 1, 2021 here
and here at the Bollinger yard in Algiers, LA.
Enjoy this contrasting parting shot.
Random and quick for now . . . the 2015 Janet D makes her way across the Bay.
The 1974 Marjorie B. McAllister moves its car float float from NJ to NY.
The 1996 Martin Explorer and her barge has been in town at least once before here a little over a half year ago.
And finally, the 2012 Jordan Rose came into the sixth boro for the first time as Evening Star a decade ago.
Here‘s a post from five years ago when Evening Star was still painted in red and yellow.
All photos this week, WVD.
Dace lighters STI Excel.
Neptune comes into town again.
Buchanan 12 makes a rare appearance light, but everyone needs to refuel periodically.
Janet D follows Seeley into the Kills.
How a bout a four’fer . . . counter: Marjorie, Kristin Poling, Nicholas, and Jordan Rose.
Sea Lion heads eastbound.
B. Franklin travels west, and
Discovery Coast, east. . . both light.
Nathan G moves a deep scow into the Kills with Cape Wrath lurking in the background.
Traffic never stops, and it’ll outlast me, the photographer, WVD.
Bet you can guess where that line leads from the bow of Kirby Moran?
Here you go.
Jordan Rose has been tied up in Bayonne for a while, but
Gregg McAllister passes her on the way to an assist.
Michael Miller is one of the venerable tugs of the sixth boro,
having worked here since the mid-1960s.
Cape Fear has been here for a few years, although I’ve not yet seen
her two sisters, Cape May and Cape Henry.
Ava M. is one of the workhorses, certainly.
Does anyone know when and if Capt. Brian A. will return to service here?
Kimberly Turecamo has worked the harbor consistently for going-on 30 years.
Here she heads into an orange sherbet dawn.
All photos in the past week, WVD., who has more Canal Society archival photos coming but some contemporary posts demonstrate my temporary anchor. Also coming up, a photographer high above Hell Gate has shared a new trove of photos from a perspective I’ve missed. Many thanks for your continued interest.
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