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It’s a 24/365 proposition for a petroleum hub. Here Potomac stands by while
DoubleSkin 58 lighters Kuwaiti crude from Odori.
Tanker Boxer settles in with assistance from JRT Moran and
Jonathan C Moran to hold her in place while dock lines get set out. More on the line boats doing their part in a future post. I’m intrigued by Boxer as a name for a tanker.
Meaghan Marie assists as Philadelphia eases
DoubleSkin 503 into a west end dock at IMTT.
For a time, I thought Genesis Vigilant and Justine McAllister were drifting
randomly in proximity to each other, but when the Genesis tug moved into the notch to make up to GM 8001, it was clear there were an assistance plan.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Coincidental, here’s what I found when I looked up the term “odori.”
Here are previous “moving fuel” posts.
See the name on the life ring?
This new arrival steamed along the East River just in time to make the posting deadline. Recognize it?
It’s so newly named the name plate has not yet caught up. Some hints? She was built by American Boiler Works in Erie PA in 1956–and completed at Matton Shipyard on the Hudson– as ST-2118 aka Guilford Courthouse. I believe the veteran tug wore gray until 2001.
So where does Joanne Marie come in?
She’s a new Stasinos boat, and will soon be looking great in their livery, which coincidentally
she seems to already partly wear.
All photos, any errors, WVD. Welcome, Joanne Marie.
For a page on Birk’s database I’d not discovered until today, check out this long list of veteran tugs.
That stretch of waterway can be pretty busy, though not nearly as busy as the automotive traffic arteries of the five boros. Count them below . . . seven tugboats contained in a single photo frame!! You can try to name them. Let me know if you need help.
One by one, though, they are more interesting to look at. Can you arrange these by size, power, and age?
Barney Turecamo.
Allie B.
Mount St Elias.
Discovery Coast.
Mary Emma.
All photos, WVD.
Largest is Barney Turecamo at 116′ x 36′. Shortest by a foot Mount St Elias at 95′ x 34′, and Discovery Coast is 96′; least beamy is Mary Emma at 31′.
Most horsepower is Barney Turecamo at 5100. Least is a tie between Discovery Coast and Allie B. at 3000 each.
Newest launch is Discovery Coast at 2012. Oldest by two years is Mary Emma at 1975, and Allie B. at 1977 1976. I only recently learned Allie B used to do the sugar run into Dominos on the East River.
It’s not the best photo maybe, although–hey– it was the golden hour when B. E. Lindholm came into the boro recently. They’ve been working along the east side of Sandy Hook.
Some small craft traffic the boro all seasons of the year. I suspect this is going out fishing, but I’m not sure.
Daisy Mae here southbound along Newport . . . in a clash of horizontal lines.
This morning had Meaghan Marie, Eastern Dawn, and Evening Mist rafted up in Red Hook.
I’ve often seen David Auld Scudder on AIS, but not until the other day had I seen the boat,
diminutive beside Pegasus Star.
As have appeared here before, Millers Launch has a lot of small workboats like Erin Miller.
Discovery Coast has been working a fair amount in the boro in recent weeks.
Too distant to tell, but Twin Tube here is lifting new life rafts onto Nordic Harrier.
Hayward dates from 1974, when the drift collection vessel came out of a Boston shipyard.
And there we’ll leave it. All photos and any errors, WVD.
Even on overcast days, the sixth boro aka NY harbor offers sights. It’s long been so; here’s much abridged paragraphs 3-5 Chapter 1 of Moby Dick:
[People] stand … fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning … some seated … some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China… [some] pacing straight for the water… Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land… They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand… infallibly [move] to water… Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy [youth] with a robust healthy soul… at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning…. we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans … the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.”
OK, so that might be over the top, but I find at least as much entertainment along the water as in all the other places in NYC. Maybe that makes me a hermit, but that’s irrelevant. Can you name these boats?
At less than 10 miles an hour, trade comes in, commerce of all sort goes on.
different hour different goods,
different tasks,
different energies
and errands
by different
companies . . .
All photos, WVD.
And in order, Jonathan C Moran, Meaghan Marie, Ellen McAllister, Andrea, Schuylkill, Rowan R McAllister, Thomas D Witte, Susan Miller.
I’m back and just in time for the last day of the year, which –as explained in previous years— in my Dutch tradition is a reflection day, a time to if not assess then at least recall some of the sights of the past 12 months. A photo-driven blog makes that simultaneously easy and hard; easy because there’s a photographic record and not easy because there’s such an extensive photographic record to sift though.
A word about this set of photos: these are some “seconds” that did not make the final cut for my 2023 tugster calendar. The actual calendars are still available if you’ve not ordered one; find the order info here. I’m ordering a bunch myself.
One windy day last January I caught a Pilot No 1–the old New York–doing drills under the VZ Bridge. Just recently I met one of the engineers on that boat, a person with epic stories about the sixth boro.
A warm day in February, I caught JRT Moran assisting QM2 into her Red Hook berth.
March I spent a delightful day on Douglas B. Mackie observing the water side of a Jersey shore beach replenishment project, thanks to the hard-working folks at GLDD.
April . . . I caught Jane McAllister heading out; correct if I’m wrong, but my sense is that soon afterward she made her way down to South America to join the expanding ranks of US-built tugs working on various projects on the south side of the Caribbean.
As a member of the Canal Society of NYS, I had the opportunity to see Urger up close and sun-warmed on the bank of the Oswego in Lysander NY.
A clutch of Centerline tugboats waited for their next assignment at the base just east of the Bayonne Bridge. Note the fully foliated trees beyond them along the KVK.
From the humid heat of western Louisiana and onto the Gulf of Mexico, Legs III–shown
here spudded up just east of SW Pass, afforded a memorable journey on its way up to the sixth boro. Thx, Seth.
Back in the boro, later in August, a Space X rocket recovery boat named Bob–for an astronaut– came through the sixth boro. More on Bob–the astronaut–here.
In September, I finally got to my first ever Gloucester schooner race, thanks to Rick Miles of Artemis, the sailboat and not the rocket.
Icebreaker Polar Circle was in the boro a few days in September as well. Now it’s up in Canada, one hopes doing what icebreakers are intended to do. US naval logistics vessel Cape Wrath is at the dock in Baltimore ready and waiting a logistics assignment.
Ticonderoga certainly and Apache possibly are beyond their time working and waiting. I believe Ticonderoga is at the scrappers in Brownsville.
Passing the UN building on the East River, veteran Mulberry is currently out of the army and working in the private sector. I’ve a request: for some time I’ve seen a tug marked as Scholarie working the waters west of the Cape Cod Canal; a photo suggested it might be called Schoharie. Anyone help out?
And finally, a photo taken just two days ago while passing through the sixth boro during what can hardly be called “cover of darkness” it’s Capt Joseph E. Pearce on its way to a shipyard on the mighty Rondout to pick up some custom fabrication for a Boston enterprise. Many thanks to the Stasinos brothers for the opportunity.
I’d be remiss in ending this post and this year without mentioning lost friends, preserving a memory of their importance to me personally . . . Bonnie of frogma–first ever to comment of this blog so many years ago and a companion in many adventures– and Mageb, whose so frequent comments here I already miss.
I plan to post tomorrow, although I may miss my high noon post time because I hope to post whatever best sunrise 2023 photos I can capture in the morning.
Happy, safe, and prosperous new year to you all. I’m posting early today because I want my readers who live much much farther east than the sixth boro to get these wishes before their new trip around the sun begins. Bonne annee! Gelukkig nieuwjaar!
Can you identify this text? “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” I’ll provide the answer at the end of this post.
Thanks much to George Schneider for sending along this “cheer,” Wedell Foss, Port Angeles WA and taken last night.
As for me, I’m staying inside mostly today and not going out looking for Christmas Eve festivity photos, but I planned ahead and have these to share. Know this be-decked-the-decks boat?
South Street Seaport Museum always decorates the boats.
And this captain, maybe he supports his whirlwind worldwide Christmas Eve navigations by peregrinating the sixth boro days and nights all the rest of the year? Did you realize the North Pole elf king had a USCG license?
So merry Christmas eve from tugster tower. Thanks for reading the blog, commenting, sending along photos, sending me cards, sharing tips, and especially leaving me off the list when the subpoenas go out.
Now that quote . . . I remember friends used to have posters on their walls with that text way back when. Here’s more:
“… As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit….
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” It’s Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata. That link gets you the whole short text.
Since it was 7 degrees F this morning in the sixth boro, here are some southern Christmas tips, southern as in Chile, that is. I think of warm Chile in northern winter because around the five boros and beyond, it’s where our road salt comes from.
Many thanks to George for sending along the photo, and the ferry captain for transporting cheer around the sixth boro. Gary Steele, thanks for reminding me about Desiderata, product of Terre Haute IN.
If you have your own tugsteresque seasonal photos you wish to share, please send them.
Daisy Mae . . . time flies and this 82′ x 30′ and 3200 hp boat has been around since 2017 already.
Crystal Cutler, 67′ x 26′ and 1500 hp, I remember when she first arrived in the boro. I mist be getting old here.
Evelyn Cutler, 117′ x 32′ and 3900 . . . I recall when she was Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
Discovery Coast, 96′ x 34′ and 3000 hp . . . she’s been around by that name since leaving the shipyard a decade ago.
Capt. Brian A. McAllister, 100′ x 40′ and 6770 hp . . . half a decade here.
Brian Nicholas, 72′ x 23′ and 1700 hp, I never saw her as Banda Sea, although I saw many other Seas.
Charles James, 77′ x 26 and 2400 hp . . . I recall her as Megan McAllister.
Navigator, 64′ x 24′ and 1200hp**, arrived here as that. Saint Emilion . . .105′ x 38′ and 4800hp, I’ve known her as Arabian Sea and Barbara C before that, and this blog has been doing this since before she was launched.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
**We know about autocorrect. Here’s a message from Capt. Tugcorrect: “Re 1200 hp, she’s been repowered and info should reflect that she ‘boasts two MTU 12V2000s rated at 900hp each for a total of 1800.’ ” Thx, Tugcorrect.
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.
Earlier in the month, I got views of the first details marking the October awareness of the scourge, one of many. Since then, I saw more, which I honor here.
Eastern Dawn marked it.
Kirby Moran shows the awareness.
So do Mary Turecamo and Laura K mostly obscured.
ONE Stork and ONE Wren have that color as livery.
Marie J Turecamo does too.
Sapphire Coast does.
All photos, WVD, who tips this hat.
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