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Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
Here are previous installments of this title.
ONE Hawk above and Rana Miller below.
The venerable Twin Tube with Robert Burton below and with Nave Equinox above.
Charles A passes the graving dock where Red Cloud gets a refurbishment,
Maddie K moves some rock.
Ava M and Hayward are on the hard in Bayonne.
And finally, Kristin Poling waits in the anchorage.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who wishes you a thankful week this week, and another next week, etc.
After what seems ages away, I find joy in being with familiar sights, if only for a few days before heading out again.
All but one of these names were familiar, like Cape Fear, Cape Canaveral,
Morgan Reinauer, Patrice McAllister,
Helen, Lincoln Sea,
Potomac, Capt Brian,
and Marjorie.
Caroline W, however, looked familiar although I couldn’t place her. Maybe she’s just a certain style of which dozens were built . . . .
but when I looked her up in the guide of guides . . . I realized I’d posted an image of her not long ago, at least not long ago in sixth boro time.
She used to be Weeks Virginia, and now I suspect a livery change is imminent. That’s something to look for later this year, maybe.
All photos, any errors, WVD. And yes, these are just as randomly chosen as the title suggests, all seen during the span of a few hours along the KVK, which has to be among the best places in my known universe to sit on the dock of a bay watching . . . you know what.
Quick . . . what do you know about this white lionine tugboat? Answer follows.
We’re still being quick here? What can you tell me about this model of Dianne E. in a display case on the lower level of a barge of Pier 66? I know nothing about the model, but I stopped by at Pier 66 Wednesday for the first time in way too long. Any interest in meeting gathering there one of these warm days?
And speaking of piers, I made my first stop at Pier 76 ever Wednesday as well. It seems I’ve not been out here in a really long time.
Harvey looked resplendent alongside the seating . . ..
The NYS Canal system opens officially today, and that means Sparky might be a looper headed up there traveling north and then west to get back to Florida. I’m just speculating.
Anne Moore is busy. Hey, NPS, I’d like to talk with you about this vessel.
Media Boat 5 is always out, always doing and seeing interesting sights.
RCC Africa is a RORO I’ve not seen before. Here are Autoliner routes.
Pacific Basin‘s Sharp Island left town light.
Rolf Williams was returning to base after delivering lube solutions.
And that brings us back to this tugboat . . . the former J. George Betz.
All photos, WVD, who suggests you too gallivant around the original boro, the sixth boro, some warm day soon.
Deck the hulls . . .
the bell sound signal device and railings too.
And I’ll leave that song right there.
Kimberly Turecamo has a wreath around the bell also, but
consistent with the Kimberly crew, there’s more.
Merry Christmas all . . .
All photos, WVD.
Here was last year’s M is for Merry.
One of these is not like the others . . . and I’ll tell you why later.
By the way, in case you can’t make out the names, it’s Wicomico, Fells Point, and Kings Point.
When I first started this blog, the dominant bunkering company in the sixth boro was K-Sea, and on a given routine day back then, I might have caught three K-Sea boats at work. When the first Vane boat arrived in the boro–was that in 2008 or 2009?–I never expected this many white with blue trim and V on the stack to work here.
Potomac has been in and out of the harbor for over 10 years.
Above and below, it’s Wye River.
And circling back to a tugboat from earlier in the post, enjoy another shot of Fells Point.
All photos, WVD.
My cryptic statement that “one is not like the others” might have you wondering what I meant by that: Wicomico, Potomac, and Wye River are 4200 hp models; the others are 3000 hp.
Thanks for the well-wishes yesterday; the blog marches on with post 5051.
“Scarlet Begonias” has a line “the sky was yellow but the sun was blue…” Well, you may have noticed the sun this morning here was pink and bluish; the sky was a uniform gray, and
that made the water gray as well. Thank the Canadians . . . well, the smoke from wildfires in western Canada.
See the WTC1?
All photos this morning, WVD.
See it between those ships? It’s . . .
Utopia! And that’s within the dimensions of 207′ x 36′ and powered by 4 x MTU 16V 2000 M96L’s.
Well, Utopia IV, that is, the $50 million yacht of someone with the net worth . . . of Bob Dylan. Back to that later, the owner’s previous yacht, as you can imagine was Utopia III.
The IV is available to charter for a mere half million a week, chartered through Moran Yacht and Ship, which has no connections, that I know of, to Moran Towing.
The low-profile yacht is capable of 33 knots, with a range of 3600 nm. At 30 knots, it can cover the 950 nm between Miami and New York in a day and a half, if my math is correct.
Not visible here is the fold down transom that has a square footage greater than my Queens apartment!
All photos, WVD.
The Bob Dylan reference above . . . he sold his rights to his work recently for $300 million, said to be the net worth of JR Ridinger, owner of Utopia IV. Maybe he came up for the fireworks?
Steve’s uncle Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. That makes for a special connection and lots of vintage photos. Enjoy these thanks to Steve. I’ll use his captions.
Dalzelleagle assisting ship in East River in September 1968.
Dalzelleagle heading down Buttermilk Channel-from pier 12 Brooklyn in September 1970. The tug is interesting, but so are the details in the background.
Cook Ralph Andreason waves from the stern on Dalzelleagle departing 69th St pier Brooklyn in September 1970.
McAllister Bros in North River off Hoboken pier on August 24, 1973.
The is the same time and place, roughly. The Twin Towers had opened earlier that year.
Tug McAllister Bros leading Atlantic Champagne thru Newark Bay Draw on July 5, 1976. This picture brings to mind a story that my Uncle Bob Munoz told me. Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. One time he was piloting a ship in Newark Bay toward the Newark Bay Draw Bridge and a woman passenger came over to him on the bridge of the ship and asked him if the ship was going through that little opening in the bridge. Bob said that they were. She then asked how he did that. So he looked at her and said, “When we get real close I just close my eyes.” Atlantic Champagne, an ACL vessel, was launched in 1969 with a teu capacity of a dazzling 882 teu.
McAllister Bros in Newark Bay from a ship on June 26, 1987. That CRRNJ bridge was used starting in 1926; I saw some remaining piers about a decade ago, but it is entirely gone now. Given the raising of the Bayonne Bridge, keep in mind that vertical clearance here was 136′. Maybe someone can tell me the width of the channel.
McAllister Bros galley on January 11, 2001,
and her engine room on the same date.
And finally, McAllister Brothers here along with Christine M. McAllister on November 6, 2006.
It’s hard to say good bye. Many thanks to Steve for use of these photos.
And thanks to Birk Thomas for posting this on FB today, Dalzell Towing.
Following from yesterday, which covered 0900 to 0930, today we pick up from the mystery vessel and do 0930 to 1000. Identify this blue ship?
Here’s a clue and a hint that traffic is busy, as another vessel comes around Bergen Point.
As MSC Bilbao clears the bridge, you get a sense of all the boats over on the NW side of Staten Island. Anyone know the passenger vessel at the shipyard to the left? I don’t.
As MSC Bilbao approaches from the west and Adams heads out to sea, a RORO arrives.
The random curves of waves and reflections seem just perfect as a vessel named Bilbao passes by.
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Kimberly has released the line to Bilbao and is about to rotate to starboard and head back west.
All photos, WVD.
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