Saint Lawrence Workboats

Catching up . . . it’s a never-ending task, but a useful one.  Let’s start with these two tugboats still under wraps at Isle aux Coudres Ocean shipyard. It’s not the best image, but with the wind, it was the best I could get. Anyone help with identification?

RF Grant is a 1934 tug up on a marine railway on Île d’Orléans, just downstream from Quebec City.

At the main Ocean Group yard, it’s Ocean’s Taiga and Tundra, and Clovis T.

Ocean Henry Bain is on the inland side.

Quebec is inseparable with their blue.

Cue the next day and farther upstream, it’s Aldo H.

Boatmen 6 and more at their dock.

Nearer the port, it’s Ocean Serge Genois and Ocean Bertrand Jeansonne.

Excuse the blurred shot, but it’s Ocean Pierre Julien and Ocean Jupiter.  Particulars on all the Ocean boats can be found here. 

As we climb higher up the Saint Lawrence, we get to the US DOT boats, Robinson Bay and the brand new

brand-spanking-new Seaway Trident.

For our last boat today, it’s Seaway Joan, a Lake Michigan 1952 boat, a great name and great little boat.

All photos taken in May 2023, WVD.

Meanwhile in Kodiak

I’m traveling and was thinking not to post, but these are just too good to pass up.

It’s a very familiar looking livery for folks familiar with the sixth boro and many other places . . .  the lion boats.

What’s not familiar though is the background . . .

given that this is late May, but it’s Ann T Cheramie departing Kodiak!

Many thanks to Clay W for passing these photos along.

Maritime Tugboats

Regionally speaking, Andrew, along with 

Roderick and Nancy, could be said to sail in maritime waters.

In the maritime province of Nova Scotia, though, I caught up with Atlantic Towing Limited tugboats Atlantic Oak,

Atlantic Cedar, 

Atlantic Fir, and 

 

Atlantic Elm.  Given their extensive fleet, it seems I need to make my way back here.  Other than returning in October, I’m not sure when that will happen, but now it’s a goal.  

Seeing the Canso Strait, first hand and after being introduced to it by my friend Jack Ronalds,  satisfied a curiosity.

Behold Spitzer Bedford, Spitzer Montreal, and Point Chebucto.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

LL Toronto to Port Colborne

Another quick one . . .   starting with Toronto in the rear view.

Gaia Desgagnes passes as we wait outside the entrance the the Welland.

Once Spartan departs lock 1,

we head in.

Burch Nash waits outside Heddle Shipyard on the Canal. 

Tim S Dool takes the inside wall to line up on lock 3.

At Port Colborne, CSL Tadoussac heads toward lock 8.

All photos, any errors, WVD, who has more photos but no more time.

 

Thanks to Kyle Stubbs E

Many thanks to Kyle Stubbs for sending along these photos.   Recognize these tugboats below?  Answer follows.

He saw and took this photo of Osprey  in Vallejo CA in November 2022.

Osprey above is 125′ x 38′ and propulsion power of 6140 hp .  Sun Spirit below is 122′ x 37′ and the same hp as Osprey.  Ring any bells?

This photo of Sun Spirit he took in Seattle a few days ago. 

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And here they were in previous livery, Linda Lee in May 2020 in the sixth boro, and 

Robert J. in December 2021 at Algiers Point, a picturesque curve on the Mississippi.

Again, for today’s photos, thanks to Kyle, whose previous contributions A through D can be traced here.

 

Sixth Boro Sampler 4

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. 

Names 48

Call this a case of the common and the obscure.  See the name on that tanker?

Of course, and we know the name well for his fables despite his and their antiquity.  The crude tanker was launched in 2012.

But how about this one?  I had to look it up.

But if you know sci-fi movies or Swedish epic poetry, you might have recognized it.  If not, I looked it up for you here.  How appropriate . . . a 2008 RORO ship named for a space ship from a poem adapted for film!

All photos, WVD.

Christmas Eve 2021

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.

Vane Brothers 9

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.

Hazy Gray Sea Daze of Summer

“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.