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Let’s start with a photo by John “Jed” Jedrlinic, one of Alp Forward, currently off the eastern Scottish coast. She’s a 213′ x 61′ anchor handling tug from 2007 with over 200 tons bollard pull.
From there, let’s go to the Connecticut in US coast and some local boats with
some Seakite by PanGeo Subsea gear aboard. I’d love to see what this package projects onto a screen.
Both Berto L. and Josephine K Miller were up at Lew’s port earlier this spring.
GO Pursuit, fleet mate of GO America, called in there also. “GO” expands to Guice Offshore.
The reminder of photos here come in the past days from Tony A, starting here with Deborah Quinn.
He caught her several times in the East River, and here
with an unidentified covered barge. In the photo above, the Taco Cina sign intrigues me.
In roughly the same stretch he passed Brinn Courtney, whom I’ve yet to see.
And finally, he noticed Nicholas Vinik doing the do si do with Sea Monster, moving her over near the Sandy Hook Pilots station. I’m not sure what that means about Sea Monster. Anyone know?
Many thanks to Jed, Lew, and Tony A for sending along these photos.
Meanwhile, the robots are still doing their unmonitored best at tugster tower while WVD is in the lowland of alligators, shrimp, sugar, fleur de lis and beaucoup de plus for an unspecified time.
More photos here thanks to Pete Ludlow.
The Amigo is an asphalt tanker. That means she moves her cargo around at almost 300 degrees F.
She was eastbound with assist by James D Moran.
What do you suppose Vinik No. 6 had in tow?
Nicholas and Liz assisted as well.
But of course, it was the venerable training ship . . .
from the shipyard on its way back to Fort Schuyler.
Again, many thanks to Pete for sharing these scenes not previously seen on tugster.
Unrelated: Since we robots monitor harbor events and share news, here’s a surprise that will astonish tugster upon his return: The Brown tugs have been sold to Seward Marine of Chesapeake VA.
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.
I’m not going to get into the swamp here, and I’m not inviting you too either, but the dispersal of the Bouchard fleet had many tragic subplots and components. Obviously some people have been able to turn these events into gain, and more power to them.
See the two rusty barges facing the camera here? Those are B. No. 242 and B. No. 210. Also,
notice the color of the tug on the 242. They might be Morton S. Bouchard IV, the last of the fleet tugboats to have stayed over near Stapleton until fairly recently. On the 210, I believe that’s Anna Rose.
So yesterday i was sitting chatting with a friend over at St. George and this barge appeared. “What old ship is that?” she asked. She takes no notice of water traffic, either on the sixth boro or anywhere else. But I knew the answer immediately.
B. No. 260 was likely being moved out of its long-term storage near Stapleton and likely to the shipyard for deferred maintenance and much-needed paint.
Nicholas and Liz Vinik were doing the move.
The next time my friend or I see that barge, it might be looking much better.
All photos, yesterday, WVD.
Tony A sent this along labeled as “m-o-a-t,” mother of all tugs, and Pacific Reliance is truly a large tugboat at 121′ x 42′
with 9280 hp turning two 12′ diameter propeller and pushing around a 560′ tank barge that carries 155k barrels of liquid product. But there are larger tugboats. Justine McAllister gets called in to assist the Crowley unit into the dock.
CMT Pike heads north about to be obscured by an incoming MSC ship.
Seeley pushes along a block of four scows.
JRT and Kirby prepare to sail a Minerva tanker. Minerva, Roman goddess of war and other things, seems appropriate these days.
The indefatigable Ellen McAllister passes Barney Turecamo on her way to a job.
Catherine C. Miller moves Weeks crane 577 to a lift site.
Emily Ann returns from a job.
Nicolas Vinik gallops off to a job,
following Liz Vinik, herself
follwing Gregg McAllister.
And the beat goes on . . . all photos, WVD, except of course the one from Tony A, to whom I am grateful.
Hell Gate has to be one of the most storied waterways in the sixth boro. How could I have mostly ignored it so long?!!
The other day I caught Vinik No. 6 and Liz Vinik westbound through that section of the East River. In the background, that’s the Bronx.
An indicator of current is the fact that NYPD boat here is barely making headway. Current in a tidal strait like the so-called East River is constantly and dramatically changing. That’s Manhattan in the background.
Nicholas Vinik also passed through the other day, returning from a job. That NYC DEP GUP headquarters in the background. The Hell Gate RR Bridge seems in need of some paint. Referencing this part of Hell Gate, captbbrucato describes it from a captain’s perspective here.
A recent development is the transit of NYC Ferry service through the Gate to the Bronx on the Soundview run.
Wye River heads eastbound to retrieve a barge, meeting
Cape Canaveral and DBL 101 on the way.
Along the shoreline here, that’s Astoria Queens to the left, and Manhattan along the entire distant background. Most iconic is the spire of the Empire State Building.
State Trooper . . . I’m assuming that’s a government boat.
That’s it for now. I hope to return to Hell Gate soon. All photos, WVD.
This series I use to feature others’ photos that are different from what I typically shoot, different in either location or perspective or subject. I am very grateful to you, readers, when you send these photos in.
David Silver sent this in just yesterday, taken in Norfolk.
Down in Norfolk, Mike Vinik and Rhino had just finished a tow there, and stopped by David’s workplace. I visited Vinik No. 6, Mike, and Rhino earlier this year, although it seems several years ago now. In case you’re wondering, Rhino weighs in at a trim 140 pounds.
Xlime promenaded along the East River in Brooklyn the other day and saw some sights. She writes: “I happened upon three Brown tugs this morning – Thomas, who’s always so picturesque and the mighty James and Joyce (a literary pairing) who I’ve seen together twice now bringing reinforcements to the piers project in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I happened to be on Pier 3 this morning when they pulled up. Okay, maybe I doubled back when I realized where they were going. “
I’d never thought about the literary ring of these names.
A few (2013!!) years ago Brad Ickes sent me photos of Cable Queen. Recently she was hauled out and here are the photos he sent. Brad writes: “Queen was just cleaned up, repainted and made pretty again.”
Pretty she is, and I still hope some day catching her at work.
One more here . . . although I found this on youtube . . . a streaming music/light show on Bannerman’s Island, coming up in a few days. Tickets are available now.
And a last one, survey vessel Shearwater was working at the Narrows the other day. Her track on AIS illustrates what she was doing.
Many thanks to David, xlime, and Brad for use of these photos.
This title goes back more than 10 years. But I got some congested photos recently, so I dredge up an old title. Count the boats of all sizes here. Of course, foreshortening makes them seem much closer to each other than they really are. I count at least 12 vessels on the photo below, including some I had not noticed when I took it.
There are five here, and maybe two miles of separation between the two container ships.
Three operations were happening simultaneously in this stretch of the channel, and all were either stemming or moving very slowly.
Again, there’s lots of foreshortening here.
It may be exhilarating to get this close to a large ship, but if your engine stalls . . . stuff’ll happen really fast.
Here’s a different sort of “traffic” photo from august 31, 2008 . . . exactly 12 years ago. And it gives me an idea for a post. By the way, left to right, can you name at least half of the 12 boats at least partly visible here?
All photos, WVD.
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Seeing Vinik No. 6 the other morning reminded me that I’d not yet posted a link to an article I wrote on Vinik in March, just before that event that changed everyone’s world. The article has just become available online, for everyone who does not subscribe to Professional Mariner magazine.
See Harry McNeal in the photo above, way to the lower left? A minute before I took that photo, I’d assume that Vinik No. 6 was pushing that crane barge and Harry McNeal lashed alongside.
The No. 6 is a massive tugboat, 141′ x 35′ with (if I recall) 72′ height of eye.
Harry McNeal –if I saw this right–dropped some dockworkers off before
assisting No. 6 getting that barge into position before the spuds were lowered to pin the barge in its location.
As to the “more” in the title, in that same location as above, a pile driver was working the other day . . .
but truth be told, I don’t know much
about pile drivers.
Maybe someone can school me.
All photos, WVD. Thanks for reading the article and this post..
Happy 4th of July. Here’s some sixth boro, some heartland, and some Pacific Northwest. Here‘s the series.
But let’s start with Robert IV, a workhorse who last appeared in this blog here.
Hundreds of Cheyenne photos have appeared on this blog, showing her in a range of colors and trims; this photo was taken last week in Manitowoc by a Great Lakes mariner, who, by the way, at one time worked in the sixth boro.
Ellen McAllister has worked in the sixth boro longer than I’ve been taking photos here; as a result, hundreds of photos of her can be found here.
For a red-white-blue tug today, what could be better than a Nicholas Vinik photo.
An outa-towner has come through the sixth boro twice this week with an unusual bargeload; bad decision-making means this is the best photo I got. Sorry, Elizabeth Anne. Did anyone get a better photo? Any idea what the “marshmallow” load on that barge is?
Two of the tugs assisting in a Cosco Shipping ULCV, Brendan Turecamo and JRT Moran, seem small but bring adequate power to the task.
Another view of Cheyenne shows her location on the Manitowoc River, adjacent to Erich.
Thanks to Kyle Stubbs for sending along this photo of a raft of Boyer tugs. L to r, it’s Sea, Billie H, Gretchen H, and Kirsten H. You might have recognized Sea as the former Java Sea, a regular operating out of the sixth boro. Despite what’s on the bow, she’s now called Kinani H. In the back row, that looks like Sonja H.
How about another red-white-blue boat for today? This is from over 11 years ago. It’s the 1951 Dorothy Elizabeth, ex-Gotham, Christine Gellatly, Mobil 11, Socony 11.
To close out the set, Iron Salvor, a Vanuatu-flagged tug, is back in town. Anyone know her story . . . who she works for?
Many thanks to Great Lakes mariner, Kyle, and Tony A for some of these photos; photos not otherwise attributed by WVD.
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