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She arrived in the harbor almost six years ago, just before the annual football event, and that’s why I called her that. Speculation about a name change then from Left Coast Lifter had been rampant, but so far as I know, she has remained LCL.
Above, that’s the last photo I took of her by the TZ Bridge, with Hook Mountain in the background, and below, that’s where she now waits, likely to be down rigged.
I suppose speculation now will be her next destination. Meanwhile she’ll be a part of the temporary landscape at Weeks, skyline, or crane forest, and she’ll be photographed, as I’ve done here here with MC-41 Snazzy Kitty,
Lady May, and
Thomas J.
Check her out before she’s lowered for travel.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Other large cranes I’ve posted include Paul Bunyan, Grasse River, Pelicano 1, and Herman the German. Then there’s the Chesapeake 1000.
I know others witnessed dawn this morning as the big pink ship came in . . . .
By the way, if you were naming this ONE “bird” ULCV based on this morning’s color, which bird
would
you choose? Nah . . . it wasn’t that. More later.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
The Narrows is a prime location for me to get photos of vessels coming in from sea if they have AIS because I have several hours notice of arrival for any traffic going anywhere into or through the Upper Bay, eg., on their way to Brooklyn berths, the North River, or the East River. I can walk around or–in case of rain or cold–sit in my car.
The downside is that it’s a wide spot, so even the zoom can draw in only limited detail.
Having said all that, here’s a shot from Bay Ridge over to the Sandy Hook Pilots station, showing (from far to near) the current black hull-yellow trimmed pilot boat mother ship New York No. 1, its eventual replacement currently with a blue hull, and the smaller boats. Lop off the thin upper wheelhouse and paint the hull/trim, and make a thousand more modifications . . . and you’ll have the new mother ship.
My goal was to get photos of Commander Iona, which I did and posted here. Unexpected was the arrival of Dina Polaris, which I’d first seen only a month and a half or so ago.
Mister Jim has been a regular on this blog and in the sixth boro surrounding waters since she first arrived a few years ago.
The Severn Sailing Association came through the rain with a whole host of sloops . . . from closest to farthest: Commitment, Intrepid, Valiant, Courage, Invincible, Renaissance, Daring, Brave, Warrior.
Rhea I. Bouchard headed in with her barge, but by this time the rain was falling so hard I couldn’t confirm the name/number on the barge.
Magdalen headed out, passing a sloop and
R/V Heidi Lynn Scuthorpe, a first sighting for me.
Click here for more info on Heidi Lynn and Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute. Click here for a more technical article from Workboat on this vessel.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who feels compensated for staying out in the rain.
I saw Nauvoo (Heidi Lynn‘s previous name) years back and I posted a pic here. I also saw Beglane.
This exact title–sans the number–goes way back to 2007 here. The orange vessel doing surveys in 2007 has been replaced by the one below, which I’d not seen until very recently.
The USACE has several survey boats in the boro, as
does Rogers.
Alpine Ocean has been surveying the harbor and the bight for some time now . . . with R/V Shearwater, which I’ve seen as far south as Norfolk.
Shearwater is 110′ loa; clearly here you see how Dina Polaris shrinks her size, the latter has five times the number of berths.
She was in briefly and out this past weekend, so I devote more space to her.
And while we’re in this general group, I couldn’t pass up this vessel, which I’ve not seen. She may be the one doing working on the WW2 tanker wreck Coimbra, 30 miles south of Shinnecock Inlet. Has anyone gotten photos of her?
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you all a happy may day . . .
I walked along the Hudson and past the Vessel the other day because it was flat and scenic. I also wanted to see what progress was happening at Pier 55, aka on Diller Island.
Beneath, from small boats . . . these workers attended to several of the 132 pots that make up the island.
Michael Miller stood by Weeks 526, as
at this moment did Shawn Miller.
Meanwhile, coming upriver was another Weeks crane, the 533, with Susan Miller on port bow and
Elizabeth supplying power.
At a certain moment, Shawn departed the 526 and headed over to the Weeks 533
to assist.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who recently saw Weeks and Miller tugs working on 533 here.
I’d say a “dance of cranes,” but then you’d think of the plumed type. So plethora will have to stand in. If you look at any links in this post, check out this one from November 2007, where the gantry cranes appear to tango . . . or duel with booms as blades maybe . . .
Suddenly I had cranes on my brains, like these shoreside ones around the slight bend from Matthew Tibbetts.
Or these over by USNS Pomeroy, which last had a rehab in February 2014.
Busy discharging salt with clamshells are the shipboard cranes on Sinop, and then
there have recently passed lots of cranes on barges like this one moved by Emily Ann and
whose logo I don’t recognize,
this one pushed westbound by Joyce D. Brown and whose logo I’ve
not noticed before either,
and this Weeks 524 around sunrise moved
by Susan Miller.
And to close this post out, this endangered crane, ice-encased and non-functional on a 6-above days.
All photos taken in 2019 by Will Van Dorp.
More cranes from 2010 here, and from 2009 here and here and here.
That’s enough for now.
Click here for the 43 previous posts if you don’t understand the title. If your thoughts on being the image below were of high heels sans the rest of the impractical shoe, mine were the same. Of course, you can read Weeks 526 clear as day, so . . . whatzit?
Here’s a bit more context. That’s the Hudson River, old pilings for old Pier 55, I believe, just north of old Pier 54.
Piers of Manhattan once welcomed ships and ferries, cargo and passengers transitioned between land and water there. Then people patterns changed and these piers little by little have transformed.
So what is it?!@#@!!
Come back in a few years and hang out at new Pier 55, the on–then off–then on again park idea funded for $250 million by Barry Diller. The project reminds me of the vessel, another Heatherwick Studio creation.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, with a cell phone. I’ve been losing a grip on patterns these days myself.
Before I started blogging, Pier 54 hosted the Nomadic Museum, for a half year or so. I loved it.
In only ten years, a lot of changes have happened in the sixth boro. I wish I’d started this blog 30 years ago to document even more, but 1988 predated blogs, the internet, and digital photography. Wow . . . how did people relate back then?
Joking aside, let’s see some that have moved on. On January 11, 2009 Kristin Poling, the 1934 tanker, still operated.
January 12. Sun Right, built 1993 and already dead, moved westbound in the KVK escorted by Eileen McAllister. What’s remarkable to me is how large the tug looks in compared to the ship in contrast to tugs today looking miniature on the stern of a ULCV.
Five minutes later . . . Odin. Indeed I was smitten by this unusual vessel, which has since moved to the South and lost her ability to rise up as if on hind legs. I’ve no sense of what it was like to work on her.
January 15. Never did I imagine then that this Dean Reinauer would be replaced by this Dean.
January 18 The boro’s big story of January 2009, of course, was the plane crash in the Hudson. Here the efforts to lift the USAir Flight 1549 out of the water have just begun. Thomas stands by Weeks 533.
January 29 NYC DEP’s Red Hook had just arrived in the harbor, and it seemed she was escorted everywhere by James Turecamo. Sine then, NYC DEP has added a whole new generation of sludge tankers aka honey boats.
January 31 Taurus has become Joker, another intriguingly named tugboat operated not in NYC but Philadelphia area by Hays Tug and Launch, with fleet mate names like Purple Hays, High Roller, Grape Ape, and more.
Let’s leave it there. Happy new year’s greetings still ring in my ears, leaving me with an ongoing inexplicable smile and desire to treat all with respect. Go out of your way to smile at someone today.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose smile gets hidden by a respirator whenever he goes into the archives on Tugster Tower.
I missed Josephine Reinauer (actually I saw her but couldn’t get a clear shot) when she visited town recently, but I did catch Jacksonville, the latest Vane machine in the harbor.
For some reason I expected her to look different, but it’s an Elizabeth Anne class tug, which’ll look a lot like most of the rest of the Vane fleet.
Eric and the other McAllister escort tugs have been quite busy recently.
Ernest Campbell has been here about a half year doing bunkering, I believe.
Trevor usually works as a dredge tender, focusing on the Jersey shore this fall.
Brooklyn was called Brooklyn Service when I first discovered the sixth born.
Daisy Mae is just over a year old.
Normandy came to the sixth born from Colombia a few years ago.
Rowan has been working in the sixth boro of late.
In fact, almost seven years ago, it was Rowan that brought Patrice McAllister into the boro after the tragic fire during her delivery from the Great Lakes to this salt water. These days, Patrice is looking great.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has heard about but not yet seen Hunter D.
[Note: investigation of the Christmas pirate break-in is ongoing at Tugster Tower. Culprits once located and questioned may face a job offer. ]
Weeks 533, the one that lifted Sully’s plane out of the Hudson, was moving up to either Port Elizabeth or Newark, using a three-tug configuration.
What impressed me was the lean-in, seen here by Michael Miller and
relayed by Catherine.
Causing this huge box-in-the-water to turn to starboard takes a lot of persuasion.
Thomas Weeks, likely providing the bulk of the forward movement, stays largely even keeled.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose done more posts here featuring this crane.
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