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Winter dawns and dusks can be the best, like this one creating golden water for Miss New York.
The 2000 Brooklyn had Vane livery then.
Haggerty Girls, attached here to RTC 60 and with Grace D alongside, was likely the newest tugboat in the Reinauer fleet. Note the bulbous domes of Ellis Island to the right.
The 2006 Manson dredge Glenn Edwards was in town. Currently, it’s in Florida.
Wittich Marine’s 1977 Iron Mike ranged the boro now and again. I’m not sure if this boat is still around.
Brendan would have about a decade of work ahead of it yet.
The 2012 Evening Star and B. No. 250 made their way east. Star is now Rose, Jordan Rose. In the distance, that’s a Genesis Marine unit.
Then, as is still the case, the 1951 Twin Tube was the boro’s premiere delivery service.
Meagan McAllister still had the red/white striped stacks. Currently she’s Charles James.
And some waterways in the boro could be as congested as the roadways around the watery boro. Note three tugboats with Cheyenne to the left, Kimberly Turecamo forward, and Gramma Lee T assisting in Four Sky.
Laura K heads out for the next assist while Robert E. works another vessel to its berth. Mare Pacific and another tanker line up along the opposite shore.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who wishes you a happy Imbolc aka marmot’s day.
Almost exactly a year ago, I had a glimpse of sea smoke in the sixth boro here. Basically, it can be seen when “cold” air comes into contact with warmer water; as soon as the air is warmed by the rising sun, the mist dissipates. Photos taken during the window it’s visible, in combination with the twilight colors, have rich colors.
Above and below, that’s Sea Lion transiting the swirling wisps of smoke.
Fort Schuyler appeared next, passing
through the warm exhalations of the warm water of flooding tide, backlit by the rising sun.
A bit later, the golden hour of dawn was no more, but
the smoke was visible,
as Genesis Vigilant glided past.
Once it was alongside my location, with the sun to the right of the photo, no smoke could be seen.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
More sea smoke can be seen here and here. Ice, on the other hand, looks like this.
Here’s a new name on this blog: Posillico, operator of Breakwater Marine and tugboat Deborah Quinn, the 1962 one. Does anyone know the intended outcome of this work on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge?
As it turns out, there’s another tugboat that once carried the Deborah Quinn name.
This Quinn is a large boat: 92′ x 27′.
Sea Lion is a regular on the East River, here heading into Newtown Creek.
At 65′ x 27′, Lion dates from 1980.
Brinn Courtney is fairly new in the sixth boro, and
appears to be keeping quite busy.
The first time I saw her she still had some red livery on her here.
All photos, WVD, whose previous iterations of this title can be seen here.
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.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
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