Random Tugs 321
With the end of the year coming, it’s strangely difficult to put these posts together. I’ve chased down several ideas the past few days, and abandoned them. All these photos were taken in recent days, except one about a month ago. They strike me as showing the different skies and waters of the unacknowledged boro. […]
Random Ships 83
Remember Laura Maersk, the unusual tow from back in mid-June? An engine room explosion disabled her, and she had to be towed in for repairs. Well . . . below are her tracks from yesterday . . . first sea trials . . . aka a “test drive” and then she made a beeline for […]
Random Tugs 316
Bobbie Ann departs the sixth boro with some GLDD equipment. Little did I know at the time that Bobbie Ann had left the sixth boro a decade ago, then as Vera K. Ernest Campbell wrestles along a double hull bunker barge. I wonder why the Centerline Logistics lion has not yet been added to her […]
Welcome Comfort 1
At 0900 and a few minutes, USNS Comfort arrived at the Narrows. Ava M was one of six McAllister units meeting her there to assist. USACE, NYPD, and other agencies saw her in as well. , She passed the USCG station and and the old hospital complex. Another USNS vessel in the port was […]
Random Ships 79
In case you’re keeping track, I’ve been home a long time quite a while, happy to help by staying put. I’ve had harder work, and I’m really busy. Nautical Sarah is still in town, a week and a half after she appeared to be departing. USNS Watkins has been all the way to Florida, I […]
Fog 21
Tinkering with the digital file, I’ve made SSV Corwith Cramer clearer here than she was to the naked eye as she came through the foggy Narrows yesterday morning. Maintaining this blog over many years and springtimes has taught me how much fog is a spring phenomenon. Here on a clearer day, Corwith Cramer (1987) raced into […]
Twin Tube 4
There’s nothing new that I know about Twin Tube, but she cuts a unique image as she works year round. She came off the ways in 1951, and just moves along doing essential and almost invisible work. Here’s a post I did on her four years ago telling about her previous incarnations. Here are many […]
Plethora of Cranes
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 . […]
Random Ships 69
Let’s start with Alice Oldendorff, inbound with a hold full of Nova Scotia stone and about to turn to starboard on her (almost) final approach to Brooklyn. Alice and I have a long history. YM Wind makes the final approach her into Global Terminals, her first call at sixth boro docks. In contrast above, […]
Random Tugs 238
Pacific Reliance (9280 hp) transfers cargo before heading to Texas . . . with the 155,000 bbl barge 650-1. B. Franklin Reinauer (4000 hp) passes by with RTC 82 (80,000 bbl, if I read that right) and Austin (3900 hp) eastbound here light. Dean Reinauer (4720 hp) moves westbound under the Bayonne Bridge. Foxy 3 (1600 hp) and […]
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