Random Tugs 183

On the cusp of wintriness if not winter per se, the Hudson Valley is spectacular.  Let’s start with Fred Johannsen pushing this crane barge northward.  That’s the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge aka George Clinton Memorial Bridge (DeWitt Clinton’s uncle)  in the distance.

Here Treasure Coast urges Cement Transporter 7700–one I’ve never seen before–the last mile to the cement dock.

This reflection was so magical, I needed to include this closer-up.

Emerald Coast pushes a fuel barge downstream.

Sarah D moves a motley pair of scows upstream.

Eastern Dawn moves a fuel barge downstream.

Mr Russell shifts a barge near the TZ Bridge.  What is in those tanks?

Might that be Marion Moran pushing sugar barge Somerset up toward Yonkers?

I believe this is Doris Moran moving cement barge Adelaide downriver.

And as a last-but-not-least photo today, here’s Cornell conducting a TOAR sign off session.  Here’s a post I did three years ago with the same activity but using a different barge.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a proposal below:

If you are working Thursday and therefore having lunch and/or dinner at work–whether on a vessel or in some other work setting–and you choose to take a photo of the dinner–any aspect of the meal–and send it to me, please do and I’ll try to devise a post with it on Friday this week.  Thanks for the consideration.

Also, you may be “choosing” ed out by now, but here’s a set of thoughtful, well-reasoned and -articulated perspectives on the Hudson anchorages question that is open to public discussion until early December.

Also, if you’re planning to be at the WorkBoat show in New Orleans next week,  I’ll be wandering around there, maybe looking for some extra work.  I hope to see you.

 

 

Random Tugs 179

Katanni and

Sawyer I, these photos I took in September along the Saint Lawrence.

I took the next photos in October.  Evans McKeil was built in Panama in 1936!   The cement barge she’s paired with–Metis— was built as a ship in 1956 and converted to a barge in 1991.

Wilf Seymour was built in 1961 in Port Arthur TX.  I’ve always only seen her paired with Alouette Spirit.  Here she’s heading upbound into the Beauharnois Lock.   The digital readout (-0.5) indicates she’s using the Cavotec automated mooring system instead of lines and line handlers.

Moving forward to Troy NY, I don’t think the name of this tug is D. A. Collins,   

but I know these are Benjamin Elliot, Lucy H, and 8th Sea.

Miss Gill waited alongside some scows at the booming port of Coeymans.

And the big sibling Vane 5000 hp Chesapeake heads upriver with Doubleskin 509A.

And one more autumnal shot with yellows, browns, grays, and various shades of red, and a busy Doris Moran and Adelaide.

Will Van Dorp took all these photos.

 

Gallivanting to the Rondout

In the drizzle, BBC Alabama awaits cargo in Port of Albany.

Pocomoke transfers cargo,

Brooklyn heads south,

Hudson Valley sentinels keep vigil no matter

how much rain falls,

Doris hangs with Adelaide,

as does Coral Coast with Cement Transporter 5300,

Strider rests from striding,

Union Dede docks at a port that 10 years ago was sleepy,

HR Pike (?) rests on rolling spuds,

Saugerties Light houses B&B guests,

not far from Clermont, home of the father-in-law of the father of steam boating on the Hudson and then the Mississippi,

Comet pushes Eva Leigh Cutler to the north,

 

Spooky‘s colors look subdued in the fall colors, and

two shipyard relatives meet.

 

Will Van Dorp took all these photos in a 12-hour period.