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Even on overcast days, the sixth boro aka NY harbor offers sights. It’s long been so; here’s much abridged paragraphs 3-5 Chapter 1 of Moby Dick:
[People] stand … fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning … some seated … some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China… [some] pacing straight for the water… Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land… They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand… infallibly [move] to water… Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy [youth] with a robust healthy soul… at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning…. we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans … the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.”
OK, so that might be over the top, but I find at least as much entertainment along the water as in all the other places in NYC. Maybe that makes me a hermit, but that’s irrelevant. Can you name these boats?
At less than 10 miles an hour, trade comes in, commerce of all sort goes on.
different hour different goods,
different tasks,
different energies
and errands
by different
companies . . .
All photos, WVD.
And in order, Jonathan C Moran, Meaghan Marie, Ellen McAllister, Andrea, Schuylkill, Rowan R McAllister, Thomas D Witte, Susan Miller.
Happy please-go-vote day. If you know anyone at all who is eligible to vote but won’t, have a chat with that person. As a New Yorker, I voted over a week ago . . . early voting on a Saturday afternoon.
Some photos . . . and your part is to 1) rank these boats by highest to lowest horsepower, and 2) identify which if any were built north of central sixth boro. I’ve provided dates of initial construction, but tugboats are required to be well-maintained, sometimes repowered and extensively rebuilt.
The 1979 Miriam Moran looked this way in her October markings. Cancer is a scourge, and I know this remembrance each October means a lot to folks who’ve seen the disease from nearby.
HMS Liberty has worked in the boro for over a decade now.
Laura K. Moran came off the ways in 2008, spent some years here, some away, but now she’s back in the boro.
Mister T, 2001, has carried that moniker ever since.
Andrea, 1999, has been in the boro a half dozen years. Here‘s how she looked back in 2016.
Shannon Dann was built in 1971.
Dace Reinauer dates from 1968 but has been considerably rebuilt from the first time she appeared on this blog here. See pre-2010 photos of her here and here.
Brian Nicholas, 1966, has been in the boro about as long as I’ve been doing this blog. I did post a photo of her with Banda Sea name clearly on her bow here 12 years ago.
Foxy 3 was built in 1974 and first appeared on this blog as Barker Boys, a name she carried until 2009, when she was renamed Buchanan 16. I don’t believe I ever saw her in the Balico livery as BF Jersey although I did see her with BF Jersey nameboards here. Note the folded back upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
Answers?
Laura K 5100 horsepower, Dace 3400, Andrea and Miriam at 3000, HMS Liberty and Mister T and Shannon D all at 2400, Brian Nicholas 1700, Foxy 3 1600.
Built north of the sixth boro: Laura K in Maine and Mister T in Rhode Island; all others were built in Louisiana.
I’ve seen lots of pairs in winter, some in spring, but never until now in fall, at least not acknowledged until this post.
Two sets of pairs appear below, one Centerline and another Moran, the latter escorting in CSCL South China Sea.
Ellen and Patrice here are going to different jobs.
Mary Turecamo and James D Moran here work on the CSCL box ship.
Lots are boats here; clockwise from the farthest, Haggerty Girls (I think), James D, Margaret, Marjorie B, and James William.
Around 0900, a brace of migratory birds headed north . . . F-18s maybe.
B. Franklin got an assist from Matthew Tibbetts.
Two old ferries ply their trade: Barberi with the highest flagpoles and Marchi.
Two top of the line sixth boro McAllister tugs joins forces.
Two old style boats: Manhattan II and Wanderer, the latter from the Sippican River.
And finally, this juxtaposition passed and allows a comparison of the lines of the 2015 6000 hp Kirby Moran with the 2008 5100 hp Laura K.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
Centerline Logistics is a relatively new name. Or should that be pronounced “sent her lion”?
The orange “centerline” is also gradually being added to the fleet. Andrea was here three years–and sans upper house-– before she became a lion boat; here was first I saw that part of her logo.
Name this one?
Lightning has recently returned to the boro. Named for a horse?
So here’s the unit pushing Long Island, and getting an assist
from Lightning.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I am way out of the boro again and hoping to leave the bayous in the desired fashion. So yes, the robots are back on the button, sticks, and levers. The robots seem to love posts like this, random collections of mostly tugboat traffic,
like Ava escorting MSC Christiana out of the port, while
Timothy follows. MSC Christiana is currently following the West African coastline, east to west.
Durham must have been working all night and was entering the Kills from the Upper Bay.
Vane’s Brooklyn was eastbound and met
Mister T.
Andrea went to rejoin her barge, and
Jordan looks resplendent in her new livery.
We started with Ava, so she makes the last image as well,
standing by as Mustafa Dayi waits, anchored in a location where container ships rarely do.
All photos, WVD, with posting by the tugster tower robotic team!
January is named for Janus, the one who looked forward and backward . . . transitions, this Roman. The connection is this . . . one day i post photos from 2022 and the next or two I post photos from the 1950s, supplied by Albert Gayer.
Charles James, framed here by the big green Tokyo Triumph and an Apex barge, pushes a bow wave in front of her.
Here’s the 13, 600 teu Tampa Triumph class ULCV that followed Charles James. You also notice Maersk Vilnius following the ULCV.
I know that names are just for convenient, but I wonder why this class of five Costamare ships carry the names Tampa, Tokyo, Toledo, Taipei, and Texas Triumph. Surely there are larger cities starting with T. In fact, Tampa and Toledo don’t even make the top 50 by population. And if Texas, then why not Tennessee? Taipei is fine because it’s home to Evergreen, the operator.
She’s deep, although I’ve seen deeper.
From the time she starting moving from her berth to the time she departs through the Narrows takes avbout an hour.
The fact that all those containers can leave safely makes an hour a short time.
She meets Oleander coming in for her usual Thursday appointment, and this meeting shows relative scale of these two cargo ships.
I mentioned Maersk Vilnius earlier in this post; I don’t recall ever seeing one container ship overtake another as they race out toward the Narrows.
All photos, WVD.
Two separate parties sent me this article from the LA Times. With a title including the phrase “humble tugboat,” I was interested but not prepared for the fantastic photos. Thx John and George. Enjoy. Meanwhile, here are some more of my recent photos.
James D. Moran assisting on a towline above and Robert Weeks leaving the fuel dock below,
Andrea walled off from her barge above and Sarah Ann light below,
Gregg McAllister returning to base and Pegasus heading to work,
A light William Brewster and an equally light Daisy Mae,
Mackenzie Rose and Philadelphia, and
to close out this installment . . . Kimberly Turecamo assisting a ULCV.
All photos, WVD, who never associated the adjective “humble” with tugboats or their operators, and that’s not a bad thing.
If you’re new to this blog (or even if you are not), I’m always looking for photos from other people and places, especially, tugboats seen in South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australia.
Snow is the norm in January in the sixth boro, and we’ve just had unusual weather. On January 2, I was splitting NY wood wearing a t-shirt in the balmy almost 60 degrees.
As you may have guessed, I slipped my noon deadline today because I wanted some evidence of the normal snow accumulation that happened overnight.
Enjoy the results.
Decks are cleared, but snow blown into the outside of the bulwarks is just decorative.
Docklines and footing DO need to be cleared so that
operations proceed with safety.
If you’re not accustomed to this weather, you may not appreciate how unpleasant this pretty stuff can be,
especially if, as I hadn’t, you’ve not waterproofed your boots. Wearing the right clothes and footwear, helps you stay warm and safe.
Bollard pull remains the same, a little snow notwithstanding.
All photos today, WVD.
I’m posting early today and can’t guarantee I’ll be able to move this on to FB the next few days because I’m traveling. So, sign up to get new posts straight to your email. Also check the note at the end of this post.
Here’s one that got away: the tug to the right is the 1975 Mary Emma, ex-Evening Light. I’d been waiting in St George hoping she’d move from Mariner’s Harbor eastbound. Finally I gave up and boarded the ferry. Partway to Whitehall, I noticed she was headed east, right past where I’d been. Once in Whitehall I boarded the next ferry south, hoping to get photos near the St George side. It’s not a great shot and it would have been if only I’d stayed put . . . but life is full of as many missed opportunities as fulfilled ones.
Sarah Dann (1983) recently made a big move of a crane from Wisconsin to Maine, a longer trip by water than by land. Two years ago, she made another long tow with components for a refinery.
Franklin Reinauer (1984) has been based in the boro and carried that name since she came out of the shipyard.
Osprey (1961) is a recent newcomer to the sixth boro.
Christian Reinauer (2001) is the most powerful of this batch, with 7200 hp moving her payload.
A year ago Eastern Dawn (1978) was still painted white.
Andrea (1999) came here without the upper wheelhouse.
Thomas D. Witte (1961) and James E. Brown (2015) pass each other in the Back Channel.
Diane B (1980) seemed to drift through this part of the channel the other day.
And finally, I believe, Morton S. Bouchard IV (2004) is the only remaining Bouchard tugboat over at the stack in Stapleton. When will her transformation to Jesse Rose begin?
All photos, WVD, who has left the boro for a while.
By the way, a few days ago I made up some 2022 calendars, of which 17 are left for sale. I used a subjective process for selection this time. More details later but if you’re interested, email me your interest and your address. Send no money at this time, please, but prices will likely be up a tad because, of course, politics.
Happy 31st, aka Halloween, World Savings Day, Day of Seven Billion, National Candy Apple Day, Annual visit a cemetery or graveyard day . . . and more. If you need suggestions for a graveyard, consider this one. And just yesterday, I learned of this one and this one. Who knew?!!? Want to revisit a tugster ghost post?
For this post, there’s a quiz. The first part is … name the oldest and newest boat here. The second part … identify the only two boats here NOT built in Louisiana. Of course, building is one thing, and designing is another.
All photos taken this October. Susan Miller,
Miriam Moran and Pegasus,
Andrea,
Gregg McAllister,
Robert IV,
Buchanan 12,
Navigator,
Robert Burton,
Shawn Miller,
Pearl Coast,
Miss Ila,
Mary Turecamo,
and the always seasonal Kimberly Turecamo.
There you have it . . . And I’ll give the answers tomorrow.
And my question is . . . who is Miss Ila‘s namesake and what do you call that shade of red?
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