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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!
Novel bow marking,
unusual box colors,
familiar port . . .
recognizable tugboat,
container with the “I” painted out,
certainly a container line marking I don’t recall seeing before,
oh wait . . . what did that character’s name mean in Swahili? And what’s been painted out is X-press Annapurna . . . same same, Hakuna Matata or Likambo te…, as I would say it back in the 1970s . . ..
no problem . . . . Any Lingala speakers out there today? Oh well, don’t worry be happy is the same.
All photos, WVD.
New container shipping lines have appeared in the boro here and here recently.
I’ve posted a lot of unusual ship names here over the years.
If you don’t read Greek, as I don’t, the one above and below are the same ship, just from different angles.
Triton is a 14k+ teu vessel, making it quite the giant.
Whether it’s jolly or not, i can’t tell. It is truly jam-packed.
Over on the far side of Triton, yup, that’s Happy Lady.
Justine, Ava, and Ellen all played a role in getting Triton safely into if not out of the sixth boro.
Taipei Triumph is a bit newer and has roughly the same teu-capacity. Notice how small the ferry Barberi, which is closer, looks in comparion.
Gregg McAllister is working the starboard bow,
with an untethered JRT Moran following, and Bruce A. ready when needed.
Bow and stern on the two green giants are slightly different.
Other than the sixth boro setting, the escort tugs, my framing in the post, and the fact that all the photos were taken by me, WVD, they are unrelated.
Anyone catch the vessel in this post that I did not acknowledge in any way?
Bet you can guess where that line leads from the bow of Kirby Moran?
Here you go.
Jordan Rose has been tied up in Bayonne for a while, but
Gregg McAllister passes her on the way to an assist.
Michael Miller is one of the venerable tugs of the sixth boro,
having worked here since the mid-1960s.
Cape Fear has been here for a few years, although I’ve not yet seen
her two sisters, Cape May and Cape Henry.
Ava M. is one of the workhorses, certainly.
Does anyone know when and if Capt. Brian A. will return to service here?
Kimberly Turecamo has worked the harbor consistently for going-on 30 years.
Here she heads into an orange sherbet dawn.
All photos in the past week, WVD., who has more Canal Society archival photos coming but some contemporary posts demonstrate my temporary anchor. Also coming up, a photographer high above Hell Gate has shared a new trove of photos from a perspective I’ve missed. Many thanks for your continued interest.
Five tugs are grouped in the photo below.
Let’s follow these two.
Ava and Ellen are off to assist a tanker into a berth at IMTT.
Shortly afterward, Kimberly Poling passed by with Noelle Cutler and
Evelyn Cutler followed
with Edwin A. Poling.
Beyond Energy Centaur, that would be Kimberly heading upriver.
Meanwhile, Ellen and Ava muscle Lillesand into her berth.
All photos, WVD.
Unrelated: Ever Forward, the more distant vessel here, is currently aground in the Chesapeake, for some reason outside the channel since Sunday night. She was headed from Baltimore to Norfolk and then would have come to the sixth boro of NYC. Speaking of tugs, watch this story evolve, since large tugs may be necessary to get her off. If you have 17 minutes to spare, here’s Dr. Sal.
Consider this to be in the spirit of Dawn 2021. I wasn’t there at dawn because the ship I wanted to catch–CMA CGM Von Humboldt–departed in the 0’darks, but I arrived a bit later, cold notwithstanding.
The first tugboat I photographed in 2022 was Zeus! Truth be told, her profile against the Raritan highlands was unmistakeable, but I was a half hour too late for a better shot; I hadn’t expected a traffic tie-up. She’s headed for Hampton Roads and beyond.
The second and third are Bruce A. McAllister and
Ava M, going to the Narrows to see someone about a ship
Next it was Brendan Turecamo assisting a Liberian-flagged tanker, Horizon Thetis. If you want some interesting origin stories, check a mythology text about the relationship between Zeus and Thetis.
Chemical Petrochemical Trader with Brownsville as the prime mover was next.
A while later Bruce A and
and Ava M came in with their catch, Ever Far. I’ll put up more photos of this new Ever F-class vessel later.
And finally, it’s my first view ever of Centerline’s Rubia, ex-Denise A. Bouchard. If you look closely, you can see Centerline’s lion on the stack. And the name Rubia . . . that’s Spanish for “blonde”… hmmm; it looks more platinum to me.
All photos, January 4, 2022, WVD, who finds it interesting what cold, clear winter temperatures do to photos.
or I could call this Boxing Day 2.
Denak Voyager hauls scrap in her big boxy holds regularly from the sixth boro to Turkey.
This was my first time seeing the 2012 New York Express
or Varna Bay.
Guthorm Maersk has called here before.
Ditto San Cristobal.
ONE München has appeared on this blog before, but ONE Houston has not.
Owned by our neighbors to the north, Fednav bulkers have appeared on this blog before, but this is the first time Federal Nakagawa has.
This is the second PSL [Precious Shipping Line] bulker to appear on the blog, but it is the first time this one .. . Viyada Naree has. Note the log racks along the hull.
All photos, WVD, who hopes you enjoy these bulkers and box ships on Boxing Day.
Winter solstice is one date I pay attention to, and yesterday demanded an undivided portion of it. I was out on the sixth and primordial boro at sunrise, although when it rose, a gauzy film of stratus filtered the light. I tinkered with the image a bit to enhance the cosmic eeriness.
Along the Brooklyn shore a classic barque and one of the latest of a classic line awaited.
Notice two tugboats and a lighthouse below? One tug is shifting a fuel barge, and the other is shifting refuse boxes.
Start of winter or start of summer, the sixth boro is always a busy place. Notice the fishing boat in this image, along with all the rest?
For some reason, these E-2C aircraft flew the North River up and then down and out over the Lower Bay.
Dutch Girl, a winter regular along with Eastern Welder, was hard at work.
Ava M. crossed the Bay from one job to the next. Things are always happening on the water.
And all that’s glorious, but less than a quarter mile from the North River, not all seems to be happening well, and that needs to be acknowledged.
All photos, WVD.
Wait . . . my phone is ringing. To answer or not . . .
THIS YM Warranty has become a regular at GCT on the Bayonne shoreline of the sixth boro.
Gregg tended the portside line as she came in the other day. I forget if she was inbound from Colon PA or Cartagena CO, but heavily laden she was.
Ava M. on a tether was her brakes and supplement to steering as she eased toward GCT.
As of this posting, she’s departed the boro and more than halfway to Norfolk, scheduled to arrive there on the morning after Thanksgiving.
All photos, WVD, who thanks you all for checking in wishes you a very happy Thanksgiving.
Also, check out a blog I’ve just stumbled on to called Millennial Mariner, which appears to be produced by a sixth boro mariner. If you like what you read, then subscribe.
About those cursed spoof calls of “We’ve been trying to reach you about your expired car warranty,” check out this Money magazine article if you need more reading today.
And, thanks to bowsprite for sharing this with me, if you still need to kill another 25 minutes to get away gathered relatives, Martin Machado has a great video here called Six Months at Sea in the Merchant Marine.
And if you need still more time away from the gathering, maybe you could rake leaves, chip rust, or . . . go for a paddle.
YM Wind came in on a zephyr this morning from Charleston, a nippy morning though seasonal at 48 degrees. Sorry the USACE boat photobombed this shot.
I’m not sure where Wind was before Charleston, but she’s transporting many fewer than her 14k teu. By the way, I’m starting to see more references to feu now, 40 foot equivalent units, so a 14k teu is only a 7k feu….
Just in time, Gregg McAllister shows up to assist Ellen and Ava with the job. I believe Patrice is there too, invisible on starboard side, dock side.
Wind first called here a bit over two years ago, here.
All photos, WVD, who thinks Wind is the best of the names for the twenty W-series of YM 14000k teu ships.
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