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Here are previous posts in this series. This post is a tribute to the dangerous but vital role pilots play in shipping.
Below, the docking pilot descends onto Marjorie B McAllister.
The transition from the gangway to the jacob’s ladder is tricky.
Here’s a Moran docking pilot, departing the ship after the ship is underway.
This is a small ship, but the distance to the water is still significant.
When assured the adjustment is right,
the docking pilot begins his descent to Jonathan C. Moran.
And finally, see the gangway from this angle . . .
and the pilot about to step across to Ava.
All photos, WVD, who wishes all safety.
0545 at the Narrows . . . in the hazy days of summer . . . nothing beats it.
I had not come here just to beat the heat.
Surprisingly, Turecamo Girls (I believe) delivered the docking pilot.
Then she dropped back, to where one of the 6000s took the stern and
another the bow.
Only a couple hours into the day, another ULCV appeared in the offing . . .
Hyundai Drive, which sounds almost like a car ad framed as an order if you reverse the words . . . .
In the clearer light, you can clearly see Drive‘s crew asisting the docking pilot, boarding from Capt. Brian A.
For scale, notice the deckhand on the bow waiting . . .
. . .
for the messenger line.
To digress a bit, in July 2018 Hyundai Jupiter was in the sixth boro, and the company was still called Hyundai. On March 31, 2020, it rebranded itself as HMM. Jupiter, 1059′ loa, had a capacity of 10,000 teu.
In March 2013, Hyundai Grace, a 2007 build, had a capacity of 4571 teu on her 964′ hull.
In April 2009, Hyundai Voyager was in town . . . built in 2008 with the same dimensions as Grace.
So in a decade, typical Hyundai (HMM) vessels calling here have increasing carrying capacity by nearly 300%. If you consider HMM calling elsewhere, the increase has been greater than 500%.
All photos, WVD.
First off, I missed CMA CGM La Perouse, which left before daylight this morning. I had to look up La Perouse, since it was a French word I didn’t know. It turns out that it’s a person, an accomplished 18th century French explorer of the Pacific. Click here for a map of his explorations, along with French spellings of places you know; Mauwee is my favorite. Given this identity for this ship, this ULCV then fits into the “explorer” class of CMA CGM, the other vessels shown here. Sp far, I’ve posted only CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci. Magellan has been in the sixth boro, but I missed it.
Al Quibla is one of the middle-sized UASC vessels, at 13, 296 teu.
The largest UASC box boat right now is over 18,000 teu. Back in April, I saw Al Qibla‘s sister vessel Unayzah, but not posted it until today below. Unayzah at that time still had the Hapag-Lloyd livery.
Al quibla is the Arabic word for “direction.”
Hyundai Speed was launched in 2012, and has carrying capacity of 13, 100 teu. Here Ava sidles up to escort it into the Global Terminal.
Recently I caught CMA CGM T. Jefferson departing. She’s of the same class as T. Roosevelt and J. Adams.
Cosco Shipping has its “flower” class, with Peony and all the others.
Capacious as these vessels are, much larger ones sail the seas. Correct me if I’m wrong, but no vessel over 15,000 teu has yet called in the sixth boro.
All photos, WVD.
Yesterday I mentioned two reasons for early morning photos: temperature and light.
Ava M looks different too, with its spots illuminating the curved hull.
As I post this, he’s already completely her east coast US run, and is racing eastward across the Atlantic, at 18+ kts.
Patrice tagged along until completing the turn at Bergen Point.
Again, once west of my vantage point, light washed her anew.
All photos, WVD.
Gunhilde appeared on this blog two months ago here.
What’s visible for now is Pegasus and Maersk Seletar, but behind the container ship and soon to emerge
is Mukaddes Kalkavan. A few hours later, I saw Seletar doing 22 kts heading south along the Jersey coast. Seletar is an area in Singapore.
Ava escorts Mukaddes Kalkavan into the port from the starboard bow.
Scot Munchen is a relatively small tanker ( 383′ x 59′) with an unusual superstructure design. Here‘s the fleet of this Istanbul-based company, all incorporating the same stack design.
Here’s a photo from about 0500, Ava is assisting Hyundai Smart into Bayonne. The name Hyundai Smart connotes automotive to me.
Ever Liberal heads out to sea.
with Jonathan Moran assisting past the Bouchard flock.
And finally, this is the Laura Maersk that back already a month ago was towed into the sixth boro as a fully loaded dead ship due to an engine explosion.
Light in the water, this container ship shows a different profile.
All photos, WVD.
Capt. Willie Landers last appeared here several years ago; she lost a substantial mast to gain an upper wheelhouse.
She came in during my favorite time of day.
She met Atlantic Sail off Stapleton.
Meredith left a barge alongside Orange Victoria and went on to other assignments.
Troy’s pride Sarah D moved a stone scow out past Jamaica Bay, as all her crew who could did work on deck.
Ava M waited for a ship as a sloop sailed past.
Daisy Mae headed out for Philly with CMT Y NOT 1 and a load
of non-ferrous scrap, maybe.
Sea Fox headed out to a job and met Bomar Caen coming into Brooklyn. Bomar Caen was previously CMA CGM Jaguar.
All photos, WVD.
Mary Turecamo has the distinction of having been built at Matton Shipyard near Waterford. She’s a big boat: 106′ loa and 4300hp.
James William was originally Lisa Moran. She’s 77′ and generates 2800hp propelled by three screws.
Barney Turecamo, built in 1995, was intended to push cement barges. She’s 116′ and rated at 5100hp.
Brendan Turecamo was launched in 1975. She’s 106′ and her twin EMDs generate 3900hp.
James D. Moran is one of the four 6000hp tugboats that have worked in the sixth boro for the past five years. She’s 88′ loa.
Notice that all the above boats had some connection with Moran? Anyhow. Ava M. is the newest escort tug in the boro. She arrived here about a year ago, 100′ and 6770hp.
Alex McAllister has been in the harbor–I believe–about five years now. Built in 1985, she is 87′ and 4300hp.
When I first saw Genesis Vigilant, he was a Hornbeck Offshore boat called Michigan Service. Built in 1981, she’s 99′ and rated at 3000hp.
Josephine might be the newest T of an ATB in the boro. She was launched in 2018, is 110′, and moves with 4560hp.
Here she was pushing the 347′ loa RTC 83 into a berth at the east end of IMTT, with assistance from Franklin Reinauer. Franklin was launched in 1984, is 81′ and generates 2600hp.
All photos, WVD. Again, sorry I posted prematurely sans any text. Sometimes I’m looking right at something, seeing a word or a number, and just calling it something else. I believe my brain is becoming like my mother’s.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Jones Act. I hope folks who believe the Jones Act should be repealed read this and inform themselves. A good place to start is here, a well-written editorial from gCaptain from a few years ago.
Sunshine State, one of five tankers managed by Crowley, is an example of a Jones Act tanker. That means it was built in the US, and crewed by US mariners.
Atlantic Sea, 2016 launched in Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding, is a non-Jones Act vessel.
Maersk Tukang was built in Korea in 2008, and registered in Singapore.
ONE Minato and Constellation arrive together via the Ambrose Channel. The 2018 ONE vessel was both built and registered in Japan. Constellation, 2006, was built in China and registered in Marshall Islands.
Mandalay, 2019, carries Singapore registry. I’ve been unable to find where she was built, but my guess is China.
Zim Vancouver, 2007 built in Dalian CN, and registered in Haifa.
Torm Sublime, registered in Copenhagen, was built in Nansha, CN 2019.
Maersk Kleven, built in Denmark in 1996, registered in Liberia. Assisting are Ava and Capt. Brian, both Jones Act.
All photos, WVD, who is the first to admit that as important as the Jones Act is, the decisions of flagging are complex.
Grimaldi trademarked yellow appears fairly frequently in the sixth boro, but I’d never seen this CONRO until the other day. Partly it catches my attention because I spent half a decade working in two of Gabon’s neighboring countries.
I’ve always enjoyed the dawn. The cool air and rich light cannot be topped, and now, it is the best time to stay physically distant from folks.
Interesting names . . . these ships meeting in the almost-night; Maersk Tukang (tukang is the Sundanese word for “doer” or craftsman”) meets Grande Gabon (Gabon is an appropriated name based on a Portuguese description of the Komo river estuary.) The president’s name is Bongo, but I really digress.
I know this is not a Pow Wow River morning with muskrats playing around the lily pads while I’m flicking minnows at pickerel or whatever else bites when the snapping turtles are away . . . This is not another digression, just a way of highlighting the beauty in an industrial waterway.
Since i believe this CONRO is coming from West Africa, I’m wondering where these vehicles are coming from/going to.
I took this photo without seeing the crewman at the extreme left side of the frame. Only after studying the photos on the big screen did I notice him.
Having the cars uncovered on the decks might not bode well for the cars, but they do provide a scale to show how large the exhaust ducting is.
Ava joins Ellen to ensure safe passage around Bergen Point, and . . . sure enough . . . the crewman who was enjoying the cool morning with me is still standing at the rail.
All photos, WVD.
Stephen Reinauer westbound as the sun heads in the same direction.
Mary Turecamo assists an MOL ship into port.
Ava M pushes toward the pilot’s door on the side of another container ship.
James D heads to the next job amid two container ships in the approaches.
Margaret throttles up alongside.
James William travels toward Howland Hook.
James E. heads, no doubt, for the car float with rail cars awaiting it.
Stephen Dann heads in to get some fuel.
Emily Ann travels light toward the Upper Bay.
All photos from a socially-distanced, physically-isolated, seasonally-adjusted, pent-up energized, freely-masked, and emotionally-stale WVD.
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