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Truth be told, I should have passed this 100 milestone long ago, but I forestalled a number of times by differentiating within the title: for example, besides the August 2007 starting point of random ships 1 but also random ships *1 and really random ships 1 posted inAugust 2016 and March 2019.
Forestalled or not, we are here, and I still enjoy doing this. These photos all date from this month and December . . . like B. Franklin Reinauer here lightering Atlantic Blue.
Atlantic Crown here has a deck barge alongside delivered by Susan Miller, while in the distance you see the Bayonne peninsula and beyond.
The next two photos show Laura K Moran assisting MSC Greenwich as an outbound Seaspan New York
shares the KVK as it heads for sea.
If I’ve learned anything from these years of documenting the traffic the watery boro, it’s the value of light to (duh!) photo graphy. When you have the dawn light illuminating the orange hull of vessels like NCC Tabuk, with red and shadow image of Miriam Moran, and the cold black steel of the barge to the left, what more need I say about the joy of spending time in the cold morning solitude watching and “recording.”
What’s not to enjoy about shivering while taking photos of a CMA CGM with the name of a huge tropical city.
Before completing this post, any ideas about the reference in Tabuk or the age and population size of Surabaya? Answers follow.
One more dawn photo here . . . the enigmatic name Eco Revolution on a tanker escorted into the KVK by a 6000 hp Moran tugboat.
All photos, WVD.
Tabuk, in Saudi Arabia, and Surabaya, on Indonesia’s Java Island, have both been settlements for over a millennium.
As for Surabaya, some of you might know the lyrics of the Kurt Weill song here by Marianne Faithfull, but I prefer this one from Javanese myth.
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.
Dace lighters STI Excel.
Neptune comes into town again.
Buchanan 12 makes a rare appearance light, but everyone needs to refuel periodically.
Janet D follows Seeley into the Kills.
How a bout a four’fer . . . counter: Marjorie, Kristin Poling, Nicholas, and Jordan Rose.
Sea Lion heads eastbound.
B. Franklin travels west, and
Discovery Coast, east. . . both light.
Nathan G moves a deep scow into the Kills with Cape Wrath lurking in the background.
Traffic never stops, and it’ll outlast me, the photographer, WVD.
Quick photo tribute to the variety of the sixth boro . . . with Kirby and Jonathan C. heading for an assist,
Diane B moving petroleum product to the creek terminals,
James E. pushing a mini scow,
Durham moving a scow named Wheezer,
Curtis returning fro the base to her barge,
Gregg assisting Lady Malou, now heading from the sixth boro to Panama,
B. Franklin returning to her barge,
another shot of Durham pushing Wheezer,
and here, finally my first close-up view of this Osprey.
All photos, last week, WVD, who found this story of a bizarre deal involving the Canadian CG buying a light icebreaker from Turkmenistan!!?
I’m on a short gallivant, but I have no shortage of sixth boro photos, mostly of tugboats engaged in commerce. Sometimes I look for meetings, and interesting (how ever that’s defined) ones are best. Like here…. Kristin and Kimberly,
B. Franklin and Dylan Cooper,
Mary H and Joyce,
Reinauer Twins and Pokomoke,
R/V Ocean Researcher (a multirole survey vessel [aka an exotic] for the offshore energy sector) and Emery Zidell,
and Fort McHenry and Philadelphia.
Then sometimes there are more than two at a time that can be framed in a shot, like here, Elk River, Paula Atwell, Chem Bulldog, Kirby, and B. Franklin . . .
More Bulldog soon. All photos yesterday, WVD.
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
I’m fortunate to live within easy distance of all this activity: Nathan G, Treasure Coast, B. Franklin Reinauer, an ULCV, Doris Moran, and who knows how much is obscured behind these . . . And then there’s the crane atop the building to the left and the gull lower right.
Or here . . . Margaret Moran and a tanker off her stern.
Or here, HMS Justice and Mary H . . . .
Philadelphia outbound with her barge and Ava M. McAllister inbound with an ULCV.
Mister Jim crosses in front of the slower moving Captain D with a Covanta barge. Note the cranes at Caddells, with the diagonal lines off the left from Left Coast Lifter.
Jonathan C Moran, Doris Moran, and Kimberly Turecamo . . . follow a ULCV and
and here head east for the next job.
Tugboats cross.
All photos, WVD.
Long Island, eastbound, gets overtaken by a small fishing boat.
B. Franklin, light, heads to the Reinauer yard.
Doris Moran, light, heads east.
Ellen McAllister assists a Maersk ship through the channels to her berth.
Helen Laraway heads east to pick up a scow.
HMS Justice pushes HMS 2605 through the KVK.
Charles A. and Matthew Tibbetts follow a ship so that they can assist as needed when called upon.
Ava and Kimberly head out to different assignments.
Brendan Turecamo provides port assist.
Mister Jim follows Seeley.
Gulf Coast has been a Dann Marine vessel since it was launched way back in 1982.
All photos, WVD.
Now that I’m at installment 291 of this series, I’m rethinking the adjective random. Check out these meanings old and new here. But “random” it is until I come up with a better word. I’d rejected the descriptor “miscellaneous” when I first started. How about one from this list: some, select, chance, serendipitous, entropic, stochastic . . ..
Enjoy this novel juxtaposition, Coney Island Light and Denise A., with her barge. Denise A. is from 2014, a 4000hp tug with dimensions of 112′ x 35′ x 17′.
Marjorie B McAllister waits in the offing. You might not guess that she’s worked since 1974 with her 4000hp and 112′ x 30′ hull.
Franklin Reinauer pirouettes her 81′ x 28′ hull right in front of me, the 1984 tug propelled by 2600 hp.
Capt. Brian A heads out for yet another job.
Meanwhile, Linda Lee Bouchard and two of her sisters, Ellen and Evening Star, bide their time at old Home Port. Linda Lee is from 2006, her 125′ x 38′ hull powered by 6140hp. The sisters are 1982 104′ x 35′ and 3900hp and 2012 112′ x 35′ and 4000hp, respectively.
B. Franklin has been hard at work since 2012, measuring in at 112′ x 33′ and powered by 4000hp.
Robert IV came off the ways in 1975, and sometimes her 56′ x 22′ and 1050hp is just right.
More shots of Linda Lee
and Capt. Brian A.
and Evening Star.
And to conclude, hat tip to Stephen Reinauer, from 1970 and 101′ x 31′ and 3000 hp.
All photos, WVD, who thanks all who watched the Erie Canal presentation yesterday. Here‘s more Erie Canal on Saturday.
Nathan G comes toward the Narrows with
a max loaded scow.
B. Franklin Reinauer heads into the Kills
Hunting Creek heads west and
Jacksonville, east. By the way, what is that blue flag halfway up the mast above?
N is for Nicholas Vinik coming by to
to assist Genesis Victory with GM 6506 out of IMTT.
And we’ll hold it up here.
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