Bronze 6

Another day I went out and lots of Reinauer boats were around, like Gracie M., which I’d not seen up close.  Launched in the second half of 2016, she’s the fourth of their Twins series and the newest vessel in  the fleet.   Here’s the first Twins post I did and here’s another where she appears.

Curtis has slightly less hp than Gracie M and follows the B. Franklin line.  

Christian came by;  at 7200 hp  and dimensions of 118′ x 40′, she’s a big boat.

Here’s Christian in profile.

Zachery is one of the oldest in the fleet, built at Matton up near the Canal, and formerly a Mobil tug.

Now that we have a few different classes already in this post, you can see that Dean, like Gracie M, follows the Twins class.

B. Franklin, mentioned earlier, spawned Curtis, so to speak.

And here’s another slightly different angle on Gracie M. 

The photo below I took in Auguast 2006.  Subtle differences are visible in the background, like the color of the cranes over in Erie Basin.  The slightly different shade of bronze and red may be due to the fact that I used a different camera.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

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And then it was a sunny but cold day, the coldest so far in the sixth boro.  ut the light was great.

B.Franklin Reinauer headed for the fuel stop,

followed by a group that included

Zachery Reinauer,

Arabian Sea,

and Doubleskin 40 pushed by a mostly self-effacing Fort McHenry.  

 

Later Tarpon raced past, as

did Mister T and

Chesapeake moved her barge eastward.

Out in Gravesend Bay, Ruth M. Reinauer and Linda Lee Bouchard swung on the hook.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Facet Tug Evolution

Bear with me here.  Let’s go back to 1999.  Nicole Leigh Reinauer was built in Alabama Shipyard to push a 135,000 brl barge.  Look at the lines of this 118′ x 40 tug working with 7200 hp.

Ruth M. Reinauer is Senesco hull # 202, 112′ x 35′ and 4000 hp. She is the first of the “facet tugs.”  As you can read in the link in the previous sentence, the design change was driven by easing the construction process of both tugs and double-skin barges.   If the shape of the reminder of tugboats in this post seem odd to you, read this interesting article by Casey Conley with a title that alludes to the (now retired) F-117 fighter.

Laurie Ann Reinauer followed, same dimensions and power and hull # 203.

Reinauer Twins came out in September 2011, same basic dimensions by greater horsepower . .  4720.

I’m not sure what happened with hull#205, but #206 is B. Franklin Reinauer, 110′ x 33′ and 4000 hp.

By the way, there’s a LOT going on in the background of this photo, including what appears to be dredge Atchafalaya in dry dock.

Curtis is hull# 207, same numbers.

 

 

Haggerty Girls is hull# 208, same numbers.

 

 

Dean Reinauer is hull# 210, 112.2′ x 35′ and 4720 hp.

 

 

And that brings us up to date with respect to Reinauer facet tugs . ..  it’s Dylan Cooper, operating less than a full year now, with the same numbers as Dean Reinauer.

 

 

Note that it was exactly five years ago that we were following the trials and tribulations of loading the previous Curtis and Dean Reinauer  onto the heavy lift ship for West African waters.   I’d love to see photos of those tugs five years on and working out of Nigeria.  Does anyone out there have access to such?

For extensive documentation of many of these facet tugs during the building process, click here for the bulging albums created by Rod Smith at Narragansett Bay Shipping.

All photos of the handsome set of workhorses by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

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We’ve seen James D., Kirby, and JRT.  And now . .  welcome Jonathan C Moran.  Another photo of the 6000 hp newest in the port later in the post.

For now, also resplendent in the June dawn . . . Jane A. Bouchard,

the unique B. Franklin Reinauer,

and so let’s add another of this facet tug,

Evening Light (the former Frederick E. ), 

the lean, green James E. Brown, 

the age-defying Durham,

the indefatigable James Turecamo,

and finally another shot of Jonathan C Moran.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who needs to get back to work.

Bronze 5

Here were 1 and 2, going back quite a few years.  Back then, I used to describe photos beneath them, instead of my current practice . . .  above.

So, below . ..  it’s a light Stephen-Scott, which way be the oldest vessel (1967) in the Reinauer Transportation Company fleet today.

Morgan Renauer (1981), here pushing RTC 101, was originally built for Poling Transportation.

Jason Reinauer (1968), up in Albany since last winter’s ice, dates from 1968.

Laurie Ann Reinauer (2009), dating from the first generation of facet tug construction, moves RTC 85.

B. Franklin Reinauer (2012) is the first of the second generation of facet tugs.  Click here for a Professional Mariner article on what a “facet tug” is.

Reinauer Twins (2011)–referenced in that PM article above–if compared with the photo above, shows design differences between the two facet tug generations.

Dean Reinauer (2013) is similar to Reinauer Twins and

Haggerty Girls (also 2013) resembles B. Franklin Reinauer.

 

Kristy Ann Reinauer (1962) either has been of will be scrapped.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who accepts blame for any errors in information and who would love to see a launch at the Senesco yard, where many of these have had their first splash.

Kristy Ann    2000 hp

Jason  2000 hp

Stephen Scott   3400 hp

Morgan  3900 hp

B. Franklin   4000 hp

Laurie Ann  4720 hp

Twins  4720 hp

Dean  4720 hp

 

 

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Here was 23.  In today’s post, there are boats from the just north of South America, at the south edge of the Chesapeake, and in the busiest part of the KVK.   Mero is from 2008,

Captain Willie Landers from 2001,

Chesapeake Coast 2012,

Eric McAllister 2014,

B. Franklin Reinauer 2012,

and Marjorie B. McAllister . . . the dean today, from 1974.

Wait . . . there’s one more, Lincoln Sea, shot in NYC’s sixth boro in September 2012 and built in Tacoma in 2000.  She’s just traversed the Panama and is now back in her home Pacific waters.

Thanks to the Maraki crew for the first photo and to John Jedrlinic for the second.  All the other by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Guess the locations here and . . .

here?  Answers follow.

This one should be obvious.  What’s the Philly-bound tug?

It’s Lucky D.

Here’s Chesapeake Coast, probably North River and then Hudson River bound.

B. Franklin Reinauer is Sound-bound.

And some light tugs . . . Elizabeth,

Joan Turecamo,

Chesapeake,

Megan McAllister, 

. . . Margaret Moran and Pegasus.

The top two were . . . locations were Chao Phraya River in Bangkok and the Staten Island side of the Narrows, with tug Gulf Dawn outbound.   Click here for some Thai tugs from almost seven years ago.  Thanks much to Ashley Hutto for the first photo.

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I’ll start here for a reason.  This 1941 vessel built in Stamford, CT,   was originally YTL 169, 61′ loa.  In November 1997 she was called Spuyten Duyvil and used to transport the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from Stony Point to the East river.  I’ve mentioned this before, but although I’ve searched high and low, by letter, word-of-mouth, and electronically . . . I’ve located NO fotos of that event.  None!!  Can this event have completed eluded the photography crowd?  If you know of a foto, please get in touch.   Click here for a foto of this tug–I believe–I took almost 8 years ago now.

Ever Decent . . .  foto taken 10 days ago, here being passed by Evening Star, is already well into the Pacific Ocean.

Turecamo Girls, here in the KVK, was waiting on the outside of the Amtrack Prtal Bridge last week, but of course I didn’t have a camera.

Amy C McAllister slings in a Bouchard barge, and

McAllister Sisters does the same with a Reinauer barge.

Bering Dawn moves another dredge scow out to sea.

Bob-tailed B. Franklin heads back to her barge, and

Eastern Dawn heads west into the Kills.

So, does anyone know of a foto showing Spuyten Duyvil with the 1997 Rockefeller Christmas tree heading south from Stony Point?

All fotos except the top one by Will Van Dorp.

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Gramma Lee T Moran, 2002

Jay Michael and Mister Jim,  1980 and 1982

Mister T, 2001

Mister T again

Brandywine and Viking, 2006 and 1976

Kimberly Turecamo, 1980

Red Hook (a first on this blog) and Severn, 2013 and 2008

B. Franklin Reinauer, 2012

Shelby Rose, 1963

Hubert Bays, 2002.

All fotos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.

For the Birds 6

Most of the previous birds posts have been in winter .  . except this one.  I find birds one of the joys of winter.  So on the last day of winter, rather than go out and get rainy/sleet fotos, enjoy these.

Two Brants discuss the approaching Hayward and the distancing Prominent Ace escorted in by Ron G.

Mergansers are always a joy.

Here a flock of them discuss the passing B. Franklin Reinauer.

Buffleheads are indicator species for me that winter is upon us.

Mallard female?

It’s time for winter to retreat . . . .

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.