Gallivanting to the Sixth Boro

If you depart at 0400, there’s not much to photograph.  Light beckoned as we approached Newburgh/Beacon.

I saw Mt. Beacon as I never had before;

ditto Storm King in sunrise that even dappled

the wave tops.

Once around Gee Point, we saw the statue (to the left on the ridge)

of Kościuszko’s, fortifier of West Point.

Once south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, passengers traveled upstream

for seasonal seesighting.

Scrap was sought.

Sloops sailed and

work boats waited their time.

More statues sighted, and

vessels waited their time.

 

And we had arrived at a place where at least two boros approached each other.

Will Van Dorp, who took these photos, is back in the boros for a while.

Random Tugs 175

The first two photos–showing the newest and fastest (??) ATB to arrive in the sixth boro– were taken by Randall Fahry.

Tina Pyne is one immense mover, and Kirby 185-02 is one of two 578′ ocean going tank barges with 185,000-barrel capacity built by Gunderson Marine for Kirby.   See her christening here.

Zachery Reinauer is a Hudson River-built tug from 1971 one of the last 10 built at Matton, and she looks as good today as new!

This was taken a few seconds later, and this

as she stands by, while Haggerty Girls finesses RTC 107 into position.

An occasional sixth boro visitor, it’s Rhea I. Bouchard with B. No. 284.

 

As I began this post with another photographer’s photo, so I’ll end.  Thanks to Gerard Thornton for this rare catch of Ticonderoga assisting Pleon (?) into the Kills, possibly the last float for Pleon.     That’s also Barry Silverton in the distance.

 

Thanks to Randall and Gerard for use their photo.  All others by Will Van Dorp.