Scale 6

Here was 5 in this series.

This is the view from the bridge looking forward on Key Frontier, built 2011 in Maizuru, Japan.  From this point to the bow is 638′ and to the stern is about 100′.   Note the approaching tug and barge.

The length on the tug is 64′ .

The orange tanker in the distance is 800′.  See the crewman standing  on the edge of hold #4 just to the left of the green half mark for the helipad?  He’s around 6′.

He’s a spotter for activity below inside the hold.

The bucket can hold holds 30 tons when full.

When a hold is just about empty, a loader is lowered to assist in filling the bucket.

These trucks can hold up to 40 tons.  The ship transports between 50 and 60 thousand tons.

Safe driving on the ice.

All Fotos by Will Van Dorp.  Thanks to Brian DeForest for access to the process.

Here Key Frontier‘s itinerary for the past six months:

2014 January 23rd, 14:30:44 UTC	New York /u.s.a.
2013 December 26th, 12:00:22 UTC	Tocopilla /chile
2013 November 19th, 22:00:34 UTC	Roberts Banks
2013 November 19th, 22:00:25 UTC	Roberts Banks
2013 November 19th, 22:00:14 UTC	English Bay Anch.
2013 October 21st, 10:00:12 UTC	Lanshan/china
2013 August 19th, 19:00:37 UTC	Mejillones/chile
2013 August 9th, 15:00:13 UTC	Cristobal,panama
2013 July 31st, 15:00:14 UTC	Baltimore/usa
2013 July 12th, 21:30:58 UTC	Rotterdam/netherland

Roberts Bank and English Bay are both in British Columbia.

Sixth Boro Random Delights 7

Actually, this is a reprise of a post I did earlier this week . . .  Ferry Coursen carried trucks. 

Mary H pushed a creek-size barge.

Winter fishing continued apace aboard Eastern Welder.

I got a close-up of Mary H.

Brendan Turecamo headed out for an assist.

A slightly different angle on Sorensen Miller shows the yellow as strapping.

More shots of John P. Brown moving railcars over to New Jersey.

A Moose boat on patrol barreled right at me.

Hunting Creek got light at the mooring.

And a USACE boat practiced bathymetry.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.  For fotos of Hamilton (ON) harbor delights, click here.  Here’s more info on the 1935 tug he shows.  It’s for sale for less than a loaded Escalade.  Unrelated . . . another blog I read these days is Ohio River blog with good inland rivers fotos here.   And since I’m all over the place today . . .check out this Flickr page by Guillermo Barrios of southern South American tugs and towboats.  And finally  check out these fotos of the old bridge in Bucksport, ME.  I haven’t crossed that bridge–about to be demolished– in over two decades . . . .