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The light has been right the past few times I’ve seen Chele-C.
After seeing these winter draggers in the sixth boro for over a decade, they still amaze me; that it happens is surprising. Here Chele-C works the water alongside Barney Turecamo and barge Georgia.
She’s down by Cass Gilbert’s Brooklyn Army Terminal and alongside RTC 107.
The many backgrounds like Erie Basin and the Red Hook Grain Terminal behind her . . . all make her a sight to be seen.
All photos, WVD.
When the temperatures drop and days are short, tug and barges units in the NE get busier than in summer.
RTC 42 here gets pushed by Franklin Reinauer, as Gracie–-above–waits at the dock with RTC 109.
A bit later, J. George Betz moves her barge B. No. 210 toward the east.
Navigator appears from the east with her barge.
Barney moves Georgia toward a Bayonne dock, with assistance from Mary.
And Curtis comes in with RTC 81 for more product.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, currently in the state of Georgia, but a few days back when I took these, needed some of that fuel to stay warm. Here from 2007 was my first post by this name.
Carl Sandburg said: “The fog comes . .. on little cat feet.
It sits looking . . . over harbor and city . . . on silent haunches
And then moves on.”
My unrehearsed version is : “The old cat once . . . patrolled the wharf
Now it sits over the sunlight . . . and sheds on the riverbanks
masking the distances.”
What I really mean is that taking photos on limited visibility day like yesterday benefits from heightened foreground details in comparison.
Jennifer Turecamo heads out to Gravesend Bay along with the USCG patrol vessel.
A tanker arrives with a name
that’s ironic on a few levels . .
Meagan Ann hauls Witte 4002 out to dump and
Mary Alice returns Witte 4004 from HARS before Meagan Ann returns.
And Barney Turecamo comes into port a bit while the barge is monitored by Jennifer.
To finish, here’s another shot of Combi Dock 1 arriving from China with lots of sea miles logged….
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Grace is a 113,000 dwt tanker delivered less than a year ago by the Guangzhou Shipyard, north of Hong Kong and China’s third largest city.
Is this the look of future tankers in the sixth boro?
Jonathan C. assists her from her berth. I may be mistaken, but 10 years ago, few if any cargo vessels of this size called in the sixth boro.
Ten years ago there were also no 6000 hp assist tugs in the port.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for a Navig8 vessel in our fair port from nine years ago.
Photography means “light writing,” or writing with light. George Eastman said, “Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Obviously I’m interested in the subject matter, but playing with light makes the subject matter more fun.
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” John Berger
To comment on the ships, anyone know what product is being discharged from Tatjana? I believe that’s Frances alongside.
What makes getting up early so easy is this: the glow. Of course, I need to get out there to get the shot. As Henri Cartier-Bresson said, “It’s an illusion that photos are made with the camera….they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
Merci, Henri.
That’s NS Stella above and High Strength and Harbour First below.
The photo of Silver Sawsan below was taken about half an hour after the previous ones, and the light by then is less rich, no matter how bright the orange is. Ernst Haas says, ““You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.” And they USUALLY happen during that first hour after dawn and the last one before dusk.
I used to fish a lot, and I thought the same thing about fishing.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Liberty Island is a Wisconsin-built dredge from 2002. Here’s a long history of other vessels from her same yard.
Here’s Swarna Mala (2010) being lightered by Dolphin and Quantico Creek and anchored slightly south of Fidelity II (2011).
White Pearl (1985) ha left the sixth boro and is headed for
Veracruz.
UASC vessel Al-Kharj heads for sea.
It almost looks like a container escaped off the deck of CMA CGM Dalila and is now southbound on 440, along with three persons of interest walking in the same direction.
That can’t happen, right?
A deep-laden Maersk Sarnia meets Barney Turecamo near the same bridge.
And we will call it quits here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has left the robots in charge of posting them.
If you have a lot of free time, you can trace this back to the first installment.
These photos are all from the past week, starting out with Bouchard Boys, 1975.
Pelham, 1960. Behind her is USNS Red Cloud.
Barney Turecamo (1995) and
Scott Turecamo (1998).
Eric R. Thornton (1960)
Jill Reinauer (1967) and Dace Reinauer (1968) with RTC 61.
Add Stephen-Scott (1967) and Ruth M. Reinauer (2008) pushing RTC 102.
Margaret Moran (1979) starting a backing-down of Heina with
James D. Moran (2015). More on this backing down later this week.
Captain D (1974) with CVA-604.
Meagan Ann (1975)
Houma (1970).
Frances (1957) and I think I know the crewman forward of the house.
And finally, I put this photo here because of a boat in the background. Is that Kristy Ann Reinauer (1962)? I thought she was scrapped half a year ago already. Hmm.
Other boats here are L. to r.) Realist, Kristy Ann, Hubert Bays, Long Splice, Samantha Miller, Stephen B, and Hunt Girls, which has been in the yard there for (?) two years now?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Candace . . . (Florida, 2004) has quite the unusual design for a US tug.
Specialist (Texas) is looking good for a 1956 vessel.
Dean Reinauer (Rhode Island, 2013) heads into the rising sun.
Eastern Dawn (Louisiana 1978) passes the hose rack.
Gramma Lee T Moran and Barney Turecamo in the KVK under an unsettled sky.
Caitlin Ann (1961, Louisiana) with tons of scrap.
Patrice McAllister (Alabama, 1999) stands by. Here was how she looked her first hours in the sixth boro.
Neptune (1992, Louisiana) tends the dredge along the Con Hook Range.
All photos taken this week by Will Van Dorp.
Here was Exotics, the first of this series. Exotics are the out-of-the-ordinary vessels, ones not common to these waters.
The first four photos here come thanks to Kenny Montz, who had his reasons for watching DSV Joseph Bisso arrive in the sixth boro of NYC. The church in the background is St. Patricks, not St. Louis.
I was locked in at work but watching periodically on AIS, wondering whether such a vessel might be here for Tappan Zee Bridge work?
Click here for info on the addition of Joseph to this Bisso fleet in 2008. Previous Bisso boats on tugster can be seen here and here. Maria J is in the background along the wall.
Kenny, thanks much for sending these along. Former names for the boat are Thresher, Rapid River, and originally, Kathy Candies.
This morning through the sprinkles I caught another exotic, Rikki S, a P & L boat. In the background, it’s Barney Turecamo.
Again, I’m not sure how long these boats will be in local waters,
or what jobs brought them here.
Thanks to Kenny for the first four photos taken yesterday; the last four by Will Van Dorp this morning.
Here was post #1 of what could become a series from over five years ago.
Dusk rarely finds me at my places along Richmond Terrace, but last night I was here with elizabeth, and she took a pic much like this one, and when she sent it to FB with the question “Guess who my dinner date is?” one friend wrote back . . . “the great Gatsby?” So call this . . . what the great Gatsby sees as tugster on a short day’s journey into night, apologies to Mr O’neill.
Barney Turecamo passes Gatsby’s place, as do
Frederick E. Bouchard and B. No. 210,
Ellen McAllister,
Dorothy J,
and Weddell Sea.
Gatsby’s for the night . . . was actually Blue–formerly known as R. H. Tugs. From Blue, it was a short walk to Sailors Snug Harbor for the 25th annual John A. Noble Art Auction. And I’m very pleased to say that
a print of my foto below brought $500 into the museum’s funds for restoration of Robbins Reef Light, and the framed foto went home with a very happy friend. To see the other 49 items in the auction catalog, click here.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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