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Kimberly headed out on a mission, as
did Mary.
They converged alongside Bow Chain,
where crew mustered.
As daylight opened between Bow Chain and the dock,
Kimberly moved to the opposite side
and with guidance
Bow Chain moved slightly forward and toward port and
rotated counterclockwise
with Kimberly helping the bow around while
Mary pushed the stern.
Pilot and crew directed from the bridge wing
and once sailed, Bow Chain began a voyage to the Gulf of Mexico.
All photos, WVD.
Wow! It’s time to flip the calendar to March 2022 already; that means flashing back to March 2012. A photo of Bow Chain on the KVK seems a good place to start, for reasons apparent at the end of this post.
Since these “retro” posts highlight what’s no more to be seen, this is a good one, Brendan, a 6140 hp tug that now is Cindy Rose.
Sea-land Racer dominates the foreground, but look at the unmistakable Viking farther back.
Yes, I mean this Eklof-KSea-Kirby 4300 hp Viking, dismantled a few years ago already.
This 3900 hp Brendan still works daily in the boro.
Also passing the Sea-land Racer is this 1900 hp Pegasus, when she looked as she had coming from the shipyard without an upper wheelhouse. Pegasus is still a busy machine in the port.
2012 was the year I decided to see the Panama Canal before the new sections opened. In the middle ground here between the Miraflores locks and the ridge, you can see the mounds of dirt on the middle distant ground. Those mounds represent dirt displaced digging the new channels.
In the farther lane, Pacific-bound it’s Nord Snow Queen and nearer . . . Atlantic Polaris. And again in the photo below, see the dirt removed to create the new channel. As of this writing, Atlantic is at the dock in Houston and Nord between the ancient, now-Russian port of Novorossiysk and wherever she will be able to enter port.
See more dirt on the nearer ridge? And the traffic, like Chiquita Schweiz and now called Schweiz Reefer, it continues night and day
Tugboats–see many of them here–have a greater role in the new Panama Canal channels, replacing the locomotives evident in some of the photos above and below, but they were already plentiful pre-expansion. Here Veraguas 1 heads Pacificward…
assisting Bow Summer in accompaniment with
locomotives aka mules, once supplied by GE but now sourced elsewhere. Ever Dynamic, like the Odfjell parcel tankers whose names begin with “bow” [no doubt named for the renowned bowsprite],
are as likely to be seen in any major port as in the sixth boro. Ever Dynamic had been in the sixth boro just a month earlier than here, making me almost feel like it was welcoming me to Panama, which I found a very hospitable place. Bow Summer as of this writing waits outside a South African port. Ever Dynamic was dismantled in Alang almost exactly two years ago.
All photos, WVD, in March 2010.
Sea-land Racer and Viking have both been dismantled in the past five years, Racer in Alang and Viking in Texas.
Odfjell tankers of this and recent generations all look the same, so since I was able to get only the name, you can conjure up the rest. Bow Chain here was departing NYC and is currently in Houston. Previously, Bow Chain appeared on this blog here. Previous Odfjell tankers in the sixth boro include Bow __ (Cecil, Clipper, Fortune, Hector, Jubail, Performer, Riyad, Sirius, Summer, Trajectory). This time it’s in need of some Bow PAINT!
Seaways Silvermar the other day was being lightered, while anchored across the channel from “dem five.” No really . . . the DEM FIVE vessel there
was Alice Star. Dem Five is a new fleet–actually managed by Lydia Star— for me. Maybe it’s time I dust off the “names” series.
Erato is one of the smaller container vessels that call at the Red Hook port, and mostly Caribbean ports. I know I’ve seen her before, but this is the first time she appears on tugster, I believe. As of this writing, she’s already shuttling back north from Jamaica.
Since we’re nearing the end of a decade–and weather has not been conducive to getting out for photos–here’s a glance back to December 2009 . . . and an unfortunately blurry pic of President Polk, escorted out by McAllister Responder.
The 1988 APL ship, built in Germany in 1988, was 400′ shorter than the largest and now commonplace ULCVs now calling here and that carry about 10,000 (!!!) more containers.
She caught my attention here 10 years ago because of these unusual parts of her cargo, shipping out.
She was beached at Chittagong for scrapping in summer 2013.
All photos, even the blurry one, by Will Van Dorp.
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.
If “there are eight million stories in the naked city” (#58) and the naked city has six boros, then some 1.333 million stories are set here in the sixth boro . . . aka the watery part that link the other five, and that’s why I devote time to this every day . . . even though arguably … I don’t have a clue about the thousand-word stories in each of these fotos. Why NOT wash the salt off Miriam Moran on a mild day?
Where is Bow Chain , one of Odfjell‘s almost 100 parcel tankers, headed at this moment . . . Sunday she was across from Sailors Snug Harbor, and Monday midday finds her outbound in the Ambrose Channel . . .
How many additional vessels has Kimberly Turecamo assisted since she helped Chang Hang Tan Suo rotate out yesterday morning?
What stories get told in the mess of Chang Hang Tan Suo? or out on deck?
What waters has Viking traversed and
in what weather?
What’s being transferred here?
What vessels passed before
Monday morning saw SCF Provider leave port for Rotterdam following Chang Hang Tan Suo depart for St. John of Bay of Fundy fame.
And this story in only geographically related. The KVK is about 100′ behind this marker on Richmond Terrace here just east of the restaurant previously known as R. H. Tugs. Until very recently, a bronze (?) plaque listed names of Staten Island residents who served in WW2. Yesterday morning the plaque was missing. removed for cleaning or stolen? And where/what is Livingston? And what year has this been readied . . . given the second date? Who knows?
All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp, who like everyone has a couple thousand stories that go untold.
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