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Here are previous riverbanks posts, although for some inexplicable reason, they are not indexed in order.
Name the riverbank in the image below?
Above and below, that’s Manhattan, as seen from about 30 miles out. It would take another four hours before we passed the 59th Street Bridge. The darker image in the center of the photo below is Vane’s Brooklyn, which we were following.
The sunset colors below in the photo below taken about an hour after the top photo were stunning.
Three hours later we approached the Hell Gate bridges. See Thomas D. Witte hidden in the lights?
Passing the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, the refurbished lighthouse looked like this, compared with
this image of the very same lighthouse I’d taken only eight days earlier. The Nellie Bly “faces” tribute there is worth seeing by day. The main channel passes to the left in the photo below.
Here is said 59th Street Bridge looking at the Graduate Hotel (No, that’s not a 1967 movie reference.) and some buildings of Cornell Tech.
New on this bank of Manhattan are the American Copper Buildings, here
framing a seasonally-lit Empire State Building . . . ESB. That belt joining the two . . . that houses a swimming pool.
The repurposed Havermeyer Sugar building has just added a new but retro sign, alluding to the former enterprise of the building.
Behold the 120-year-old Williamsburg Bridge
and then eventually the 140-year-old Brooklyn Bridge. The 113-year-old Manhattan Bridge is in between the two.
After rounding the “horn,” we headed up the North River for the Hudson, passing other new buildings framing the ESB. This twisting pair is called The Eleventh. The ghostly white tower is the Bank of America Tower, and below it is IAC.
Notice a pattern here in framing the ESB? The “web” of course is The Vessel, a structure whose origins by water I posted about here and here.
Looking toward the Manhattan side of the GW Bridge, that red speck at its base is the “little red lighthouse” at Jeffreys Point made obsolete by the GW itself.
As down broke, we were north of Poughkeepsie, breaking ice and about to turn into the Rondout.
All photos, WVD, who hopes you’ve enjoyed this phantasmagorical sequence of the five boros as seen from the sixth.
If you’re unfamiliar with NYC, most of the photos in this series are from Roosevelt Island, likely off most visitors’ list of places to see. That’s too bad, since it offers a lot, including great views of Manhattan and the strait (East “river”) in between. If you’ve not seen the Nelly Bly memorial at the north end, you’re in for a treat.
Here are previous posts in this series. Let’s start with the NYS-built Ava Jude, a 600 hp boat not seen on this blog in a while.
It’s also been a while since Shannon Dann was last on the blog, but that’s because she has had her 2400 hp engines working elsewhere.
Ava Jude‘s 1200 hp fleet mate, William Brewster, has been working on the bulkhead project under the 79th Street bridge for some time.
This Brooklyn, a Vane boat now but formerly Labrador Sea , also brings 2400 hp to the task, and like Brewster, is Blount built.
I notice King’s Point‘s training vessel too late to get a side profile shot, but her “name” 142, is a number of great significance at the USMMA. If you click on no other link in this post, do click on that one.
Coastline’s Kodi is another New England (Gladding Hearn) built small tugboat, the perfect boat for certain jobs.
See more Gladding Hearn boats here, although that’s not a complete list, since I notice that Benjamin Elliot and others are missing in that link.
Michael L. Daigle has appeared on this blog only about once before. She’s a 4200 hp boat that once wore Kirby colors on the west coast as Mount Bona, named for a major North American peak in Alaska.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
I am way out of the boro again and hoping to leave the bayous in the desired fashion. So yes, the robots are back on the button, sticks, and levers. The robots seem to love posts like this, random collections of mostly tugboat traffic,
like Ava escorting MSC Christiana out of the port, while
Timothy follows. MSC Christiana is currently following the West African coastline, east to west.
Durham must have been working all night and was entering the Kills from the Upper Bay.
Vane’s Brooklyn was eastbound and met
Mister T.
Andrea went to rejoin her barge, and
Jordan looks resplendent in her new livery.
We started with Ava, so she makes the last image as well,
standing by as Mustafa Dayi waits, anchored in a location where container ships rarely do.
All photos, WVD, with posting by the tugster tower robotic team!
The other morning was without wind and busy, so this next “hour” is actually 30 minutes, and these are only a few of the photos I took between 0900 and 0930 of this extraordinary morning from my single vantage point.
A team of Dann Marine tugs leave the dock, framing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer dock.
Vane’s Brooklyn leaves her dock; notice the Moran barn (red with the white M) and Pegasus at the Metropolitan dock.
Charles D heads to job.
Bulker Maina heads for sea, passing Elandra Blu and
Marjorie comes to retrieve the docking pilot. Do you see four people in the photo below? Elandra tankers are based in Latvia.
The calm here is barely broken by MSC Korea.
Brendan waits to retrieve the pilot. Note the scrubber and its effects on emissions?
Over by IMTT Glory and Potomac sand by with their barges.
And we’ll leave it here, actual 28 minutes elapsed . . . name that approaching ship?
All photos, WVD.
Here’s an extraordinarily busy photo; Nicole Leigh is about to ease right around Shooters. Beyond that tug, a half dozen or so more tugboats, an antenna, a bridge, a refinery, steam . . .
Gulf Coast waits in front of a 12-pack of IMTT silos.
Navigator continues shuttling around, moving fuel.
Buchanan 5 is not a common visitor here, so I was happy to see her pass.
Brooklyn and Dorothy J head west although with different goals.
St Andrews moves a barge eastbound.
Ava M. waits for a container ship at sunrise.
Sea Fox moves a loaded recycling scow toward the Arthur Kill, and
Caitlin Ann moves an empty one back.
And finally, C. F. Campbell, first photo here with her upper house, heads west. Light.
All photos, WVD.
Sea Fox as a cold front moves across the Upper Bay.
Mary Turecamo off to the next job.
Dorothy J returns from an assist. I’ve lots more photos of the assist to post soon.
Joyce and James eastbound in the KVK to start the work day.
Dean Reinauer heads over to fuel up.
Kings Point going over to Gowanus Bay.
Brooklyn going to pick up her barge.
Fells Point returning from a job.
The very busy Patrice waiting for a ship as Dobrin heads over to her daily projects.
The always moving Brendan making money, as all these boats and crews are.
And finally Sea Lion outbound in the Lower Bay.
All photos, WVD.
In a real way, this post is about cargo also. Look at this top photo . . . any guesses what’s unique about the cargo?
This is the only the second time I post a photo of Double Skin 510A, here pushed by Wye River, but it’s the first time I call attention to it as an asphalt barge. In other words, cold as it was outside, the cargo in the barge is
being transported at a scalding 300 degrees F. Unless you knew, you might not have imagined that. This hot product might finally cool off when it’s squirted with some crushed stone into a pothole somewhere.
You can tell the temperature out by the snow accumulated on the stern of Genesis Glory, here with GM 11105.
Soon afterward, she spun around and
left the barge at the dock.
I’ve seen this tug in several liveries as Sea Bull and Labrador Sea, as well as without and then with an upper wheelhouse.
DBL 25 appears here for the first time though.
In the years I’ve been doing this photography, I’ve learned a lot, and have paid attention to different things as I’ve learned new things. Barges are the money makers.
All photos, WVD.
If you subscribe to Professional Mariner, you’ve seen the article I published there in the March issue. If not, it’ll be available online in a few weeks.
The sixth boro, like any location, offers infinite perspectives, compounded by equally countless nuance of season, hour, weather, and activity variation. This view of Kimberly in the stalls at Caddells the other day differs considerably from the dynamic ones of the past 18 months.
Just a few days different but quite different location and atmospherics . . . Weddell Sea came into the Narrows the other day as we began feeling the effects of Fay. She had Penn No. 90 on a wire.
Further to the west in another spot, Discovery Coast was on the outside, mostly blocking Brooklyn, who’s been in here for a few months already.
In clear weather, land would be visible beyond the tug, but Fay changed that for a while.
Dace Reinauer was high and dry in Dry Dock No. 7.
And finally, just west of Dry Dock No. 7, stacked up were at least seven Bouchard boats, sadly waiting.
All photos, WVD, who’s starting to think about random tugs three hundred. If you have a photo of a tug never depicted on this blog, send it along. The big three hundred COULD be all never-here-before tugboats.
More low verbal density from a weak wifi signal . . . in my social media distanced outpost. But I do wonder about the story here: Liz Vinik with a barge of small response boats beside Barry Silverton with Fight ALS.
HMS Justice has the orange centerline, but still a name with hMS . . .
Brooklyn pushes DBL 27.
Lucy Reinauer pushes RTC 61.
Stephen B, here looking like Ste, heads for the next job.
And finally, Cape Henry appears to be preparing to tied up to her barge.
All photos, WVD, who encourages all actions aimed at staying healthy. I accidentally shook hands with some this morning.
Want to check out Random Tugs 001? The 001 got added more recently than 2007 because back then, I had no idea I’d go on. In the 2007 photo, might that be Mary Turecamo along with the Reinauer tugs, which are also still at work operating out of the sixth boro. The other morning Mary Turecamo was assisting MSC Maria Elena . . . . The tugboat has always been known by that name.
The many times renamed and reconfigured Brooklyn approaches from . . .. Brooklyn. I first saw her as Labrador Sea.
Brendan Turecamo, also renamed a number of times, takes the back channel out the Kills. That’s Bayonne in the background and a crane in Port Elizabeth beyond that.
Catching Genesis Eagle out of the notch is a treat. The third photo here shows a photo of the same boat as Eagle Service in roughly the same place a decade ago, although I was catching the opposite perspective.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen this particular Mary Gellatly moving around the sixth boro, but here she is, and I recognize the man with a camera between the wheelhouse and the stacks.
She was previously Vernon C, as in the top two photos here.
Dory is another boat that has changed hands and names and appearances. See her here . . . if you scroll.
Dory appears to be working with a Harley barge alongside a ship, bunkering ? . . . Kitikmeot W.
And let’s conclude with one of the newest boats in the harbor . . . Ava M McAllister, here returning from escorting a c-ship out toward the Narrows. Click here for photos from her christening half a year ago.
All photos, Will Van Dorp.
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