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I still have March travel photos of new scenes and even towboats I want to post, but it’s good to get back to my favorite old scenes like
birds flying high over the boros at sunrise.
At that same hour, Rowan M was heading for the Narrows to assist a
a ship arriving.
Later after the sun and wind had come up, I caught Bruce A.
hurrying to join her fleetmates assist a departing ship. I had elsewhere to be, so those outgoing ships . . . they departed without me.
If only scientists could devise practical means for anthro-ubiquity and omnipresence . . . live-streaming cameras already do that without the human factor.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
In the chilly windy of a crisp Saturday morning light, Maersk Skarstind made one of the many turns in the KVK. Name the tugboats assisting? Answer follows.
Maersk Skarstind is a 2016 vessel with 9443 teu capacity.
And, yes, that’s
Laura K on the stern.
Jonathan C has a line port alongside.
Less than two miles behind her (my estimation)
Ava M had a line on CMA CGM Columba‘s stern, with Bruce at the ready.
I said less than two miles . . . ? Maybe someone out there has a better estimate?
Columba is an Andromeda class CMA CGM vessel, entered service in 2010 and has 11400 teu capacity. Behold over 20,000 teu capacity arriving for all practical purposes at the same time.
All photos, WVD.
A couple days ago in the 77 Days post (which I’ve since learned added up to 79 days) I saw a mariner I know on the boro on a Maersk container vessel.
Most of the time though I don’t know the folks I see working on the water. The folks in yellow and orange coats below are likely longshoremen mustering before ruunning in and driving all the vehicles out that are to be discharged here . . . in the sixth boro.
Note the mariners below preparing the messenger line down to the tugboat.
The deckhand retrieves it, makes it to the tugboat, signals,
and the ONE crew move forward to standby at the forward mooring area.
Meanwhile, the deckhand secures the line.
All photos, WVD.
Hat tip to the people out on the boro in all kinds of weather.
Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River? Its current name?
Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook.
Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no one.”
Continuing in that direction to the south of Erie Basin, a Dann Ocean fleet waits: l to r, Captain Willie Landers, Sarah Dann, and Ruby M.
In the anchorage, Susan Rose awaits her next appointment with the RCM 250.
Fells Point heads to the Narrows to retrieve her bunker barge.
Bruce A. McAllister escorts bulker Thor Fortune into Claremont for a load of scrap.
And finally, Everly Mist is the newest renaming I’ve seen. Ellen S. Bouchard has also been renamed Jeffrey S, but I’ve not caught a photo yet.
All photos, WVD.
Wow! August almost passed us by without my doing a glance back to a decade ago. McCrews is now in Philly I’m told. Reliance and Justine are still with McAllister. Lynx was sold foreign and experienced an incident while being delivered, although I’m not sure how that turned out. Barents and Yankee both were refurbished by Donjon: Barents Sea is now Atlantic Enterprise and Yankee is now Signet Atlantic and sans upper wheelhouse. Mark McAllister was scrapped, and Na-Hoku under the same name works for a company based in Charleston SC.
Ellen McAllister here was bringing in the future Alex McAllister, which has gone on to spend a lot of time working in the sixth boro, although I’ve not noticed her recently.
Patrice (had just had a tragic delivery fire in this photo) and Bruce still work based out of the sixth boro.
I never did see Yankee after her upper wheelhouse was removed. I may have to return to the GOM if I ever want to see her.
Duty is now Nydia P, and I’d have to go to Puerto Rico to see her.
Ireland became Hoppiness, and has been converted to a liveaboard on Lake Ontario but headed the inland waterways of the TVA system.
Labrador Sea is now Vane’s Brooklyn.
And finally, here’s a mixed set: OSG 350 and OSG Vision still work under those names, Amy Moran became Stasinos John Joseph, and Scotty Sky became a snow bird and sails the Caribbean.
All August 2012, WVD, who after reflecting on all those changes admits to not being the same person as in August 2012 any more either.
Years ago [in 2008] I caught a mega-Bouchard tug in the KVK. It was Danielle M., now Rebekah Rose.
But yesterday I saw the much newer sister of the boat from 2008. Escorted into the Arthur Kill by Ellen McAllister and another tug,
and pushing RCM 270, a 250,000 bbl barge, it was
the massive 144′ x 44′ and 10,000 hp tugboat
wearing the livery and stack logo of Rose Cay Maritime.
Welcome
Lynne M. Rose. Check the spelling.
According to AIS, she made a six-day eighteen-hour trip to the sixth boro from Corpus Christi, a port I’ve yet to visit, although I will only go there in winter months.
Any errors and all photos, WVD.
While doing this post, I came to realize I’d seen this very boat before, back on December 1, 2021 here
and here at the Bollinger yard in Algiers, LA.
Enjoy this contrasting parting shot.
Kimberly Poling and barge lie alongside Maritime Gracious for lightering.
Eastern Dawn, here pushing a mini barge, continues to work in the sixth boro,
with a base over alongside the dormant Evening Tide.
Bruce A. travels west in the East River after a job over near Throg’s Neck.
I love the “whitewater” on the uptown side of the 59th Street Bridge.
A mile or so behind Bruce A., Ellen McAllister passes Rockefeller University’s River Campus.
Back exactly six years ago, pre-fab sections of the new campus building were lifted in place by a fleet of DonJon vessels here.
And finally, in the late spring haze, it’s Mary Turecamo
approaching her next assist.
All photos, WVD, who’s entrusting these posts to the tugster tower robots. Hat tip or whatever, robots. Actually, I don’t even know how many robots are involved in this effort, since they appear happy to subsist on nothing more than the electricity I provide.
I’m trying to get together a post or two from my current location, which I was supposed to depart from a week ago . . .
I’ve posted a lot of unusual ship names here over the years.
If you don’t read Greek, as I don’t, the one above and below are the same ship, just from different angles.
Triton is a 14k+ teu vessel, making it quite the giant.
Whether it’s jolly or not, i can’t tell. It is truly jam-packed.
Over on the far side of Triton, yup, that’s Happy Lady.
Justine, Ava, and Ellen all played a role in getting Triton safely into if not out of the sixth boro.
Taipei Triumph is a bit newer and has roughly the same teu-capacity. Notice how small the ferry Barberi, which is closer, looks in comparion.
Gregg McAllister is working the starboard bow,
with an untethered JRT Moran following, and Bruce A. ready when needed.
Bow and stern on the two green giants are slightly different.
Other than the sixth boro setting, the escort tugs, my framing in the post, and the fact that all the photos were taken by me, WVD, they are unrelated.
Anyone catch the vessel in this post that I did not acknowledge in any way?
Does equipment ever change in the sixth boro? Of course.
Thornton Bros, the 1958 Matton Shipyard product, was scrapped in 2014.
The 1971 Maria J is now Nicholas Vinik.
USACE Hudson, the sweetest Corps boat I’ve ever seen, got transformed into a fish house in 2019. Advance Victoria, 2006, is now Kition M, anchored in the Persian/Arabian Gulf.
The 2002 Labrador Sea is now Vane’s Brooklyn.
The 1944 Gage Paul inadvertently became a very deep fish house in 2015.
The 2002 Gramma Lee T is now in Norfolk.
Does the US Navy still have airships? If ever I have the chance to ride in one of these, I’ll take it in a heartbeat!
Bruce A brought in the 1970 Crowley Mars and
Michael J brought in the 1975 Crowley Pioneer; both Crowley’s were shipped off to Africa later in 2012. The 1971 Michael J. was scrapped late in 2021. Christine was working for Reinauer.
The massive 1970 Penn No. 6 is now the massive Vinik No. 6.
The 1972 Catherine Turecamo is now on the Great Lakes as John Marshall.
Do you still want to tell me nothing ever changes in the sixth boro?
All photos taken by WVD during the first SIX days of 2012.
Consider this to be in the spirit of Dawn 2021. I wasn’t there at dawn because the ship I wanted to catch–CMA CGM Von Humboldt–departed in the 0’darks, but I arrived a bit later, cold notwithstanding.
The first tugboat I photographed in 2022 was Zeus! Truth be told, her profile against the Raritan highlands was unmistakeable, but I was a half hour too late for a better shot; I hadn’t expected a traffic tie-up. She’s headed for Hampton Roads and beyond.
The second and third are Bruce A. McAllister and
Ava M, going to the Narrows to see someone about a ship
Next it was Brendan Turecamo assisting a Liberian-flagged tanker, Horizon Thetis. If you want some interesting origin stories, check a mythology text about the relationship between Zeus and Thetis.
Chemical Petrochemical Trader with Brownsville as the prime mover was next.
A while later Bruce A and
and Ava M came in with their catch, Ever Far. I’ll put up more photos of this new Ever F-class vessel later.
And finally, it’s my first view ever of Centerline’s Rubia, ex-Denise A. Bouchard. If you look closely, you can see Centerline’s lion on the stack. And the name Rubia . . . that’s Spanish for “blonde”… hmmm; it looks more platinum to me.
All photos, January 4, 2022, WVD, who finds it interesting what cold, clear winter temperatures do to photos.
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