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It’s late afternoon when Bruce A McAllister with Double Skin 40 passes my spot, followed
by Marjorie B McAllister, with B. No. 262 behind.
From the south with a motley set of barges . . . .
it’s Frances. Afternoon light is starting to highlight Mr. Bannerman’s place.
That IS a short wire, a necessity given that Marjorie has no upper wheelhouse.
These low hanging clouds have never left today.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wants to remind you of the Canal Conference in Staten Island coming up in two weeks.
Did you hear about Peak Pegasus, the vessel racing to get US soybeans into China before retaliatory 25% tariffs are slapped on? More on Peak Pegasus at the end of this post.
Well, these two container ship had no need to hurry into the sixth boro, yet here’s something I’ve never seen before . . . two container ships entering the Narrows in quite close succession.
Obviously the passage accommodates all, but still . . . a new sight for me, the reason I return here again and again.
See QM2 in the distance to the right? I caught her first arrival here 11 years ago. Dawn was too late for me to catch it. That ominous sky got me thinking . . . storm clouds. Locally I was just concerned about getting spots on my lens. But then I thought about the story of Peak Pegasus, the impending trade war. I could see those as storm clouds, and shipping . . . this is a front line, like every seaport in the US.
Take the value of all the imported cargo on Maersk Buton and
add to it the value of whatever’s on OOCL Berlin . . . and every other ship entering a US port for the foreseeable future and add the product of that and .25 . . . the sum’s rising. Ditto . . . whatever is on Bomar Caen–headed for Colombia–might just be less attractive if .25 gets added to the price of those goods. Maybe Colombia is not affected.
I’m by no means an expert in much, and please educate me if I’m wrong, but these storm clouds seemed appropriate this morning.
All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp, who first read the name of the Maersk ship as butoh, which would have been much more interesting.
Peak Pegasus plowed at top speed to make port, but . . . she failed. More here. Here’s a story from the same vessel from a few months back.
Rt Hon Paul E. Martin called here before a month over three years ago, that time carrying the same type of cargo.
I took these photos yesterday, and believe it or not, I felt only a few drops of rain.
The Martin is the second self-unloader to call in the sixth boro in three days, which must be some sort of a record.
Eric and Bruce did a magnificent job of spinning the bulker around.
Once spun around, foot by foot she was moved with precision to the dock.
To get this cargo here, Martin traveled three weeks and transited the Panama Canal.
Can anyone tell me the meaning of the “10H VOID” marking just below the name and CSL class of the freighter and the “VOID7” marking just above the water line?
And where is Morro Redondo, you ask? It’s on the island of Cedros, a bit over 300 miles SSE of San Diego, CA.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Until an hour before posting, there were two Canadian self-unloaders in our harbor, which is truly remarkable. Algoma Integrity, as of posting, is not even 10 nm outside the Narrows.
Here are the previous weather posts. Below . . . that’s easy: it’s a local shower; Evening Tide and Evening Light were in the rain, and I was not, yet.
But a half hour later at the opposite end of the KVK, the clouds were truly wild. Is there a word for these conditions? Again, it wasn’t raining at my location.
Air currents swirled beyond the busy waterway, l to r, Stolt Loyalty, Stone 1, Phoenix Dream, Kimberly Turecamo, and Hoegh Seoul assisted by Bruce A. McAllister.
The Stolt tanker passes Graecia Aeterna before meeting the wild swirl head-on.
Add one more tug to the mix.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d like to know what you call this type of fast-moving dispersal of fog.
Here’s what’s on the surface and
here’s a bigger picture. That trio in the sky following Bruce A McAllister tails us as well!
Big Jake once
trafficked the sixth boro as Juliet Reinauer.
Over at the Brooklyn passenger terminal, Jonathan C waits,
canvas on the fenders, to assist Crown Princess out.
And given my scarceness in the sixth boro, the only image I have to date of the new Capt. Brian A. McAllister has the tug concealed by Alex and Eric.
And then out on the Sound, it’s John P Wronowski and escort,
headed for the barn.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who recently stumbled onto an interesting blog, now added to my blogroll under a seamsters.org Damn autocorrect . . . I really typed aa seasisters.org the “aa” being there to keep this near the top of my links.
The top photo here comes from Brian Thigpen. Last Monday, the first 13000 teu container ship–OOCL Berlin— entered port, and I missed it. Bravo to Brian for photographing it. I suspect soon the 14000 teu and then subsequent records will be set. Escort visible here is Eric McAllister, I think.
With larger ships, escort procedures seem to be changing also, like tugs coming in sets of three and meeting the vessel outside the VZ Bridge. Just a few years ago, nothing of the the size of Northern Justice–8400 teu–was calling here.
I really should get more photos of the ships passing through the sixth boro and heading anywhere from Yonkers to Albany. Here’s Western Aida along the cliffs of the UWS,
leaving the Palisades to port once under the GW.
Here’s Spottail westbound on the KVK, assisted by Ellen McAllister and Bruce A. McAllister, and soon to pass
Stolt Pride, 2016, showing a new look for Stolt.
Thanks again to Brian Thigpen for use of his photo. All others by Will Van Dorp.
Patricia was built in 1963 and works in the sixth boro here and here, and last I knew worked for C.H. Phoenix LLC of Green Cove Springs, Fl. . . . I like the racing stripes.
Caitlin Ann was built in 1961 and has worked for DonJon since 2011. Here, she and
Sarah Ann appear to be moving coal. Sarah Ann is from 2003, working for DonJon since 2009.
Marion Moran has worked by that name since 1982. I think that’s Katherine Weeks on the far side of the barge.
Bruce A. McAllister,
Eric McAllister, and
Alex McAllister were all working from the Narrows the
other morning.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
aka Names 34
What??
Xena, Lady Tara, one of exactly three barges squired in by Foxy3,
Denise A. Bouchard,
Silver Cindy,
Elbabe . . . El Babe? . .. with Bruce A. minding to port,
Turecamo Girls, and I’ll bet more than just one British Sailor or sailor of any of the seafaring nationalities . . .
along with a high voltage shore connection . . .?!@#! That can mean only one thing… there might be a Debbie around soon too . . .
See tomorrow’s post, for which the photos have not even been taken yet, but it’s June fishing time. All photos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp. Here’s a previous Xena reference on tugster.
The 1931 bridge has been so prominent on this blog over the past decade plus that the past few years of construction and now deconstruction mesmerize me. Just look at the header photo I’ve not changed since 2006. I’ll never change it now.
I spent a few hours watching the work yesterday and share some of the photos here today and tomorrow. Photo 1 was taken at 06:49 before work began, from what I could tell; I’m the observer only and speculate sometimes because I’m not privy to the communications. NY is to the left and NJ to the right.
06:54 … NJ side. A safety and planning meeting?
07:01. Workers use various means to venture out to the severed transverse beam (?) to begin its removal.
07:30. Similar activity starts on the NY side.
07:52
08:25. Almost imperceptibly slow, the movement of the transverse progresses.
08:28. And then it speeds up.
08:36. A flatbed trailer has backed into place to receive the beam.
08:38. Meanwhile, over on the NJ side, a similar evolution has begun.
08:39.
Meanwhile, at 08:43, a container vessel is rounding Bergen bend and headed for sea, after “threading the needle,” … well, not really, it made it in with those beams in place . . .
08:43, and we’ll pick up the evolution here tomorrow with MSC Kolkata . . . Note the crewmen on the bow?
I’d like to give a hat tip to all the Bayonne Bridge workers who work with such skill and safety in this enormous project, one of at least six bridge projects happening simultaneously in the greater sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Name that tugboat?
Or this one?
Or these two? Answer follows.
Enjoy the rest of these for what they are . . .
Bruce A. McAllister above and Fort McHenry below.
Meredith C. Reinauer on a sunny but
cold morning. Ready for the answers on the first three?
Well, the first was Kimberly Poling, then
Dace Reinauer, which I first saw looking like this.
And finally Emily Ann, which reminds me of an email I once receivedfrom a reader named R. Pena, who wanted to track down the boat to which he owed his life after his own had sunk between Cuba and Florida. I embed the link to that post here because it’s a story that bears repetition.
And finally pushing New Hampshire around,
it’s Scott Turecamo. As a former resident of that state, I thought no one ever pushed New Hampshire around!
All photos this week by Will Van Dorp.
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