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That big “300” is beckoning, so although I had other posts planned . . . let’s increment closer to that 300. I’m inviting your participation here so that i can make it the best “non-random” random post. Random Tugs 001 was here. Random Tugs 100 was more than seven years later, and 200 was about four years after that.
What better way to start than with these two photos of W. O. Decker, taken yesterday by Glenn Raymo. Yes, that’s the Walkway over the Hudson. Decker is taking a freshwater cure.
Many previous posts featuring Decker can be seen here.
Kimberly Turecamo assisted an MSC box boat in recently. A less dynamic photo of Kimberly appeared yesterday. The founder of MSC, Gianluigi Aponte, is alive and well in Italy.
Sarah D was on this blog recently with a unique tow; usually she pushes vessels like this. But hey . . . it pays the bills.
Andrea follows a box ship to the NJ portions of the sixth boro.
Reaching back into the archives a bit, here was Honcho in San Juan PR. I took this photo in March 2013. She’s been all around. I’ve forgotten, though, whether she actually worked on the Great Lakes. I need to find out also what she looks like now that she’s a Moran boat.
Back in April 2012, I caught Bruce A. McAllister bringing in Mars, marked as registered in San Francisco. Mars went onto a heavy lift ship over to Nigeria. The photo makes me curious about traveling to Mars.
See the tugboat here? Name the bridge in the background?
Between Algoma Olympic and CSL Laurentian, it’s Leo A. McArthur, built in Penglai China in 2009. Believe it or not, Penglai was the birthplace and boyhood home of Henry Luce, the magazine guy!
Did you recognize the last two photos as the Detroit River, and the bend between Detroit and Windsor. The reason I asked about the bridge . . . the Ambassador Bridge is that the owner died yesterday. Manuel “Matty” Maroun was 93. The 1929-built bridge, as well as the duty-free stores in its vicinity, have been owned by Maroun since 1979.
Many thanks to Glenn for use of the Decker photos. All others by WVD.
Here’s another calendar’s worth . . . starting with Josephine. I have many more of this bot coming up soon.
Capt. Brian heads out through the Narrows to meet a tow.
Cape Lookout returns for her anchored barge.
Nathan G delivers a brace of scows.
Ava M heads out for a job.
The “new” Kristin Poling returns to her barge as well.
Ellen and Bruce A follow a job.
St Andrews heads east and
Ernest Campbell, west.
Challenger, some weeks ago, brings a Weeks crane up for a lift.
Stephen B has some additions to her paint job since last I saw her.
CMT Pike heads back across the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who can’t believe it’s already mid-November 2019!!
Here’s the previous post of this focus. I had others ready to go at one point, but . .. ships sail, horses leave barns, and ideas slip away. Yesterday I spent one hour on the Upper Bay and concluded that it’s a diverse place, starting with this water rising up and obscuring whatever lay beyond it. Of course, I knew what it was, but I recall the first time I saw such a misting–in the Gulf off Kuwait–and my brain could not process what my eyes were sending it.
Regular and irregular cargoes juxtaposed, boxes and rocks.
Framing a shot puts together what is actually quite far apart.
I’ve done a number of posts on winter fishing, but fall fishing must be super right now, with some fisherman torn between landing that next fish and
staying out of the path of YM World and all those tugs assisting it into Global terminal.
I know foreshortening plays a role in giving a sense of crowding, but there IS undeniably some crowding going on here. The ship DID sound a warning at one point.
And that mist in the top photo . . . it came from Firefighter II.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who still has lots of photos from the trip from Montreal.
See that lineup . . . it can mean only one thing, and it’s not the invasion of 300 enemy warships.
Here are some of those meeting the fleet . . .
And here the fleet, part of the vessels . . ..
Three Forty Three does the honors.
The lead gray ship has a unique appearance, seen on this blog here from about a year ago.
LCS-5 will be docked on Staten Island, a tour I might be interested in doing. For the complete schedule, click here.
Ellen McAllister, following her to the dock, is another product of Wisconsin shipbuilding.
Following the LCS was DDG-109, USS Jason Dunham. Please read the story of the namesake here.
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More tomorrow, but here, passing in front of USS Jason Dunham and USS Milwaukee, is the 98-year-old HMCS Oriole, with an interesting bi-national history you can read here. HMCS Oriole has appeared on this blog twice before, once on the West Coast and once on the Great Lakes.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose previous fleet week photos can be seen here.
Many thanks to Robert Simko and Lee Gruzen for sending me some photos and lots of questions yesterday morning.
This large gray vessel–SS Cape Avinoff (AK-5013)–arrived under tow
from, I believe, National Defense Reserve Fleet on the James River, where it has been used for training.
As SS Cape Avinoff is moved stern first closer to GMD Shipyard in Brooklyn, Chris Kunzmann got this photo.
Many thanks to Robert, Lee, and Chris for use of these photos. Can anyone confirm why she was moved to a NYC shipyard?
Robert publishes The Broadsheet. Click here and here for info on GMD Shipyard.
Previous posts involving “dead ships” can be found here.
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.
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