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Summer midday light is harsh, but sometimes it’s what there is.  This harsh light challenged me the past two days as I’ve taken breaks lmidday into early afternoon to see what was around.   Patrice McAllister and Susan Rose maneuvering RCM 262 into a berth along Red Hook. 

Red Hook also saw two large vessels calling, and each was taking on fuel.  Discovery Coast shrank in size made up to MSC Meraviglia, as did Stephen Dann alongside Grande Abijan.

Long absent from the boro has been James Turecamo, here meeting Pelham.  The last time I posted photos of James that I snapped may have been in 2017 here. She spends most of her time upriver in Albany, and as of this morning she is back there.

With MV Charles Gilliland as backdrop, three tugboats were in the shipyard yesterday in Bayonne:  Sarah Ann, C. F. Campbell, and Timothy McAllister.  Galliland came in on a leash last month, and I’m surprised to see her already out of the graving dock.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

 

Random Tugs 413

Let’s look at a sample I’ve seen in the past week or so, starting with ex-Condor,  Suzanne McAllister, now looking like a McAllister.  Unfortunately, she left town for Philly soon after I got this distant photo, so I didn’t manage to get a shot of her working.  Maybe I’ll make a trip to Philly one of these weeks.

Saint Emilion and barge A87

appear to me to have  brightened up.  New paint, or are my eyes just seeing more clearly?

Patuxent seems to be in town more often.

 

Pathfinder has quite the scenic route to follow on her way to Flushing Bay.

Winter or summer, dawn is my favorite time of day.  See the rising sun putting a glow on the east side of lower Manhattan buildings, with a lightering Mount St. Elias alongside Pacific Blue.

Here’s a set I’ve not seen in a while, illustrating the subtle differences between CMT Pike and 

CMT Otter.

Helen is a regular in the boro.

Wrapping up today’s post, check out the very light C. F. Campbell heading for a much-needed

visit to the spa, where she currently is located.  Here, in a post from almost exactly three years ago, she looks less rough.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

 

Bayonne Bridge Header

Springtime seven years ago, the roadbed that had existed on the Bayonne Bridge was breached,  In a controlled manner, of course.  Steps in the transformation are captured here.  April 3, 2017 was the day this vessel, Maersk Kolkata, came through the opening that dismantling had just created.  Here were moments before that happened.

As I took the following photos yesterday, I realized I hardly ever

think about the previous shape of that bridge,

the new configuration has been seared into memory, what else would the Bayonne Bridge look like, I think.

After all,

bridges are forever, 

until we think about it.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

No, they’re not.

By the way, I wondered about the tanker name Arrebol.  It wasn’t familiar and didn’t sound appealing until I looked up the derivation.  Nice!

 

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To highlight the variety, this post will focus on size, horsepower, and age.

Matthew Tibbetts, 1969, 92′ x 27′, 2000 hp.  All numbers rounded up if  .5 or more.

Brendan Turecamo, 1975, 107′ x 32′, 3900.

Crystal Cutler, 2010, 67′ x 26′, 1500.

Bruce A. McAllister, 1974, 112′ x 30′, 4000.

C.F. Campbell, 1975, 100′ x 31′, 3400.

Ava M. McAllister, 2018, 100′ x 40′, 6770.

Saint Emilion, 2007, 105′ x 38′, 4800.

Christian Reinauer, 2001, 119′ x 40′, 7200.

Magothy, 2008, 100′ x 34′, 4200.

All photos, WVD.

Two blog-related issues:  Sarah Dann and the big blue crane are now below Quebec City.  And, bidding has begun on Grouper and Chancellor.

 

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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.

 

Dense Traffic 5

Megalopolis roadways see dense traffic, and so do waterways in these areas.  I hope these photos convey a sense of that.  All but two of the seven vessels are underway.  Underway vessels, l to r, are Frederick E. Bouchard, MSC Athens, Jonathan C. Moran, C. F. Campbell, and Fort McHenry.

Dense means tight quarters, Brian Nicholas looking barely larger than the bulbous bow.

Here everything is in motion.

Again, everything here is in motion.  I’m not sure what the Reinauer units there are.

All are moving here too . .   Frederick E., Pegasus, Meaghan Marie, one of the Moran 6000s, Mister T, a bit of the bow of Mary Turecamo, and CMA CGM Nabucco.

 

Sometimes a confluence of schedules make the KVK resemble rush hour.  Photos, WVD.

Transformations 3

We’ve seen this before with entire fleets, as in the Kirbyfication . . . and Blueing . . . almost exactly a decade ago.

So check out St. Andrews now compared with then. Harley Marine Service, aka HMS, for a few weeks now has become Centerline Logistics Corporation, hence the orange stripe.

Andrea has gotten the new livery, including the lion on the stack.

Of the two boats that arrived here from Alaska not quite two years ago, Ernest Campbell has had the “centerline stripe” added,but not

the stack lion.

And C. F. Campbell has not been touched at all . . . as of this morning.

All photos by WVD.

 

Any Number of Tugboats

All the photos in this post I took over a two-hour period Friday.  I post this in part in response to the question raised by a commenter recently, how many tugboats operate in the sixth boro, aka the waters around NYC.

They pass one at a time,

you see them in twos . . . . and that might be a third with the crane barge off the Battery in the distance,

a trio might be assisting a single ULCV,

foreshortening might collapse four into a single shot, and

if you look across the repair and docking yard, you might see five tugs plus one science boat.

And finally for now, move the huge box ship away, and six of more are revealed.

This is the sixth boro, folks, one of the busiest ports in the US.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

Pairs in Springtime 10

It might as well be spring already.  Well, maybe my wish is that spring were here.  I heard a spurious claim on a TV I visited the other day that March 20 is the planetary beginning of spring in the north but March 1 is the meteorological start of spring.  But it must be true since I heard it on TV!??

But pairs, not Paris.  Capt. Brian and Charles D. . . .  interesting pair showing evolution of design 50 over the half century between the launch of each.

Fells Point landed Doubleskin 302 with Stephen B doing assist.  That’s the first I seen Stephen B in the assist role.

Miss Julia could be Dylan Cooper‘s workboat.

CF Campbell heads east passing Scott Turecamo/New Hampshire and then

makes for the Upper Bay, where JRT is assisting Orange Blossom 2, herself a bloom in the dawn light.   The photo above and the one below I took less than a minute apart, yet you’d think the light was saying hours separated the two.

Kimberly passes Eric.

Marie J Turecamo and Mister Jim run side by side under the Bayonne Bridge.  Does anyone know when the pedestrian walkway on the bridge will open?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

Random Tugs 250

To continue on from yesterday’s list . . . I’ve done chugster, jetster, even a gangster . . . though you have to search for it here by scrolling a bit,  but the blog is called tugster, and I’m proud of that some chuckles notwithstanding . . . .

This is a cross section for the 250th time, a random sampling of what tugboats were working in the Upper Bay of NYC aka the sixth boro on a given morning earlier this week.   By the way, the 001 version of this title dates from October 2007.

Vane Brothers boats and barges abound.

Hunting Creek stands by a set of four of them, while

Wye River travels light past the ferry racks.

Franklin Reinauer travels light past the count-defying load of containers on a ULCV over in Global.

ATB Freeport and Chemical Transporter transfer cargo over at the east end of IMTT, at

the same time

Scott Turecamo and New Hampshire do.

CF Campbell stands by with Long Island.

 

And passing an unusual but new landmark along the sixth born margins,

Patrice McAllister makes her way west.  Quick . . . name a larger global garment retailer than H & M, and what the initials H & M expand to?  Answers here.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose fingers froze and cold tears flowed while having the float-about, look-about.