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Colonel came into town a week ago with the new ferry.
Caitlin Ann has been here as long as I’ve been paying attention . . . although she had several names since then.
James D and Ellen McAllister pin YM Width to the dock.
Jill Reinauer . . . she’s been here from before tugster . . . AT and BT should be part of my new time nomenclature. BT runs backward from this post.
Atlantic Salvor has been here over 20 years, and among my favorite photos of her was here from the 2010 Labor Day race.
This has to be my clearest photo of Carolina Coast. Know that tugboat in the distance?
I believe Julie Anne just recently arrived in the sixth boro, and this is my first time seeing her.
And from a distance, it’s Mary Emma, formerly Evening Light, but now all in tan and green.
Let’s stop with Ellen again, here passing in front of what must be the busiest background: Geoquip Saentis, Cape Edmont, and Oasis. Ellen is one of about a dozen reutilized USN tugboats in the McAllister fleet. See more here.
All photos this week, WVD.
Not many Bouchard boats are moving these days; the 2016 Frederick, 125′ x 38 and 6140 hp, is an exception.
I took this just after sunrise for the backlit effect.
The 1961 Caitlin Ann stays busy; her 2400 hp moves the 79′ x 24′ hull and whatever the load is.
Note equipment of at least three towing companies here.
Cape Henry, 2018, is one of the newer boats in the boro. Her 109 x 36′ hull is powered with 5000 hp.
Matthew Tibbetts was launched the year I finished high school, 1969. She’s 92′ x 27′ and powered by 2000 hp.
Fells Point, 2014, 90′ x 32′, and one of Vane’s many 3000 hp.
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.
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
All small craft working in January get my attention, but
this one attracted me even more because of its lines. Is this a one-off or can someone identify the manufacturer? An indicator of my severe case of cabin fever this year is that I’ve been looking at lots of small boat ads. I’d really be happy to find a Grover 26 or 28. . . if anyone knows of one that’s available.
Crewboats, like the one with the cyclopean light, make their way among lots of other traffic in places like the KVK.
As you know, foreshortening compresses space in a frame . . . .
As close as this looks, it’s entirely safe.
Patricia is a small boat in this pond though
NYS Naval Militia Moose 440 patrols year around.
All photos, WVD, who’s serious about that Grover built search.
Here are previous iterations, just to change things up. Non-random here means I took these over a few weeks, which should be obvious as you look through the photos.
Atlantic Enterprise . . . she’s big at 136′ x 40′. Over the past few years, she has appeared here. Before that, she was in the sixth boro but much less active as Barents Sea. She had different names before Barents going back to 1976.
Although slightly older than Atlantic Salvor, the two boats appear to be mostly similar. An Atlantic Salvor tow I’ll always remember relates to the WTC antenna here.
Some companies have a crew boat. Behold Matthew Scott, a 1968 Gulf Craft 65′ x 16′.
When I first saw Caitlin Ann, she was called Vivian L. Roehrig.
The 79′ x 24′ tug keeps busy.
Hidden behind this barge,
it’s Sarah Ann, who i first knew as June K.
I did a post on Brian Nicholas some years back. I don’t recall ever seeing her as Banda Sea, but in this post from June 2009, that name was still showing . . . .
My favorite photo of Paul Andrew over the years
is this one, showing the 64′ x 23′ tugboat getting transferred, so to speak.
Mary Alice is one of the larger DonJon boats, at 92′ x 27′.
We’ll end with another shot of Atlantic Enterprise, distinguishable from Salvor (my photo during the tugboat race September 5, 2010)
by that fire monitor.
Other DonJon boats– Meagan Ann, Emily Ann, Rebecca Ann, Thomas D., who else did I miss–I’ve not seen so far in fall 2020.
All photos, WVD.
Mary Alice with Witte 1407
Brendan Turecamo with container barge New Jersey
Sarah Ann with SMM 105
A light Stephen B passing the Lady
Caitlin Ann with SMM 211 and a light Emily Ann
Galveston with Petrochem Producer and a surveillance bird
And–to repost a photo from April 2018–guess where Iron Salvor is today . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose curt post today are dictated by a tank low on verbiage today because my reserves are being used on other projects . ..
Iron Salvor, the one above, is currently in Malta, that English-speaking island in the Med!!
Yesterday was a day to hold onto to your hat . . . or tighten the straps.
Ruby M splashed in toward the Kills, where Maersk Vilnius was exiting, but it was the yawl Mah Jong
that appeared to thrive in these conditions, passing Corpus Christi‘s stern.
Meanwhile Caitlin Ann delivered the netted paper to the recyclers.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who stood at a diagonal into the wind while snapping these shots of the sixth boro.
Let’s start with the photo I did NOT get, but jag9889 did; click here to see Resolve Commander and (in the photo stream) the barge it towed Thursday carrying the remaining TZ Bridge structure out to sea. Bravo jag . . . . I’ve long enjoyed your work.
The photo below raises some questions . . . not because of Mary Gellatly, which has long been there, but because of the MSRC Responder vessel beyond it and tied up at the Sandy Hook Pilots’ dock. Something’s happening here. . . . I don’t believe it’s the local New Jersey Responder.
Stephen Reinauer headed out the Narrows, and shortly thereafter,
Dace came in, offering a comparison of the outline of the two boats. Stephen dates from 1970, 3000 hp, and 100.2 loa; Dace, 1968, 3400, and 108.8.
Below we can do a different comparison: Dylan Cooper, 2015, 4720 hp, and 112.2; Lincoln Sea, 2000, 8000 hp, and 118.6.
L. W. Caddell is the yard tug at the repair yard.
Emily Ann, 1964, 3000 hp, and 89.4. My favorite story about this boat formerly called Cabo Rojo (among other names) can be found here.
Emily Ann crossed paths with Caitlin Ann, 1961, 2400 hp, and 78.9, here moving a light scrap scow.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Behold the Atlantics . . . being A Salvor with the dump scow Witte 4003 and
A Enterprise . . . with the Chesapeake 1000. It’s delightful to see them now as twins, which they are, but hadn’t appeared to be. Before we move to the next pictures, though, what are the “poles” beyond the dump scow?
The ridge is the highlands of Monmouth County above with West Bank Light below.
Mary Alice and Atlantic Salvor have been shuttling quite a few dump scows the past few weeks, it seems.
Caitlin Ann–which I first saw as Vivian L. Roehrig and later as Caribbean Sea— followed Enterprise in.
Different day, different towing arrangement . . . Atlantic Salvor returns with a light dump scow Weeks 258.
Caitlin Ann heads under the Bayonne Bridge, past its dismantled piers.
And the “poles” belong to L/B Vision coming into the harbor with
her 95′ spindly spuds.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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