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Cape Canaveral passed me the other day, and it seemed something had changed . . .
Had I previously seen this green/blue symbol, like a flame or a drop? I suspect it may refer to dual fuel capability or aspiration. Is this a single boat symbol or the unveiling of a new part of the Kirby logo?
It was not there on this photo of this boat in 2021.
And recently when a fleetmate transited the KVK, it was not on that boat . . .
on either side.
Something to keep track of, I guess.
All photos, WVD, who has the luxury of not playing in the sea smoke out there today.
In May 2019, I caught one of the Kirby Capes arrive for the very first time, passing the original Cape at the east end of the KVK here. My first view of the third Cape, sans that green/blue flame or drop symbol was here in March 2020.
Unrelated: Half a decade ago i spent this weekend in Quebec City to see the sporting event of the year . . . ice canoe racing. It was a mere -8, v. a -30 today. See my posts from the Saint Lawrence here.
Marjorie moves her train cars.
Nathan G goes for fuel.
Crystal Cutler pushes her barge.
Paula Atwell travels light for a change.
CMT Pike does her harbor rounds.
Mister Jim here looks brighter than usual in the morning sun; in cloudy weather, that gray livery
obscures details.
Robert IV assists at the stone anchorage.
Cape Henry leaves her barge to take care of some business.
Captain Willie Landers makes a pass through the boro.
And a rare sighting, Sea Crescent transits the boro on her return from Port Hawkesbury NS to Fort Eustis VA. It’s likely that Sea Crescent originated this voyage from a port on the Saint Lawrence or even the Great Lakes.
All photos, any errors, WVD, whose 380 in this series was posted here.
Yesterday’s post ended with Timothy L.
Sarah Ann, and
Treasure Coast at different amounts obscured by the fog.
Treasure Coast spun around before my location to set Cement Transporter 7700
into the Lafarge North America Bayonne
dock with assist by Pegasus. I wondered about the vintage of Cement Transporter 7700; she was launched from Todd Shipyard in Houston in December 1981 as Ideal II, then Midnight 1, and now its current moniker. Todd Shipyard has a distinctly Manhattan origin in the form of DeLameter Iron Works.
Meanwhile, from the western end of the KVK came
a Manzanillo-bound Lars Maersk assisted by James D. Moran.
At that same moment, Pegasus, after having completed the Treasure Coast assist, heads west of the Bayonne Bridge.
From that same fog bank west of the Bayonne Bridge emerge Daisy Mae pushing a light scow and
Cape Henry, returning to its barge at the west end of IMTT.
All photos, WVD, who is happy days will soon be getting longer.
I’ve traveled the ICW from Charleston SC to NYC, some parts several times. This is a “revisit” focusing solely on tugboats. I’ll start in Charleston with Elizabeth Turecamo in the fog.
Recycling comments on the boats below from Georgetown SC, by George Schneider: “The little one shows the name Laura , which has one of two possible origins: A 45-foot tug by the Equitable Equipment Company of Louisiana, or a 45-foot Army dredge tender of Army Design 320, mirroring the Equitable design. I’m guessing she’s ON 1060493, originally the Army ST 2051, then the Army Corps Fort Brooke , and now owned by Sampit Towing of Charleston SC.”
And by William Lafferty: “I’m thinking the larger tug is Susan Richards, built in 1909 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts, as the Gen. R. H. Jackson for the Army Quartermaster Corps and stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, later named Fort Sumter and Three Bros. It’s owned by Richards Marine Towing at McClennanville, South Carolina, and has been a fixture at Charleston for decades, originally run by White Stack Towing there.”
Thx George and William.
Crossing the border north to North Carolina, my next stop is Southport, where Sea Oak was working on a dredge project.
And after that, it’s Wilmington and Cape Henry.
The next batch is from Morehead City NC. Atlantic Dawn was working on a dredging project there.
Na Hoku was there also, formerly a K-Sea boat. She currently works out of Jacksonville.
Liz Alma was too.
Morehead City is the deep water export center for potash, mined farther north in Aurora. Grace Moran then waited at the dock. Is she still around?
Beaufort Belle, then PSC Phosphate, is now Norfolk tug. Has she been repainted?
Peter G. Turecamo appears still to be working in Morehead City.
Clearly marked here in Norfolk are Miss Willa, Nancy McAllister, and McAllister Sisters. Second from the left might be Steven Eileen McAllister.
Jack T. Moran was just a year old back ion 2017.
Thunder is one of a trio of Robbins Maritime small tugs with meteorological names: Thunder, Lightning, and Storm.
Camie is also a Robbins Maritime boat.
Anne Jarrett is another Norfolk Tug vessel. It resembles a Vane tug, and at least two former Vane boats are now with Norfolk Tugs: ex-Patapsco and Sassafras.
All photos, WVD. The * denotes that most but not all photos were taken in May 2017. It’s high time I take another trip along the ICW to see what has changed. And we still have more from Norfolk to the sixth boro.
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.
Justine has been back in the sixth boro awhile now after quite some time away.
She’s a 1982 product of Jakobson, one of the last half dozen built there. From this angle she reminds me of Siberian Sea, now Mike Azzolino. She works with 4000 hp.
Recent days have seen a convergence of the Cape-class,
Cape Lookout,
Cape Henry,
and Cape Canaveral, here pushing DBL 101.
They are attractive 5000 hp boats.
Also pushing an oil barge, Patriot, in fact, was Robert IV.
Usually that barge has Mary H as power.
Nicole Leigh finished fueling, brought down the red flag, and spun around to rejoin her barge.
Her Caterpillars deliver a total of 7200 hp to her wheels.
And closing, it’s the 6770 hp Capt. Brian A. escorting Zim Tarragona out to sea.
All photos, WVD.
I recall my first time seeing the KVK, astonished by the density of commercial traffic. Of course, I’d just come from northern New England’s freshwater meandering rivers, surfable sandy coastlines, and marsh creeks.
Patrice steamed westbound, light,
Kimberly eastbound,
Josephine,
Daisy Mae, moving a half acre of scows…
Helen Laraway,
Daisy Mae again a few seconds later.
But to put it all together, here are Pegasus, Josephine, and Cape Henry.
Pegasus and Patrice,
Josephine, Kings Point, and Cape Henry….
It was a busy morning. All photos, WVD.
All year round, bathymetry happens
with small boats like this from McLaren Technical Services. I couldn’t tell if it had a name. Click on the photo above for more info on McLaren.
Ditto . . . boom boats
they work all year round near oil docks and around vessels where petroleum products are transferred.
Here Carleena Lynn
removes the boom around Double Skin 39 to prepare it to sail.
Occasionally there’s an outa-towner
from UConn. I wonder what they were doing in the KVK in winter… well, probably . . . research.
All photos, WVD.
With the end of the year coming, it’s strangely difficult to put these posts together. I’ve chased down several ideas the past few days, and abandoned them. All these photos were taken in recent days, except one about a month ago. They strike me as showing the different skies and waters of the unacknowledged boro.
So, photos . . . like this of Christine M. McAllister, 125.5′ x 38′ and 6000 hp. She’s returning to town after a rough encounter on Christmas day . . . . Maybe someone else can tell the story of SS Denebola (T-AKR 289) first hand. It’s been a while that Christine M. has appeared on this blog.
Soon to be ex-Eastern Dawn, 52′ x 22 and 1200 hp, crosses the Upper Bay looking all resplendent in the new paint job.
Two Bouchard tugs are stacked up on the far side of Cape Henry, 109′ x 36′ and 5000 hp, and her DBL 103, 102,000 barrel capacity barge.
Dylan Cooper, 112′ x 35′ and 4720 hp, waits in the anchorage with RTC 108, around 108,000 barrels.
Genesis Vigilant, 98.5 x 34 and 3000 hp, also at anchor with GM 6508, 80,000 barrels capacity.
And finally . . . misclassified on purpose, notice several things this windy morning on the starboard side of OceanXplorer: a tender, a helicopter, and areas marked ROV and CTD. ROV I knew, but CTD I had to look up. Check out this blog post by New York Media Boat.
All photos and any errors of fact or interpretation, WVD, who wishes you all a happy new year, or as my parents would say . . . gelukkig nieuwjaar.
These foggy days offer an enhancement to a photographer with a telephoto; the background nearly disappears, causing the subject to pop out. In this case, it’s two tugboats of different sizes.
Linda L. Miller length is just a bit over half Cape Henry‘s beam.
Linda L. Miller (ex-Frog Belly, a name for the ages) is 25.3′ x 14; Cape Henry is 109’x 36′.
Each has its role.
All photos, WVD, who recalls a lecture I once heard called “Is this a tugboat?” given the late great Don Sutherland. It made the same point as these photos.
Another post showing scale and involving W. O. Decker I did here.
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