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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.
There’s lots of lifting capacity here, but no towing or pushing capacity.
Philadelphia passes the Manhattan skyline solo.
From the west, Justine and Jonathan head for a job.
Magothy passes Helen Laraway, Cape Lookout, and Lois Ann L. Moran.
There’s a progression here . . . more tugboats in this photo than in the previous . . .
See the three guys . . .
here? I wonder who they are.
Yesterday a hearing had been scheduled in US Bankruptcy Court, and I suppose some report on that is forthcoming . . .
All photos, WVD.
Here were previous iterations of this title, as well as here, an AK Sunrise. If this effort were for a work published when complete, inconsistencies like dawn v. sunrise would be aligned, but this has always been a work in progress, a wandering that could end at any time.
So yesterday morning I was at my office before the 0550 sunrise, and I saw nothing until this. In fact, at 0554, I was wondering where the sunrise was, since there was not the sky show that often heralds the dawn. Anyhow, you might prefer a sun rise over a calm body of water or a forested valley or a garden, pasture, ravine, building . . . but I offer you our local star, source of terrestrial energy, over a tank farm, and below that Brooklyn crane . . as of 0555.
If you imagine an equilateral triangle, the sun as one point, myself another, then Cape Lookout was the third, and that shows how dim that sunrise was. When the sun rises through a clear atmosphere, you’re expect more golden color on this tugboat.
Pivoting back, the striations are not on the solar surface. Rather . . . they indicate a film in our atmosphere.
The 2018 5000 hp Cape Lookout glides in toward the fuel dock. Lois Ann L. Moran is tending her barge as some petroleum product gets transferred. An easy question for some of you; for her Caterpillar engines, Cape Lookout at full tanks carries 86,114 gallons of fuel, and 9550 gallons of urea. You can do the math for the fuel if you assume different prices per gallon. I don’t know how much fuel goes per gallon. Question: What’s the almost 10,000 gallons of urea for?
At 0558, clouds passed the sun, almost giving the impression of sunspots. By the way, I didn’t look directly at the sun; rather, I shot in that direction and saw what I got later, after the photos were “developed” . . . well downloaded.
Nearby at that dock, Haggerty Girls lies alongside her barge, RTC 107.
By now, the sun has risen NOT straight up from its appearance point, but at an angle, and is now partially obscured by the LaFarge–now Holcim–cement silos.
I’m at a fixed point, although I’ve varied the camera angles and settings.
For her power, the 2013 4000 hp Haggerty Girls has two MTU/DDC engines, and her fuel tanks add up to 114,202 gallon, and no urea. What does that tell you?
The 2009 5100 hp Lois Ann L. Moran has EMD engines, and carries 105,000 gallons of fuel and no urea. Time now is 0622, and Lois Ann L. lies beside her barge, Philadelphia.
By the way, all my numbers come from this site: tugboatinformation.com ….
All photos, yesterday, WVD.
And the urea? It’s ONE of the ways diesel engines are designed to meet clean air standards. I’m just learning about this, and smart people have been working on this for a long time.
Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, 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.
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!!
Naming vessels after capes is entirely understandable, given their labeling and navigational importance. This post follows up on one thanks to Kyle Stubbs from a few months back featuring photos he took in Mississippi, not this one more recently with photos from Mike Abegg taken near the Brooklyn shipyard.
Serendipity brought this following set together, all taken in less than an hour yesterday. When I took this, I had no idea what could follow if I pursued it.
I didn’t know these were numbered consecutively, DBL 102 and DBL 103, although Kyle’s photos would obliquely suggest it.
All I knew was this might be this unit’s first arrival in the sixth boro.
Her destination could have been the anchorage.
When she turned into the Kills, I knew I needed wings on my fleet feet, and help from lady luck and her cousins coincidence and compromise.
Here it comes, and there’s no time to find a better site for viewing this; Cape Lookout westbound and Cape Henry eastbound might just meet, and the foliage bordering these photos testify to how easily I could have missed it.
Money . . . .
shot!!! I expected whistles to blows and flags to dip, and I’m sure that on wireless communication devices there was . . . communication. But this shot below made my day . . . the meeting of the Kirby Capes.
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Safe and prosperous travels!
All photos yesterday by Will Van Dorp.
Recently I posted photos from my first time seeing Cape Henry relatively closeup.
I knew it was one of an order of several, so imagine how happy I was to learn that Kyle Stubbs had gotten photos of possibly two others last summer down south.
First, it’s Cape Lookout, near the shipyard and ready for delivery. As of this morning, I find Cape Lookout rounding the Mississippi delta.
At the same time Kyle got that snap, Cape Henry was yet to launch.
Was Cape Ann already launched by late last summer? If so, what hull is this?
Many thanks to Kyle for use of these photos.
Previous photos by Kyle can be found here.
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