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Here are previous iterations of this title. Sometimes it’s energizing to return to places you’ve not visited in a while. We followed North River for a bit and then turned into
the Brooklyn Navy yard, a quite busy place. Sugar Express was there along with Carolina Coast. The barge shuttles less-refined sugar from Florida to Yonkers, where the sugar is further refined at a riverside facility.
Atlantic Salvor was in one of the graving docks.
Once under way again, we followed Genesis Eagle heading for the Sound.
North River was docked at DEP Ward’s Island Central (actually WPCP) by the time we passed by.
NYC Department of Correction Vernon C. Bain Maritime Facility was still where I last saw it, the only traffic being who goes in and out.
Ditto this wreck, which deserves a name or a series of ex-names, where the only traffic is the ingress and egress of tidal current water.
All photos this week, WVD.
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.
For your quick peruse today, I offer the inverse of yesterday’s post: I went to my archives and selected the LAST photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if that photo was a person or an inland structure, I didn’t use it; instead, I went backwards … until I got to the first boat or water photo.
For January, it was Weeks 226 at the artificial island park at Pier 55, the construction rising out of the Hudson, aka Diller Island.
February saw Potomac lightering Maersk Callao.
March brought Capt. Brian and Alex McAllister escorting in an ULCV.
April, and new leaves on the trees, it was CLBoy heading inbound at the Narrows. Right now it’s anchored in an exotic port in Honduras and operating, I believe, as Lake Pearl.
A month later, it happened to be Dace Reinauer inbound at the Narrows, as seen from Bay Ridge.
June it was MV Rip Van Winkle. When I took this, I had no inkling that later this 1980 tour boat based in Kingston NY would be replaced by MV Rip Van Winkle II. I’ve no idea where the 1980 vessel, originally intended to be an offshore supply vessel, is today.
July . . . Carolina Coast was inbound with a sugar barge for the refinery in Yonkers.
Late August late afternoon Cuyahoga,I believe, paralleled us in the southern portion of Lake Huron.
Last photo for September, passing the Jersey City cliffs was FireFighter II.
October, last day, just before rain defeated me, I caught the indomitable Ellen McAllister off to the next job.
November, on a windy day, it was Alerce N, inbound from Cuba. Currently she’s off the west side of Peru.
And finally, a shot from just a few days ago . . . in the shadow under the Bayonne Bridge, the venerable Miriam Moran, who also made last year’s December 31 post. Choosing her here was entirely coincidental on my part.
And that’s it for 2019 and for the second decade of the 21st century. Happy 2020 and decade three everyone. Be safe and satisfied, and be in touch. Oh, and have an adventure now and then, do random good things, and smile unexpectedly many times per day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will spend most of tomorrow, day 1 2020, driving towards the coast. Thanks for reading this. Maybe we’ll still be in touch in 2030.
The 1963 Patricia is always a head-turner, and she was especially so the other morning. The longer I look at the photo below, the more I imagine it framed.
Her throaty sound catches the ear as well. Am I mistaken or has that color scheme changed a bit?
Carolina Coast makes the sugar run all year round, but that billowing spinnaker clearly states the season.
Nathan G has been spending a lot of time of late on runs outside the VZ Bridge.
Here, a busy distant Bayonne port as seen from Owls Head, is Genesis Victory with barge GM 6506 and a very busy background, as
she gets assisted into a lightening position by Pegasus.
James D. Moran escorts a quite empty Leo C.
toward Port Elizabeth.
Discovery Coast here takes on Edwin A. Poling. It amazes me that the sylvan shoreline beyond the unit is actually in New York City and masks a dense residential area.
Moments before she was headed in from an anchorage area.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who favors another shot of Patricia.
For folks who’ve been watching sixth boro traffic much longer than I have, Lyman must conjure up a sense of ressursction that I don’t have whenever I see the profile. Then called Crusader, she was tripped by her barge and sank just over 30 years ago. I’ve almost always seen her with
barge Sea Shuttle, towing sections of subs. For a spectacular view of this tow in the East River seven years ago click here.
Rockefeller University’s River Campus makes an unusual backdrop here for Foxy 3. See the support structure for the campus being lifted from the River here.
Treasure Coast . . . offhand, do you know the build date?
Carolina Coast,
with sugar barge Jonathan, which you’ve seen some years ago here as Falcon.
Pearl Coast with a cement barge off the Narrows remaking the tow to enter the Upper Bay.
In the rain, it’s Genesis Victory and Scott Turecamo, and their respective barges.
Franklin Reinauer heads out with RTC 28, and heading in it’s
Kimberly Poling with Noelle Cutler.
And let’s stop here with JRT assisting Cosco Faith.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who’s been inland for a week now and sees Shelia Bordelon on AIS at the Stapleton pier this morning. Anyone get photos?
A week ago or so I did a post called Sarah D moving light; in the next two photos she has a scow that appears light. Earlier this year, I caught her at the Narrows at dawn headed for Queens.
Just a little earlier, Jane A. Bouchard heads down bound with B. No. 225, her usual.
Click here for Jane/225 photos from back more than five years ago.
Carolina Coast and Pegasus nose up to a barge at American Sugar in Yonkers on a cold morning,
and Normandy hangs out just north of the passenger terminal with some extraordinary buildings. For a photo from five+ years ago with Pegasus pre-upper wheelhouse, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who celebrates an anniversary today. Any guesses?
Time to recapitulate the “go west” journey and post the many photos of tugboats I’ve omitted . . . .
Passing Senesco, we saw Buckley McAllister approaching us; I photographed the boat as someone there photographed us. I’m not sure which Reinauer tug that is in the background.
In the East river the next morning, we passed Cornell at the Brooklyn Barge, a food and drink venue I need to make time to visit.
Over by the Circle Line pier, it’s–well–Miss Circle Line, a reinvention of a Matton tug launched in 1955 and previously called Betsy. Thanks to Paul Strubeck for reading the name board lettering here before it’s applied . . . That was a joke, but thanks, Paul.
James William moves stone Mississippi River style down the sixth boro into the gargantuan building site encompassing the other five boros.
Near 79th Street, this unidentified tug was supporting a pier project.
Along the Palisades north of the GW Bridge, Comet pushed Eva Leigh Cutler.
And Miss Yvette moved a scow not far from where
Carolina Coast waited for her sugar barge to be emptied into the maw of the Domino plant in Yonkers.
All photos by will Van Dorp, who hopes to see you at the screening of Graves of Arthur Kill at the the Staten Island ferry terminal on August 13.
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