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I haven’t always noticed all the right details,
and you might be wondering if this title sounds a bit like one of those professional firms . . .
but possibly by the time you get to the photo below you’ve figured out the title.
Certainly while shooting these photos, it occurred to me that this tug/barge combination is somewhat unusual . . . Chesapeake Coast pushing liquid tank barge Chesapeake. Maybe it’s not unusual. Sister tug Discovery Coast has been in the boro a fair amount but it’s been a while since I recall seeing Chesapeake Coast here.
Anyhow, I thought it was unusual.
Can you recall seeing this barge in the boro? Going back in my archives, it’s been a few years that I’ve posted photos of Chesapeake Coast, other than it “retro” posts. Good to see you.
All photos, any lapses of memory and inattention, WVD.
May 2012 was a month of verticality, as in these twin tugboats,
as in the towers of these bridges with a low, long riverboat transiting beneath, and
and in the 156′ air draft of this mega yacht once owned by one of the oligarch’s now sanctioned and hiding his other yachts wherever he can.
It was also time for Opsail 2012, the sixth of six such events to date.
I recall an evening sail around Gravesend Bay one May evening to see some of the tall ships that overnighted there prior to parading into the confines of the sixth boro.
Above and below were tall ships from Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brasil.
The tall ships have scattered to the seven seas, but these tugs each returns to the sixth boro as work dictates.
All photos, WVD.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
The other morning was without wind and busy, so this next “hour” is actually 30 minutes, and these are only a few of the photos I took between 0900 and 0930 of this extraordinary morning from my single vantage point.
A team of Dann Marine tugs leave the dock, framing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer dock.
Vane’s Brooklyn leaves her dock; notice the Moran barn (red with the white M) and Pegasus at the Metropolitan dock.
Charles D heads to job.
Bulker Maina heads for sea, passing Elandra Blu and
Marjorie comes to retrieve the docking pilot. Do you see four people in the photo below? Elandra tankers are based in Latvia.
The calm here is barely broken by MSC Korea.
Brendan waits to retrieve the pilot. Note the scrubber and its effects on emissions?
Over by IMTT Glory and Potomac sand by with their barges.
And we’ll leave it here, actual 28 minutes elapsed . . . name that approaching ship?
All photos, WVD.
Many thanks to Pierre Kfoury for sending along this very clever photo in shades of black, white, and gray of Bruce McAllister he took up by New Hamburg, NY. In Pierre’s photo, I like those gray shades and gray reflections too.
More shades of spray take us to Emerald Coast, passing Chesapeake Coast.
Sitting out on deck has to be evidence of a warm heart on a vessel
that will miss Mardi Gras in a warm place.
Frozen spray reinforces the fenders maybe?
The glaze coats the hull with a very light-gray layer.
Hunting Creek has glaze and icicles.
Even on this vessel with a hot name . . . the icy shading is present. Is it true that this tanker was briefly in port to deliver the love drug —phenethylamine— to those of us crowded on the edges of the sixth boro? A few years ago, this vessel was in the sixth boro with the name Golden Venus; for photos of her and other vessels with fantastic names, click here.
So . . 50 shades of spray? How about 56 or 65 or . . .spray, gray, play . . . ? The number is only limited by the imagination and the eye.
I had gone looking to get a photo of this vessel, but by the time I got to my favorite cliffs, they all have headed to warmer waters. And given the usual fashion of mermaids, I can’t blame them.
Thanks again to Pierre Kfoury for his photo. All others by Will Van Dorp.
Here was 23. In today’s post, there are boats from the just north of South America, at the south edge of the Chesapeake, and in the busiest part of the KVK. Mero is from 2008,
Captain Willie Landers from 2001,
Chesapeake Coast 2012,
Eric McAllister 2014,
B. Franklin Reinauer 2012,
and Marjorie B. McAllister . . . the dean today, from 1974.
Wait . . . there’s one more, Lincoln Sea, shot in NYC’s sixth boro in September 2012 and built in Tacoma in 2000. She’s just traversed the Panama and is now back in her home Pacific waters.
Thanks to the Maraki crew for the first photo and to John Jedrlinic for the second. All the other by Will Van Dorp.
When Walter’s building looks like this in the center of the island,
the sixth boro looks like this. Here Ava Jude pushes a Hughes barge past Ruth M. Reinauer wedded to RTC 102.
Eastern Welder fishes as Emma Miller services Asphalt Star.
Wolf River does hydrographic work while
Chesapeake Coast lighters Elixir, and just beyond
Amazon Brilliance belies her name.
Awaiting orders or favorable tide and each with a barge, it’s McAllister Sisters and McKinley Sea.
Here’s to hoping for fog to dissipate.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Helen Laraway (1957) might be the only tug based in Coeymans, NY.
Thomas J. Brown (1962) . . . Staten Island based will always be a head-turner.
Charles A (1979) is another first-view for me.
Chesapeake Coast (201) has spent much of its career in the sixth boro.
Quantico Creek (2010) and USACE Hocking (?) enter the east end of the Kills, although I think Hocking was tracing a survey pattern.
Susan Miller (1981) moves a spud barge westbound.
Prospector (1982?) sank at the dock in high winds about two months ago and is being refurbished.
Also, high and dry for a shave and a make-over is Iron Mike.
And let’s call it a day with Barbara McAllister (1969).
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes the internet folk keep the photos coursing through my local wires and those far off ones.
Name that tug? Answer follows.
Kodiak . . . this is a new one for me and a one-off trip for the vessel?
The tug here is
Liberty Service. And yes, that’s Chesapeake Coast in the distance.
McKinley Sea leads Bluefin in from the anchorage. I’m not sure why Bluefin is still gray.
This is an impressive lineup in the late fall afternoon light: the McAllisters Kate, Bruce, Helen, Brothers, Brian . . and more.
This vessel I truly don’t know. It’s new in the harbor, and I have a hunch . . . but will keep that to myself.
And the mystery tug at the start of this post was none other than W. O. Decker. Here’s one of my favorite set of old photos of Decker. Here are many others.
All photos very recently by Will Van dorp.
. . . or I could call it “blue friday plus 700-something days.” Here was “plus 21 days.” Anyhow, on this day associated with shopping, Hayward and others were out for harbor maintenance,
Chesapeake Coast and others were out pushing fuel,
Seastreak New Jersey and others were moving passengers . . . (maybe here), and
crews on ship and shore were moving bulk materials like salt here from Key Hunter.
And if you wonder what it looks like at the base of that tower, whose antenna arrived in the harbor 723 days ago, here’s a photo from Fulton Street I took two weeks ago when the news trucks and lots of others were hoping that two workers would soon be rescued.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
For a sense of how the Lower Manhattan skyline looked from New Brighton area of Staten Island about four years ago, click here.
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