Vane Brothers 5

Here are the previous posts in this series, and I’m finding that in the four years since the last installment, things have changed . . . and not.  Most of these boats haven’t appeared in the previous four.    The livery and logo remain the same, but there are some new boats.  Can you figure out how two of the following photos differ from then others?

Chesapeake, launched 2006

Once while listening on VHF, I thought there was a new boat in town called “honey creek.”

Hunting Creek, 2011

 

Quantico Creek, 2010

 

Wicomico, 2005

 

Red Hook, 2013

 

Tangier Island, 2014

 

Fells Point, 2014

 

Susquehanna, 2006 with Savannah. 

 

Christian . . .  1981

 

So, obviously, Christian, being a crew boat, differs from all the others.   Another difference, though, is that Chesapeake and Susquehanna were not photographed in the sixth boro.  Identifying one location might be easier than the other.  Guesses?

By the way, I know I’ve seen Kings Point, but I seem not to have a photo.

Answer soon.

Mary Whalen Moves Again

Here were some of the previous Mary Whalen moves.  And here was one return.  A few days ago, Mary Whalen moved into Atlantic Basin, where the 70th birthday party was held and public access will be much easier than it has been for future programming TBA.   This post shows pics taken onboard during the move;  I hope to present more soon.  The day started early at the pier which has been home for a long time.

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Prime mover this time was Quantico Creek, tailed by Christian . . . way in the distance.

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NYMediaBoat and Christian were part of the escort, as

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as was Shipshooter with his latest equipment to follow and film

“We have lift off.”

the pirouette in the Buttermilk Channel and a

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NYMedia Boat captures the action from starboard side of Quantico Creek

hook into Atlantic Basin, where in September 2009, Portside helped host a huge Dutch barge party.

Once she’s all fast, may the programming begin.

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.

Read the press release here from PortSide NewYork.

For some great Red Hook history and historical images, click here.

 

Small Craft 10

Here were previous installments.

And below are a set of small craft I’ve seen in the sixth boro and further environs so far this month . . . .

The colors look familiar here, but

This one I have noticed before . . .

Wolf River used to be everywhere in the harbor until it got shipped–literally–to some far distant

dredge projects, like this one on Guanabara Bay in summer 2013.

The KVK is not the regular route of pilot boat Yankee.

Now here is the small craft that could and DID . . .

and got a presidential letter for it. Click here for more Long Island boat building traditions.

Dobrin . . . is a 65′ Swiftships-built survey vessel.

Click here and here for other Swiftships vessels that have appeared on this blog.  Swiftships have also supplied vessels for the reconstruction of the Iraqi coastal navy.

Can anyone identify the manufacturer of NYSB-3.  I’m guessing this is one of several identical vessels in the USACE NY District fleet?

And here’s a clue . . . Vane Brothers currently has a crew boat in the harbor!  Christian was formerly owned by Kirby, K-Sea, and others.

And to end where we started but we a quite different attitude . . . given the tender carried over the stern.  I don’t know this boat.

Let me postscript in another closer-up photo . . .showing a Rhode Island registry . . .

All photos taken very recently by Will Van Dorp.