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Oops . . . I “published” this prematurely and unintentionally if you saw it in disarray. And by the way, today I saw the woodchuck and his shadow; he saw mine and dove for cover. I wonder if that means six more weeks of cold weather. Please, someone advise.
From the wandering eye of Maraki . . . it’s in Nassau and
called Big Crab. No further info. I’ve never been to Nassau, and googling leads to me Nassau tugs on the bottom as well as someimpressive ones one the surface. Maybe I need to get myself to Nassau.
And from a secret salt via Ashley Hutto . . . four days I saw Orange Sun depart the sixth boro here, he caught it inbound Tampa. Thanks . . . salt.
Finally . . from the jaunt captain Fred of tug44, it’s what hibernates at the bottom of Lock 6 of the Champlain Canal . . . front to rear . . . HR Hawk, HR Beaver, HR Otter. You’d think there’d be a woodchuck there too!
September 2013 I took this photo of a sibling of the hibernating tugs . . HR Bass, assisted by Herbert P. Brake. Interestingly, HR Bass used to be Delta Tiger, HR Hawk . . . Delta Parrot, HR Otter . . . Delta Ram, and HR Beaver ???
. .. Mr Lane. I’ll bet you thought I’d say . . . Delta Woodchuck.
Many thanks to Maraki crew, secret salt, Ashley, and Fred.
I’m very impressed . . . all the images I put up yesterday got identified and within a few hours either in comments section or on Facebook.
The top foto yesterday came from Thomas Scian of the USS Slater project in Albany. Click here to read the latest Slater Signals publication with info about the upcoming dry-docking. Thomas has promised to keep us informed about the tow down the Hudson around mid-February–in two weeks or so already– so that this transit can be well-photographed. I took the foto below back in September 2013. Here’s the navsource.org info on Slater.
The engine room pics came from Kelsey Patrick Connors. The first engine room is from Navigator, with twin EMDs 12-645-e4, 2150hp each. Here’s a foot of Navigator Norfolk-bound out the Narrows.
Some of you commented on how clean the Detroit Diesel was. It’s one of two 16-cylinder 149s at 900 hp that power Outrageous. I took these fotos of Outrageous in May 2009.
Thanks much to Kelsey and Thomas for use of the pics. Thanks all of you for your answers. I have no news on Sea Lion.
Here was 22.
Fotos today come from David Gardiner and Paul Strubeck. David took fotos 1 and 3 on September 1 at dawn. More of David’s beautiful work can be found at DaveGarPhoto.
Paul–who has frequently contributed fotos on this blog including one of my all-time favorites here–says both fotos here were taken in the Welland Canal. The one below dates from 1978.
Another of David’s fotos of Discovery Coast.
This one from Paul dates from 1974.
And a half hour before David took the spectacular sunrise fotos in Gowanus Bay on September 1, I took this one of James Turecamo, an indefatigeable 44-year-old.
Many thanks to David and Paul.
Back in November 2009, I did this post and I’ll repost two of my fotos from then, showing a 1940 Chris Craft and a 1939 ACF, slightly tweaked here
and here.
Earlier this week, Darrin Rice got these followup pics.
I find these poignant, yet there is some buoyancy in that
it appears this old vessel is being taken apart with care so that
planks and sections of them can be recycled, evoking what’s happening nearby. You couldn’t do this with old fiberglass.
Many thanks to Darrin Rice for these fotos.
Here’s a site dedicated to antique and classic wooden boats in varying states of repair.
Here are some tugster posts on projects and collections.
Know what’s different about the foto below? Want to estimate the vintage of the vessel marked PILOT?
Lots of things maybe, but before I answer that question from my POV here, let me recap. This is my 2191 post in this blog, and usually I don’t count. I just add fotos and text–usually with coffee each morning–because it’s fun for me and many of you express appreciation. But sometimes I do look back, as I did this morning. In these 2190 previous posts, I have included pilots from the following ports/waterways in no particular order: Cape Town, Rotterdam, Panama Canal, Rio de Janeiro, San Juan PR, Miami, Key West, Newport RI, Belfast ME, Astoria OR, Port Huron MI, Lewes DE, C & D Canal, greater Jacksonville FL, Hudson River, Savannah, Charleston, Morehead City, Norfolk, and lots around greater NYC/sixth boro/my home for now. And this leaves a lot more to find.
What’s different about this post is that it shows the pilot from the POV of the vessel being assisted. What I enjoy about investing desk hours continuing to post when I could be out–??, dancing, flying a kite, studying Portuguese, ……–is that I find out interesting stuff. Like . . . what do you know about this waterway?
Well, the Sabine-Neches Waterway might not be my first choice for the next place I’d like to plunge into for a swim, but it’s “top-tier” from a economic/strategic POV.
Click here to enjoy more fotos from the SNW. Here’s some info from the Sabine pilots.
Many thanks for these fotos from a mariner who asks to remain uncredited.
Sabine Pilot is 29 years in service, off the ways at Breaux’s Bay Craft in 1984.
PS: Please get in touch if you’d like to share fotos of pilot boats serving more ports/waterways.
Unrelated: Here from 2012 are more fotos of KRI Dewaruci--reported as demasted off Australia recently–in the sixth boro. Here is a sketch of the replacement vessel, on the drawing boards long before this incident.
I’m in the sixth boro, but I have more fotos from the southern US, all by a friend who still wishes no credit. So enjoy –for starters–a NY-built vessel with a New England name working the Neches River via Baltimore in east Texas . . . Cape Ann.
Signet Valiant (ex-Natalie Cole) in Mississippi . . . with a “special project” to the left. Signet Valiant should not be confused with a Valiant Signet.
In Texas . . . Corpus Christi, it’s C. R. Haden working
on the stern of USNS Benavidez (T-AKT-306), while Denia leans on the forward portion of the hull.
All 138′ loa of Kirby’s low-ridin’ Leviticus at Southwest Pass. I don’t believe they have a Numbers or Deutoronomy.
Alva Dupre (ex-Compass Hero and others) on the Neches in Texas.
And finally, from a barge company, David G. Sehrt, which has previously appeared on this blog here.
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You know the colors and organization, but can you name the vessel? And as to the organization, do you know all the foreign countries where they operate? I didn’t.
Anyhow, all these fotos come from Oregon compliments of Michael Bogoger of Doryman fame. Actual photographer is Jamie Orr of Bristol Channel cutter Baggywrinkle, returning from sea.
The vessel is USACE dredge Yaquina, here at the entrance to its namesake river.
Michael’s searched tirelessly for this dredge ever since last October, when I posted these fotos of McFarland. That post also generated this impressive list of USACE vessels from the esteemed Harold Tartell . . . a veritable encyclopedia of USACE newbuilds from 1855 until 2012 . . . including the 1981 Yaquina.
Previously, the latest dredge in a distant location I’ve been looking at was Xin Hai Liu, in Rio.
For these fotos, many thanks to Michael and Jamie.
This post still finds me in the southern hemisphere–for a while–but these fotos come from southern US, snapped by a friend who wishes no credit.
Stange looking Suwannee River?
Some Crosby tugs . . . Leader, Divinity, Duke, Admiral.
The only line of C-Tractors . . . this one the 6.
And finally, back to Suwannee River, three-quarters view. She really is 87′ loa x 50.’ That’s big-ass beamy!
Mariner A. Non Y. O’Mous snapped and shared these. If you see him today, thank him for me.
No, this isn’t the January River. I leave for there today, but this . . . !! These next four fotos come from the perspicacious bowsprite, taken yesterday afternoon. The tug in the foreground is Sea Wolf is 1982. In the background is –of course–Ellis Island, 1900. In between with the yellow stack is
Yankee, 1907. Her long history includes a stint as Machigonne moving passengers across the sixth boro from Ellis Island to other boros and to NJ. The tow began at the far right of this foto.
More tugster on Yankee when I return, but before then, I’m sure there’ll be other info.
Six plus years ago, a friend Mike caught these fotos of Sea Wolf‘s sister–Sea Lion–moving an unusual vessel named Abora III out of the Morris Canal to sea. The reed craft made it more than halfway across the Atlantic.
All fotos by bowsprite. Advance notice came thanks to Rod Smith, who once worked as deckhand on Yankee and who will have his own account of this move . . . to Brooklyn. Here (2007) and here (2011) are my previous posts with Yankee fotos from New Jersey. Click here to get some backstory–and video of Sea Wolf departing with ferry– from a supporter who wanted to keep them on the watery edge of Hoboken.
Now, I pack and head south myself. Vou escrever mais em breve.
Any idea where this foto was taken? And whatever does that sign mean and for whom is it intended?
Here’s a pulled-back version of the same shot.
If you said the Seine flowing through Paris, you’d be correct. And the sign? Well . . . click here for an assortment of river signals and beacons used on French rivers. Translation of the sign . . . boaters are prohibited from making a U-turn in either direction. Information cones from Herrou Xtian, who previously supplied fotos used in this post and that. And the fotos, come from Maureen, who previously sent fotos of European tugboats here, here and other places.
Reminder: Tonight is Tug Art Show III, fundraiser for Pegasus Preservation Project. Here and here are two of my prior posts on the 1907 tug Pegasus. See you there. In fact, a large print of this foto will be available there for sale.
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