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It’s Cornell, westbound under the Bayonne Bridge. Now that’s a sight not often seen. Cornell (1949) occupies a niche likely quite unexpected, as documented here. In this post (scroll), you see Cornell in 1978! Hear her inimitable whistles (wait for it) here.
Ivory Coast has truly an unusual name, but I’d never call her Côte d’Ivoire. That’s been her name now for 20 years; previously she was Crusader for over 30 years.
Nicole Leigh Reinauer is the first (of three? ) Atlantic II class tug.
Her dimensions and design are similar if not identical to Lincoln Sea, but Nicole has CAT engines instead of EMDs. This class of ATB is the product of Bob Hill, whose boyhood home in Troy NY gave him a front row seat to an earlier generation of tugs and barges.
Looking very similar to Nicole Leigh Reinauer, it’s the newest ATB in the boro . . . Bert Reinauer, photo thanks to Lisa Kolibabek. Bert, almost two decades newer, has the same dimensions as Nicole Leigh, but with GEs generating 8400 hp, versus CATs at 7200.
Viking has operated out of the sixth boro since 1992. Before that, she spent 20 years in the fleet of Nolty J. Theriot, whose rise and fall is documented in Woody Falgoux’s excellent book, Rise of the Cajun Mariners.
For various Viking appearances on tugster over the years, click here.
Discovery Coast spent a lot of time in the sixth boro a few years ago, but these days she’s rarely here. Here’s her first appearance in this blog, in 2012.
And the newest ship assist tug in the boro is Capt. Brian A. McAllister. Here’s a Professional Mariner story about the tug.
The photo of Bert Reinauer thanks to Lisa Kolibabek. All other photos here in the past week by Will Van Dorp.
What does a 70+ degree temperature day in February in the sixth boro look like? Well . . . see for yourself. Cornell light and likely back from a TOAR training, rafts up to Mary Whalen in Atlantic Basin.
Along the Brooklyn shore, there was Genesis Glory with GM11105.
Brooklyn–ex-Labrador Sea–light was headed for the Kills.
An anchored Crystal Cutler stood by with Patricia E. Poling. Over in the distance is Malik al Ashtar, another 13,000+ teu container ship. See Crystal light, high and dry here.
Over near the foot of Atlantic Avenue, Linda Lee Bouchard stands by alongside B. No. 205.
And finally, along the BQE and Brooklyn Heights, C. Angelo with EMA 1152, the EMA standing for Express Marine, the outfit that used to deliver fuel to the sixth boro’s coal-fired plants. Express Marine tugs Consort and Escort used to be regulars in the port. I believe they are currently “laid up.”
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Marc Piché has photos of St. Lawrence shipping in all seasons, and truth be told, I haven’t had time to look through all these 22,000 + shots, but I will.
Ocean A. Simard recently assisted in getting the last ships out of the Seaway before the end of the season.
Ocean Echo II has appeared on this blog once before.
Ocean Georgie Bain has been here before but without snow cover.
This is what Montreal looks like as the days shorten. Ocean Jupiter has appeared here before also, but on a rainy fall day.
Also from Marc, have you seen this boat before? He took it while visiting Boston in January 1978!
Here’s my best matching shot, one that I took at the mouth of the Rondout in June 2012.
Why not another . . . I took this along the Troy waterfront park in 2013.
Many thanks to Marc for use of his photos.
Here are previous posts in this series, and here’s probably the most dramatic set of photos ever from Paul, taken January seven years ago.
Below, that’s the view of the mouth of the Rondout . . . . and the light at the end of the north breakwater, which looks so beautiful here.
Here’s a view along the deck of Cornell, when
Frances was about to pass, headed north on the Hudson,
which looks like the concrete parking lot of an abandoned shopping mall.
But commerce goes on, Katherine Walker on station
and Haggerty Girls moving heating oil.
Daisy Mae, however, is making her maiden voyage home, up to Coeymans.
Many thanks to Paul Strubeck, who sent me these photos as soon as he thawed out from the trip.
And completely unrelated, I just added a new blog to my blogroll, GirlsAtSea, started this month by a Romanian bridge officer named Diane. Check it out here or from the blogroll.
On the cusp of wintriness if not winter per se, the Hudson Valley is spectacular. Let’s start with Fred Johannsen pushing this crane barge northward. That’s the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge aka George Clinton Memorial Bridge (DeWitt Clinton’s uncle) in the distance.
Here Treasure Coast urges Cement Transporter 7700–one I’ve never seen before–the last mile to the cement dock.
This reflection was so magical, I needed to include this closer-up.
Emerald Coast pushes a fuel barge downstream.
Sarah D moves a motley pair of scows upstream.
Eastern Dawn moves a fuel barge downstream.
Mr Russell shifts a barge near the TZ Bridge. What is in those tanks?
Might that be Marion Moran pushing sugar barge Somerset up toward Yonkers?
I believe this is Doris Moran moving cement barge Adelaide downriver.
And as a last-but-not-least photo today, here’s Cornell conducting a TOAR sign off session. Here’s a post I did three years ago with the same activity but using a different barge.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a proposal below:
If you are working Thursday and therefore having lunch and/or dinner at work–whether on a vessel or in some other work setting–and you choose to take a photo of the dinner–any aspect of the meal–and send it to me, please do and I’ll try to devise a post with it on Friday this week. Thanks for the consideration.
Also, you may be “choosing” ed out by now, but here’s a set of thoughtful, well-reasoned and -articulated perspectives on the Hudson anchorages question that is open to public discussion until early December.
Also, if you’re planning to be at the WorkBoat show in New Orleans next week, I’ll be wandering around there, maybe looking for some extra work. I hope to see you.
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.
aka GHP&W 5
You saw the tug Cornell moving Clearwater to the Rondout in this post in late October. But if you wondered how the Maine-built sloop was loaded, today’s your lucky day. First, the truck comes to deliver the wood to support the keel on the barge before the
Travelift moves Clearwater. Along the left side of the photo, that’s Norman’s Kill near where it flows into the Hudson.
When the blocking is ready, the Travelift moves down the tracks alongside the “pit”
and final adjustments are made.
Jacks provide stability. Note the large green building in the background; that’s Scarano Boat Building, where the Manhattans and many other vessels have been built.
Click here to see the 3m31 sec YouTube of the process of getting the loaded barge out of the pit for the southbound trip to the Rondout.
Many thanks to Paul Strubeck for these.
The Cornell (1950) with Clearwater (1969) on Hughes 141 photos come with thanks to Glenn Raymo. The Hudson Valley is particularly beautiful this time of year, especially if you catch it in the right light, which of course is true everywhere.
The other tugboats and landscapes in this post are mine. In the KVK, Sarah Ann (2003) passes RTC 135 just as the morning sun clears a bank of low-lying clouds.
An upriver-bound Navigator (1981) clears the Kills with HT 100 around the same hour.
. . . passing lighthouses,
gantry cranes, storage facilities,
and impossible towers.
Many thanks to Glenn for use of his photos. I’m sure Paul Strubeck plays a role here also. And I took the photos of Sarah Ann and Navigator.
Here and here are some previous photos of Clearwater on its winter maintenance barge.
Here are previous posts with photos by Paul, who decks on Cornell,
which does most of its work on the Hudson. Deborah Quinn (1957) has been here several times, the first here.
Here’s old and new side by side in Red Hook Erie Basin, Scotty Sky and Chandra B.
And some old boats together, Spooky, Pilot, and Gowanus Bay. Click here for one of my favorite sets of photos involving Gowanus Bay. Pilot and Spooky (as Scusset) both came off the ways in Wisconsin in spring 1941 as USACE vessels.
Evelyn Cutler first appeared on this blog as Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
I don’t know the story of the seaplane landing on the Rondout on the far side of Cornell, but soon I will be putting up a photo I took last weekend of a seaplane on the St. Lawrence.
It’s that time of year, with hints of
the dark side.
Many thanks to Paul, who took all of these photos.
Safe travels.
I’m not going to count, but there must be dozens of posts here with photos from or some mention of Paul Strubeck. Here I’m pleased to dedicate a whole post to him in part because these photos make me see the sixth boro with new eyes. Enjoy. Cornell . . . by foggy night and compare to my photo from about the same day but at dawn here and scroll to the third photo. The location is the soon-to-open Brooklyn Barge Bar, where I’m eager to imbibe a sunset beer. Also in Paul’s “roll” of film are
Pinuccia and Specialist mostly obscured,
Captain D ,
Nanticoke passing the East River Seaplane base,
an unobscured photo of Specialist,
Sea Robin secured to Sugar Express at the sugar plant in Yonkers,
James William,
and Foxy 3 pushing a Thornton barge, which
brings us back to a great photo of Cornell, which Paul used his special lens for.
All photos here are used with permission from Paul Strubeck. Thanks much, Paul.
Unrelated: Here’s an East River seaplane photo I posted here many years ago. And a photo of Sugar Express towed south by a former fleet mate of Sea Robin.
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