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Here we go again . . . the start of another month means we jump back to that month 10 years earlier. Crystal Cutler was quite new, here pushing Patricia E. Poling. Manhattan had a different skyline at that time.
I was heartbroken when I learned that USACE’s 1963 Hudson got reefed just over a year ago. With her lines, she’s now supposed to house marine life, 10 fathoms or more down, and not quite 3 miles off Fire Island. I doubt those fish and invertebrates appreciate those lines.
The 1980 OSG Independence has been a victim of 2020; the 131′ x 37′ 5600 hp tug was scrapped earlier this year.
A gallivant to Narragansett Bay revealed this vessel in the used vehicle trade, then running between Providence and Cape Verde, I believe. Danalith, a 1976 build, is said to be called Mouhssine, flying the flag of Tanzania.
Also in Narragansett Bay, over by the Jamestown bridge, was a Belford NJ boat, Coastline Kidd. I’ve not found any info about this boat.
Craig Eric Reinauer is now Albert, now squiring Margaret all over the Great Lakes.
Gramma Lee T Moran, whose namesake is the same as a Great Lakes ore boat, currently works in Baltimore harbor.
2010’s Yeoman Brook is today’s Caroline Oldendorff. These name changes confuse me. Caroline Oldendorff is currently in Amsterdam, having sailed in from Jintang, China.
This is not the best photo, but this was T/V Kings Pointer from 1992 until 2012. Here’s a link for more info on her life, but basically, from launch in 1983 until 1992, she was T-AGOS-2 aka USNS Contender. Currently she’s T/V General Rudder, named for General James E. Rudder. The USMMA has a new vessel designated as T/V Kings Pointer.
And finally, late December found me in the charming port of Charleston, where I caught pilot boat Fort Moultrie, waiting for a ship. Is Fort Moultrie still at work?
All photos, 10 years ago, WVD, who sometimes thinks it must be much longer ago than that.
Suppose we go back to “random tugs 2,” which was 10 years and two and a half months ago. What might be the same? Answer follows. These photos I took last week. Alex and Capt. Brian were not around when I did the #2 post.
Craig Eric Reinauer was, but the barge RTC 103 likely was not.
In 2007, Diane B had a different name and was a Kirby machine. Now she’s a creek-specialist and pushing John Blanche.
Here’s the best photo I got of Millville and 1964, the newest unit most likely to pass through the harbor.
Emerald Coast heads westbound.
Oleander passes Normandy. Anyone know why Bermuda Islander (I got no photo.) was in town last week?
And Evening Tide is eastbound in the KVK. So just by chance, if you look at Random Tugs 2, Evening Tide is there as well.
And since we started with a team of escort boats, have a look at these: (l to r) JRT, Miriam, James D, and Kirby Moran.
All photos taken last week by Will Van Dorp.
You may recall that back in 2014, I often juxtaposed canal&river/rail in photos like the one below.
This post was originally going to feature only photos of the river and canal from the rails, like the one below, but
then I decided to pair photos from the train toward the water with the opposite: photos from the water toward roughly the same land area where the rails lay and the trains speed.
Train shots are difficult because of speed, coatings on the windows, trees and poles along the tracks . . . but I’m quite sure a letter that begins “Dear Amtrak: could you slow down, open windows, and otherwise accommodate the photographers” would not yield a positive response.
I hope you enjoy this attempt on my part. And if you ever have a chance to ride Amtrak along the Hudson, Mohawk, and Lake Champlain . . . sit on the better side of the car; switch sides if necessary.
Here we’re on the Livingstone Avenue Bridge looking south and
here we are south of it, looking north. Yes, that’s Crow, Empire, W. O. Decker, and Grand Erie passing through the open swivel.
Here’s the pedestrian bridge in Amsterdam
as seen from both vantage points.
The 1766 Guy Park Manor from a speeding train and
from the Mohawk River/Erie Canal, where post-Irene repair has been going on since 2011. Here’s a photo taken soon after the unusual weather.
Schoharie Aqueduct from Amtrak,
a slow boat, and
the east bank of Schoharie Creek.
Little Falls onramp to I-90 from rail and
below.
The rail bridge at Lock 19 from the span and
from west of it at Lock 19.
And these all east of Utica I can’t pair, but decided to include here anyhow: a dairy pasture,
a construction yard, and
a truck depot.
Maybe if I write that “Dear Amtrak” letter, I could just ask if the window could be cleaned a bit. If you’re going to try this, take amtrak when the leaves are off the trees.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who embeds this post from “Good Morning Gloucester” to reveal a bit of my past . . . 1988. Scroll all the way through to see a piece of shipwreck “treasure.”
Legs 2 and 3 are West Point to Kingston, and then Kingston to Troy to lower the boat for clear passage through the Erie Canal.
Starting below, leaving West Point,
passing Buchanan 12,
HR Otter,
looking back toward Catskill,
meeting
Craig Eric Reinauer,
in awe in Coeymans seeing Eli (which I first misread as ELF) and
Ocean Tower,
passing port of Albany and BBC Vela,
seeing Slater in the morning light, and finally
after tying up at Troy, reconfiguring the boat for the Erie Canal.
Leg 4 starts at noon today as we head for a night in Amsterdam.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
To start part 2, I’ll go back upriver a bit to Esopus Island. Craig Eric Reinauer with RTC 103 is anchored to the south. Much of the Hudson has associated with some unusual characters, both in fiction and in real life. Esopus Island is no exception: about a century ago it was the magical hideaway of Aleister Crowley. My friend Mitch–Newtown Pentacle–wrote about him here.
Farther south is a place with a magical name but a quite mundane though necessary construction on it. This is the current resident of Duyvil’s Danskammer Point, idled in litigation I think. The Dutch called it “devil’s dance chamber” because they saw natives doing a ceremonial dance there by firelight . . . A lighthouse and several brickworks also once stood here.
Looking back upstream . . the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge and Danskammer Point in the background. Foreground is picnic boat Gem. A Hinckley?
River Rose previously appeared here about three years ago.
Justine McAllister . . . I caught her the day before east- and then northbound at the KV buoy pushing RTC 120. Also, three years ago I caught Justine towing the same barge on the Hudson.
Upbound off Cornwall . . it’s Kimberly Poling, also a frequenter of both this river and this blog.
I’m not sure why so many large yachts were on the river the other day . . . off Bannerman’s Castle, location of a ceremonial swim a few months back, it’s Blue Moon.
Here’s Bannerman’s from the south side, juxtaposing the residence (left) with the warehouse.
I’ve yet to deliver on closeups of the residence, but here’s a preview. The “picture window” serves to illustrate the interior for now.
That’s Bannerman’s in the background as Black Watch passes northbound. Slope on the right is dauntingly named Breakneck Ridge.
The Hudson is truly loved.
Here a crowded Clearwater lowers sail in the Hudson Highlands.
Seastreak New York, usually shuttling south from the sixth boro, travels north when the leaves start to turn color. Not pictured to the left is West Point.
Peak behind Bear Mountain Bridge is Anthony’s Nose, which I scaled back in April.
And finally . . . just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge . . . it’s another people mover usually associated with the confines of the sixth boro, Circle Line Queens, here assisting in leaf peeping.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
I first used this title a year ago . . . when I caught morning light in December here. Solstice time for me . . . I want there to be light, preferably the golden kind outdoors. These fotos were all taken in less than 90 minutes. Lynx was southbound,
as was Joan Turecamo, each on the far side of a barge.
Maersk Katarina and Soley-1 awaited on the hook.
Overseas Atalmar did the same, closer to the Staten Island side.
As the sun declined behind Staten’s summit, a last gleam of sunlight did its magic.
A fortunate building in Brooklyn appeared to catch fire as
sun set over beyond the Kills.
Craig Eric Reinauer headed north and
Barbara McAllister slowed up to remake the tow.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, whose batteries run low in this season when there’s a need for light . . . . If you’ve never been down at the Battery at sunset this time of year, it’s high time you treat yourself.
Bowsprite made my jolly Easter even jollier with her post here, rendering the silvery ovoids of Newtown Creek aubergine. These digester eggs are an essential part of keeping the harbor clean. See this DEP link as a starter. Boston has similar structures on Deer Island, which are part of the same process.
Here’s another shot of Newtown Creek’s facility, as viewed from Peter Cooper Village across the East River.
And yet another view . . . as seen from a boat on the Creek, the loins of 19th century industrial New York. Yes, that’s the now-scrapped Kristin Poling back in 2010.
As bowsprite points out in her post . . . yes, there is a proverbial “recreation area intertwined with a waste disposal equipment” around these eggs . . . a boat launch, a minipark with historical info on local names like this.
This DEP vessel Red Hook is the newest addition to the NYC DEP fleet, which I wrote about quite some time ago here. If you’ve ever seen a vessel of these colors in the sixth boro, you’ve witnessed NYC fertilizer production at work.
Enough seriousness . . . . this post has to be leading into a gassy direction. Imagine this as a multi-hued digester filled with so much lighter-than-air vapor that it came loose from its Newtown Creek moorings.
What if engineers could isolate the light gaseous by-products of digestion so that passenger
craft like this one that circled the harbor last weekend could be exotic-fuel powered?
More digesters in evolution?
And this bit of blue jetsam along the KVK . . . might it expand to digester size . . and if so . . what might hatch from this?
OK . . . back to my serious world. All silliness aside, New York City school kids DO come down to the park around the eggs to see and learn . . . using this “scavenger hunt guide.”
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
So I enjoyed writing about Margaret Moran pinning Sex (ok, aka Seoul Express) to the bulkhead this weekend, and it led me here . . . to the pins that are invisible while in use . . . (hmmm this too could lead into risque territory… oh I love spring time.) Anyhow, Davis Sea (launched 1982) has
pins although I don’t know how long back she was pinned.
So does Norwegian Sea (launched 1976)
although Maryland just beyond her does not, as evidenced by the push cables.
Scott Turecamo‘s (launched 1998) come from a different manufacturer, the same one that Craig Eric Reinauer‘s come
from although Craig Eric (launched 1979) has a service ladder
I wonder when someone would use that fixed ladder.
Of course, other pin designs exist also such as this
on Penn Maritime’s Julie (launched 1998).
All these pins have nothing, though, to do with how Margaret was pinning Sex to the bulkhead.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Greenland Sea passes the container port at Howland Hook,
Craig Eric Reinauer exits Erie Basin,
Christine M. McAllister approaches the Buttermilk,
Scott C glides past Carl Schurz Park,
Nanticoke pushes into the eastern end of the East River, and
I’m wondering how many of these will converge for the festivities on the North River (aka the Hudson) this Sunday.
Above is the first in this week’s series of previously unposted fotos of last Labor Day’s race.
Photos, WVD.
I called this Bronze 1 some months back. It’s the distinguishing color for the Reinauer fleet.
Juliet
Curtis
Dean
Craig Eric
Meredith C.
Morgan . . . and oh so many more all pushing fuel. It’s the safest way to move fuel closer to your gas station. Lisa M. is the expert on Oil on the Brain–and everywhere else.
Given all these names, I’d love to see a Reinauer family tree.
My father–a dairy farmer all his life–used to name cows for friends and acquaintances but never family members, never cute names. I wonder what he’s have done for naming if he’d pursued his childhood dream of being a Rhine barge captain.
Photos, WVD.
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