You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Dace Reinauer’ tag.
Here are the previous Non-Random 21 installments. Part D showcases Reinauer boats I’ve seen in the past month or so and a bit of information about the size of each.
Dace Reinauer, 109′ x 30′, larger than I would have guessed.
I’d have underestimated the size of Morgan as well, 119′ x 34′.
Jill, 92′ x 27′.
Stephen, 100′ x 31′.
Josephine, 110′ x 33′.
Matthew Tibbetts, 92′ x 27′.
Dylan Cooper, 112′ x 35′.
Nicole Leigh, 119′ x40′.
Lucy, 109′ x 32′.
Gracie, 112′ x 35′.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Here’s a series on Reinauer boats going back to 2007.
Here was “pairs in winter 8” from four years ago. The others can be found in the search window. The title started as my attempt to be too clever and parody this Edith Piaf title, which someone else–not me–liked. Number 4 might be my favorite.
Not much to say other than that yesterday morning was quite foggy before the rain started. Eventually I gave up because the fog got too thick, gruelly although not quite peasoup. Fog serves almost as a way to narrow the depth of field; the names of Caroline M and Mount St Elias are clear but farther from them, details drop out.
Ditto Dace with RTC 83 and Silver Dubai,
Bohemia and Doris,
Brian Nicholas and Stephen Dann,
Kirby and Mary,
and the incongruous Gelberman and MSC Lisa.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Unrelated but interesting: a gray whale off Nantucket!
Here was the first installment; winter’s eve is a great time to do a part B, starting with Reinauer Twins.
B. Franklin left her barge at anchor while Dylan Cooper tackled the ground with RTC 108.
Ruth E. waited alongside RTC 102 the other morning when sunrise was obscured by mcloud cover.
Dace headed for the North River with RTC 83.
Jill brought in a light RTC 80 a few weeks ago.
Her color was hard to capture as the weird light before this past weekend’s storm system was moving in.
B. Franklin moved her barge out of the Kills,
as did Kristy Ann here under the same leaden skies as the winter hurricane approached.
Her appointment was somewhere up the North River. In the distance Alex McAllister goes to work.
Stephen here muscled her barge on a sunnier day
For favorable light, Matthew Tibbetts here passed the Statue on her way into the Kills.
All photos, any errors, WVD, with all these photos taken in the past month.
It’s great to be back in the sixth boro, if only for a few days. Yes, Choices mean I still live and vote here, but won’t be present much this whole year.
A Dutch treat . . . it’s “spare canal,” at least that’s the translation of this general cargo vessel name.
Catching Pioneer with a full set of enthusiasts passing the statue . . . makes me happy.
Virginia pushing contents of 10,000 sandboxes . . . is quite nice too.
X surely marks the spot where SIX haulouts are getting some work done. I can only identify the USCGC, Gelberman, Dace, and Andrea. Another vessel seems to be hanging in the slings. Any help?
I’d thought the USCGC was Katherine Walker, but it’s actually William Tate.
Mackenzie Rose hauled a barge into the Kills.
Two towboat style vessels . . . Miss Madeline and Buchanan 12 cross.
And finally. . . . it’s Adeline Marie…
near above and far below.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Happy please-go-vote day. If you know anyone at all who is eligible to vote but won’t, have a chat with that person. As a New Yorker, I voted over a week ago . . . early voting on a Saturday afternoon.
Some photos . . . and your part is to 1) rank these boats by highest to lowest horsepower, and 2) identify which if any were built north of central sixth boro. I’ve provided dates of initial construction, but tugboats are required to be well-maintained, sometimes repowered and extensively rebuilt.
The 1979 Miriam Moran looked this way in her October markings. Cancer is a scourge, and I know this remembrance each October means a lot to folks who’ve seen the disease from nearby.
HMS Liberty has worked in the boro for over a decade now.
Laura K. Moran came off the ways in 2008, spent some years here, some away, but now she’s back in the boro.
Mister T, 2001, has carried that moniker ever since.
Andrea, 1999, has been in the boro a half dozen years. Here‘s how she looked back in 2016.
Shannon Dann was built in 1971.
Dace Reinauer dates from 1968 but has been considerably rebuilt from the first time she appeared on this blog here. See pre-2010 photos of her here and here.
Brian Nicholas, 1966, has been in the boro about as long as I’ve been doing this blog. I did post a photo of her with Banda Sea name clearly on her bow here 12 years ago.
Foxy 3 was built in 1974 and first appeared on this blog as Barker Boys, a name she carried until 2009, when she was renamed Buchanan 16. I don’t believe I ever saw her in the Balico livery as BF Jersey although I did see her with BF Jersey nameboards here. Note the folded back upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
Answers?
Laura K 5100 horsepower, Dace 3400, Andrea and Miriam at 3000, HMS Liberty and Mister T and Shannon D all at 2400, Brian Nicholas 1700, Foxy 3 1600.
Built north of the sixth boro: Laura K in Maine and Mister T in Rhode Island; all others were built in Louisiana.
The idea of recent posts in this series is to look at a single fleet.
As temperatures cool off, my perception is that demand for fuels rises, especially in the Northeast. Let’s look at the Reinauer fleet, starting with a light Nicole.
Haggerty Girls exited the KVK into the Upper Bay a few days back.
Ruth M. does the same here, likely returning to rejoin her barge.
Dean made for the East River
after having left the KVK minutes earlier.
Janice Ann enters the KVK from the Upper Bay.
Matthew Tibbetts heads for the Sound . . .
followed by Dace . . .
and then drops anchor beside Janice Ann.
who had been at the east end of IMTT a day or so earlier.
Christian waits with her barge before heading
somewhere in the Northeast.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who in the past has posted about these as bronze tugs.
Dace lighters STI Excel.
Neptune comes into town again.
Buchanan 12 makes a rare appearance light, but everyone needs to refuel periodically.
Janet D follows Seeley into the Kills.
How a bout a four’fer . . . counter: Marjorie, Kristin Poling, Nicholas, and Jordan Rose.
Sea Lion heads eastbound.
B. Franklin travels west, and
Discovery Coast, east. . . both light.
Nathan G moves a deep scow into the Kills with Cape Wrath lurking in the background.
Traffic never stops, and it’ll outlast me, the photographer, WVD.
It’s hard to beat morning light for drama, as is the case here with QM2 getting assisted by James D. and
Doris Moran into her berth in Red Hook, as I shoot into that light.
Taken only a few minutes later, this photo of FV Eastern Welder dragging the bottom in front of the Weeks yard had me shooting with the rising sun behind me.
Bayonne dry dock is full of business. Note the formerly Bouchard tug Jordan Rose and Cape Wraith off its bow. I’m not sure which Miller’s Launch OSV that is. To the left, that’s Soderman.
Hyundai Speed and Glovis Sirius shift cargo.
More shooting into the light here toward Bay Ridge, where lots is happening.
Torm Louise‘s color just looks cold.
Afrodite has been around the world several times each year since the hoopla of her moving Bakken crude from Albany has subsided. Note the unidentified formerly Bouchard tugboat to the extreme left.
And with the drama of morning light, wild clouds form the backdrop to three tugboats seeing CMA CGM Pegasus out the door on a windy day.
All photos earlier this week, WVD, who feels fortunate to live in a place like this where my drama exists only in photos.
To start, let me reiterate what I said over a half year ago here: “Way back in 2007 I started this series, and I now think I should never have called it “bronze” since it’s more like a golden brown.”
I recently saw Josephine pushing a fuel barge, and
then light, pirouetting in the current, training perhaps. Josephine dates from 2018, brings 4560 hp of Tier IV power to the job.
She’s 110′ x 33′.
I missed a shot of Dylan Cooper from the sunny side, so here’s a “dark side of the moon” shot. She’s a 2015 boat, 112′ x 35′, and brings 4720 hp to the job.
The 2013 Curtis looks a lot like Josephine, in fact the two of them have the same dimensions and maybe mostly the same design. Differences in the two boats built five years apart may relate to the power plant and invisible upgrades.
What I said about Curtis and Josephine might be the case with Dylan Cooper and Reinauer Twins; the boats are four years apart and have the same dimensions and power rating. Of course, details matter, and that’s where the upgrades are to be found.
Dace was out and about today; she’s been around since 1968, 109′ x 30′ and rated at 3400 hp.
Franklin dates from 1984, 2600 hp and 81′ x 28′, and is very much a traditional looking diesel tugboat.
Closing out this post, Meredith C. dates from 2003. She’s both the largest and the most powerful of the Reinauer tugboats here: 7200 hp and 119′ x 40′
Note in the photo above two very different tugboats, Meredith and James E. Brown.
All photos this month, WVD.
Call this “thanks to Steve Munoz 20: the 9th Annual North River Tugboat Race September 2, 2001.” As Steve writes, “The tug race on 9/2/2001 was nine days before 9/11/2001. I was on board the tug Janet M McAllister for the race. My son was on board a Seabulk oil tanker docked in Bayonne and he could see the Twin Towers from his cabin porthole. As the tug headed up the Upper Bay I was going to take a picture of the Twin Towers and decided not to since I had so many already. Little did I, or anyone else, know that they would not exist nine days later. I wish I had taken a picture.
[Participating] include tugs McAllister Bros, Janet M McAllister, Empire State, J George Betz, Mary L McAllister, Irish Sea, Dory Barker, Powhatan, Dace Reinauer, Beaufort Sea, Resolute, Growler, Z-TWO, Janice Ann Reinauer, Katherine, Amy C McAllister, James Turecamo, Kathleen Turecamo, Emil P Johannsen; also, includes fireboats John D McKean, John J Harvey.
I’ll not identify all the boats here. As you know, some of these boats, like Dace Reinauer, look quite different now. Also, many boats here, like Janet D. McAllister and Powhatan, are no longer in the sixth boro,
Z-Two is now Erin McAllister, and in Providence RI.
Emil P. Johannsen is laid up, I believe,
in Verplanck NY.
Beaufort Sea has been scrapped.
There were tugboats to port and
tugboats PLUS a fireboat to starboard. Two things here: I love the water thrusters deployed from Z-Two. And Powhatan is now a commissioned Turkish naval vessel known as TCG Inebolu; as such it was involved a month ago in the tow of a Bangladeshi corvette, BNS Bijoy, which had been damaged in the explosion in Beirut harbor.
Again, many thanks to Steve Munoz for taking us back to September 2, 2001 with these photos.
A different series of tugboat races happened decades earlier, as attested here. An indicator of how different the world then was is the fact that back then, a rowing contest was included, and crews of ships in port took part. Those days of break-bulk cargo had ships in port for much longer periods of time, and “port” included places along the Hudson.
tugster: a waterblog 
Recent Comments