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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.
The sixth boro, like any location, offers infinite perspectives, compounded by equally countless nuance of season, hour, weather, and activity variation. This view of Kimberly in the stalls at Caddells the other day differs considerably from the dynamic ones of the past 18 months.
Just a few days different but quite different location and atmospherics . . . Weddell Sea came into the Narrows the other day as we began feeling the effects of Fay. She had Penn No. 90 on a wire.
Further to the west in another spot, Discovery Coast was on the outside, mostly blocking Brooklyn, who’s been in here for a few months already.
In clear weather, land would be visible beyond the tug, but Fay changed that for a while.
Dace Reinauer was high and dry in Dry Dock No. 7.
And finally, just west of Dry Dock No. 7, stacked up were at least seven Bouchard boats, sadly waiting.
All photos, WVD, who’s starting to think about random tugs three hundred. If you have a photo of a tug never depicted on this blog, send it along. The big three hundred COULD be all never-here-before tugboats.
From Capt Nemo, a few years ago, the 2000 Mary Gellatly high and dry and before she was Mackenzie Rose. Also, I see Tasman Sea, Dace, an unidentified Bouchard, and Yemitzis.
From KP, Dace getting her upper wheelhouse . . . over 10 years ago.
From a Great Lakes Mariner, the oldest working ship on the Lakes . . . Alpena, a survivor launched in 1942, as she backs out of a Wisconsin city.
From Tony Acabono, it’s Kodi, among the smallest, hard-workingest tugs of the sixth boro.
From Bob Stopper a few years back, when Grouper was facing another no-starter season.
Another one from Bob, it’s tug Syracuse with a comatose Governor Roosevelt alongside.
From back in March 2020, thanks to Jan Oosterboer, via Jan van der Doe, it’s the world’s largest vessel by displacement . . . Pioneering Spirit. Here are tech specs and lots of images from her operator, AllSeas.
Here she enters port without an assist. Jan writes: “Moves complete oil rigs, drilling platforms, can work as pipe layer.
Has a working crew of about 400 people including sailing crew.”
If I read this correctly, she has eight 20-cylinder engines that generate 127,000 hp and can cruise at 14 kts!
And finally one of my own from almost 15 years ago, it’s tug Hackensack. As I understand it she’s now in South America somewhere.
Thanks to Nemo, KP, Mariner, Acabono, Stopper, and the Jans . . . for use of these photos.
I hope to “see” you tomorrow for my Turnstile Tours on zoom doing “Exploring the Erie Canal.” Tomorrow’s tugster post will be up early so that you can get interesting info for the zoom meeting.
For your quick peruse today, I offer the inverse of yesterday’s post: I went to my archives and selected the LAST photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if that photo was a person or an inland structure, I didn’t use it; instead, I went backwards … until I got to the first boat or water photo.
For January, it was Weeks 226 at the artificial island park at Pier 55, the construction rising out of the Hudson, aka Diller Island.
February saw Potomac lightering Maersk Callao.
March brought Capt. Brian and Alex McAllister escorting in an ULCV.
April, and new leaves on the trees, it was CLBoy heading inbound at the Narrows. Right now it’s anchored in an exotic port in Honduras and operating, I believe, as Lake Pearl.
A month later, it happened to be Dace Reinauer inbound at the Narrows, as seen from Bay Ridge.
June it was MV Rip Van Winkle. When I took this, I had no inkling that later this 1980 tour boat based in Kingston NY would be replaced by MV Rip Van Winkle II. I’ve no idea where the 1980 vessel, originally intended to be an offshore supply vessel, is today.
July . . . Carolina Coast was inbound with a sugar barge for the refinery in Yonkers.
Late August late afternoon Cuyahoga,I believe, paralleled us in the southern portion of Lake Huron.
Last photo for September, passing the Jersey City cliffs was FireFighter II.
October, last day, just before rain defeated me, I caught the indomitable Ellen McAllister off to the next job.
November, on a windy day, it was Alerce N, inbound from Cuba. Currently she’s off the west side of Peru.
And finally, a shot from just a few days ago . . . in the shadow under the Bayonne Bridge, the venerable Miriam Moran, who also made last year’s December 31 post. Choosing her here was entirely coincidental on my part.
And that’s it for 2019 and for the second decade of the 21st century. Happy 2020 and decade three everyone. Be safe and satisfied, and be in touch. Oh, and have an adventure now and then, do random good things, and smile unexpectedly many times per day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will spend most of tomorrow, day 1 2020, driving towards the coast. Thanks for reading this. Maybe we’ll still be in touch in 2030.
Day in day out . . . and night in night out, port work goes on. Here James D finishes up escorting a gargantuan “flower” ship out.
Sea Eagle stands by with her barge while Dace refuels.
Pearl Coast heads for Caddells,
where Kings Point is getting some work done.
Discovery Coast leaves the Gowanus Bay berth.
Atlantic Coast lighters a salt ship while Lucy waits in the anchorage.
Lyman moves Sea Shuttle southbound while some Bouchard units heads for the KVK.
And completing this installment, it’s Kirby, all finished with another assist.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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