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Saturday mornings are slow in some places, but not in the shipping channels of the sixth boro, Pearl River 1 enters the Narrows, passes Morton S. Bouchard Jr., arcs to port into the ConHook Range,
and navigates the KVK with assistance from Ellen McAllister.
At this moment, opposing container ship traffic about 15 minutes away appeared under the Bayonne Bridge, behind Stephanie Dann and an unidentified tug.
It’s a heavy-laden Cosco Osaka, tailing Catherine Turecamo.
As Cosco Osaka aka IMO 9400291 passes the Green 7, it crosses Jane A. Bouchard.
Fifteen minutes later, Ance enters the KVK.
That’s A-n-c-e . . . not A-n-K-e, which came through the harbor a mere two weeks ago. Ance . . .
or “Ants,” as I heard it.
Less than 10 minutes behind Ance was this beautiful-orange vessel, here flushing out the starboard hawse.
I wrote about Twinkle Express here a mere two years ago, but that time I didn’t get as close.
And ten minutes behind was this vessel. Doubleclick on any foto to enlarge; if you do that here, you’ll see the builders plate proudly announcing this vessel as a June 2010 product of Yangzhou Guoyu Shipyard.
Now . . . given the name and given the frequency of livestock carriers in the harbor like Shorthorn Express near the end of this post, what do you suppose this vessel carries?
Answer tomorrow. All fotos (except Anke . . . sounds like the end of Yanqui ) taken today in a short two hours on the KVK by Will Van Dorp.
For a distinctly unglamorous view of shipping cleanups after “stuff goes wrong,” watch the slideshow on the TitanSalvage page.
If I haven’t not yet mentioned/heaped praise on tugboatinformation.com, the site started by Birk Thomas (see last foto) and now co-administered by him and Harold E. Tartell, I am truly remiss. Now that they have begun creating this capacious database, I don’t have to replicate some of their info. So how about some fotos from the last two days:
North Sea . . . which I haven’t seen in quite a while. Doubleclick enlarges.
Margaret Moran on her way to Red Hook,
Sarah Dann headed for home-barge-home in the AK,
(I think) JoAnne Reinauer III, with Navig8 Faith in the background,
Kathleen of Weeks,
Gramma Lee T Moran . . and I’ve no idea what that Coast Guard RIB was doing,
Quantico Creek following a strange puff of cloud,
Kimberly Turecamo assisting Mount Kibo. By the way, Kibo is one of the volcanic cones near the summit of Kilimanjaro.
Patapsco awaits favorable movement through the Gate, and finally
Stephen-Scott Reinauer, making for the Buttermilk.
All fotos this weekend by Will Van Dorp.
Vantage point here is the Buttermilk Channel, looking roughly west toward the Bayonne and Jersey City side of the sixth boro; that’s the Bayonne Bridge in the distance. Any guesses about these vessels?
Schooner turns out to be Spirit of Massachusetts (1984), doing programming in New York. I usually keep opinions on such matters to myself, but it boggles my mind that an out-of-town replica vessel comes to New York for such programming when less than a seamile away, two authentic schooners stay “chained” to the dock at South Street Seaport, eager local crews grounded and frustrated by a museum administration that says nought , an unseemly and surreal turn of harbor affairs.
Captain Dann (1974) pushes a scow eastbound.
Meanwhile over in Gowanus Bay (aka the mouth of the canal), the cement ship with the interesting stack . . .
aka Abu Loujaine (1966) has been moved to a new location beside the (abandoned) Port Authority Grain Terminal (1922). Both appeared in this post from 14 months ago.
At the north end of the Buttermilk, Sea Bear (1990, Bay Star) enters the East River from the Jersey side.
Happy Mother’s Day weekend . . . all fotos here taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp.
Featured many times on this blog: McAllister Responder (ex-Exxon Empire State, Empire State) launched in 1967 in Jacksonville. Note the deckhand’s communication. If my info is correct, then ghosts
live there today. Here’s a haunting timeline and set of b/w fotos. That’s tanker Lian An Hu in the background.
Weeks tug Robert (ex-Emily S, 1982) stands by Crane Barge 532 in midstream off the Financial District, awaiting more “erosion mats.”
Austin Reinauer (1978, ex-Mobil 5, Morania No. 1, Tamarac) heads across from the KVK toward Erie Basin.
Jill Reinauer (1967, ex-Ranger) southbound past Ellis Island, the place the Lenape knew as Kioshk . . . or Gull Island.
Peter F. Gellatly (delivered just over a year ago) heads in the same direction as Jill Reinauer.
Eagle Service (ex-Grant Candies, 1996) and crabber Alexa J off the wintry dunes of “Konstapel’s Hoeck.”
Jakobson-built, 1967 Ruby M, ex-Texaco Fire Chief, pushing fuel barge Fire Island. Now if you didn’t know this to be the name of local geography, wouldn’t such a name as “fire island” make you nervous?
Lincoln Sea, used to be blue, anchored off Red Hook a few days ago. Off to the left, Moran barge Massachusetts anchors.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Would “teal” be the best word to describe this green? Crystal Cutler and barge Patricia E. Poling have been in the harbor less than six months; if I round off her time here to the nearest year, her age is zero. Fleetmate tanker Kristin Poling‘s age is 77 years! Only recently was Coral Queen, an even older member of the fleet, morphed into metal heaven.
Rafted up here is the other Poling & Cutler tug, Kimberly Poling.
Kimberly Poling is about 16 years old.
Here Dann Ocean’s Comet moves Eva Leigh Cutler past Kimberly Poling and Crystal Cutler.
Teal or jade . . . I do like this color. And for more delightful colors, check out bowsprite’s latest hues. The first tug . . . hmmm, what company is running the avocado fleet?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Morphed into the universe . . . Poppa Neutrino aka David Pearlman, at age 77. Here’s some info on one of his vessels.
Look like Atlantic Salvor . .. or if you remember Barents Sea, like her? Well, the middle vessel, Mister Darby, now goes as Atlantic Salvor. And Mister Pete (launched from Halter Moss Point in March 1976 for Portland Tugs) operates as Barents Sea. Mister Darby came off the ways in February 1977 at Halter Marine, along with a litter of similar vessels for Tidewater Marine, like Mister Jean, Mister Andre, Mister Charlie, Raleigh Ann, … and the list goes on. Thanks to Duncan Merritt for this foto. Can anyone place the year?
Fairly new in the sixth boro is Lucinda Smith, 1975, ex-
Delta Trooper, Sound Eagle, and Sea Hawk.
Passing each other today in the KVK, Franklin (1984) and Zachery Reinauer (1971, ex-Tioga).
Here St Andrews (1978, ex-Melissa L.) gets a dock assist from
Captain Dann (1973), moved into
the berth just vacated by HMS Liberty (1978, ex-James William, Shirley Joy, and Douglas B. Mackie).
Extreme stern and below . . . it’s Bering Sea (1975, ex-Stacy Moran and Cougar).
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Here is a past foto of the vessels formerly known as Mister Darby and Mister Pete. Is it true that Barents has returned to the east coast of the US?
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