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Happy 2020, so let’s go a decade back, and see a selection of photos from January 2010.
Ross Sea escorts Rebel eastbound past Atlantic Leo in the KVK.
Lucy Reinauer, bathed in morning light, approaches Howland Hook in the AK.
Miss Gill and Lucky D head for the smaller Bayonne Bridge and Goethals Bridge, off to the west.
Athena is way out of Block Island Sound, here doing winter work in the sixth boro. Little did I know back then that I’d soon be taking my first ride to Block Island aboard Athena.
North Sea is on the hard in Kingston NY.
My favorite winter harbor fishing vessel passes Robbins Reef, leaving
the rest of the fleet farther to the NE in the Upper Bay. Note how different the skyline of lower Manhattan was then.
Doris escorts a tanker into the KVK.
Davis Sea crushes her way into the Rondout with a load of heat.
It was, as all these “retro sixth boro posts,” only a decade ago, but so much has changed.
All photos in January 2010 by Will Van Dorp. Happy 2020.
One satisfying thing to me about these retro posts is noticing how much the local fleet has changed. All these photos I took in November 2008. Coral Queen was scrapped at least eight or nine years ago. Maersk Donegal has had two name changes since 2008, now know as Santa Priscila, and no longer calls in the sixth boro.
SPT Guardian, still under the same name, is currently operating out of Lome, Togo. Note the NJ State Police boat alongside. I don’t know if they are still using that boat.
ITB Groton is gone as well.
The huge K-Sea fleet in the boro has dispersed. Solomon Sea is now Emily Ann,
Falcon, I believe, is still Falcon but wears Vane livery,
Davis Sea still has the same name but Kirby colors and operates in the Gulf,
and Aegean Sea carries the same name but works for Burnham Associates in my old stomping grounds north of Boston. NYK Diana has moved to the Pacific to the US West Coast.
This Rosemary McAllister has been replaced by another Rosemary McAllister, and has spent only part of one day in the sixth boro.
Stapleton Service takes the prize for the greatest number of name changes, three since 2008. She’s now Michael Miller.
Buchanan 15 has become Dory, although I’ve not seen her in a while.
Coral Queen‘s smaller fleet mate was John B. Caddell, which became a hurricane Sandy victim: grounded, sheriff auctioned, and scrapped.
I made a jaunt upriver aboard the only and only Half Moon–now sold abroad– in November 2008, and saw
Champion Polar but she’s now
–ice bow and all- dead and likely scrapped, as well as
a more intact Bannerman’s Castle.
All photos by Will Van Dorp in November 2008.
Here was number 6 in this series. It occurred to me this afternoon to rename the whole series “weather overwater,” as a tip of the hat to Dr. Jeff Masters and his site. His 18-minute TED talk at the link with his name on it is worth the 18 minutes. And what do you imagine happens on and over sixth boro water on a day like this . . . ?
The usual. Diane B pushes a fuel barge, leaving BW Amazon behind,
Cheyenne consolidates scrap,
Davis Sea pushes oil somewhere up river as she did here and here,
Susana S, in the same location here a year ago, takes on bunkers. . .
. . . along with Stavanger Breeze.
Fishing goes on, and pilots
do their thing no matter the weather since 1694.
More bad weather coming . . . so what. Not that it’s easy, though.
OK, here’s tomorrow’s post today . . . Wednesday’s news coming on Tuesday. The snow happened today, so let’s see it today.
Here was 3. And another snowy post. The first three fotos here come compliments of Brian DeForest. Here, hanging on the wall are Hunting Creek and Coastline Bay Star.
Davis Sea–I believe–is practically invisible to the naked eye. Here was Davis Sea as a K-Sea vessel almost four years ago.
Scotty Sky passing alongside the aptly named Alpine Loyalty.
Brooklyn at the #9 buoy.
And Hoechst Express inbound from sea.
By late morning, the snow was slowing down in the sixth boro, here on the landside of Gage Paul Thornton and Thornton Bros.
Many thanks to Brian DeForest for the top three fotos; the others by Will Van Dorp.
Snow is snow and not the same is ice, but cold weather makes me want to keep a watch on this site for the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club, which always has the news on iceboating in the Hudson Valley.
What happens in the time it takes to read the morning paper? Well . . .
0635 . . . Maersk Montana passes the salt pile,
0639 . . . Catherine Turecamo sets up to nudge Nord Sea outbound,
0642 . . . Greenland Sea passes Con Hook while a cruise ship prepares to dock in Bayonne,
0644 . . . Catherine follows Nord Sea til the pilot debarks,
0649 . . . Viking approaches with DBL 102,
0659 . . . Davis Sea passes with DBL 32,
0701 . . . Magothy heads . . . for the yard maybe,
0722 HS Livingstone (currently in Norfolk) passes an avian escort as it heads for sea with
a respectable GRADALL with an articulated-neck jackhammer that caused much
consternation among these geese.
0704 . . . an hour and nine minutes have passed. Siberian Sea and Davis Sea meet, and for me time for another cup of tea.
All fotos taken Sunday morning by Will Van Dorp. More Sunday fotos to follow.
Previously I called this type of post “full frontal.” a set of posts in which I try to see ships/boats a little differently. What I mean is related to this: ask a non-artist to draw a a ship or boat and most of the time you’ll get a frontal image, even if it’s a stick figure. Ask that same person to draw a house, … same result . . . frontal, a facade. Ask him or her to draw a car or train or ship, it’ll be a side view. Why is that? Maybe you have some idea, but I don’t.
Guess the vessel facing you below? From this angle, it gives me the illusion of having an open mouth. You’ve seen it before here. Answer at end of post. By the way, the shore structure on the far left of the foto is Staten Island September 11 memorial aka “postcards” designed by Masayuki Sono.
I love the rich orange in Atlantic Leo as she gets pivoted by Miriam Moran and Lee T. Moran.
Franklin Reinauer, slightly be-fogged.
Davis Sea leaves a few minutes of ice-free water in its wake as it approaches Kingston.
Golden Venus suggests a tight-wire act, using equal portions of the Bayonne Bridge to port and starboard to maintain balance. Now why would this be called “golden” Venus, and wouldn’t several somewhat conflicting sets of associations come to mind if it were called “blue Venus”?
Nevska Lady approaches oil docks in Bayonne, escorted by Kimberly Turecamo and Laura K. Moran.
Here’s a three-quarter view of the mystery tug at the top of this post . . .. why it’s Odin, of course. I’m so glad I’ve now seen Odin from the head end.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
No . . I’ve been tied up with spring cleaning . . . really. But the blog needs to break out. Here’s Davis Sea pushing up the Rondout past Petersburg and Hackensack.
And all the rest here from Paul Strubeck’s lens/flickr account, and all take between 60 and 110 miles north of the sixth boro. Cheyenne,
and a government boat, Wire.
And as I post this, here downriver, it FEELS like a thaw, like a hint of spring in January.
Many thanks to Paul Strubeck for these fotos. Paul works on Cornell.
The google map below has two points marked; all fotos above were taken between those points.
Ice . .. white gold for some. Imagine the videos you’ll find at the end of this post. Imagine tugboat Cornell powering through it: two soundtracks being a smooth 16-cylinder engine and stuccato crunching of ice.
A tribulation for others. And like many dangerous things, ice can be beautiful, reminiscent of Thomas Cole. 
Through this, your petroleum products must flow, safely. Here Sturgeon Bay cuts a trail for Davis Bay and DBL 28, loaded with 30,000 barrels of home heating oil, but
on a cold day, the ice chunks have already started to re-freeze before the square-fronted barge gets there.
Passing us is Justine McAllister pushing a light Reinauer barge, RTC 120 past the small village of Port Ewen, once home to Sojourner Truth.
Davis Sea‘s path here is flanked by Thunder Bay (port) and Sturgeon Bay (starboard). Each of these 140′ USCG icebreakers has a bubbler system that makes the hull slippery, preventing a “plug” of ice from building up around the hull. When you watch the video on Cornell, notice the plug moving forward in front on DBL 28, impeding progress.
At breaktime yesterday, Davis Sea, having delivered its load to a local oil distributor, comes out of the notch to raft up with Cornell. Elise Ann Conners . .. dates from 1881! Consider that Cornell dates from 1949 and Davis Sea from 1982!
All part of getting your home heating oil to the burner in your basement.
See a tugster video below.
and a video by Harold Tartell below showing progress of Taurus southbound through Poughkeepsie.
Unless otherwise attributed, all fotos by Will Van Dorp.
And a year ago tonight, recall this ice adventure?
Atlantic Coast (blue & white with yellow trim and mostly hidden) and Captain D line up around a dredge scow a little over a month ago. Rank this set by the year built and horsepower? Answers at end.
John Reinauer passes under the Bayonne Bridge last Sunday.
Davis Sea bunkers OOCL Malaysia in late October.
Jennifer Turecamo and
Paul Andrew both head west in the KVK.
Buchanan 12, push knees feeling no load except resistance of the water, heads east.
And the rankings: Paul Andrew–1968, John Reinauer–1969, Buchanan 12–1972, Captain D and Jennifer Turecamo–1974, Davis Sea–1982, Atlantic Coast–2007.
As for horsepower: Jennifer Turecamo–4300, Buchanan 12 and Atlantic Coast–both 3000, John Reinauer–2800, Davis Sea and Captain D–2000, and Paul Andrew–1200.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Related: OOCL Malaysia–built 2000 and with its 73,500 horsepower, can cruise more at more than 26 knots carrying 5672 teus.
As I hiked along the KVK today, it seemed for a while that half at least the boats were K-Sea white with red and mustard trim. Of course, I’m known for the gift of selective vision. Not all the fotos below were taken today, but the enjoy the fotos.
First sea: Greenland Sea.
Nathan E. Stewart (2) nearer and (I believe) Lincoln Sea (3) farther off at the dock.
Nathan E. passing aframax Eagle Beaumont escorted by Marjorie B. McAllister.
Volunteer (4) on the far side of panamax Sanko Venture.
at the dock in Bayonne last week, and
back on the far side of Sanko Venture today.
Check out the color-coded piping on the barge Columbia. What word do I fail to make out on the hull: looks like S – A – U . . . .
Slinging the barge around today was Baltic Sea (5) .
Sixth sea is Houma . . although it’s not Houma Sea.
And the seventh sea
is Ross Sea, definitely surfing a sloping KVK today. Might it have been camera operator inclination?
So I’ve stopped counting. Tasman Sea.
and in Philadelphia last week, moving The Recycler down the Delaware was Falcon. Recycling what?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Related: Here’s a list of all the seas as well as which ones figured in what different people called the “seven seas.”
Final shot: a color-adjusted (but not Warholized) foto of Davis Sea.
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