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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.
It’s June, and I’m starting my 176th month doing tugster. Wow! how many hours might I have put into this now?
June 2011 saw some interesting sailboats and boats. This post mentions only a few and covers the first half of the month.
The Dyna-rigged Maltese Falcon was in town, sailing at 20 kts across the harbor and then dousing all sails almost instantly at the push of a button. She’s currently in Messina, IT.
Blue Marlin was in town and spent three weeks loading US tugs and barges sold to Nigerian interests. Most of these names–Dean Reinauer, Curtis Reinauer, Janice Ann Reinauer, and John Reinauer–have been re-used on quite different tugboats. “Three weeks to load a Float on-float off . . .?” you might be wondering.
Well, there were some setbacks with ill-fitting cradles.
Eventually, everything found its place and stayed there.
I recall taking photos from Fort Wadsworth and overhearing some folks concerned “the big orange ship” was sinking.
Sixth boro haze that June made for some dull photos. If you want to relive the ordeal of loading, click here for the tugster six-part “groundhog day” series.
Reefer Albemarle Island got assistance into the Red Hook terminals from Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran. Currently, the reefer is running between Martinique and Panama.
EPA Bold came into town; the 1989 USNS Vigorous has changed hands several times and is now operated as Bold Explorer, an EGS survey vessel.
The 2007 Barbara C became Arabian Sea and is currently Saint Emilion.
The 5100 teu Cosco New York gets an assist from Miriam Moran. Currently, she’s running south along the western Mexico coast.
We began with a luxury sailing vessel; Black Seal made one run into the sixth boro with a cargo on cacao from Dominican Republic. The three-masted schooner is currently at a mooring in Pocasset MA.
Let’s lleave it here for now, with all photos, WVD.
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, but no matter, this post is all the same fleet. Name the fleet and the tug?
Talking fleet renewal . . ., Reinauer has a young fleet. Janice Ann is not even a year old . . .
Laurie Ann, here with Grace D alongside, is just over a decade old.
Dean is not quite a decade at work.
Curtis came out the same year as Dean. By the way, I didn’t identify the photo in the top photo yet. Figured it out?
Morgan is the oldie but goldie . . .
Haggerty Girls is about the same age as Dean and Curtis . . . i.e., a young fleet.
All photos, recently, WVD.
And the tugboat in the first photo is . . . Dylan Cooper.
Sea Fox as a cold front moves across the Upper Bay.
Mary Turecamo off to the next job.
Dorothy J returns from an assist. I’ve lots more photos of the assist to post soon.
Joyce and James eastbound in the KVK to start the work day.
Dean Reinauer heads over to fuel up.
Kings Point going over to Gowanus Bay.
Brooklyn going to pick up her barge.
Fells Point returning from a job.
The very busy Patrice waiting for a ship as Dobrin heads over to her daily projects.
The always moving Brendan making money, as all these boats and crews are.
And finally Sea Lion outbound in the Lower Bay.
All photos, WVD.
The blog is called tugster, and not tatter, taster, tagster or truckster, as much fun as those digressions may be, being able to be a bit obsessively focused, this is the 249th installment! If you add in the non-random tug posts, it’s even more than 249.
W. O. Decker, the only wooden-hulled tug in this post. Built in Long Island City in 1930 and 52′ loa.
Christian Reinauer, built 2001 in Mobile AL and 118′.
Haggerty Girls 2013 built in North Kingston RI and 110′, and I think, Dean Reinauer 2013 in North Kingston RI and 112′
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Ellen McAllister, … 1967 in Sturgeon Bay WI and 102′ and she’s been a staple in the sixth boro for as long as I’ve been paying attention. A former YTB, she works–it seems– every day.
Paul Andrew, … 1968 in Loreauville LA and 63′. She too has been working the harbor since I’ve been paying attention.
Jill Reinauer, … 1967 in Houma LA, and 91′ loa.
And to round things out with a photo I took in September 2017–all others have been since mid-February–it’s Sarah D, built 1975 in Palatka FL [Mary Kay, 1973 in Palatka FL] and 90′. She has appeared on this blog fairly recently.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you warmth today.
Now about tats and tasting . . . those might be franchise expansion ideas . . .
In only ten years, a lot of changes have happened in the sixth boro. I wish I’d started this blog 30 years ago to document even more, but 1988 predated blogs, the internet, and digital photography. Wow . . . how did people relate back then?
Joking aside, let’s see some that have moved on. On January 11, 2009 Kristin Poling, the 1934 tanker, still operated.
January 12. Sun Right, built 1993 and already dead, moved westbound in the KVK escorted by Eileen McAllister. What’s remarkable to me is how large the tug looks in compared to the ship in contrast to tugs today looking miniature on the stern of a ULCV.
Five minutes later . . . Odin. Indeed I was smitten by this unusual vessel, which has since moved to the South and lost her ability to rise up as if on hind legs. I’ve no sense of what it was like to work on her.
January 15. Never did I imagine then that this Dean Reinauer would be replaced by this Dean.
January 18 The boro’s big story of January 2009, of course, was the plane crash in the Hudson. Here the efforts to lift the USAir Flight 1549 out of the water have just begun. Thomas stands by Weeks 533.
January 29 NYC DEP’s Red Hook had just arrived in the harbor, and it seemed she was escorted everywhere by James Turecamo. Sine then, NYC DEP has added a whole new generation of sludge tankers aka honey boats.
January 31 Taurus has become Joker, another intriguingly named tugboat operated not in NYC but Philadelphia area by Hays Tug and Launch, with fleet mate names like Purple Hays, High Roller, Grape Ape, and more.
Let’s leave it there. Happy new year’s greetings still ring in my ears, leaving me with an ongoing inexplicable smile and desire to treat all with respect. Go out of your way to smile at someone today.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose smile gets hidden by a respirator whenever he goes into the archives on Tugster Tower.
Pacific Reliance (9280 hp) transfers cargo before heading to Texas . . .
with the 155,000 bbl barge 650-1.
B. Franklin Reinauer (4000 hp) passes by
with RTC 82 (80,000 bbl, if I read that right)
and Austin (3900 hp) eastbound here light.
Dean Reinauer (4720 hp) moves westbound under the Bayonne Bridge.
Foxy 3 (1600 hp) and Brooklyn (2400 hp) wait at the dock west of Caddell Drydock. Foxy was previously Barker Boys, and this Brooklyn, Labrador Sea.
Brooklyn on her way to a job.
Delta Fox (1200 hp) and Morton S. Bouchard IV (6140 hp) tied up here just east of Foxy 3 and Brooklyn.
Morton S. Bouchard IV makes up the next three photos here: in front of a Saint Lawrence like eglise
against the Brooklyn skyline, and
and still more in front of T-AKR-306 USNS Benavidez.
And let’s finish up with Patrica (1200 hp) and Robert (1800 hp).
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who alone is responsible for any errors in info here.
. . . and beyond. Let’s start with August 7, 2008 . . . up by the Iroquois lock of the Seaway. And Canadian Provider . . . well . . . in 2013 she was towed to Aliaga as OVI, and scrapped. Note that she’s a straight-decker . . . no self-unloading gear.
August 14 . . . reef-making consisted of sinking subway cars. These went off Atlantic City. To see their condition now, click here.
August 16 in the Arthur Kill, Volunteer was off to remake the tow. Built in 1982, she met the scrappers earlier this year.
August 20 . . . Laura K and Margaret–I believe –have just helped Glasgow Express to Howland Hook terminal. Glasgow (2002) is still at work, and so are Laura K (in Savannah) and Margaret in the sixth boro.
August 23 . . . Colleen McAllister and Dean Reinauer bring a barge through the Gate, reading for the Sound. Colleen is now owned by for Port City Tug Company of Grosse Point. Has anyone seen her in operation? Dean went to Nigeria aboard Blue Marlin.
Christine M McAllister stands by in Erie Basin on August 24. This 6000hp tug is currently working down south of here.
August 27 . . . the reclusive Susan E. Witte eastbound and Adriatic Sea westbound. Beyond Adriatic, that might be Aegean. Adriatic is currently on a tow on the 2000+ stretch of Ocean between Honolulu and Kwajalein! Can someone confirm this? Nine years ago, I caught Adriatic near the Bear Mountain Bridge here (scroll).
August 29 . . . Coral Sea westbound, while later in the same day,
the scarcely-seen up here Paul T Moran heads for the Bridge while Maryland approaches from that direction. Coral Sea has gone to West Africa, Maryland has become Liz Vinik, and Paul T stays mostly around the Gulf.
The Tugboat Races and other contests were on the 31st that year. Here Justin shows good style hitting that bollard.
HMS Liberty mixes it up with some real history. Edith went down to Trinidad and the venerable Dorothy Elizabeth (1951) was scrapped the next year. Liberty is still in the sixth boro.
And to close it out . . . the 1907 Pegasus made a showing at the races that year. She’s laid up on the morris Canal so far as I know.
I hope you enjoyed these walks through waters no longer here.
Now my big announcement: as this posts, I’m on board Grande Mariner for the next seven weeks, Chicago bound. I will post when I can with what photos I can. But I’ve done that before. GWA (Going west again) was my series title last year. You have to read this one about my role on the vessel. GW was the title I used in 2016.
Maybe this year it should TGWYA . . . thank god i’m going west again . . . Anyhow . . . this is my version of a “gone fishing’ sign.
Since W. O. Decker may soon be seen albeit briefly in the sixth boro, let’s start with this photo from July 2008, as she chugs past the waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge, thanks to an Icelandic-Danish artist named Olafur Eliasson.
Reinauer had some of the same names as now assigned to different boats here a decade ago but now no more on this side of the Atlantic, like Dean.
Some names have not (yet) been reassigned like John.
Now for some that are still here, though some have different paint and names: Juliet is now Big Jake. Matthew Tibbetts is still all the same, externally at least.
Stena Poseidon–a great name– is now Espada Desgagnes, and Donald C may still be laid up as Mediterranean Sea.
The long-lived, many-named Dorothy Elizabeth has been scrapped.
Rowan M. McAllister is still around, but the Jones Act tanker S/R Wilmington has succumbed to scrappers’ tools in Brownsville TX.
Falcon has left the sixth boro for Philly and Vane, and Grand Orion, as of today, is headed for Belgium.
And finally . . . June K here assisting with Bouchard B. No. 295 . . . she’s still around and hard at work as Sarah Ann.
All photos by Will Van Dorp in July 2008.
OK, if old songs make for “classic rock,” then old photos of tugboats could be called classic roll or pitch, yaw, or some such.
Let’s start with one from March 2008 . . . American Patriot over NW of Shooters Island as seen from the Port Elizabeth shoreline. I’ve no idea why she was here and have never seen her again.
Given recycling of names, check out Dean Reinauer of June 2008 over by Gracie Mansion.
Same time period, here’s the Curtis Reinauer of that era.
Labrador Sea . . . she’s the first boat in this post that’s still around here.
Emma M. Roehrig has changed colors twice since 2008 and has not been in the sixth boro for at least five years, maybe longer.
Great Gull still around back then. She’s gone down to Panama.
And finally, June 2008 saw the transition from the Roehrig fleet into the K-Sea one. Note the new name on the nearer tug although the colors were still Roehrig. Aegean Sea had been Francis E. Roehrig. The farther tug had been Vivian L. Roehrig, renamed Caribbean Sea under K-Sea, and now still works in the boro as Emily Ann. Did Aegean NOT have a mast?
All photos from a decade ago by Will Van Dorp.
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