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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 are previous installments.
JRT and Doris
above Kirby and below Kirby, JRT and Margaret
Laura K on the stern of Ever Fine
Laura, Margaret, and JRT surround Fine.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s traveling.
This follows on a post from two months ago, when ONE Blue Jay arrived, and I listed some of the recent Bird-class callers. ONE Owl departed yesterday, and within hours was speeding toward Singapore with an ETA of after day 1 of spring 2024. “Speeding” applies if 16 or 17 knots (approx. 20 mph) is what you’d call speeding, but Singapore by way of Cape of Good Hope is a long ways away.
Bow-first into the berth means stern-first out, and a number of tugboats facilitate the rotation from bow west to bow south and pointed toward the Narrows. Here it’s (l to r) JRT, Doris, and Kirby.
Count the containers? I see 20 wide.
One job done, a new team heads out to meet an incoming ULCV or smaller.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who went looking for references to sea owls.
I found these fish owls and this strangely named one.
A bit over two years ago, OWL 1 was in the boro here.
A decade ago, Capt. Log delivered vital juices to boats around the sixth boro. On this particular February morning, we traveled the North River to feed to Classic Harbor Line fleet, here Manhattan.
Then, we crossed over to Brooklyn to top off the iconic Water Taxi fleet. Capt Log then and Chandra B now, this fueling happens, rain or shine, sweltering or
glazed. This vessel’s namesake was city royalty. Water conveyance using the sixth boro to link the other boros has grown in the past decade.
Stephen Reinauer pushed RTC 80 northbound.
Later, just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, Stephen Scott headed down through the Highlands with RTC 42.
Line crunched her way up to the Newburgh dock and then
eased out out and
made its way up to Saugerties, while Doris returned light from a mission. That’s the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.
Farther upstate at lock E-20, Governor Roosevelt and a bevy of NYS Canal tenders hibernated, some frozen in
and other just drained and frozen. Tender #7 was later reefed. Tender #4 was electrified, used for several seasons, but will be moved (has been?) permanently ashore in Amsterdam NY. I’m not sure we ever figured out what the third tender was.
All photos and any errors, 10 years ago this month, WVD.
Related, Fred Tug44 recorded E-20 here, and I did by water here and by bicycle here.
Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
I appreciate photos you all send; they give different perspectives, as is the case below Name that city below?
Allie B has recently been working on a sixth boro dredging project. Allie B first caught my attention back in early 2009 here when she did a tow from coastal Massachusetts to the Black Sea. In the photo below, that’s the northeast side of Staten Island in the distance.
Doris is a regular on this blog, a versatile four-decade + machine. The big crane along the right side is a clue to location here. Said crane will soon have been in the area for an entire decade, having first passed under the VZ Bridge in January 2014, just before the “super bull” athletic event.
Emily Ann has worked for Donjon for just over a decade now. Before that, she worked as Solomon Sea. Before that she was Brandon C. and Diane E. Roehrig. And before that . . . well, I loved this blog comment I received about her as Cabo Rojo.
Resolute here gives an assist to Mount St Elias. Resolute first appeared on this blog here. The first appearance of Mount St Elias might be here.
Elk River here tops off the tanks on Anthem. I’m shocked to see Elk River is already pushing 15 years! Anthem is a bit newer than Elk River.
All photos from Kaptein Navnløsk. Any errors, WVD.
Top photo was taken on the Delaware River.
Let’s start in the SLSW. Algoberta here transits the South Shore Canal; that’s the Saint Lawrence itself to the left of the barrier. The river drops there about 45′ in three miles of distance. Today, a month after I took the next several photos, snow already has dusted the bank.
From 2007 until last year, its operated as Chiberta.
Zelada Desgagnes began her career in China, as Beluga Freedom.
Above, note the heavy machines on the dock waiting to be loaded, and vehicles already placed aboard, below.
She currently supplies settlements in northern Canada.
Going from the freshwater portion of the Saint Lawrence to a saltwater port, ULCV OOCL Singapore, arriving in the sixth boro recently. She’s currently making her way back to Asia.
The next three vessels are all ONE pink. Note some differences.
Grus above and Apus below are from the same order.
Their measurements are the same and both date from 2019.
See the crewman waiting to send the messenger line in the hull opening between the O’s?
ONE Monaco dates from 2018.
As recently as February 2023, she appeared on this blog as Monaco Bridge.
Note the differences in the stern between Apus and Monaco.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I’m late to posting, but I wasn’t late for sunrise.
Solar Madelein rode the flood tide at anchor,
Regulus headed out to where farms might be while ferry John A. Noble shuttled the early folks across the Bay
a ULCV followed the inbound channel beneath a large incoming aircraft,
Laura K tested out the fire monitor,
another big pink ULCV followed in another . . . one from Halifax and the other from Charleston,
a large soaring bird certainly not a turkey surveyed it all,
and Doris went to a job along with
Yankee.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’d like to send out this PSA: if you get a FB request from anyone, first check if you might already be friends with that person. Spoofers lurk out there impersonating real folks.
This is one of my last KVK photos of Ireland. Eventually, a few years ago, she went upstate to Lake Ontario for repowering and much more. She’s currently in the NYS canals, heading back towards the sixth boro, down the Hudson but then past and all the way to the Mississippi River watershed. So if you’re north of the boro in the next few days, be on the lookout for . . . Hoppiness!! See the end of this post.
In May 2013, I spotted this yacht coming in through the Narrows; Nomada, it turns out, began life in 1943 as a Canadian navy tug, seen here. I’m not sure of Nomada‘s whereabouts today.
Specialist was getting spa treatment here, a few years before her tragic demise.
Doro aka Dorothy J was at the same spa that day.
Doris Moran towed in a new floating dry dock for Caddells, with James Turecamo steering the stern.
State of Maine was in the boro. As of this posting, she’s NE bound off Long Island about a hundred miles from the sixth boro, if I’m not in a time warp. By the way, TS Empire State VII is still being completed on the Delaware, and will be making her maiden arrival in the boro in the summer, at a date so far not published.
Speaking of Maine, I had a memorable sojourn in Belfast just a decade ago, and took in all the collections at Maine Maritime Museum. It’s likely high time I get back there.
During the 15 years I spent in the northern two-thirds of New England, boats like these were often on my mind and in my view.
In May 2013, Zumwalt DDG-1000 was in its final stages of completion.
As of this morning, as was the case a decade ago, Fournier Tractor was ready for action in Belfast harbor.
And here from the NYS Canals, photos of Hoppiness eastbound taken by a westbound yacht delivery captain . . .
Check out their progress on FB. They’re likely transiting the middle portion of the the state canals today.
All photos except the last two, any errors, WVD.
Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
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