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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.
Thirty years ago the pose below did not exist. From a long way off, I recognized what he was doing, and given the location, he made sure WTC and other points of the skyline made the background.
Here too, the deckhand on Ava M. conveys clearly that he’s waiting for the messenger line to come down. Beyond him on the next ship, the mariner in orange is likely talking with someone just inside.
I can’t tell exactly what this crewman is doing. I’m not sure what the device he holds is.
Relative size is clear here; sure tugboats look tiny beside a ULCV, but a mariner looks miniscule on the afterdeck.
A mariner walks along the catwalk; shelters are located at regular intervals, maybe 100′ one from the next.
As the container ship heads for sea, crew attend to the lashing.
Crew on the barge and the tug cooperate in getting a line on for the assist.
Things are about to get very busy, so crew stand down . . . or sit down or lean back . . . until things start happening.
I can’t blame him for taking the gangway.
These crew stand at the ready to send down the messenger line.
All photos, WVD, whose photo has no doubt been taken and published elsewhere….
Here’s an extraordinarily busy photo; Nicole Leigh is about to ease right around Shooters. Beyond that tug, a half dozen or so more tugboats, an antenna, a bridge, a refinery, steam . . .
Gulf Coast waits in front of a 12-pack of IMTT silos.
Navigator continues shuttling around, moving fuel.
Buchanan 5 is not a common visitor here, so I was happy to see her pass.
Brooklyn and Dorothy J head west although with different goals.
St Andrews moves a barge eastbound.
Ava M. waits for a container ship at sunrise.
Sea Fox moves a loaded recycling scow toward the Arthur Kill, and
Caitlin Ann moves an empty one back.
And finally, C. F. Campbell, first photo here with her upper house, heads west. Light.
All photos, WVD.
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.
Some harbors are more varied than others. I’m happy to call the sixth boro home for now.
I’d never expect to see Emma Miller come in from “sea” or even in through the Narrows.
The weather is quite variable as well. In a singularly unpleasant day, MSC Alicante,
Ziyou ( a Tayana 37??), and
a Kadey-Krogen Evening Light (not the tugboat) all head out to sea.
A day or two later, warm morning light bathes Dorothy J
as she brings Weeks 536 into the boro.
It’s not winter yet, but there’s a lot of fishing going on with all manner of goals.
Shearwater is running a lot of line, but of course her quarry is
not the finny type. Rather, she’s generating bathymetric images. I guess I’m not privvy to them, not being the client. You can see her track lines on AIS. Sharp, another research vessel, is running the same lines from Sandy Hook south. Has anyone gotten a photo of her?
This I’d wager is a fleet angling for bluefish or stripers or more. Tanker Maya pushes the finny ones in their direction as she makes for sea.
Osprey herd the finny ones from just above the VZ.
Fugro Explorer comes in from sea for supplies, fuel, and who knows what more.
All photos and sentiments, WVD, who asserts that no one can ever be bored along the margins of the sixth boro.
A few of you have written to ask that I again upload photos of larger size so that when you double-click on a photo, they enlarge. Here’s the problem: Facebook won’t allow me to upload at that size if I want a photo on the preview. Since a lot of folks just read on FB, my compromise has been to upload smaller photos.
Here’s a photo from a friend who works for a naval architecture firm. Guess the function of the completed vessel below.
Here’s a rendering.
To the gentleman from New Zealand from the William C. Daldy Preservation Society who recently inquired about functioning steam tugboats in the US, I can’t think of any. Can any reader here? Here and here can get you info on steamer Daldy. And all that smoke was photoshopped in, I was told.
Christiaan Brunings was built in 1900 as an icebreaker home-ported in Dordrecht NL, in the Rhine delta. She survived two world wars that happened all around her. I took this photo in Dordrecht in 2014. For more photos of smoky Dutch steam tugs, click here.
If coal was the fuel of the past, then wind will make up a share of an increasingly harnessed renewable sources of energy. Susie S was at the the Damen Den Helder yard back in 2014, same trip.
Even more variety is here, the reason I put this post in the “line locker” group . . . tugs on the highway . . .
and the boat ramp, and
sometimes nearly getting away . . . once they enthusiastically take to water. Well that tug, formerly know as Atlantic Hunter has changed hands and is now Little Giant. Neptune himself was consulted about the deal and he approved. Keep your eyes peeled.
And further rounding out this post . . . On July 14, 2017, Peking was floated out of Caddells by the tagteam of Dorothy J and Robert IV to
be slipped onto the back of Combi-Dock III for transit over the Atlantic. See the full story here. Today, September 7, 2020, it arrives fully restored at its new museum in the port of Hamburg.
After more than three years of work, Peking will be arriving here today. The FB site is shown there. If you don’t do FB, I have permission to copy some pics and paste them in a future blog post. To the Hafenmuseum, where I wanted to be today . . . Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur schönen Restaurierung!
Back to those first two images, that is a state-of-the-art Russian factory trawler called Captain Sokolov, one of six identical vessels being built at the St. Petersburg Northern Shipyard. Here’s more on the design of these vessels with a capsule hull. Dimensions are 268′ x 51′ with a cold storage capacity of 1200 metric tons. Here’s more on Norebo. The design is by Knarr Maritime Consortium of Iceland.
The first two images thanks to Aleks, number 3 is from seapixonline, and the others, WVD. Many thanks to Rembert for reminding me that today is the day Peking in Hamburg goes public.
Finally . . . it’s Labor Day, which I learned is a good day to work. But if you want to stream some good music on a Labor Day theme, try this from Bread and Roses, where I used to go when I lived in the Merrimack Valley of MA.
See the exciting announcement at the end of this post.
Sunday I got word thanks to Shipshooter–Jonathan Atkin–that the pilot boat-to-be would be moving from Caddell’s back to the Sandy Hook Pilots (SHP) base on Monday morning right around sunrise. Pilot boat-to-be? There’s still much work to do before she enters service. And at 0626, I saw the shift begin, as Dorothy J pulled her away from the floating drydock that has been her home the past few months. I visited her here back in December 2019 after she’d appeared at the SHP base about a year ago. The current SHP No. 1 New York is at sea at the sea buoy end of the Ambrose Channel.
Once clear of the dry docks, the several-mile tow got underway.
Dorothy J kept the bow pointed while Robert IV had the stern.
Just east of the salt pile, the tow was reconfigured so that Robert IV got the Pilot No. 1 on the nose.
Robert IV continued the push toward the Narrows, after Dorothy J had gone ahead.
Just off the pilot station, Dorothy J came back alongside . . .
and Pilot No. 1 slides in opposite side of the dock from Pilot No. 2 New Jersey.
All photos, WVD, who will update the continuing transformation as available.
Here‘s a NY Media Boat report on a day at sea on the current Pilot Boat No. 1.
The big announcement, click on the image below. A week from today you can join me for a different type of virtual canal tour.
A few weeks ago I posted photos erroneously identified as Dorothy J, even though plain as day Robert IV was on the bow. That’s called distraction. But the photo below, plain as day, is Dorothy J. Here was Dorothy J on a foggy morning upriver almost two years ago.
Plain as day again . . . Rebecca Ann in the KVK eastbound, and again
in a photo from Bob Stopper, plain as day way up the Erie Canal just below lock E27 with a barge loaded with reef fodder. Here are previous photos from Bob.
Frances pushes a loaded scow westbound on the KVK, and
Janet D moves a spud barge over to the westside tower of the VZ Bridge, about to duck behind Sider Miami, previously known as Asian Prosperity.
Tug Ireland (renamed Hoppiness) has left the sixth boro for good
and is currently in the fresh waters of the Erie Canal, where I might see her soon.
Closing this post out, it’s an unnamed (to me) tug pushing a deck barge at the intersection of Hell Gate East River and the Harlem River. The bridges there are the Triborough and the Hell Gate.
Thanks to Bob for his photo from Lyons; all other photos by Will Van Dorp, who will be leaving the sixth boro tomorrow for a lot of weeks.
This is a long-overdue post: Dorothy J Robert IV has frequently appeared on this blog, but never had a post devoted to her. And then there’s the generic-sounding Oil Barge No. 6; I’ve often noticed that by the St George Ferry Terminal, yet I’ve not even taken a photo of it in too many years for me to checked out in my archives.
I always wondered who moved that barge, but here is proof of who moved it the other day.
Hats off, Dorothy J. Hats off to Robert IV too. And please scroll through this link for some of the jobs she’s worked in recent years.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
*Thanks to Chris R for pointing out a quite basic error in this post. I’ll have to do a REAL Dorothy J post to make up for this. By way of defense, all I can say is . . . the heat is baking my brain.
Let’s start out at Little Falls NY, above Lock E-17, where Jay Bee V had just departed and was now delivering the Glass Barge to the wall there. Notice C. L. Churchill along the left edge of the photo.
Here above Lock C-7, it’s Margot.
On the Hudson River, tis is my first closeup view of Liz Vinik, formerly Maryland.
Westbound on the East River, it’s Sea Wolf moving uncontainerized thrown-aways.
Farther east, it’s Hudson with a fuel barge,
and meeting her, it’s Morgan Reinauer with the same.
Notice here, looking toward the Queensboro Bridge, Morgan and Hudson.
Here at the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge project, it’s Dorothy J.
and to close this post out back on the Hudson, it’s Elizabeth, moving Weeks 533.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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