Random Tugs 412

Curtis and RTC 82 have appeared on this blog many times over the years.  Click here and here to see where the Curtis design fits into the Reinauer building program.  The first ever appearance of this Curtis was likely here in February 2013. 

Matthew Tibbetts was launched the year I graduated from high school.  As i recall, this boat won the “best-looking tug” Great North River Tugboat Race award back in 2008, a recognition she could win any time still.  Here recently, she was waiting at the KV buoy to provide an assist.

Another clean-looking workhorse is Balico’s incomparable Navigator.

I’m accustomed to seeing Paula Atwell with a TUP or DUP barge.  Not earning any money here, she does appear more attractive.  I’d never noticed how massive that mast is.

Stephen Dann has “grown” an upper wheelhouse since appearing on this blog for the first time over a decade ago here. Recently she’s been pushing Double Skin 36.

Isabelle is already well into her next job towing another ship, and since she’s an exotic machine in the sixth boro, let me share another photo of her. 

Let’s conclude with another less-than-frequent boat in the sixth boro, Timothy McAllister.   Like her fleetmate Ellen, she was a YTB launched into Lake Michigan;  in Timothy’s case, as YTB-788 Wapato.  I haven’t tallied up occurrences, but I’d guess that Ellen is among the most frequent boats featured on this blog.

All photos, any errors, WVD, who hopes you enjoyed these photos.

 

Random Tugs 334

Saving fuel . .  . Foxy3 has Rae alongside and they’re passing a wall of a hull, or is that a hull of a wall….

Coral Coast is usually on a cement barge, but not now . . . .

Can you name that tugboat?

Let’s do regression, with Foxy3 and Rae approaching that tanker hull.

Double Skin 36 is what Coral Coast is pushing.

Name the tugboat pushing DBL 82?

Notice Foxy3 and Rae and SKS Mersey they’ve just passed?  Progression going on here with Mount St. Elias and

Coral Coast, whereas

the Fox boats are regressing.

 

All photos, WVD.

Unrelated, and a bit late, but do you remember the “green boat” below, AQS Tor?  It  was deck cargo lost off a yacht carrier Eemslift Hendrika abandoned off Norway earlier this month.  Click on the image to see the disposition.  More AQS here.

 

Random Tugs 193

Let me start here . . . the boat below can be yours.  Click on the photo for full information.  It’s currently in the Seattle area, and I’m posting this for a friend.

Turecamo Girls –this one was launched in 1965 and is rated at 1950 hp.  Here was a previous version, which may or may not still be working in South America.

Gulf Venture–She’s a new vessel in this harbor.  Launched in 2016 and “married” to Gulf Carrier, call her powerful at 5150 hp.

 

Any guesses?

 

Tangier Island, the tug, 2014 and 3000 h.

Mister Jim, 1982 and 1800 hp.

 

This Stephanie Dann, 1978 and 3200.

Evening Mist, 1976 and 3000.

Here she’s framed by the bow of Yantian Express.

Finally, James Turecamo, 1969 and 2000.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who recalls a wonderful tour of parts of the Salish Sea aboard Coot (for sale above) almost seven years ago here.