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June 2012 was pivotal for me. A photo sent along by a friend alerted me to Canal commerce–Canadian corn– entering the US at Oswego, a place I knew something of from my youth.
If that was a spark, then the breeze that fanned it was an invitation to do my trial article for Professional Mariner magazine, which led me to Kingston NY, the mouth of the Rondout, and a project involving use of a half century old tug Cornell to do TOAR signoffs. My most recent article in the magazine came out today and can be seen here.
On that assignment, I was privileged to have a mentor, Brian Gauvin, do the photography.
Other big events for June 2012 included the movement of shuttle Enterprise from JFK airport ,
ultimately to the Intrepid Museum to be
hoisted onto the flight deck as part of the display, now covered.
My daughter went off to Brasil (again) and the Amazon, leading me to go there myself a year later, fearing she’d never return because she loved it so much there.
I’d given her a camera before she went, and was rewarded with some quite interesting photos, like these small motor boats that looked almost like slippers …
with straight shafts coming straight out of air-cooled engines.
During my trip up to the Rondout, I stopped in Newburgh, where replicas of La Niña and Pinta, crafted using traditional techniques on the Una River in Bahia, Brasil, attracted crowds, one of many stops along the great loop route.
Other festivities on the Hudson that summer . . .
included the sails and music associated with the Clearwater Festival, and of course the small boats moving in some of the venues.
Patty Nolan and Augie were the small tugs, and of course the sailboats including Mystic Whaler, Woody Guthrie,
and of course the sloop Clearwater. The Clearwater organization will not be doing a music festival in June 2022. Mystic Whaler is now working in Oxnard CA at the Channel Islands Museum.
Summer time and the living is easy well, at least it feels that way some days . . . .
All photos, except the first one, WVD. That first photo was taken by Allan H. Seymour.
The AIS image taken early afternoon the Sunday before Memorial Day shows just how crowded the waters between Narragansett Bay and the North Fork Orient Point can be; pink is recreational boats and the greens, reds, and blues are commercial vessels. Obviously, given the scale and the fact that the icons are about 100 times larger than the pink vessels they represent, the water is not clogged, although it is congested enough that effective watch standing is essential.
In the sixth boro it can look like the photos in this post. Anyone operating a small boat–and relative to a 1200′ container ship like Cosco Shipping Peony, a 35′ fishing boat is truly puny.
Tugboats, any of them, are huge compared to small fishing boats. Mary Turecamo below is 106′ loa and powered by twin engines totaling 4300 hp.
Coming from anchored units there might be a slow moving sailboat.
Summer traffic on the sixth boro is not what it is in the colder months.
Sometimes interventions are called for.
Be safe . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Resolute rotates into the sixth boro now and again; her truly best and bushiest fendering make her a welcome sight whenever. I believe this is the last time I saw her here almost two years ago.
Janet D first appeared on this blog here, three years ago. And here’s something I never realized (or if I did, I’ve forgotten) . . . she comes out of the same yard the same approximate time as James E. Brown, a slight larger hull but with less horsepower.
Labrador Sea Brooklyn is a Warren, RI-built tug that I’ve seen wearing four different liveries and initially had no upper wheelhouse.
Mister T was built at the same yard at roughly the same time as Brooklyn above. Mister T is older by a year and less broad by a foot. Both 2400hp, a difference is that Brooklyn has pins.
Quenames has worked here for over a decade…
and was more recently joined by Pinuccia.
Unlike Brooklyn above, Elizabeth appears to have carried Weeks ownership and livery for about 35 years now!! Here’s what her bow looks like out of the water.
All photos and other observations by Will Van Dorp, who has to leave the never-ending story here today and attend to other duties on tugster tower.
It’s been a few months to do a sixth-boro look around here. Of course it’s never the same. Never. Not even from one day to the next. Let’s start with Weeks tug Elizabeth. If I’m not mistaken, this machine’s carried that name ever since it was launched in 1984.
James William has been a regular in the sixth boro the past five years or so, but she started as a Moran tug in 2007. Note the eerie fog around the base of the Staten Island-side bridge tower.
Choptank [which the pesky auto-correct insists should be spelled Shoptalk] passes in the foreground; Mary H in the distance. Choptank is back from several years in the Caribbean.
Paula Atwell is almost 20 years old, having started out as Crosby Express.
Northstar Integrity . . . quite the mouthful of syllables . . . seemed an unknown to me, until I realized I knew her as Petrel . . .
Not long ago I caught Marjorie at work on the Hudson down bound.
Mary Gellatly emerges from the fog.
Evening Star rests B. No. 250 at anchor with Brooklyn in the background.
Mister T heads for the mooring . . .
All sixth boro photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a backlog of so many collaboration photos that I might be alternating much-appreciated “other peoples photos” posts for a while.
This photo I took from the Manitou Passage. To the west, South Manitou Light is located on an island by the same name. Sleeping Bear Dunes to the east.
The photo below is not very good, but it serves to hint at the the existence of a shipwreck. SS Francisco Morazon ended her service on a sand bar just south of South Manitou Island during the winds of November 1960.
Beaver Island registered tug Wendy Anne was headed for the Manitou Islands, likely to do some shoreline reinforcement. Wendy Ann was purchased in Boston, and delivered here via the Erie Canal and other waterways.
The Manitous have certainly made their way onto my list of places to visit soon.
I believe this is North Manitou Shoal Light.
Southbound along the Passage, it’s Karen Andrie pushing Endeavor.
Emerald Isle–the name a tip of the hat to the Irish who settled Beaver Island–is a 1997 Washburn & Doughty built RORO ferry.
Once approaching the Beaver Island dock, I spotted some fish tugs. The first was Ruby Ann, a 1945 Sturgeon Bay product that now needs a bit of TLC.
In the water nearby was Waabi-Maang, in Ojibwe White Loon.
Odawa Research headed out of the bay.
Also along the shore were Resolute and
Angus, the latter being a 1939 product of Burger Boat.
I need some help here, since I know nothing about Elizabeth, other than that it seems to be an ST.
The classy 1950 Cisco is Sturgeon Bay built.
The green trap boat is a mystery to me also, here next to Bob S in the shed. Bob S requires its own post.
Shamrock is a 1933 tug that may still tow oil barges, including
Tanker II and
Petroqueen. Shamrock alludes to the Irish settlement on the island.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
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.
What is this?
How about a little more of the same shot? Now can you guess? Cashman is a familiar New England company . . . but that tug, Todd Danos, is not exactly a name known in these parts.
Have you figured out the location? Dace Reinauer and Senesco are the best clues here. Of course, this is the Narragansett Bay.
Weeks tugs Robert and
Elizabeth sometimes work in the sixth boro . . . as here in June 2012.
“Invisible gold” is the term used at the event below–subject of tomorrow’s post. The speaker to the right is Jeffrey Grybowski, CEO of Deepwater Wind, the project to place wind turbines in +70′ of water southeast of Block Island. It’s happening now, and all the photos in this post–except the one below–were taken in July and early August by Nate Lopez.
And providing supply and crew support to get “steel in the water” are Rosemary Miller and
Again many thanks to Nate for these photos. More on this project in tomorrow’s post.
Guess the locations here and . . .
here? Answers follow.
This one should be obvious. What’s the Philly-bound tug?
It’s Lucky D.
Here’s Chesapeake Coast, probably North River and then Hudson River bound.
B. Franklin Reinauer is Sound-bound.
And some light tugs . . . Elizabeth,
Joan Turecamo,
Chesapeake,
Megan McAllister,
. . . Margaret Moran and Pegasus.
The top two were . . . locations were Chao Phraya River in Bangkok and the Staten Island side of the Narrows, with tug Gulf Dawn outbound. Click here for some Thai tugs from almost seven years ago. Thanks much to Ashley Hutto for the first photo.
Many thanks to Bjoern Kils of nymediaboat.com for use of this foto. Check out Bjoern’s website here.
And many thanks to Phil Little for the rest of these shots. I’m certain Phil won’t object to sharing the text that accompanied these fotos, as it too captures the moment:
“I went to the viewing site today at 8:30 am, and saw the tow pass under the VN Bridge at about 9:00. I checked in with the Thruway person, and had no trouble with acceptance of my Tugster credentials (my honest face!) The Lauren Foss stopped out in the middle of the bay to drop the wire, and two other tugs took it “on the hip”, arranged along its (boom facing aft) port side, the Weeks Elizabeth at the front and an iced-up unknown tug (Iver Foss?)at the after end position. Lauren Foss stood by like an anxious parent. It was awesome to see these tugs then guide the Lifter in toward the Cruise Ship dock, and turn it with precision into the near-shore channel, proceeding northwest toward the Weeks yard. It glided along in front of in front of us, not 100 feet away, aboard the royal barge, the mighty King of Cranes! They swung into the final turn toward Weeks, against the backdrop of the new Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty. In the yard, waiting, it looked for all the world like a huge flock of red and white-necked herons were about to welcome this strange new powerful creature who would lead them in plucking prizes out of the Hudson! What a show!”
As of this writing, I believe the two Foss tugs are refueling, resupplying, and possibly re-crewing . . . in preparation to return to sea for the next job.
Bjoern and Phil . . . thanks much.
As I post this, Hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans, and the work of every mariner on the river is to ride out the storm. Even if it appears that almost nothing is moving on the river, movement is there and intense. Click here (now) for live views on the street and on the river in the Crescent City. To see what Isaac looked like over in Florida from Jed’s perspective, click here.
In the sixth boro, a race is a few days away, but vessels like Susan Miller--pushing the barge with the “rolled on and about to be rolled off” trailer–are at work.
Ditto an unidentified DonJon tug, Pati E. Moran, inbound CMM CMA CGM Eiffel, and schooner Pride of Baltimore II go about their business.
Having “rolled-off” said trailer truck, Susan distances herself from Mary Whalen (just the bow at the starboard stern of the cruise ship) and Queen Mary 2.
Viking moves a barge through the KVK,
as does Arabian Sea and
Weeks’ Elizabeth,
Dorothy J,
St. Andrews,
Gramma Lee T Moran, and
the list could go on. Here, Doris Moran and Dace Reinauer . . . that’s tug work too. This last foto below comes compliments of Marian & William Hyman. Thanks.
All other fotos taken by will Van Dorp, who will be at the race Sunday. Thanks for reading.
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