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“Scarlet Begonias” has a line “the sky was yellow but the sun was blue…” Well, you may have noticed the sun this morning here was pink and bluish; the sky was a uniform gray, and
that made the water gray as well. Thank the Canadians . . . well, the smoke from wildfires in western Canada.
See the WTC1?
All photos this morning, WVD.
Miller Boys . . .
Seatow’s Ralph,
the 598,
with a work crew on and under the dock,
Christina,
Bobby G. Miller in the thick of it,
Nicholas,
Gaines,
Jessica Ann,
and Emily sidling up to Aitolos. There are a lot of small work boats in the area, and a lot of them are operated by Miller’s Launch.
All photos, WVD.
First off, I missed CMA CGM La Perouse, which left before daylight this morning. I had to look up La Perouse, since it was a French word I didn’t know. It turns out that it’s a person, an accomplished 18th century French explorer of the Pacific. Click here for a map of his explorations, along with French spellings of places you know; Mauwee is my favorite. Given this identity for this ship, this ULCV then fits into the “explorer” class of CMA CGM, the other vessels shown here. Sp far, I’ve posted only CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci. Magellan has been in the sixth boro, but I missed it.
Al Quibla is one of the middle-sized UASC vessels, at 13, 296 teu.
The largest UASC box boat right now is over 18,000 teu. Back in April, I saw Al Qibla‘s sister vessel Unayzah, but not posted it until today below. Unayzah at that time still had the Hapag-Lloyd livery.
Al quibla is the Arabic word for “direction.”
Hyundai Speed was launched in 2012, and has carrying capacity of 13, 100 teu. Here Ava sidles up to escort it into the Global Terminal.
Recently I caught CMA CGM T. Jefferson departing. She’s of the same class as T. Roosevelt and J. Adams.
Cosco Shipping has its “flower” class, with Peony and all the others.
Capacious as these vessels are, much larger ones sail the seas. Correct me if I’m wrong, but no vessel over 15,000 teu has yet called in the sixth boro.
All photos, WVD.
I’m always out looking for new sightings, and this is one . . . James C. Miller, based in Port Jefferson.
By the amount of freeboard in the stern, I’m guessing she could take on a fair amount of cargo.
Emily Miller is a sweet launch.
To me, this work boat was complete unidentifiable. It appears to have had a rough life.
This anchored Parker might be in the channel? Nah . . . foreshortening with such a large ULCV is misleading, and the Parker here is doing “bridge safety” work, while keeping a fish line working too.
This Bayonne line boat had me fooled at first; with the orange collar, I thought it was doing a USCG inspection.
USCG 28144 26144 . . . I’m guessing this is a Metal Shark 28 Courageous 26′ trailerable ATON boat.
This small cat survey boat called Ronald P. Jensen is one of the Rogers Surveying boats you see in the harbor, and beyond. Red Rogers is another.
Sweet Love appears to be a Ranger tug. They started small but now go up to 41′. I love the bicycles up high here.
And finally . . . this crowded Hunter 45 is called Naked Truth. Interesting naming, her tender is called Little Lie.
All photos, WVD.
I’m at a quo vadis point myself. I appreciate the feedback you’ve given on the virtual tour. I could do more, e.g., guide to the Welland Canal, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, and four of the five Great Lakes. As to the Erie Canal, which was/were your favorite leg? What info specifically did you find most interesting or startling? As for myself, learning about the loyalists . . . that’s topic I could dig into more, not on the blog but in my personal reading. Three Rivers Inn nightclub is one of my favorite details.
Let’s have a look at small boats and their seasons. Below, that might be Emily Miller, black and white alongside the monolithic hull of USNS Watkins. She’s acrew boat that operates all year ’round.
Savitsky is one sweet fish boat. Fishing is a year round activity in the boro.
Emergency vessels are here year rund. NYPD has a number of these fast 70′ tactical response boats. One I caught soon after arrival in the sixth boro exceeding 40 knots can be seen here.
Side by side, here’s a serious USCG 45′ nearer and a NJ State Police RIB farther.
And the 29′ Defiant looks like it’s made for
maneuver-
ability!
Marine 1 FDNY has the big boats, medium, and small boats, although I’m not sure the length and other specs of this one.
And finally, the North Hudson Firestorm 36 is a rare sight on the KVK. I first saw her here on her delivery from Canada.
All these photos I took in March or earlier. As we move farther into spring, covid-19 notwithstanding, different types of small boats will be moving around the sixth boro.
Not surprisingly, a lot of people were out on the boro the other morning: speeding out to fish,
descending from Vukovar–a name slipped out of the news–into the crew boat Emily Miller,
sitting watch past BW Shinano,
ditto . . . aboard CMA CGM Tancredi,
and preparing the heaving line . . . .
Is that c-ship so long that the curvature of the earth can be seen along its waterline? Actually that’s Brendan Turecamo moving SSS barge New Jersey over to Red Hook, I believe.
And a little earlier, although I place it last here, Shawn Miller pushed a trickster barge past ConHook Range.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Hats off to the small boats that work all year round . . . crew boats,
patrol boats,
fishing boats,
line boats,
pilot boats,
dive boats,
more fishing boats,
more crew boats,
government boats,
more —soon to face major cuts--government boats
more line and boom boats,
and here’s a special . . . a historic life boat, long atop Binghamton, which is still intact as far as I know, and a bit longer ago had
guys in hazmat suits doing the last ever lifeboat drill aboard the 112-year-old condemned ferry.
And finally, of course there’s the New York Media Boat.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who gives a hat tip to all the crews in small boats on the big waters.
Small but study
utilitarian and responsive like Emily Miller speeding a supply delivery
nameless but functional and versatile
reliable and fast like Evening Light
or Wolf River ex Susan Miller hurrying to a survey
Check out Kennebec Captain‘s quiz on the difference between a ship and a boat; I added a link to my blogroll.
Also, unrelated here but YahooNews spoke of an attack off Yemen, here’s a foto of the tanker Takayama.
Photos, WVD.
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