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Patricia was built in 1963 and works in the sixth boro here and here, and last I knew worked for C.H. Phoenix LLC of Green Cove Springs, Fl. . . . I like the racing stripes.
Caitlin Ann was built in 1961 and has worked for DonJon since 2011. Here, she and
Sarah Ann appear to be moving coal. Sarah Ann is from 2003, working for DonJon since 2009.
Marion Moran has worked by that name since 1982. I think that’s Katherine Weeks on the far side of the barge.
Bruce A. McAllister,
Eric McAllister, and
Alex McAllister were all working from the Narrows the
other morning.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
It’s been a while since I used this title. I went there yesterday morning to have a long walk but beat the impending heat. Besides, a setting moon over Staten Island beckoned, and I had to be up early anyhow to milk the cows . . ..
Well, that was a kink in the time continuum. But Eric McAllister had work,
as did Sarah D . . .
and Fidelio had arrived from who-knows-where over the horizon, a string of US ports but the voyage beginning in Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico.
For Sarah D, once she’s past High Power, likely she’ll go to Inwood and then upriver.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was 53.
So many large ships pass through the sixth boro that unlimited time and a large staff of passionate observers could make ship watching (and learning from the experience) a tourist attraction. Some of the names intrigue . . . like Stove Friend . . . recently built in the home of a quarter of all seafarers, the Philippines.
Axel Maersk may be one of the “longest” container ships that have called in the sixth boro, loa 1155′ x 140,’ assisted here by JRT, Jonathan C, and Miriam Moran.
Ibrahim Dede, here with escort Amy C McAllister, has been calling in NYC for almost as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
Eternal Ace . . . one of the 6400-car capacity PT, looks quite streamlined for a PCC or PCTC, but a newer design is coming . ..
Navios Venus is another fairly new bulk carrier.
I’ve seen CMA CGM Maupassant before, but this is the first time featured on this blog. Kirby Moran, along the starboard side, seems to have a swell approaching from astern.
Liberty . . . last time I saw her she was Topeka, one of the T-class, and yet I can find no reference to a name change. Hmmm.
Tanker MTM New Orleans . . . barely over a year old, is assisted here by Eric McAllister.
SCT Matterhorn leaving the Narrows bound for sea here has Basel as her homeport.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who just found out about this related event . . . related in that it focuses on the wet 2/3s of the planet.
Here are the posts I did each of the past two years. I’ll call this the beginning of the processional. How many government vessels do you count in the photo below?
Carefully screened support vessels--Rana Miller, Elizabeth McAllister, and Resolute— lead the procession, here past Ellis Island,
while small craft of the NYC Navy and Air Force and others patrol.
Other McAllister boats include Alex McAllister . . . and
Eric.
CG-56 USS San Jacinto leads the larger vessel contingent. She was here as well in 2012. Know the import of that location in April 1836?
Tomorrow will feature close-ups of the rest of the fleet, but for now we’ll leave it here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who counts eight government craft in the first photo. Here’s a post-fleet week photo set from 2009.
Here are previous installments focusing on background.
Sometimes the partial reveal and the juxtaposition highlight what’s on the shorelines, like those triple deckers in Bayonne that would blend in perfectly in many 19th century mill towns.
Or the hugely forgotten Singer plant in Elizabeth, hugely forgotten by most residents of Elizabeth, that is. Imagine, if someone could turn the clock back on that one, 10,000 people would have manufacturing jobs . . . either sewing machines, or
weaponry of all sorts.
But one detail on the bank over by the NJ-side of the Bridge caught my attention. So I thought these beams would be trucked from the disappearing bridge to a scrapping yard. How surprised I was when the crane lifted the beam off the truck not 1000 feet from where they’d been on duty for decades and
lowered them
one after the other
to what might be a series of trucks below. I can’t quite see what becomes of the beams on the ground at Bergen Point. And I think that’s the Passaic small boat. ??
All photos by Will Van Dorp. Keep your eyes open and stay safe.
One of the joys about living in the sixth boro is its size and dynamism. There are three bridges in this photo below that will not be the same if I take this shot again in three or four years; this is my first notice of the stays already in place at the new Goethals. Will the new bridge still honor an engineer who worked on the Panama and then the PANYNJ? I was interested in the ship because a friend had assisted docking when she arrived . . .
Overseas Long Beach last had a strange paint job, too. AIS showed that Erin McAllister was on the bow, which I took possibly being a misspelling of Eric, pictured a bit farther below.
To my astonishment, when the escort emerged around the stern, it was
Erin, not Eric. After the pilot was retrieved,
she spun
to port and
returned to base, allowing me to get a closeup and
compare the two boats, Erin from 1996, although I believe her bow has been modified since then, and
Eric from 2014. And the differences are clear.
Erin actually originates from the same time, design, and shipyard as this tug, Z-One.
Photo by Will Van Dorp, San Juan, PR, March 2013
For more comparisons, click on this “Tale of the Tape” post from a year and a half ago.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Over half a year ago, I did a series of posts on Atlantic Star, the first of the new ACL c-ships arriving in the sixth boro for the first time. The other day was my first time to spot the next of the set of five.
And given the location of Wavertree, a 130-year-old veteran of Atlantic (and all its adjoining waters) sailing,
juxtaposing the two seemed an opportunity not to pass up. imagine this as cover art for a book called Atlantic Sail, Then and Now. And no, I haven’t written it.
Here’s a shot. Now if only I’d had a drone…. I suppose in a few weeks if Peking is docked here, a shot with that barque and this Zim vessel (IMO 9289544) would be the one to get.
See in the middle distance a Nukahevan craft passing Atlantic Sail?
No matter. Let’s study the novel shapes and angles on the CONRO, assisted out here by Eric McAllister.
That’s the stack offset to port.
Steel curves like this in superstructure are unusual.
Sail on,
Atlantic Sail. Here’s the report for the week Atlantic Compass went to scrap.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
This collage of orange and blue indicates that something unusual approaches . . .
0846 hr . . .
0904
Atlantic Salvor might have been headed out on a long range mission, but
at this point, I realized this mission would begin in the Lower Bay of the sixth boro along with
lots of other vessels, although
something new this year was the escort of four commercial tugs: Sassafras, Miriam Moran,
Atlantic Salvor, and Normandy. 1150. I was happy to find someone to talk to.
It’s fleet week NYC. Welcome all.
It’s USS DDG 96,
HMCS D 282,
WMEC 911,
HMCS MM 700,
HMCS MM 708,
LHD 5,
DDG 99,
and LSD 43.
At 1216, Eric McAllister joins the welcome party . . .
WLM 552.
An E-2 flew by too.
The message on the port wheel well ((?) amused me.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was last year’s arrival.
For context, let’s look back here. And last year among some of the great photos shared by Harry Thompson, here (scroll) was a crowded harbor photo I really liked.
Last Saturday saw threatening weather; even so, lots of small boats and crowds braved the possibility of rain to see the races.
Vigilance prevailed and I heard of no incidents.
And yes, I paid a lot of attention to the Bath Maine-built 1906 Mary E, but that’s because I haven’t seen her in 9 years . . . obviously I was looking in the wrong places. Click here and scroll for a photo of Mary E in Greenport almost 9 years ago.
Harvey was there. Scroll here for one of my favorite photos of the 1931 Harvey, cutting through the pack at the 2013 tugboat race.
The 1885 Pioneer was there. Click here for a sail I did on Pioneer a few years back.
A raft of small boats clustered yet kept orderly.
The 1935 Enticer . . . well, enticed, spectators as a platform.
as did a range of people movers.
including the 1983 Arabella.
The captain of the heavyweight out there, the 2014 Eric McAllister, treaded lightly through the crowd.
Of course, out in the mist along the Jersey side there are more heavyweights, a Moran tug and its huge NCL gem.
And as for my ride, Monday morning it was earning money going for a load of scrap.
Another tall old ship that might have been present–the 1928 Bivalve NJ-based A. J. Meerwald had other missions to perform.
All photos by will Van Dorp. And for photos of some of the people on the boro who were working during the race, check out NYMediaBoat’s blog post.
So were the words of a bold attendant to Queen Victoria when the royal yacht was bested by a strange-looking upstart vessel from the former colonies called America. As the Queen revealed her ignorance of the rules, I too must confess that–like a an inhabitant recently retrieved from a remote island and watching a MLB or NFL game for the first time–I was largely unaware of what I was seeing. No matter, I enjoyed it and hope you enjoy these photos.
First, the muster. If you want the instructions, click here.
It certainly appears the Japanese boat here is being towed. Is this to demonstrate the foiling or train for it? Here’s an explanation of how these 3000-pound vessels fly .. . or foil.
If it seems that all the boats are identical except for the sponsors, you’re right.
The logo at the top of all the mainsails is for Louis Vuitton. Can someone explain why a trunk maker chooses to sponsor this race? Isn’t it somewhat like an Indy car race sponsored by Victorias Secret, Epifanes, or Penguin Books?
No matter, notice the throngs along the shore and the ledge of the building to the left? I think of the third and fourth paragraphs from Moby Dick:
“Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?
But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses Battery Park City will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets avenues—north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?”
The answer to that last question, it seems, is Yup!
I’m intrigued by this power cat . . . the timing vessel. Is its work called telemetry? Anyone tell me more about what instrumentation it contains? I’m wondering if this will be the official timer for the larger boat race next year in Bermuda.
I’m posting these photos earlier than usual today in hopes that they may prompt anyone who missed the race yesterday to brave the weather and watch today.
I’ll post some more tomorrow.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is grateful to Gerard Thornton for this platform. Click here (and scroll) for a photo of Eric R. Thornton.
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