Turning Chembulk New York

This is a maneuver I always enjoy watching.

It’s a case of getting the ship off the dock and rotating it in the desired direction within a confined space, with little room for error.

Not over powering is part of the process, I  gather.

Quick . . . name that tug?

If this is New York, it’s likely one of two.

 

Oops.

As it heads out to sea, the playmaker

leaves the ship and goes off to the next job.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Atlantic Sea

You can call this “three of five,” and enjoy the photos of her predecessors–Star and Sail— here, leaving Sun and Sky yet to come;  the builder is Chinese .  .  .  the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, an enterprise going back to the 1920s.

 

As Atlantic Sea made the turn into the KVK, i imagined her as an errant passenger vessel;  from this angle, she bears little resemblance to previous generations of container ships.

I wonder if these lights stay on at sea.

 

To see what she looks like below the waterline, click here.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

I’m adding this link after posting because it tells a story I’d never heard:  the sinking of an ACL vessel during the Falklands War here.  It has LOTS of photos. Thanks to RG.  Here are more photos.  And more.

 

Random Tugs 191

I love the clear air of winter days, better to see details, like the horizontally mounted ladder and all the trucks in the background moving containers at the Global Terminal.  See how many trucks, i.e., tractors,  you count in this post.

And more trucks, as Erin McAllister stands by.

Again, see the trucks, as Scott Turecamo passes.  And you wonder why I don’t do even more truckster posts.

I happened to be down by South Street Seaport’s row of ships the other day and noticed W. O. Decker there alongside Wavertree.

And then lots more traffic passed on the East River, like Ruth and

Helen and 

James.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.  I counted around 18–20.

 

A K-Line Bridge

Until 2015, this would have been one of the largest K Line vessels, at nearly 1100′.  Then, the next year, a new series came out, at 1197.’

Marjorie B takes the port side stern,

 

 

while Patrice tied on three football fields forward.  Click here for my first view of Patrice McAllister, almost five years ago, after a tragic fire on Lake Ontario.

They make the turn and line up

 

for the high point of the Bayonne Bridge.  See the crew watching the underside of the old road bed?

 

Erin minds the stern for the time being.

 

And then Hanoi Bridge heads for at least two more US stops before making for the Pacific.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Random Ships 53

Big sky and small ship?  Actually it’s among the largest ships currently serving NYC, at 1063′ loa, or almost 2.81 times loa of Peking and 3.3 times the beam.

Actually, Hyundai Jupiter is the first of HMM’s “Earth-series” that I’ve gotten any sort of photo of.  My recent attempt of Hyundai Pluto was lost in the snowstorm a few weeks back.  As of this writing, Pluto is off western US, Mars is off western Mexico, Saturn … off western Korea, Neptune … traversing Tsugaru Straits, and Hyundai Earth … between Madagascar and Cape of Good Hope.

She’s among the biggest in the port, 1062′ x 155.’

 

Other ships calling recently include Bow Jubail, here assisted by

Turecamo Girls.  By the way, did you even notice the assist tugs on Hyundai Jupiter above?

Shrike loaded scrap,

APL Yangshan and Hamburg Sud Monte Rosa transfer boxes, and

Polaris waits at anchor.

To return here to the tugs visible on the Hyundai ship, they were Robert E.  and Erin.

 

Invisible but assisting on the starboard side was Ellen.  And as of this writing Hyundai Jupiter has tied up in Norfolk, doing a steady almost-20 its much of the way.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Random Tugs 187

Thanks to Jonathan Steinman, who once a week has a moment to look out his window at work, here’s an angle on Kimberly Poling showing a weight bench just behind the wheelhouse.   In pleasant weather, that must make a great gym.

Chandra B meets Morton Bouchard Jr with the Goethals Bridge–old and new–as backdrop.

Ditto Ellen S. and Erin McAllister, with added details of the Linden refinery.

A closeup of Erin, as she plows eastward.

Ellen S.  and Evening Light meet near the salt pile.

And to close out today’s post, it’s the too long absent Vulcan III passing Gracie M.

How about a flashback to June 2009.  Cheyenne looks different today, but so does the shoreline of Manhattan, now that Pier 15 has institutionalized itself over on the far side of where Wavertree rests.

The first photo by Jonathan Steinman;  all others by Will Van Dorp.

Congestion 3

Here  are the two previous posts by this title, and more.

Juxtaposed boats invite comparison, allow perception of subtle difference, here between Marion and Doris.

It also gives a sense of the random traffic patterns, here about to pass the impatient Peking are (l to r) Michael Miller, Charles Burton, and way in the distance Robert E. McAllister.

Here , a few seconds later, Charles Burton‘s barge CVA-601 is about to obscure Chandra B–on a ship assist?– and Miriam Moran.

 

Here, from l to r, it’s Sapphire Coast, Charles Burton, Evening Mist, Ellen S. Bouchard, Robert E. McAllister, Scott Turecamo, and Erin McAllister.   

And a quarter hour later and from a different vantage point, it’s Stena Companion, Cielo di Milano, a Miller launch, Maersk Phoenix, and NCS Beijing.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Erin McAllister and More

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.