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The Hudson treats the traveler with magical sights like these. The castle atop the lush riverbank is still there, but that tug–Viking–is no more. I’m not sure the disposition of DBL 134.
One morning soon after sunrise that summer 2017 I followed Delaware a ways up the Hudson before overtaking her.
Ernest Campbell had started working in the sixth boro by 2018, but its livery has changed since then.
On the last day of June, I took a ride on the Rondout and saw (l to r) Johannsen Girls, Fells Point, and Severn. Severn now works in the Pacific Northwest although still for Vane.
Tarpon was working in the boro, but since that time has been sold to interests on the West Coast, although I’m not sure she’s made it there.
In June 2019, I caught Stephen Reinauer heading out the Narrows to rejoin its barge;
North of the border, SLS aka Sheri Lynn S was tied up at a Picton ON dock.
June 2020 one morning, I spotted Kirby Moran meeting ONE Minato, and
Janet D returning to her Elizabethport base.
In June 2021, it’s Charles D passing Adventurer while standing by for an incoming ship.
And finally, Sarah D was eastbound here in the Kills.
All photos, WVD, who may have made some errors here with dates, having had his brain baked in the Louisiana heat.
I caught this small open boat eastbound on the KVK.
She passed Ernest Campbell. Clearly by her markings, she’s a survey vessel.
Between traffic, they seemed to focus their work near the transition between the KVK and the ConHook Range . . .
returning to their area of interest, as I said, between traffic.
Work completed, they headed back west
from where they’d first come.
That might be a cold job with minimal protection for employees of Aqua Survey Inc. in
a crowded waterway . . .!
All photos, WVD.
It appears that Aqua-Survey Inc. (ASI) has another boat called RV Tesla, which I’d love to see. I caught R. E. Hayes here over 10 years ago, also an ASI boat.
Bobbie Ann departs the sixth boro with some GLDD equipment.
Little did I know at the time that Bobbie Ann had left the sixth boro a decade ago, then as Vera K.
Ernest Campbell wrestles along a double hull bunker barge. I wonder why the Centerline Logistics lion has not yet been added to her stack.
When tugs like Mary Turecamo assist a deeply laden tanker, the perspective from the upper wheelhouse is so much different than when assisting a ULCV, with their much higher freeboard.
Sometimes the 46′ x 15′ Rae is just the right size. Recall Rae‘s role in getting Wavertree back into her berth after the big renovation?
One of the newest tugboats in the boro, Cape Canaveral, 105′ x 36′ and generating 5000 hp, has the most evocative name.
She has two siblings, Cape Henry and Cape Lookout.
Again, is it me? I don’t believe I’ve seen Justine in a long while. She’s also 105′ x 35′ and 4000 hp. She has an elevating wheelhouse, which you can see here, scroll.
This is crowded: (l to r) Diane B, Saint Emilion, Meredith C. Reinauer, Lois Ann L. Moran, and Pathfinder.
Escorting from a distance astern, it’s Kimberly.
And finally, a photo from some time back, Vane’s New York, now working on the Great Lakes, Vane’s only freshwater unit . . . that I know of.
All photos, WVD.
Franklin crossed over the KVK to
assist Haggerty Girls and RTC 107 out of IMTT.
Patrice just finished assisting a box ship, and then turned around to help a government ship out of port.
Ernest Campbell with no lion yet on its stack.
Kings Points eases Double Skin 307 out of IMTT.
Marjorie B. is about to do a power turn and assist that box ship.
Meredith C. is heading offshore with RTC 135.
And let’s end with a throwback to yesterday’s “golden hour,”
Lincoln Sea and a stealthy Sarah D westbound light just after my first coffee hour. I have more of these recent golden hour photos…
Here’s a better shot of Sarah D beside a stealthy USS Slater in Albany earlier this month.
All photos, WVD, who is now ready for the big 300. If you want to assist with a photo of a tugboat, especially one never before seen on this blog –or never before seen in its current or previous iteration, send one along. I’ll take a few days.
It’s been a while since I’ve acknowledged this my favorite time of day. Golden hour at 80+ degrees is quite different than it at 40- degrees. But here are my shots; I took them and then headed for the shade.
Larry J Hebert lies alongside the dredge and Mister Jim is happening by, westbound. Actually, i took this about 15 minutes after sunrise on a muggy morning. The haze makes it appear everything and everyone in the boros is asleep, except those on the sixth boro.
Laura Maersk, in a haze of very cantaloupe colors, waits to sail and carry cargo again.
Mister Jim, continues, a few minutes later.
By the time Wolf River passes, carrying crews to and from the dredging operation, the morning atmosphere has changed to orange.
I move farther west, and looking back to where I’d been, a cluster of traffic heads toward me.
Ernest Campbell and barge have a Maersk ship following them.
When Andrea passes, the ridge begins to look like a featureless mass, a tear of greenish blueberry.
All photos, WVD.
In case you’re keeping track, I’ve been home a long time quite a while, happy to help by staying put. I’ve had harder work, and I’m really busy. Nautical Sarah is still in town, a week and a half after she appeared to be departing.
USNS Watkins has been all the way to Florida, I believe.
Atlantic Sail is back in Liverpool, albeit briefly.
Lalinde is heading back to Guatemala.
Cardiff is underway, halfway to Brasil.
Songa Winds is anchored off Savannah. Rana Miller may be farther south than that, and Ernest Campbell is in the KVK.
An very light RHL Agilitas is bound for the Halifax portion of its route, and
Lady Saliha is in Veracruz.
Seebee, CMA CGM Orca, etc. . . . I see your intriguing signal . . . but I’m not getting photos.
All photos here, taken and not taken, WVD.
We’ve seen this before with entire fleets, as in the Kirbyfication . . . and Blueing . . . almost exactly a decade ago.
So check out St. Andrews now compared with then. Harley Marine Service, aka HMS, for a few weeks now has become Centerline Logistics Corporation, hence the orange stripe.
Andrea has gotten the new livery, including the lion on the stack.
Of the two boats that arrived here from Alaska not quite two years ago, Ernest Campbell has had the “centerline stripe” added,but not
the stack lion.
And C. F. Campbell has not been touched at all . . . as of this morning.
All photos by WVD.
Excuse the branches and tendrils reaching out over this dense pack of tugboats: five Bouchard boats plus a Harley behind Denise and a Genesis on the drydock.
Crystal Cutler here in profile is heading for the Kills; this photo prompts me to wonder how this wheelhouse “window” configuration has worked out.
Stephen B assists Fells Point leaving IMTT with Double Skin 302.
Marie J Turecamo heads east on the KVK.
I can’t recall now whether this is my first time to see Vane’s New York, here with Double Skin 53.
Seeley moves a scow eastbound.
Mount St. Elias goes west here.
And finally . . . J. George Betz heads east, possibly to pick up a barge.
All photos and interpretation by Will Van Dorp, who is solely responsible for content . . .
Here’s another calendar’s worth . . . starting with Josephine. I have many more of this bot coming up soon.
Capt. Brian heads out through the Narrows to meet a tow.
Cape Lookout returns for her anchored barge.
Nathan G delivers a brace of scows.
Ava M heads out for a job.
The “new” Kristin Poling returns to her barge as well.
Ellen and Bruce A follow a job.
St Andrews heads east and
Ernest Campbell, west.
Challenger, some weeks ago, brings a Weeks crane up for a lift.
Stephen B has some additions to her paint job since last I saw her.
CMT Pike heads back across the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who can’t believe it’s already mid-November 2019!!
Heraclitus has to be the classical philosopher most referred to on this blog. I thought of this person again as I returned into the city after my longest ever so far time away; this is a familiar place of six boros, and yet it does not seem familiar. It is new, renewed by multiple sunrises and by my recollection as I gallivanted afar, seeing new places. We enter beneath the GW, which I’ve never seen lit up this way.
On the water side of a wild and dynamic clutch of architecture, Pegasus stands guard,
As we make an initial run to the Upper Bay, we pass a renewed Harvey, a resolute Frying Pan, and an ever working Chandra B.
Hunting Creek follows Chandra B up to the cruise terminal.
USCGC Shrike waits near FDNY’s Hudson River station and the sprouting Pier 55.
Ernest Campbell brings more fuel to the cruise terminal.
Sarah Ann (I believe) delivers waste, passing the Battery, where Clipper City awaits another day of passengers.
As we circled back to dock, an unfamiliar tug was southbound.
Robert T and that livery are not ones I recognized, until
I realized this was the old Debora Miller. Who knew!!??
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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