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I can’t say if more than unusual number of changes are in fact happening these days, or if my radars are set to detect change. In either case, I privilege novelty on this blog, so here we go, the first of the series.
April 2016 this was Ellen S. Bouchard alongside Bouchard Boys.
Also in 2016, Ellen S. was in a crowded channel meeting another fleetmate, Evening Light.
From yesterday coming through Hell Gate I saw this. Name the tugboat pushing B. No. 282?
wearing a Centerline livery and now
carrying a new new.
It’s Jeffrey S,
here slowed down because of the work over near Blount-built William Brewster and the Manhattan side 79th Street bridge.
She’ll round the bend at the Battery and head up to Albany.
All photos, Halloween, WVD.
Happy November 2022.
July 2009 she looked like this . . .
June 2016 like this . . .
And in August 2021 . . . she looks like this. Welcome Mary Emma. Congratulations to the new owners, recognizable by the tan/green colors.
And transformation I missed was Evening Mist, who recently got a new logo on her stacks and traveled
to Belfast, Maine. No doubt more Bouchard boats will be transforming soon.
More paint-overs of this fleet to follow. Others I missed have been Capt. Fred, now registered in California and Linda Lee, operating for a Texas concern.
And speaking of transformations, the first cruise ship since February 2020 came into port this morning . . . with more to come.
Some harbors are more varied than others. I’m happy to call the sixth boro home for now.
I’d never expect to see Emma Miller come in from “sea” or even in through the Narrows.
The weather is quite variable as well. In a singularly unpleasant day, MSC Alicante,
Ziyou ( a Tayana 37??), and
a Kadey-Krogen Evening Light (not the tugboat) all head out to sea.
A day or two later, warm morning light bathes Dorothy J
as she brings Weeks 536 into the boro.
It’s not winter yet, but there’s a lot of fishing going on with all manner of goals.
Shearwater is running a lot of line, but of course her quarry is
not the finny type. Rather, she’s generating bathymetric images. I guess I’m not privvy to them, not being the client. You can see her track lines on AIS. Sharp, another research vessel, is running the same lines from Sandy Hook south. Has anyone gotten a photo of her?
This I’d wager is a fleet angling for bluefish or stripers or more. Tanker Maya pushes the finny ones in their direction as she makes for sea.
Osprey herd the finny ones from just above the VZ.
Fugro Explorer comes in from sea for supplies, fuel, and who knows what more.
All photos and sentiments, WVD, who asserts that no one can ever be bored along the margins of the sixth boro.
A few of you have written to ask that I again upload photos of larger size so that when you double-click on a photo, they enlarge. Here’s the problem: Facebook won’t allow me to upload at that size if I want a photo on the preview. Since a lot of folks just read on FB, my compromise has been to upload smaller photos.
J. George Betz and Morton Bouchard Jr. raft up on the floating dock.
Helen Laraway pushes toward the east.
JRT passes Weddell Sea on the way home after completion of another job.
Daisy Mae moves a deeply loaded scow westbound. I’m not certain but believe the product is road salt.
Discovery Coast heads over toward the Kills.
A light Elk River makes for the next job.
Emily Ann tows astern passing the collection of boxes in the Global Terminal.
And Majorie B. passes Pacific Sky while she steams back to the McAllister yard.
And one more, Ellen S, Pearl Coast, and Evening Light . . round out this installment.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose sense of this decade’s end is growing more palpable, offers this photo of Michigan Service and a whole lotta dredgin’ from the last two weeks of 2009.
Frances heads out to earn some money on a rainy yesterday morning. I’ve no idea what that red glow behind the Statue is.
Lincoln Sea has worked on both coasts since I’ve been doing this blog, and like Frances, has kept the same name. Click here to see her in my second ever blog post . . . 2006.
Michael Miller here moves equipment to and from islands in the boro’s archipelago. I first saw this vessel as Stapleton Service.
Annie G II goes way back on this blog too. Recently she’s been doing a job over west of the Staten Island Ferry racks, a job she was the perfect size for. She’s a WGI tug.
Jane A. Bouchard was out along the east side of Staten Island, passing the old US Marine Hospital. See it here if you scroll way through.
Ellen McAllister was heading out for a call. I likely first posted a photo of her here.
In that photo earlier, Jane was headed to meet up with Evening Star and her barge.
James E. Brown and Thomas J. Brown tag teamed car float NYNJR 200, the newest and largest car float in the sixth boro.
Ditto, CMT Pike and Helen Laraway meet up on a set of scows.
And to close this out, it’s Austin Reinauer, Boston-bound in the rain.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I know others witnessed dawn this morning as the big pink ship came in . . . .
By the way, if you were naming this ONE “bird” ULCV based on this morning’s color, which bird
would
you choose? Nah . . . it wasn’t that. More later.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Call it a sea change. The air warms up although the water is still very cold.
Sea Lion does what it has all winter, but what’s different is the reappearance of non-workboats. Sea Lion has some history on this blog.
Evening Light moves north in anticipation of summer.
Pleasure boats move into an environment that has been consistently about work throughout the winter.
Mischief passes New Champion and Stephen Dann, which brought in highway ramp sections. Would these sections be for the Bayonne, the Tappan Zee, or another?
Small party boats
head out to catch what spring fish migrate in. Should there be a Really Never Snuff Express?
Bigger party boats appear as well.
Fast open boats and
slower enclosed cruisers, of all sorts
pass Atlantic Salvor as it returns from another dredge spoils run.
Norwegian Escape has smaller boats
accompany it on its way into the Narrows and the harbor. If my numbers are correct, Escape has capacity for 5999 souls, including crew, which is more than the population of Taos, Marfa, and well more than the town where I grew up.
I’ve not seen many of these smaller boats since early last fall, and on a warm Sunday, they start to reappear. Drive safe; work safe.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose other posts about small craft can be read here.
The challenge here is to have clear photos and lights. Evening Star with B. No. 250 starts us off,
Jean Turecamo is on assignment with a barge,
Reinauer Twins heads back for the Kills,
TRF Memphis waits in Stapleton anchorage,
Mount St. Elias departs her barge,
and Alice Austen, usually the wee hours ferry, runs early.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous weather posts. Below . . . that’s easy: it’s a local shower; Evening Tide and Evening Light were in the rain, and I was not, yet.
But a half hour later at the opposite end of the KVK, the clouds were truly wild. Is there a word for these conditions? Again, it wasn’t raining at my location.
Air currents swirled beyond the busy waterway, l to r, Stolt Loyalty, Stone 1, Phoenix Dream, Kimberly Turecamo, and Hoegh Seoul assisted by Bruce A. McAllister.
The Stolt tanker passes Graecia Aeterna before meeting the wild swirl head-on.
Add one more tug to the mix.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d like to know what you call this type of fast-moving dispersal of fog.
This leg from New York harbor, aka the sixth boro, to Narragansett Bay was not proposed in Gallatin’s report, but we have gotten here by means after much time and miles in his ditches. We depart a few hours after dark and head into the
East River under some puffy clouds.
The 1903 Williamsburg Bridge seemed especially iconic this night…
At Hell Gate, we passed Evening Light towing a fuel barge.
Then we headed under the spans between Queens and the Bronx.
I shot once, a look back before getting too far eastward.
At foggy daylight, we passed Patuxent with barge and
some draggers with nets filtering through the Sound.
Block Island dashes ahead of us between Point Judith and its namesake island.
Lights at Point Judith and
Castle Hill guide us in, as they do
other vessels.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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