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A big thumbs up to the team for the appearance of this boat. The livery really pops, especially in the early morning sun. Silver–if that is the color between the lime green trim lines–this glossy silver is rarely used for tugboats that I know, and I, for one, would love to see it more widely used.
If you’re unfamiliar with the boat: 107′ x 32′ and 3000 hp. EMD 12-645-E6 x 2.
Built in 1976 but looking brand new, it used to be called Evening Mist.
See it reflect the early morning almost winter light.
All photos and opinions, any errors, WVD.
This monthly practice of looking back a decade gives me an opportunity to dust off a specific part of the archive in tugster tower. Besides sneezing sometimes because of the dust, I also feel amazed about the amount of change, small changes maybe but significant it seems.
Evening Mist has become Everly Mist, and is in a new endeavor. Palva is now Laurentia DesGagnes operating on and out of the Saint Lawrence River where I saw her a few years back. Only Eastern Welder in the background remains.
I made a few trips out to Greenport a decade ago, and walking through a shipyard saw this vessel from Suffolk Count Department of Health and its unusual top deck exhaust. Is that still around? I’m guessing it might check water quality on shellfishing areas . . .
Bebedouro (1974) and Atlantic Conveyor (1985), now both dead and scrapped. Brendan Turecamo still works here all day every day.
Rebel (138′ x 46′) is still on the NJ side of the sixth boro, waiting for an opportunity to get back to work.
Viking (132′ x 34′) has been cut up.
Annabelle Dorothy Moran was on her delivery run, making her way to the Chesapeake/Delaware Bay area, where she still works. Those range markers are no longer in place on the Brooklyn Heights bank of the sixth boro.
John B Caddell was nearing the end of this shore leave, heading for her final one. Note Sarah Ann tending the crane barge and WTC in the distance not yet completed.
Commander, a WW1 USN vet as SP-1247, was still showing its rotondity.
Joan Turecamo, a late Matton product, was still in the boro. Now she winds her way around the curves of the Lower Mississippi.
Sarah Ann and others of the Donjon fleet kept me up most of the night in December 2012, as she stood by a barge carrying WTC antenna sections that were lifted onto Manhattan . . .
across a blocked west side highway . . . lowered onto a vehicle with dozens of axles . . .
and trucked inland
In other night photos, quite rare on this blog . . . it’s Clearwater lifted onto Black Diamond barge with Cornell standing by.
I hope you enjoyed this backward glance as much as I have. I might have to get out and do some documenting of nighttime events on the sixth boro this December.
All photos, December 2012, WVD.
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Here’s a March 2017 photo of Evening Mist, one of many I took over the years,
her big tugboat lines lessened by this the second upper wheelhouse she had carried. A previous one she had as Captain Dann.
She was recently transformed again, and a few days ago I finally caught Evening Mist in her new livery . . .
H is for the Haughland Group.
And she looks great for a 1976 tugboat. I look forward to seeing more of the Haughland Group.
All photos, WVD.
I suddenly have a full hopper of photos from readers like you. Thanks. Let’s start with a photo of these two boats from Tony A taken on October 29.
Yesterday, November 3, I got this photo from Dan Horton showing how things are trending. My wager is that by now the red on Evening Star is gone and she matches Susan Rose and might be even be carrying Jordan Rose signage. At first I thought this was a gray, but here it looks like a flat off-white.
Meanwhile, in Belfast, here’s a surprise from William Mitchell.
She’s not been renamed but she joins the fleet of this boat. Know it?
It’s Fournier Tractor, previously McAllister Tractor and Mabel Colle. Fournier Tractor appeared in this blog here a few years back.
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Since we’re in Belfast, how about this rudder? Ever seen one like it, with it’s three-part design?
Here’s the vessel it’s from, Sequoia at French and Webb. Sequoia made its way up there on a deck barge two years ago, as seen here. The photo above and below come from Allan Seymour.
Liz Alma has been in the area this past month. I’ve just missed her a few times, but Tony A got this photo over in the Arthur Kill. I caught her along the North Carolina coast here a few years back.
And let’s close this out with this lowly supply boat for Alcatraz Island, an LCM-8 built by Higgins in New Orleans in 1954. George Schneider sends it along as a boat on his list of “seldom cared about vessels.” He writes that she’s “commercially documented as # 1191433, and was given an appropriate name for her service: Solitary.” I’d say some name paint is in order, although maybe supply chain woes have delayed it. A striped livery might work well too, almost a dazzle in this case to call attention to itself. George goes on about a large tour boat on this coast named Escape. He writes, “You’d think that name has an overtone of Shangri-la, but she was originally purchased for the Alcatraz tourist business until found inappropriate for that run.” I wonder if only the boat was inappropriate or the name as well.
Many thanks to Tony, Dan, William, Allan, and George for these photos.
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.
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 . . .
Quick post today . . .
Bert,
Bridgeport,
Helen
Rhea, Mist, and Tide. I’m eager to see the new Breeze.
And closing the post out, it’s Ava with raked spuds!
All photos by Will Van dorp, who has irons in the fire today.
On this day, the area where the Hudson enters the highlands looked every bit the fjord that it technically is.
I took these photos and was remembering ones sent by Richard Hudson of southern Chile, here.
It’s Breakneck Ridge on the left and Storm King Mountain on the right, with West Point academy buildings in between. Check out those links for all the other names these places have had in the past 400 years. And who knows what names have existed before then.
By now some of you have identified the two tugs . . .
Brooklyn and Evening Mist.
I was surprised to learn that Poling-Cutler Marine Transportation now operates Brooklyn.
Here Evening Mist moves her barge into the terminal in Newburgh.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
The harbor of NYC . . . the watery parts I call the sixth boro . . . is quite diverse. Bridgebuilder 22 (2012) I caught in Erie Basin,
where I also saw Miss Aida (2002), formerly known as American Muscle. Now that’s a name!!
Stephen B has been on the blog before, but this is the first time I had my camera with me as I passed Westchester Creek.
Treasure Coast was at Caddell Dry Dock and Repair earlier this month . . .
as were Evening Mist and Genesis Glory and
Pearl Coast.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Genesis Vision has just gone onto the wire from alongside, and
tightens it, moving the barge outbound for Florida. Click here for a 2013 photo of Genesis Vision as Superior Service.
Stephen Reinauer steams out to the Lower Bay to stand by with a barge just
vacated by Timothy L.
McKinley Sea returns in the direction of its barge out in the Upper Bay.
Hunting Creek provides a needed boost as Pokomoke moves Double Skin 39 out of the dock at IMTT.
In the fog, there’s a negotiation going on between Evening Mist and Evening Star that took me a bit to figure out . . . Ah . . .
Star goes into the notch of B. No. 250, and then Mist assists in the 180 degree turn. Note the pink ribbon on Mist’s stack?
My father would say, “Dean‘s lit up like a Christmas tree.”
Helen Laraway . . . assisting?
The truth about Helen is that she was waiting as Anthem was departing.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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