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By numbers of boats, Vane Brothers has the largest fleet operating in the sixth boro, or maybe it just seems that way because the boats appear uniform, but there are subtle differences in size, power, vintage, and some of you know what else. It helps to think of this fleet as several classes, not all of which are shown in this post. The classes here are Elizabeth Anne, since 2015; Patapsco, since 2004; and Sassafras, since 2008; here I’ll abbreviate these classes as EA, PTS, and SAS.
Elizabeth Anne is now part of the Vane NW fleet working on the Salish Sea aka Puget Sound. Both Patapsco and Sassafras, now Steven Wayne and George Holland, respectively, have been sold out of the Vane fleet.
Nanticoke was launched in 2004, 4200 hp, and 95′ x 43.’ These are common to all/most PTS class. Assisting here is Fort McHenry, 2016, 3000 hp, and 90′ x 32,’ standard for SAS class.
Philadelphia dates from 2017, 4200 hp, 95′ x 34,’ standard for the EA class.
Wye River is a 2008 PTS-class boat, 4200 and 96′ x 34.’ I’m not sure of that 96′ loa number.
Choptank is a 2006 PTS boat.
Elk River is a 2009 SAS boat.
New York is a 2017 EA boat. I took this photo in the Black Rock Canal, in Buffalo. This is the only non-sixth boro image in this post.
Cape Fear is 2018 SAS boat. Fort McHenry in the distance has been mentioned above.
Charleston is 2018 EA.
Pocomoke is a 2008 PTS.
Fells Point is a 2014 SAS boat.
Kings Point is SAS, 2014. Jacksonville is a 2018 EA boat.
And to close for now, Fort Schuyler is a 2015 SAS boat.
All photos, any errors, WVD. Transiting the sixth boro now and then and some stick around, Vane Brothers has at least three other classes of boats in their fleet.
A previous all-Vane post can be found here.
This follows up a post from not quite two weeks ago here. Of course, this unidentified recreational craft–here with HMS Justice and Fort McHenry–is out for a morning to commune with the fish migrating through the boro. More on fish soon.
I have to admit first off that I missed SV Vaquita sailing through, but you can catch the highlights and follow along on YouTube, produced by the same wit as TimBatSea, both of which are YT channels worth checking out. Vaquita made its way south of Norfolk through the Dismal Swamp canal.
Ketch Manana from Nova Scotia was eyeing the KVK before heading out the VZ.
Asteria is a 52-year-old yacht. Registered in Bikini, she actually has the stuff to get there. I love the lines.
In recent days, I’ve seen her both in North Cove and out by the
the statue, here sending her tender out on a mission.
As this sloop came between Roosevelt Island and the UES, she caught my attention because
of the lines and the polished aluminum hull.
It turns out she’s Pleione, an Alubat Cigale 16 that’s been around although registry is Boston.
Finch seemed to be worked by a solo sailor from Portsmouth NH that was handling sail only just outside the ferry routes.
And if these lines don’t catch your attention, nothing will. Of course, it’s a Lord Nelson Victory Tug (LNVT) 37′ version. You’ve seen the model before here . . . as in Sally W.
As it turns out, Sally W is hull #42, and the boat on the East River three days ago is hull #48, aka
Edward S. Marvin, another New Hampshire boat, here quite diminished by the cliffs and bridges along Manhattan’s east side.
All photos, any errors, WVD, a contrarian who’s migrating north a bit next week.
Here’s a sampling of boats working I saw in the sixth boro the past week; the variety of boats, though, is greater than these would suggest.
Frances . . . was launched on Long Island in 1957. Scroll through here and see photos of Frances I took in 2010 when she still had the Turecamo wood-grain paint.
Emily Ann was built in Louisiana in 1964. She’s been a DonJon boat for eight years; to see her in K-Sea colors, scroll here. I’ve no photos of her in previous liveries.
Potomac, 2007 in Louisiana, and Fort McHenry, 2016 and Maryland. They were built as Vane equipment.
Paula Lee is not a tugboat, nor is
Trojan, the anchor tender, but this equipment is currently in the sixth boro, but owned by a company based in California. I don’t know the history of any of these pieces of Dutra equipment.
Ellen McAllister, Wisconsin in 1967. Ellen may very well be the most frequently-appearing boat on this blog. Here she is passing the southern tip of Manhattan just entering the East River.
Meagan Ann, Washington state in 1975. See Birk’s encyclopedia-like site for photos of Meagan Ann as a Foss boat. I have more photos of her wrestling in this DonJon crane.
And Joker, 1979, Louisiana. Eight years ago, I caught these photos of the boat when she was called Taurus, a Kirby boat, and looking rough. Here, from 2007, is Taurus in K-Sea colors.
All photos, WVD.
Friday I hit the road going pretty far west, and maybe even finding a vessel called Far West.
I’m on a short gallivant, but I have no shortage of sixth boro photos, mostly of tugboats engaged in commerce. Sometimes I look for meetings, and interesting (how ever that’s defined) ones are best. Like here…. Kristin and Kimberly,
B. Franklin and Dylan Cooper,
Mary H and Joyce,
Reinauer Twins and Pokomoke,
R/V Ocean Researcher (a multirole survey vessel [aka an exotic] for the offshore energy sector) and Emery Zidell,
and Fort McHenry and Philadelphia.
Then sometimes there are more than two at a time that can be framed in a shot, like here, Elk River, Paula Atwell, Chem Bulldog, Kirby, and B. Franklin . . .
More Bulldog soon. All photos yesterday, WVD.
What follows is photos of eleven Vane Brothers tugboats. Can you identify the four that are 3000 hp; the others are all 4200 hp. The difference lies with the height of theupper wheelhouse.
You choices are Susquehanna,
Magothy and Fort McHenry,
Cape Fear,
Fells Point,
Choptank,
Fort McHenry again,
Pokomoke,
Hunting Creek,
and again . . .
Patuxent, and
Elizabeth Anne.
All photos, WVD.
The 3000s are Fort McHenry, Fort Schuyler, Fells Point, Hunting Creek. The key is the shorter upper wheelhouse stalk.
Megalopolis roadways see dense traffic, and so do waterways in these areas. I hope these photos convey a sense of that. All but two of the seven vessels are underway. Underway vessels, l to r, are Frederick E. Bouchard, MSC Athens, Jonathan C. Moran, C. F. Campbell, and Fort McHenry.
Dense means tight quarters, Brian Nicholas looking barely larger than the bulbous bow.
Here everything is in motion.
Again, everything here is in motion. I’m not sure what the Reinauer units there are.
All are moving here too . . Frederick E., Pegasus, Meaghan Marie, one of the Moran 6000s, Mister T, a bit of the bow of Mary Turecamo, and CMA CGM Nabucco.
Sometimes a confluence of schedules make the KVK resemble rush hour. Photos, WVD.
Having seen the forecast for December 25, I did my watch on Christmas eve. These are the latest sunrises of the entire cycle . . . photo taken around 0745, and the sky was still reddish and offering very little light. Fort McHenry and survey boat Christina cross. Yes, Christina . . . namesake you know who.
Diane B was pushing John Blanche deep in the water with heating fuel.
Fort McHenry passes my station.
Ocean Endeavour was heading in ahead of the strong winds . . . or maybe just to be at the dock for Christmas. Note the Staten Island ferry off her starboard and a tip of Twin Tube off port stern.
By now, it’s a little after 0800.
Twin Tube is the ultimate sixth boro Christmas boat; there’s no Santa or reindeer, just a competent captain and enough horsepower to get alongside ships.
The reindeer . . . they’re atop the tarped salt pile. Santa may have abandoned the sleigh, however.
All the above photos were taken before 0900. The photo below. . . it’s W. O. Decker, currently getting work done upriver, but ensconced between Wavertree and work barge Progress a few years ago . . .
All photos, WVD, who wishes you all Merry Christmas and gifts of life, health, and happiness however you find it. And one more . . . bravo to the Normandy crew for the decorations.
Quick . . . name those units?
Type Vane Brothers into the search window, presuming you know these are Vane Brothers boats, and you’d get all the previous instances of this title, going back to 2009.
Now you can see the names . . . Potomac above and Fort McHenry below.
Philadelphia is legible here, as is
Kings Point.
On a related note, I’ve been doing some blog maintenance; I finally added tags to the first three and a half years of this blog. Tags? You can find them in the “fine print” just below the title. When I started the blog back in November 2006, I had enough to do just remembering the process of getting images and text on the page. So until April 2010, I just skipped tags. Their addition matters because now–if you want–you can efficiently trace all instances of a certain vessel appearing here. For example, the first time I saw any Vane Brothers boat in the sixth boro was at the 2007 tugboat race; it was Patapsco. If you want to locate all the photos I’ve posted–and now tagged–type Patapsco into the search window, find it in the tags, click that tag, and voila . . . you can go all the way back to the first one.
The system is not fool proof because Patapsco, the word, might refer to the river and watershed also. It refers to any other vessel by that name as well. For example, if you type in Pegasus, you get both the 1907 tug and the 2006 boat. However, with tags undated, you get more of the older images than previously. Similarly, Philadelphia may refer to the boat above or the city; type that in the search window, and you’d get both.
And if I neglected to tag something in posts more recent than April 2010, it’ll be harder to find. If I made a mistake, you’d be given my mistaken info . . . GIGO. Those caveats given, searching is now a bit easier than it was.
All photos, WVD.
I sometimes refer to a golden hour, but recently I heard someone talk about the “blue” hour, when the sun is still or already below the horizon. The light is dramatic in both, or through that whole continuum, as seen here.
Fort McHenry heads east . . .
as does Amy Moran, who technically is moving later than the blue to gold but still enjoys the subdued light.
RTC 80 is pushed westbound by
Dace Reinauer.
Treasure Coast waits with its barge amidst the industrial landscape of IMTT.
Viking (sometimes pronounced “vikin“) moves toward the AK with DBL 134.
Buchanan 12 heads for the fuel dock.
Ruth M. Reinauer takes her barge to the AK as well.
Evelyn Cutler moves her barge to the west, and
fleet mate Kimberly Poling crosses the strait to tie up at Caddells.
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Sheesh . . . someone forgot to sweep all the leftover letters from the garage floor after work.
All photos and lack of sweeping by Will Van Dorp.
I think of ROROs like Dignity Ace as being fairly large, but this juxtaposition made me re-evaluate.
So let’s let the tape tell its tale: three vessels here are (l to r) Anthem of the Seas, YM Utmost, and Dignity Ace with respect to their length and breadth; and I realize that the photo does nothing to show loa. It comes out as 1141′ x 162′ v. 1099′ x 140′ v. 656′ x 106.’
The two Vane tugs are 90′ x 32,’ although I know it’s Fort McHenry alongside Anthem and cannot identify the tug alongside Dignity.
I’m guessing the fishing boat anchored here is about 20′ and
Franklin Reinauer is 81′ x 27.9 . . . .
And since we’re doing numbers . . . from the “globe” atop the “sky arm” to the water . . . that’s 300.’
That puts some perspective on scale of some sixth boro traffic.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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