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The first part of this was four months ago here. Follow the red flag.
Know the tug moving this RTC 81?
B. Franklin was the first of her class when she came out in 2012.
Some numbers are 110′ x 33′ and 4000 hp.
How about the approaching tugboat?
That red flag is really visible in this light.
RTC 107 is
pushed by the 2013 Haggerty Girls, the third of the B. Franklin class, same numbers.
All photos, WVD.
RTC 81 … 80,000 barrels capacity. RTC 107 … 100,000 barrels.
I’ve seen lots of pairs in winter, some in spring, but never until now in fall, at least not acknowledged until this post.
Two sets of pairs appear below, one Centerline and another Moran, the latter escorting in CSCL South China Sea.
Ellen and Patrice here are going to different jobs.
Mary Turecamo and James D Moran here work on the CSCL box ship.
Lots are boats here; clockwise from the farthest, Haggerty Girls (I think), James D, Margaret, Marjorie B, and James William.
Around 0900, a brace of migratory birds headed north . . . F-18s maybe.
B. Franklin got an assist from Matthew Tibbetts.
Two old ferries ply their trade: Barberi with the highest flagpoles and Marchi.
Two top of the line sixth boro McAllister tugs joins forces.
Two old style boats: Manhattan II and Wanderer, the latter from the Sippican River.
And finally, this juxtaposition passed and allows a comparison of the lines of the 2015 6000 hp Kirby Moran with the 2008 5100 hp Laura K.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
The idea of recent posts in this series is to look at a single fleet.
As temperatures cool off, my perception is that demand for fuels rises, especially in the Northeast. Let’s look at the Reinauer fleet, starting with a light Nicole.
Haggerty Girls exited the KVK into the Upper Bay a few days back.
Ruth M. does the same here, likely returning to rejoin her barge.
Dean made for the East River
after having left the KVK minutes earlier.
Janice Ann enters the KVK from the Upper Bay.
Matthew Tibbetts heads for the Sound . . .
followed by Dace . . .
and then drops anchor beside Janice Ann.
who had been at the east end of IMTT a day or so earlier.
Christian waits with her barge before heading
somewhere in the Northeast.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who in the past has posted about these as bronze tugs.
Barry Silverton first came to the sixth boro five and a half years ago. Her twin Emery Zidell appeared here earlier this year, and i believe this is the first time to catch the ATB light and head on.
Roughly the same size, Haggerty Girls waits alongside as RTC 80 loads.
Mary Turecamo heads out to meet a ship. Mary Turecamo, Haggerty Girls, and Emery Zidell are all over 105′ and 4000 or more horsepower.
Margaret Moran here hangs close to a bulk carrier she’s escorting in.
Like Margaret above, Buchanan 12 is rated at 3000 hp and each has worked under the same name for the same company since coming from the shipyard. Buchanan 12 is a regular shuttling stone scows between the quarries up the Hudson and the sixth boro.
Franklin Reinauer has operated under that name since coming from the shipyard nearly 40 years ago.
I first saw Fort Point in Gloucester here over five years ago.
Joker seems to have become a regular in the sixth boro since this summer. She used to be a regular here as Taurus.
Known as Brendan Turecamo for the past 30 years, this 1975 3900 hp tug is getting some TLC up on the floating drydock.
All photos here where we leave it today, WVD.
Here were previous iterations of this title, as well as here, an AK Sunrise. If this effort were for a work published when complete, inconsistencies like dawn v. sunrise would be aligned, but this has always been a work in progress, a wandering that could end at any time.
So yesterday morning I was at my office before the 0550 sunrise, and I saw nothing until this. In fact, at 0554, I was wondering where the sunrise was, since there was not the sky show that often heralds the dawn. Anyhow, you might prefer a sun rise over a calm body of water or a forested valley or a garden, pasture, ravine, building . . . but I offer you our local star, source of terrestrial energy, over a tank farm, and below that Brooklyn crane . . as of 0555.
If you imagine an equilateral triangle, the sun as one point, myself another, then Cape Lookout was the third, and that shows how dim that sunrise was. When the sun rises through a clear atmosphere, you’re expect more golden color on this tugboat.
Pivoting back, the striations are not on the solar surface. Rather . . . they indicate a film in our atmosphere.
The 2018 5000 hp Cape Lookout glides in toward the fuel dock. Lois Ann L. Moran is tending her barge as some petroleum product gets transferred. An easy question for some of you; for her Caterpillar engines, Cape Lookout at full tanks carries 86,114 gallons of fuel, and 9550 gallons of urea. You can do the math for the fuel if you assume different prices per gallon. I don’t know how much fuel goes per gallon. Question: What’s the almost 10,000 gallons of urea for?
At 0558, clouds passed the sun, almost giving the impression of sunspots. By the way, I didn’t look directly at the sun; rather, I shot in that direction and saw what I got later, after the photos were “developed” . . . well downloaded.
Nearby at that dock, Haggerty Girls lies alongside her barge, RTC 107.
By now, the sun has risen NOT straight up from its appearance point, but at an angle, and is now partially obscured by the LaFarge–now Holcim–cement silos.
I’m at a fixed point, although I’ve varied the camera angles and settings.
For her power, the 2013 4000 hp Haggerty Girls has two MTU/DDC engines, and her fuel tanks add up to 114,202 gallon, and no urea. What does that tell you?
The 2009 5100 hp Lois Ann L. Moran has EMD engines, and carries 105,000 gallons of fuel and no urea. Time now is 0622, and Lois Ann L. lies beside her barge, Philadelphia.
By the way, all my numbers come from this site: tugboatinformation.com ….
All photos, yesterday, WVD.
And the urea? It’s ONE of the ways diesel engines are designed to meet clean air standards. I’m just learning about this, and smart people have been working on this for a long time.
Way back in 2007 I started this series, and I now think I should never have called it “bronze” since it’s more like a golden brown, but no matter, this post is all the same fleet. Name the fleet and the tug?
Talking fleet renewal . . ., Reinauer has a young fleet. Janice Ann is not even a year old . . .
Laurie Ann, here with Grace D alongside, is just over a decade old.
Dean is not quite a decade at work.
Curtis came out the same year as Dean. By the way, I didn’t identify the photo in the top photo yet. Figured it out?
Morgan is the oldie but goldie . . .
Haggerty Girls is about the same age as Dean and Curtis . . . i.e., a young fleet.
All photos, recently, WVD.
And the tugboat in the first photo is . . . Dylan Cooper.
Mackenzie Rose and Paul Andrew are eastbound, and Mary Turecamo, westbound.
A light Haggerty Girls westbound,
passing Laurie Ann Reinauer.
Kimberly Poling moves a barge out of the Kills.
A bulker in the anchorage gets bunkered by
Kings Point. Katya Atk needs to repaint the name on the starboard bow.
And Helen Laraway makes her way east.
All photos, WVD.
Alongside Pilot No. 1 New York, the current one, it’s the newest-in-name vessel in the sixth boro . . .
Meaghan Marie, ex–Kathleen Turecamo, has become part of the same green & buff fleet as Joseph John.
Here’s a photo I took of her in port of Albany, September 2013.
A different use of green . . . Vane’s Philadelphia, a 4200 hp tug launched in 2017.
A slightly darker buff, it’s Matthew Tibbetts. What I didn’t realize until I looked it up just now, Tibbetts was launched as Dann Ocean’s first boat to carry the name Ocean Tower. More on that later.
It’s always a good day when I catch two Reinauer tugboats together, Haggerty Girls (4000 hp) and Ruth M. Reinauer (4720 hp), with a deeply loaded RTC
Alex puts its 4300 hp to bear on Viktor Bakaev.
I mentioned Ocean Tower earlier . . . here’s the current tugboat by that name. It’s about a decade newer, one-third more horsepower, and 15′ longer, and 5′ broader than the earlier boat, now Tibbetts.
Kristin Poling began life as Chesapeake, an early version of Patapsco but longer, broader,and with a full 5000 hp.
And to conclude, examples of the classes of the two largest tractor tugs in the sixth boro . . . Capt. Brian A. and
JRT, each approaching their next job.
All photos very recently, WVD, who has more tugboat race photos from previous years . . .
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.
On a recent foggy rainy day, I caught Elk River bunkering (I believe) Maritime Kelly Anne. That’s certainly an interesting name, although yesterday Endless Summer topped it, arriving from Brasil. Might there be a string of ships with movie name references out on the oceans?
I love how fog narrows the depth of field in a natural way.
The same day Genesis Vigilant nosed into an IMTT dock.
Wye River was traveling light on the way to and likely from a barge,
as were Morgan Reinauer,
Haggerty Girls, and
and Stephen Reinauer.
Brendan was following a ship to Port Elizabeth.
Stephanie Dann was headed for sea and south.
Ellen S. Bouchard was lying alongside B. No. 262, as her fleet and their crews languish. And exfiltrate?
Catherine Miller moves a Caddell crane . . . back to the KVK base.
All photos,WVD.
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