Sixth Boro Traffic 4

Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun.  Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know.  The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems.    A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image.  I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.

Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.

Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are. 

Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.

Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler.  Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.

This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.

Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.

This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.

And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.

All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow.  Peace on Earth!

 

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Here are previous installments of this title.

ONE Hawk above and Rana Miller below.

 

The venerable Twin Tube with Robert Burton below and with Nave Equinox above.

Charles A passes the graving dock where Red Cloud gets a refurbishment, 

Maddie K moves some rock. 

Ava M and Hayward are on the hard in Bayonne.

And finally, Kristin Poling waits in the anchorage.

All photos, any errors, WVD, who wishes you a thankful week this week, and another next week, etc.

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It’s not the best photo maybe, although–hey– it was the golden hour when B. E. Lindholm came into the boro recently.  They’ve been working along the east side of Sandy Hook.

Some small craft traffic the boro all seasons of the year.  I suspect this is going out fishing, but I’m not sure.

Daisy Mae here southbound along Newport . . .  in a clash of horizontal lines. 

This morning had Meaghan Marie, Eastern Dawn, and Evening Mist rafted up in Red Hook.

I’ve often seen David Auld Scudder on AIS, but not until the other day had I seen the boat,

diminutive beside Pegasus Star.

As have appeared here before, Millers Launch has a lot of small workboats like Erin Miller. 

Discovery Coast has been working a fair amount in the boro in recent weeks. 

Too distant to tell, but Twin Tube here is lifting new life rafts onto Nordic Harrier. 

Hayward dates from 1974, when the drift collection vessel came out of a Boston shipyard.

And there we’ll leave it.  All photos and any errors, WVD.

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Keyport Princess dropped anchor in front of the Statue the other morning.  Does anyone need more proof that fish are currently thriving in the boro?

Climate Change also came through the boro from the Sound, no doubt heading for warmed waters for the next half year, but while transiting, 

this boater takes in the beauty of the day in the seas’ water of the boro.

Red Hook and RV Blue Sea pass each other, making me wonder what the students might be learning about the GUP vessel it’s passing.

James William alternates between containerized trash and crushed rock.  Here a deckhand has pleasant weather for the job. 

Over in Whitehall, three workers on a beam

attend to maintenance on a “wall” of the ferry rack. 

Hayward periodically serves as a boro VIP excursion vessel.

The intended purpose of that boom is fishing out floating or sunken debris that might pose a hazard to navigation. 

Pioneer takes another set of folks around the sylvan edges of the Upper Bay to enjoy the warmth of the waning year.

And finally, I’m grateful that in the design process for the latest generation of ferries, decisions were made to ensure that Sandy Ground and her two sisters have ample space for folks to enjoy the views as they transit the Bay.

All photos, WVD, who himself loves this time of year.

Enter the Dragons 2

Here was the first dragon, and then coincidentally, two more entered recently, one right after the other.

The first one claimed to be happy, 

but the second one . . . 

its temperament depends on what we find out about Anderson . . . .

All photos, WVD, who asks you report once you learn more about Anderson.  She was previously called Anderson Bridge. 

Many thanks to Carl Burkett for drawing my attention to the Happy part of the first dragon’s name;  let me amend this post with links to Happy Dynamic, Happy River, Happy Buccaneer, and Happy Rover.   There are more to catch as seen in the BigLiftShipping website.

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I’ve done dense traffic posts, and actually this is one.

The 3-mile strait can get quite busy.

 

Petroleum and all other goods, manufactured and raw, transit.

Key word here is busy.

 

Sometimes large vessels seem to be on a collision course, but that’s just trompe-l’œil ….

Yesterday, at one point it was unusually busy.  Count the tugs and larger vessels here? I count three ships and at least six identifiable tugboats when I blow this photo up.

There’s plenty of room in that 1000′ waterway.

All photos, WVD.

CMA CGM 15000

Remember the post on the CMA CGM 14414s?  How about the Wall of New York?

Below you are looking at 25,000 teu on the Maersk PLUS the CMA CGM vessels, Maersk 10k and CMA CGM 15k,

making this the largest ULCV yet to call in the sixth boro, CMA CGM Brazil.  Brazil came off the ways earlier this year.  The rest of the series will carry names including CMA CGM Argentina, Mexico, Panama, and Chile.  Does Brazil have the special scrubbers?  When will LNG catch on as fuel?

Hayward must have been the spectator vessel, but I didn’t get my invitation.

Maybe someone can opine on why James D. provided the tow moving astern?  My supposition is that this configuration places the wheels farthest ahead of the tow, providing the dynamic equivalent of a longer lever, but that’s only a supposition.

 

 

James D. and Kirby worked in tandem, as opposite ends of the ship.

If my math is correct, 15,000 teus, if lined up end to end, would make 56.8 miles of containers.  Big ship.

All photos, WVD, who wonders what is in all those boxes and of all that, what could not be made or grown in this country.

If you didn’t see her arrive, maybe you can catch her when she exits.

 

 

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Just for ships and figgles . . . have a glance at 155 and at 55 in this series. While we’re reconnoitering the past, here’s 5.

And here’s springtime 2019.  Might this be the last view I get of tug Viking?  Scuttlebutt’s bumped into me saying so. Her first (I believe) appearance on this blog was over 11 years ago here. She had some near twins, but none evolved quite as she did.

FB has this group I really enjoy called Freighters in the Night;  I could submit this one. Jonathan C escorts an MSC box ship out.

Liz Vinik is a former fleet mate of Viking;  I caught her yesterday entering the kills with a Cashman barge carrying barges. Click here for some photos of previous iterations of this boat.

A dark, slow-to-wake morning like yesterday provides lots of points of light.  Here Joyce D. heads out, likely for her railroad work.

Enjoy these contrasts, Linda L. Miller and Hayward, two specialized boats.

Let’s end with a transient, sporadically seen in the sixth boro, a formerly Pacific Ocean Crowley tug . . .  Morgan,  out of New Bedford.

All photos e-watermarked with invisible metadata as taken by Will Van Dorp in the past month.

 

Black Friday

. . . or I could call it “blue friday plus 700-something days.”  Here was “plus 21 days.”  Anyhow, on this day associated with shopping, Hayward and others were out for harbor maintenance,

Chesapeake Coast and others were out pushing fuel,

Seastreak New Jersey and others were moving passengers . . . (maybe here),  and

crews on ship and shore were moving bulk materials like salt here from Key Hunter.

And if you wonder what it looks like at the base of that tower, whose antenna arrived in the harbor 723 days ago, here’s a photo from Fulton Street I took two weeks ago when the news trucks and lots of others were hoping that two workers would soon be rescued.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

For a sense of how the Lower Manhattan skyline looked from New Brighton area of Staten Island about four years ago, click here.

Government Boats 27

What on earth–or on the river–could cause all these NYWaterways ferries to stick so close to the terminal?  Like fish in a weir . . . must be something big around . . . although I see no vessel between Resolute and Robert E. McAllister on AIS . . .

Praise the day!  Bowsprite–who loves gray or otherwise stealthy and can sometimes clear away the miasma and draw them, if you ask her nicely– ascended to a rooftop yesterday to see what MIGHT lurk between the two aforementioned tugboats.

Here is the current bearer of that name, but there’ve been at least six prior iterations.

She passes the clock–now being restored–and the light

but I was not there.  So here’s my chance to place another government boat in the proximity of Robbins Reef.

Bowsprite, my favorite harbor illustrator,  snapped all fotos except this last one above–of USACE Hayward–which I took.

For another of her ink renderings of sixth boro details, click here.