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If you have a lot of free time, you can trace this back to the first installment.

These photos are all from the past week, starting out with Bouchard Boys, 1975.

Pelham, 1960.  Behind her is USNS Red Cloud.

Barney Turecamo (1995) and

 

Scott Turecamo (1998).

Eric R. Thornton (1960)

Jill Reinauer (1967) and Dace Reinauer (1968) with RTC 61.

Add Stephen-Scott (1967) and Ruth M. Reinauer (2008) pushing RTC 102.

 

Margaret Moran (1979) starting a backing-down of Heina with

James D. Moran (2015).  More on this backing down later this week.

Captain D (1974) with CVA-604.

Meagan Ann (1975)

Houma (1970).

Frances (1957) and I think I know the crewman forward of the house.

And finally, I put this photo here because of a boat in the background.  Is that Kristy Ann Reinauer (1962)?  I thought she was scrapped half a year ago already.  Hmm.

Other boats here are L. to r.) Realist, Kristy Ann, Hubert Bays, Long Splice, Samantha Miller, Stephen B, and Hunt Girls, which has been in the yard there for (?) two years now?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Here from five years ago was 2.   And from four years ago, here’s the last time (I think) I featured MOL Efficiency.   I wonder how many  hundreds of thousands of sea miles and dollars of cargo she’s moved since then.

But yesterday,  . .  that was Torm Ismini at the dock and McAllister Sisters on the bow of the MOL ship.

And to take care of all ID’s first . . . that’s Hubert Bays in the distance.  But look at Robert E. McAllister . . .

Line on . . . exerting steering in indirect mode.

Twas beautiful to watch.

Two minutes later . . . the towline is slack . . . until it would again be needed somewhere to the west.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who thanks the Robert crew for the demo.

Unrelated Q:  There is a major player in heavy lift and project cargoes named BBC Chartering.  What do the letters BBC expand to in this case?  I’m asking because I do not know . . .

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Gramma Lee T Moran, 2002

Jay Michael and Mister Jim,  1980 and 1982

Mister T, 2001

Mister T again

Brandywine and Viking, 2006 and 1976

Kimberly Turecamo, 1980

Red Hook (a first on this blog) and Severn, 2013 and 2008

B. Franklin Reinauer, 2012

Shelby Rose, 1963

Hubert Bays, 2002.

All fotos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.

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Vane Brothers Pocomoke pushes petroleum past Red Hook cranes,

Sister Susquehanna sleeps beside its DoubleSkin 52 with an unidentified Bouchard unit in the background,

McAllister Responder rushes  the #2 buoy,

Robert IV rumbles past the cliffs of lower Manhattan’s cliffs haze-shrouded as if July had already arrived,

Pocomoke pokes on to the northeast with its DoubleSkin 53?,

Hubert Bays hauls an unidentified scow past MOT as it exits KVK, and

… and you wanted a stern view of Susquehanna, right?

All fotos taken on a steamy Tuesday morning in April by Will Van Dorp.

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Small indie tugs need character maybe? Can you beat the color of Jenny Anne and Hubert Bays? Do you suppose fashion designers seek inspiration here?

 

Donjon’s Thomas D. Witte sports the best ice-blue under a wintry sky.

 

Coral Sea and

 

Barents Sea project exotic shapes to match their names against a monochomatic Staten Island and Bergen Point. That’s the west pylon of Verrazano upper left, 600+ feet high over the north ridge of Staten Island. More on the bridge soon.

Odin, Sakura Express, Kimberly Turecamo (right to left) eastward toward night movements.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp