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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.
Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Nathan G comes toward the Narrows with
a max loaded scow.
B. Franklin Reinauer heads into the Kills
Hunting Creek heads west and
Jacksonville, east. By the way, what is that blue flag halfway up the mast above?
N is for Nicholas Vinik coming by to
to assist Genesis Victory with GM 6506 out of IMTT.
And we’ll hold it up here.
Remember my virtual tour. It’s 45-50 minutes, no advertisements, and you get to ask questions.
You’ll travel through time and space Tuesday, May 26, and if you can’t listen in then, it’ll be archives so you can listen whenever you feel like. Book it, please. It’ll answer every question except . . . where Sal was born.
Heraclitus has to be the classical philosopher most referred to on this blog. I thought of this person again as I returned into the city after my longest ever so far time away; this is a familiar place of six boros, and yet it does not seem familiar. It is new, renewed by multiple sunrises and by my recollection as I gallivanted afar, seeing new places. We enter beneath the GW, which I’ve never seen lit up this way.
On the water side of a wild and dynamic clutch of architecture, Pegasus stands guard,
As we make an initial run to the Upper Bay, we pass a renewed Harvey, a resolute Frying Pan, and an ever working Chandra B.
Hunting Creek follows Chandra B up to the cruise terminal.
USCGC Shrike waits near FDNY’s Hudson River station and the sprouting Pier 55.
Ernest Campbell brings more fuel to the cruise terminal.
Sarah Ann (I believe) delivers waste, passing the Battery, where Clipper City awaits another day of passengers.
As we circled back to dock, an unfamiliar tug was southbound.
Robert T and that livery are not ones I recognized, until
I realized this was the old Debora Miller. Who knew!!??
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are posts one through five in this series.
Just a photo essay, Vane tugs and barges in the KVK through all the daylight hours today.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s a different perspective on the sixth boro, different from my more usual ones. And in this morning light, Sarah Ann looks like a beauty as she heads somewhere past Robbins Reef Light and
well . . . along that island.
Let’s continue trying to get some different POVs. Patricia has some fine lines here accentuated by the low light of dawn.
Elk River and Hunting Creek pass, with missions in opposite directions.
Evelyn Cutler moves product for somewhere up the North River.
Paula Atwell moves garbage containers past an incoming green new shipment, and
Julie Anne, a new one for me in the sixth boro although I have posted a “down south” photo of her here, moves a scow up toward the Passaic River. Notice that until I got to the Norfolk tugs, there were no tugs with even a drip of red paint on them in this post?
And finally, Brian Nicholas is neither a huge nor a small tug, 72′ loa, but as she passes the stern of CMA CGM Nabucco, she
looks almost like a toy. My first reaction was excitement . .. erroneously thinking I’d see either the elusive Susan E. or Elizabeth Anna. But don’t get me wrong, greetings to Brian Nicholas!
All photos and sentiments here the product of and/or the opinion of Will Van Dorp.
To continue on from yesterday’s list . . . I’ve done chugster, jetster, even a gangster . . . though you have to search for it here by scrolling a bit, but the blog is called tugster, and I’m proud of that some chuckles notwithstanding . . . .
This is a cross section for the 250th time, a random sampling of what tugboats were working in the Upper Bay of NYC aka the sixth boro on a given morning earlier this week. By the way, the 001 version of this title dates from October 2007.
Vane Brothers boats and barges abound.
Hunting Creek stands by a set of four of them, while
Wye River travels light past the ferry racks.
Franklin Reinauer travels light past the count-defying load of containers on a ULCV over in Global.
ATB Freeport and Chemical Transporter transfer cargo over at the east end of IMTT, at
the same time
Scott Turecamo and New Hampshire do.
CF Campbell stands by with Long Island.
And passing an unusual but new landmark along the sixth born margins,
Patrice McAllister makes her way west. Quick . . . name a larger global garment retailer than H & M, and what the initials H & M expand to? Answers here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose fingers froze and cold tears flowed while having the float-about, look-about.
Here are all the previous names posts.
I sometimes take photos and imagine how I’ll use them, and then later, another photo offers great juxtaposition. Like this one. I used it before here.
But then another photo jumps into my vantage point and camera, and suggests a different use. We have The Commissioner above and Commodore below, so
that makes me wonder whether and where might be other boats like Contender, Confuser, . . . Collaborator, which strikes me as a good name for a crew rowboat or a three-person kayak.
The NYC Ferry has grown quickly and chosen some interesting names. Each time I see this one, my brain makes me say Opportunity comes and
Opportunity goes. People who arrive late at the dock might report that they missed the opportunity.
I know this boat but I don’t know why a stranger might have difficulty identifying it.
Both sides had this treatment.
ONE Stork showed up here a while back, pink or magenta, and I missed it. Next time. In the fall.
There’s an announcement coming tomorrow.
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.
Some people are up before dawn on Easter because of work. But at sunrise this morning from Bard Street and looking west . . . it was gray.
Looking east . . . dawn smudged the rosy fingers’ painting. Lucy Reinauer pushed RTC 83 in that direction, while the Moran 6000 hp tractors returned to the barn after helping Hanjin Shenzhen out to sea and southbound.
And the Bayonne windmill has revived its current production. Passing it in order were JRT Moran,
and James D. In the distance, that’s Barney Turecamo and
Miriam also passed.
Caitlin Ann and
Hunting Creek also worked their way into Easter morning.
And I decided to get to work also. All photos by Will Van Dorp, who did versions 1 and 2 of this in previous years. Here was a different take on Easter. As for Caitlin Ann’s being blue . . .
here’s how I first saw her.
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