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Call this a continuation of yesterday’s post, but this is a model bow set . . . . Given all the features that could be discussed, focus on these for oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower. Also, one of these does not fit with the others, although all are tugboats.
Douglas J
Doris Moran
Philadelphia
Again, identify the oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower.
James William Here she appears to be towing a mooring into Erie Basin Brooklyn.
Millie B and Louis C. These two certainly do not fit in with this post, but . . . I’m posting this photo anyhow. Previously, Millie B has appeared here. Louis C has appeared here. I hope you’re getting ready with your answers.
Rowan M McAllister
Adeline Marie
All photos and any errors, WVD. All info here thanks to Birk Thomas’ invaluable tugboatinformation.
Ready? No cheating.
Just guesses.
Answers?
Oldest is Rowan M, and newest is Philadelphia. 1981 and 2017.
Smallest considering both length and beam is James William, and longest is Doris Moran although Douglas J is the beamiest. Lengths are 77′ and 118′.
Least horses is James William, and most is Douglas J. They range from 2800 hp to 4800 hp.
Besides Millie B, the outlier is James William because she has a push-knee bow–rather than a model bow. Also, she’s the only triple screw here.
Part B of this post is a corrective. The lead photo I used two days ago was NOT the first photo I took in 2023; rather, the one below was: a pristine 1969 or 1970 Buick Electra (?) parked here by another photographer wanting to get golden hour photos of the sunrise over waters near the VZ Bridge. I knew I had to step back from my vantage-point cliff to get a photo of this museum quality piece of automobile history. If you’ve been following Tugster for a while, you know it’s a waterblog that occasionally strays into automotive land machines, although not self-driving kind of “automotive.”
A while later, with the sun still quite low, I caught Copper Mountain pushing A-70,
likely upriver.
Above and below, it’s Shiloh Amon aka Jillian Irene. Unrelated, has anyone gotten a photo of Marilyn George aka Steven Wayne, ex-Patapsco, currently in the boro just west of Caddells? I’m wondering if Marilyn George might soon be wearing a lion . . . .
Already on the first day of the year, loaded garbage barges move toward the railhead and empties . . . to the marine transfer stations, here with James William in the foreground.
Ava heads out for a just-past dawn job, as
does Jonathan C.
All photos, WVD.
This will be the last post for a few days . . . William F. Fallon Jr. at the Statue.
Thomas D. Witte, dredge Delaware, Durham, and some smaller boats in the Upper Bay.
Marjorie B. McAllister with NYNJR 200 on the Brooklyn side.
Jessica Ann and another RIB appear to be involved in diving ops. Brrr.
Schuylkill moves a tank barge across the boro.
James William tows a mooring into Erie Basin.
And finally, the ever busy Chandra B heads for the Kills.
All photos recently, WVD, who hopes to be back by week’s end.
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.
Quick post today with sights around the boro . . . like Morgan Reinauer
and James William
and Alex McAllister
and Ava M.McAllister and
Janet D and
Fort Schuyler and
Brinn Courtney and
Ivory Coast. Note these last two mark the October awareness.
All photos, my hat tip, WVD.
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.
All these tugboats have a common design feature. I’ll let you figure it out.
Eastern Dawn pushed a load of scrap westbound in the Kills.
James William showed off her bow as she traveled light toward the Upper Bay.
Ditto Buchanan 12, usually confined to pushing up and down the Hudson with a train of rock scows.
Robert IV does a plethora of jobs, spot work I think it would be called, from her base at Caddell’s.
Eastern Dawn returns from Newark Bay with a light scow.
And finally . . . where’s the tug pushing this deck barge with a boring machine?
It’s the shorty but mighty Jimmy!
And what they have in common is the squared off versus model bow, with knees designed for pushing.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Laurie Ann Reinauer is pushing RTC 85 for an appointment somewhere the Kills.
Meagan Ann moves dredge spoils out of MOTBY.
Thomas D. Witte stems with another scow as Meagan Ann passes by.
J. Arnold takes the Back Channel over to Claremont.
James William heads for an assist.
A fact about Buchanan 12 . . . it appears she’s had that name and worked for that same company since 1972. That’s longevity.
All photos, WVD, who’s happy the days are getting longer, with fewer than 200 days until the summer solstice.
James William was slinging along a slew of barges.
Galveston (I think) was coming in the other morning with Chemical Transporter. Usually Freeport pushes Chemical Transporter, so maybe I’m just misremembering.
With the slash of safety yellow across the barge bow, I was initially confused…
until the green with red trim told me it was definitely . . . Pinuccia.
Two Vane 3000s separated by five years of work . . . team up on getting the barge gently into her berth.
Paul Andrew Brian Nicholas gets watched very closely by the Lady of the sixth boro.
And, Matthew Tibbetts exits the east end of the Kills.
All photos, WVD, who is finally back in the sixth boro . . . for a bit. I will be doing a lot of inland/coastal traveling the next few months. All photos of workboats wherever you are are greatly appreciated.
It still says Eastern Star Dawn, but now it’s Toula!
She’s going to look great all buff and green.
Barry Silverton finally
has a lion on its stack! All those birds? It’s water teeming with the bunker, the bunker that recently drew a humpback into the Upper Bay.
Pelham, launched in 1960, is always a pleasant sight. She has a list of previous names almost as long as my seasonal wish list this year.
Here she took a wake on the bow.
James William used the waters off the salt pile
as a turning basin.
And finally, after a long hiatus down south, CMT Pike has returned. When i caught her, she was being pursued
by this container ship.
All photos, WVD.
Unrelated but of interest, below . . .
yes, Grain de Sail is a 72′ schooner coming into the sixth boro with a 50-ton cargo hold, some of it refrigerated, bringing in French wine. She’ll set up a market in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for about a week. Contact info and an e-shop can be found here, although you’ll have to use a machine translate if you’re not up to functionality in French.
Grain de Sail is involved in triangular trade, French wine to here and the Caribbean, and then Caribbean chocolate and other products to France . . . . Something similar in sail freight domestically has been done by Ceres and more recently by Apollonia. The most recent international sailing cargo into the sixth boro that I know of was Black Seal, a three-masted schooner.
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