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I could call this “something different 50” . . . but recognize the name?
The place looks mysterious in some places, and forbidding, given that those factories are vacant.
That house along the water looks quite good from this angle given that it dates from before the US Revolution.
Place the name Danielovitch? Certainly the photo below locates this town as along the Erie Canal, given the tug colors.
Here’s another clue to the river town.
This Staten Island tugboat is pushing the “glass barge” through the Mohawk River town . . . so that means that photo was taken in 2018.
Lock E-11 . . .
and above it . . . Issur, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Belarus, also went by Izzy Demsky, born 1916. Maybe that helps?
Ready or not, I need to give it away.
The photos by WVD all show Amsterdam NY, and Issur aka Izzy later went by the name Kirk Douglas. His first home was on the other side of the now disused leather goods factory buildings in the second photo.
That pre-US Revolution house is called Guy Park Manor, and here’s the story.
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning through photos in the blog library, not overthinking it.
January. Gunhilde Maersk with James, Kirby, and JRT plus Miriam Moran. the year of the 1200-footers aka ULCVs becoming commonplace in the sixth boro.
February. Ocean Henry Bain serves as a safety boat during the ice canoe race I documented in my Carnavalons posts.
March. Cerro Grande here escorted a Caribbean-bound LNG ship, one of all the Panama Tugs posts
April. When I saw this section of drained canal bed between O-6 to O-7 in Oswego, I thought the work’d never get done before the season began, but I was wrong. Of all my 2018 NYS Canals posts, this and this posted with the greatest urgency.
May. Reliable pushed seaward by Lucy H. As of today, Reliable lies under the sea gathering fishes and entertaining Davy Jones near Shinnecock.
June. Jay Bee V headed out on a high-profile mission. Has she returned to the sixth boro yet?
July. I missed Rosemary‘s christening because that’s what happens when you don’t look at your calendar. First come first serve for a few tugster lighthouse calendars. Send me an email with your mailing address. As I said, I ran a few extra when I made up my Christmas gifts.
August. Kimberly Selvick with AEP barges was one of the treats I saw in Calumet. This day south of Chicago planted a seed of curiosity about the Lake Michigan/Mississippi River link I hope to be able to explore in 2019. Many thanks to Christine Douglas.
September. J. W. Cooper delivers a pilot in Port Colborne at the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal. Because I hadn’t a satisfying enough fix from the canal earlier, I returned there in October.
October. One Stork, a pink ULCV, came into town. It wasn’t her first visit/delivery, but it was the first that I caught. She’s currently in the sixth boro.
November. Morton S. Bouchard IV rounds Shooters Island light, Bouchard celebrated a big anniversary this year.
December. Ruth M. Reinauer heads west into the Kills in December, the start of heating oil season.
And that’s it for the year, time for me to securely lock up Tugster Tower and prepare myself to meet 2019. The older I get, the more profound is my awareness that although I make many plans for a new year, I might not see the end of it. It’s just how it is. Every day is a blessing. Last year had my own personal ultima thule; I pray that 2019 brings its new ones.
Thanks to everyone who read, commented, and assisted me in 2018. Happy and constructive new year day by day to you all.
Let’s start out at Little Falls NY, above Lock E-17, where Jay Bee V had just departed and was now delivering the Glass Barge to the wall there. Notice C. L. Churchill along the left edge of the photo.
Here above Lock C-7, it’s Margot.
On the Hudson River, tis is my first closeup view of Liz Vinik, formerly Maryland.
Westbound on the East River, it’s Sea Wolf moving uncontainerized thrown-aways.
Farther east, it’s Hudson with a fuel barge,
and meeting her, it’s Morgan Reinauer with the same.
Notice here, looking toward the Queensboro Bridge, Morgan and Hudson.
Here at the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge project, it’s Dorothy J.
and to close this post out back on the Hudson, it’s Elizabeth, moving Weeks 533.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Two days ago, the compact 1969 Jay Bee V (38′ x 12′ x 5′) set out on a journey that’ll be followed on this blog.
Hint: It’s even a bit smaller than, for example, 1930 W. O. Decker (50′ x 15′ x 6′), which has some enclosed living space, compared with Jay Bee V‘s lack thereof.
Arguably, Jay Bee V and W. O. Decker have occupied the same niche in harbor work, although at different eras.
I’ve seen Jay Bee V working at Caddell’s back in 2016 here and in 2015 here.
That looks like a bundle of new line for towing or tackle to me.
As I said, Jay Bee V is setting out on what may be its greatest ever journey.
She’ll exit the Kills and turn for the North River.
And if you’re wondering where she’s headed . . . she’ll spend some time on the New York State Canals, where I hope to see her next week.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here were the previous posts, the last one being in April. On June 11, I took the photo below, and since then had not been back until yesterday. Note how far along the Bayonne Bridge was on that date, as well
Here’s a closer up of the rigging on June 11.
Now let’s jump forward to yesterday, August 15. Note where the crane barge
Claude G. Forbes started the morning, and
and check the progressing in rigging, compared with photo #2 above.
Yard tug Jay Bee V came out to
reposition the barge. Note the mizzen on the background.
Then the crane pivoted around and
the block was lowered and
straps added and
all systems checked and
then slowly tensioned. One end of the mast lifted from off the deck
BUT then it was lowered. I waited around for an hour more, but then had other places to be. I’ll have to pick up the Wavertree story another time.
Since I mentioned the Bayonne Bridge–its own process–here’s what the work looks like as of August 15 from over off the west end of Caddell Dry Dock .. . aka ex-Blissenbach Marina now known as Heritage Park, which in my opinion, should have foliage trimmed so as to be more user friendly for land-based photographers.
Thanks to everyone who braved the heat last night and came to the showing of Graves of Arthur Kill. Special thanks to those wizards who problem-solved our way through the technical challenges, except I had brought along an antepenultimate version . . . and sorry I didn’t have a chance to talk with everyone there. What you want–prepare for an explicit commercial message here– is this version, which Gary and I call “the director’s cut,” available for a mere $11.99.
While I’m doing “commercials,” here’s an opportunity for the right people to sail offshore on South Street Seaport Museum’s 1893 fishing schooner, up to Gloucester for the 2016 schooner races, or back, or some portion thereof. Click here for some of the many Lettie G. Howard posts I’ve done over the years.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Enter right . . .
… it’s L. W. Caddell, which I believe was built at the yard a quarter century ago.
A shipyard needs a small tug (loa 46′ x 16′) for lots of projects . . .
with every job.
And L. W. . . .
has an even smaller fleet mate, Jay Bee V, 1969
and loa 38′ x 12.’
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Call this the March 1 version. Even cold fanatics feel starved for more sunlight, blossoming perfumes, bright colors, and shorts. Iron Wolf below has that lean, post-winter hungry look.
And Mostank needs some bright color, or does the 1950-launched tanker seem so forlorn because of the monochromatic background? By the way, that’s the west tower of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge beyond the ridgeline of Staten Island.
Imagine Jay Bee V with bright paint and a tanned crew.
Spring happens in March. For me, sooner is better.
This link on the history of tugboats as depicted on postage stamps cheered me up a little.
Photos, WVD.
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