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The red upper wheelhouse is no more, although I’m not certain what new paint scheme will evolve, or when Evening Star will become Jordan Rose, as Evening Breeze became Susan Rose. Follow this transformation we will.
Ellen transformed from Navy gray to McAllister colors 20 years ago.
Atlantic Salvor has worn Donjon blue–almost the same as warehouse blue–for over 20 years.
In a different way, Marjorie B profile varies from a lower to higher wheelhouse depending on the job.
Jill Reinauer has worn Reinauer colors for over 20 years also, although she has seen some modifications of profile more recently.
Brendan is currently in dry dock, but when I took this photo, she was standing by with a large barge. I’ll post a photo of her high and dry soon.
This post began with a Bouchard tug in transition. It’s fitting to end with one that already looks quite different . . . Evening Light is now Mary Emma. currently on Narragansett Bay.
All photos, WVD.
Colonel came into town a week ago with the new ferry.
Caitlin Ann has been here as long as I’ve been paying attention . . . although she had several names since then.
James D and Ellen McAllister pin YM Width to the dock.
Jill Reinauer . . . she’s been here from before tugster . . . AT and BT should be part of my new time nomenclature. BT runs backward from this post.
Atlantic Salvor has been here over 20 years, and among my favorite photos of her was here from the 2010 Labor Day race.
This has to be my clearest photo of Carolina Coast. Know that tugboat in the distance?
I believe Julie Anne just recently arrived in the sixth boro, and this is my first time seeing her.
And from a distance, it’s Mary Emma, formerly Evening Light, but now all in tan and green.
Let’s stop with Ellen again, here passing in front of what must be the busiest background: Geoquip Saentis, Cape Edmont, and Oasis. Ellen is one of about a dozen reutilized USN tugboats in the McAllister fleet. See more here.
All photos this week, WVD.
The light could not have been more beautiful as I swooped into the boro, metaphorically speaking: Peace Victoria in the foreground, Coral Queen (not the other Coral Queen) loading scrap mid-distance, and that ridge the Watchung Mountains defining a horizon. Note the Tsereteli monolith mid left margin of the photo.
Closer than Peace Victoria, Zola dispensed Egyptian rock salt.
Note the front end loaders shifting salt within the scow?
Down at water level, Curtis Reinauer squeezes into the notch of RTC 42.
Helen Laraway heads over to Zola to shift scows filled in the salt dispensing.
Jill has been called to assist Curtis out of the dock,
passing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer base, adjacent to the Moran base, marked by the white “M”.
The assist begins and
soon Curtis is eastbound.
And this is just the start of my focus of 1/100th of the doings in the boro.
All photos, taken between 0700 and 0800, WVD.
Entirely unrelated but fascinating, here’s a NYTimes article and video on oil smuggling into North Korea.
Yesterday the KVK was a crowded place. Notice anything else unusual about this photo? Fort Schuyler is disappearing off to the left, and Brendan Turecamo is assisting the vessel off to the right.
In the distance tanker NS Leader was escorted in by a McAllister tug to port and a Reinauer tug to starboard. Reinauer? Assisting tankers?
Go, Jill!
The 1967 2200 hp 91′ x 27′ tug pushes barges, assists barges,
and this was my first time to see her assisting a tanker. As I said, at that hour yesterday, lots of assisting was needed.
As to the tanker, the 2007 Korea-built 817′ x 144′ tanker specializes in crude. She came here came from Point Tupper.
To port, Alex was assisting with its 4300 hp and 87′ x 35′ dimensions.
And crowded it was.
All photos yesterday by WVD.
Here’s a shot of a 1962 tug named Kristy Ann Reinauer I took in August 2008 near Howland Hook/Elizabethport
and another in Bayonne in December of that year.
By August 2015, she was waiting to be scrapped.
In late March the 2018 Kristy Ann anchored in the Upper Bay with her barge.
I can’t make out the barge name.
Here’s Kristy Ann light, just leaving the fuel dock.
The new tug is rated at 4560hp and the hull is 110′ x 33.’
Her twin, Josephine, I’ve yet to see close up.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
The blog is called tugster, and not tatter, taster, tagster or truckster, as much fun as those digressions may be, being able to be a bit obsessively focused, this is the 249th installment! If you add in the non-random tug posts, it’s even more than 249.
W. O. Decker, the only wooden-hulled tug in this post. Built in Long Island City in 1930 and 52′ loa.
Christian Reinauer, built 2001 in Mobile AL and 118′.
Haggerty Girls 2013 built in North Kingston RI and 110′, and I think, Dean Reinauer 2013 in North Kingston RI and 112′
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Ellen McAllister, … 1967 in Sturgeon Bay WI and 102′ and she’s been a staple in the sixth boro for as long as I’ve been paying attention. A former YTB, she works–it seems– every day.
Paul Andrew, … 1968 in Loreauville LA and 63′. She too has been working the harbor since I’ve been paying attention.
Jill Reinauer, … 1967 in Houma LA, and 91′ loa.
And to round things out with a photo I took in September 2017–all others have been since mid-February–it’s Sarah D, built 1975 in Palatka FL [Mary Kay, 1973 in Palatka FL] and 90′. She has appeared on this blog fairly recently.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you warmth today.
Now about tats and tasting . . . those might be franchise expansion ideas . . .
You can read Ice 5 or 3 or 2. But freezing temperatures in salt water look different than in fresh water, salt ice not like lake ice, which is a topic for tomorrow. The sixth boro low temperature in the first two days of January was well above 0 F, Maine and Minnesota well into the double digits negative F, and Anchorage, a balmy 46 ABOVE, warmer than places in Florida!
But I digress, cold is cold and uncomfortable. Polar bear plunge notwithstanding, a strong swimmer won’t last a minute in this water.
But work goes on . . .
with extra layers
and precautions.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who really postponed admitting the new year had arrived because–dangerously– it was more comfortable thinking otherwise.
I do not try to group tugboats in posts by company, but in the past week I’ve noticed an inordinate number of Weeks boats in the sixth boro. Let’s start with this shot of Trevor, which I caught yesterday. Here are some previous Trevor shots.
Earlier I’d caught Trevor tailing a tow pull by Alexandra. I might have to dig in the archives to 2009 and 2008 to find my previous photo of Alexandra.
Here was that tow, the Weeks 533, the flagship of the Weeks fleet. The 1965 crane also has tragedy associated with it now.
A few days ago I caught Thomas and
Shelby over on the KVK. Beyond Shelby here are Jill Reinauer and Brooke Chapman. This was a first to see Brooke Chapman in the sixth boro. Will she become a regular?
All photos in the past week by Will Van Dorp. And speaking of Weeks tugs, I’d be happy to see Candace again.
My favorite Shelby photos have her towing the Starship Enterprise. and tailing here.
Please read the El Faro Relief event notice at the end of this post. TODAY is the deadline to sign up.
It’s rained most of this week and last . . . and the forecast is the same for next week, but that just means sheltering (and wiping) the lens of the camera, as needed. I wonder if John Huibers knows something we need to pay attention to . . . but that’s another story.
For now, I noticed a lot of Reinauer boats the other day, like . . . the 1971 Matton-built Zachery Reinauer,
interrupted by the 1960 Blount-built Eric R. Thornton with the best logo in the sixth boro,
the 1984 Rayco Ship and Main Ironworks Franklin Reinauer,
the 1983 Cenac Shipyard-built Stephen B,
the 1967 Main Iron Works Jill Reinauer,
the 1966 Allied Shipyard Brian Nicholas,
1973 Jakobson Lucy Reinauer,
the 2010 G and S Marine Incorporated Crystal Cutler,
the 2011 Senesco Reinauer Twins.
and the 1978 Eastern Dawn, though I know not the builder. And it appears to the the 1947 Harbor II alongside, though I noticed that almost too late.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s been evading raindrops.
Anyone have more info on the previous Lucy Reinauer, the 1943 Odenbach Shipbuilding M/T? Birk has this photo, but I’d love to see some more and to know what became of her.
And here’s a note from the organizers of the El Faro fundraiser event: “On Sunday, May 15th from 12-2 at Club Macanudo we will be holding a fundraiser for the families affected by the loss of the El Faro. All proceeds will go to the Seamen’s Church Institute El Faro Relief Fund. Pricing is $75.00 per person with Beer and Wine being served. Email me at Goodwindmaritime@hotmail.com. Please see the attached flier (the link in the first sentence above).
Please send your checks as soon as possible. Make the checks out to Good Wind Maritime Services and mail to Good Wind Maritime Services 14451 25th Drive, Flushing, NY 11354″
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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