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2011 began in Charleston, a great place to welcome a new year. Strolling around, I encounter the 1962 75′ buoy tender Anvil, 75301, here made up to CGB68013. In the background, that’s cutter Cormorant or Chinook.
Heading farther north a day or two later, it’s Hoss, sister of Patricia, and now habitat for fish and other sea life. Click here to see her sink if you do FB.
Still farther north, I see this T-boat, a 1952 Higgins named for a high point in Ireland.
Lucinda Smith, then based in Maine, is currently based on Cape Cod.
Bering Sea, like a lot of K-Sea boat, has become a Kirby boat; it is currently in Philadelphia. According to Birk’s invaluable site, this boat was Stacy Moran for a short time. I never saw it in Moran red.
Thanks to my friend Paul Strubeck, this Kristin Poling needed an assist from Cornell to get through an ice jam. This is one of my all-time favorite photos. It looks to me like a submarine in the very deeps.
McCormack Boys was active in the sixth boro back in 2011, and although she’s still working, I’ve not seen her in years.
I glimpsed Stephen Scott in Boston a few months back, but since this photo was taken, she’s lost the upper wheelhouse.
There’s classic winter light beyond Torm Carina, provisioned here by Twin Tube. Torm Carina is currently in the Taiwan Strait.
Later Margaret and Joan Moran assist the tanker westbound in the KVK while Taurus passes. Taurus has become Joker, wears Hays purple, and I’ve not even seen her yet. I guess it’s high time I hang out in Philadelphia again.
A wintry photo shows McKinley Sea in the KVK eastbound. In the distance,
notice the now foreign-based Scotty Patrick Sky. If you want to see her, gallivant to St. Lucia. McKinley Sea is currently laid up in Louisiana.
Erie Service, now Genesis Valiant, pushes her barge 6507 westbound.
And on a personal note, it was in January 2011 that I stumbled into a locality that had been attracting me. I suppose if ever I created a retreat, I’d have to call it Galivants Hideaway. Here‘s another Galivants Ferry set of photos.
Thanks to Paul for use of his photo. All other photos, a decade back, WVD.
Pushing and shoving . . . are they different in this context with 3000 hp concentrated in the right location?
New steel and recycled name . . . Torm Hilde, the 114,000 dwt tanker in port recently, got spun around in the KVK by Kimberly and JRT.
Torm Hilde is one of the largest tankers operated by the company, now in its 130th year!
And while two Moran tugs are assisting the Torm tanker out, two more are assisting crude tanker Compassion into her berth.
And then two more are assisting an Evergreen L ship through as well.
Congestion? . . . it’s just another day in the Kills….
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Take a camera and an hour and a half,
hang out at some point along the KVK,
if it’s cold then bring some hand and boot warmers and a thermos with hot tea,
monitor the scan function on your hand held,
and wait. Soon there’ll be some traffic. Snap away.
Winter is a better time than summer for photos because of the clarity
of the air.
A wise man once told me that New Yorkers don’t really have to travel, because the world
travels past them.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
When the almost 20,000 hp team is assembled this way, it means one thing.
Sometimes it’s a big bright bird in flamingo, but other times it might be a dark bird.
Kirby went in first,
followed by Miriam. This one’s a crane, dark like NYK Blue Jay is.
Click here (and scroll) for the anticipated seven other bird names in this series of 14,000 teu ULCVs.
James D. and Joan stayed on this side . . .
I’d love to see NYK Crane side by side with NYK Daedalus, as shown here in 2008.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who forgot about time today.
By my interpretation, this ULCV is propelled by about a 38,000 hp engine. But NYK Eagle has a different and more powerful engine. I’m not sure my interpretation here is correct.
By the numbers today, Daisy Mae, launched in late 2017 and generating 3200 hp.
Joyce D. Brown, built 2002 and 2600 hp.
Matthew Tibbetts, 1969 and 2000.
James E. Brown, 2015 and 1000.
Dean Reinauer, 2013 and 4260.
Andrea, 1999 and 3000.
Elizabeth McAllister, 1967 and 4000.
Ellen McAllister, also 1967 and 4000.
Kimberley Turecamo, 1980 and 3000.
Joan Turecamo, 1980 and 4300.
Joan Moran, 1975 and 4300.
Miss Ila, 1962 and 2400.
All photos by Will Van Dorp; all numbers from tugboat information.
Click here for the first installment of this story . . .
Tuesday 0630. Note here that crews have already begun lowering the booms of these new gantry cranes in order to fit under the VZ Bridge.
Wednesday 0915. Plans were to begin the transit, but an anchor windlass refused to cooperate.
Wednesday 1030. And the fog began to descend.
Thursday 0630. It was a glorious morning.
Thursday 1000. It’s a go. That’s Media Boat 4 in the foreground.
1026. I read there’s a 10′ clearance, but my perspective–faulty–said otherwise.
1027. Yup . . . plenty clearance.
1140. near the Bayonne Bridge
1141. James D. Moran in the hard hat area.
1146.
1147. Under the bridge and then a turn into Port Elizabeth.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Read a Staten Island Advance article here.
I’m not shifting the focus of this blog to photography–although it’s always been photo driven–but it’s fun to shoot what the light allows, which in this case somewhat obscures the identification of the tug in the foreground and highlights in profile the construction over by the Goethals Bridge. Also, I’ve not forgotten a realization of a few weeks back about there being nothing random; context here is recent sixth boro.
Anyhow, name that tug?
Meanwhile, north of the GW, it’s Joan Moran (1975) with a coal barge, from what I could tell.
Farther downriver, it’s Atlantic Coast (2007) with a dredge scow.
On that same dredge project, Shannon Dann (1971) stands by with GL 602.
Wye River (2008) waits over by the Palisades,
Sea Wolf (1982) holds steady over by –is that?–Edgewater.
Barry Silverton counts down for an appointment with Fight ALS,
Brendan Turecamo (1975) hangs with Connecticut, and
that brings us back to the first photo, now benefitting from a different light and easily identifiable as
Doris Moran (1982).
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
0647 . . . This is the best time for optimism. Quantico Creek is leaving the port side of BLS Liwa.
Joan Moran exits the East River bound for sea.
Mako stands by during cargo transfer.
Laura K. Moran heads westbound between jobs, always between jobs she.
And count them . . . five motive vessels . . . Maryland, Brendan Turecamo, Joan Moran, maybe Ruby M, and another . . . Easter morning is a busy place in the sixth boro.
Have an optimistic day. All photos by Will Van Dorp.
This photo of Doris Joan Moran that has been circulating on FB this morning. Sorry . . . I wish I knew who gets the credit for this unusual shot. Anyhow, it reminded me of a post I did five years ago here.
Here’s a Doris photo I took last week . . . uncoated.
So one reaction to the cold is to bundle up, grit your teeth, plod on, complain a little more . . .
But you have to admit, winter in the northern latitudes gives us new senses of hulls on snow bases, or
levitating above it.
Here’s roughly the same angle . . . as I took it in September 2012.
Thanks to Bob Stopper for the photo of tug Syracuse and to Erich Amberger for the winter photo of Wendy B. The others I took, except for the top photo, and I’d still like to know who took that.
Uh . . . I just mis-read the FB info on the frosted over tugboat above. It was spelled j-o-a-n, and I transferred that as d-o-r-i-s. I’m sloppy sometimes. Maybe I need an editor.
Click here to see posts for the week before the race in 2008.
Below, and occupying the notch, Lincoln Sea, participant with all 8000 horses in the 2006 race here. I don’t know if Lincoln Sea (ex-S/R Everett from 2000)will be free to compete next week.
I don’t recall either Joan Moran (1975) or Gramma Lee T taking part in years I’ve watched. They showed fantastic torque yesterday spinning Andre Jacob on her axis. Interestingly, see the last foto here a year ago with Andre Jacob then bearing the name Margara!! Some vessels disappear to Alang; others disappear but reappear hiding in plain sight with new names.
I also don’t recall Hornbeck boats like Liberty Service (ex-Mac Tide 63 and Jaramac 63 from 1983) taking part.
Or Witte boats like Thomas D. (from 1961 and formerly holding such names as Kendall P. Brake, Reliance, Tammy, Matty J, and June C) , fotoed here at the Salt Fest yesterday.
Ellen McAllister (1966) may have.
I don’t recall Dann Ocean Towing boats, like Shannon (ex-Alice H and Chelsea from 1971) here, competing. That’s Captain Log off starboard and Houma off port.
Greenland Sea (ex-Emma M Roehrig, S/R Providence, Tecumseh, and Doc Candies from 1990) I don’t recall.
Or Great Lakes Dock and Dredge boats, like McCormack Boys (1982) here.
I have friends who, when “talking” baseball or football can pull the most arcane details and statistics out of the air, as if they’d spend hours memorizing the stuff. I hope someone following the sixth boro tug races has a better grasp of statistics than me.
Bowsprite fotoed the vessel below a few days back from her cliff. I’m intrigued. Can anyone identify this yacht? It’s Atlantide!!
Remember, Working Harbor Committee annual Tug Boat Race & Competition will be held on Sunday, 6 September from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pier 84 on the Hudson River. Here’s a note from them: “In addition to selling tickets on our spectator boat (a Circle Line 42 vessel) we are offering 12 tickets for sale to be in the race on a tug TBD. The price of a ticket is $250 per person. The number of passengers is limited to 12. Please email Meg Black — meg@workingharbor.org — to purchase tickets.”
All fotos except the last one by Will Van Dorp, who waits with bated breath for Flinterduin. Get your cameras ready; she arrives in the next 24 hours.
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