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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.
This is an unexpected post, but I watched a movie the other day that involved D.S. 78 barge moving garbage away from a marine transfer station
somewhere in Manhattan. John J. Harvey shows up in the movie. And the crewman above, would he be crew or an actor?
And here’s the tug. Likely someone seeing this can identify it, but I can’t. Anyone help? And which transfer station would this be, given the docks and other structures on the other shore? My guess is north of the current passenger terminal, and that’s a maritime Hoboken on the other side.
And which movie was this?
Here’s your last chance to guess. The biggest clue you’re getting here is garbage and mention multiple times of black-n-white glossy photos, unlike these.
The movie involved some young people getting arrested for dumping garbage in the wrong place.
Got it?
Alice’s Restaurant! You can spend two hours watching the whole movie, or zoom to about an hour and twelve minutes in and you’ll see the scene.
Schooner Ambergris came in from sea in mid-April, but I still don’t know anything more about her. Anyone help?
Dolphin is truly a yacht; it’s also likely a winter yacht down south. Up north, we see vessels like this seasonally. I can’t identify the burgee on the bow.
Schooner Pioneer, launched 1885!!, has never been a yacht, but in its current much-loved state, it operates only in the warmer half of the year and it’s an excursion vessel.
Passing the Hoboken/NJ Transit terminal, that unnamed trawler is truly a yacht coming north for the summer.
Care for a summer evening on a Chicago Grebe-built yacht? Here’s the info on yacht Full Moon departures out of North Cove. If you want a full day’s amusement online, you could investigate these other Grebe-built yachts . . . . Or you could read about this Chicago shipyard and many other topics in this great blog called Industrial History, which I’ve just added to my blogroll.
Sometimes the Erie Canal seems devoid of vessel traffic, but on this day at Lock 17, there were plenty of takers. As I recall, these cruisers were from Texas, Michigan, Florida, and California!
By the boat name and the VHF manner as I overheard it, I can guess the previous employment of this vessel operator.
Yesterday I went to this location to meet a friend over beer and crab cakes, my first there in quite a while . . . . But if you’ve never hung out at Pier 66, you owe to yourself. Advice . . . if you want a seat, go on the off hours! It’s been way too long ago that this gathering happened there.
And although I took this photo in the fall, the reminder is clear: be safe.
All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp.
It’s that time again . . . a glance back at exactly a decade ago. Back in June 2009, the 400th anniversary of the Half Moon going up the Hudson kicked off with a 20th century version of the Half Moon going up the Hudson. Note the banner hung to the old TZ Bridge along the right side of the photo. That replica is now in the Netherlands, looking for a new home, and that bridge–parts of it–have become fish structure somewhere off Long Island.
A newish boat in town was Peter F. Gellatly, now Vane’s Long Island.
Bounty–alas her fate–was still an irregular visitor to the sixth boro. Here she’s made up to Harvey just outboard of Frying Pan.
Brian Nicholas moves a scrap barge out of the East River.
Paul T. Moran made one of her really rare visits to the sixth boro.
Container vessels calling in the ports of NY and NJ had not yet become UL . . . ultra large versions
Harvey follows Half Moon northbound on the Hudson.
Michigan Service and Erie Service gather near IMTT.
Sisters assists with a tanker, and
here’s more of the River Day procession marking the year of Half Moon the first.
All photos taken in June 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
Two massive but indistinct enterprises loom offshore while a ketch motors in. I understand that if I were near to one of those “loomers” . . . they’d be moving faster than I could swim, row, paddle, or walk . . . .
I couldn’t identify the ketch, with the ever-ready bike on deck.
What time is it?
Time to watch the colossal screen? I’m trying to imagine some applications . . . circle the boats at the float-in cinema? harbor church service? a candidate’s debate? a floating classroom?
Only today did I understand that Harvey‘s paint treatment was part of a World War 1 memorial called 14-18 Now.
Click here for 14-18 Now background, leading up to the November 11, 2018 centennial remembrance of the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars . . . . Even Richard Thompson, one of my favorite singer-songwriters, put out related music.
I NEED to now the story here, this 1930s wrecker on a pier in Red Hook . . . Will that be loaded onto a ship and sent away? I hope not. Related . . . I’ve got fodder for another truckster post soon.
Over in Sunset Park (or is this already Bay Ridge??), are these the legs for the Staten Island Wheel that will never stand?
All photos and questions by Will Van Dorp.
More Great Race tomorrow.
Let’s finish up Whatzit 38, which started here with a plain white canvas. Below is a photo I took during the tugboat race in September 2015 of John J. Harvey, an FDNY fireboat in commission between 1931 and 1995.
And here’s one I took in April 2010, making an up-to 18,000 gpm water display to welcome the 343 into the sixth boro. Pumping water, which makes these designs in the sky, is the whole point of a fireboat. So . . .
check out her summer 2018 look.
This is a thorough
thorough dazzle paint job, white spray all over the boat, including the decks.
From this angle below, she really looks like a WW1 Norman Wilkinson production.
I can’t wait to see her in glass calm water . . . to enjoy the reflections.
I believe this is the current John J. Harvey website.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Remember tug Hackensack about ten years ago? I’ve read some negative opining about the paint job on FB . . . here’s the concept.
Let’s start with a baseline, exactly seven years ago. I got this photo of Harvey putting on a water display just south of Yonkers on June 12, 2011.
These next photos came from Lisa Kolibabek a few days ago, following up on the post of a week ago where I said “watch this space.”.
Never has a vessel been painted thus!
Note the master plan lower left.
The art is in progress . . .
so I hope you’re intrigued enough to continue watching this space. Once the superstructure is painted, watch the space between the KVK and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Many thanks to Lisa for snapping these photos as she works on W. O. Decker, which you can see at work 39 years ago here.
I seem to recall bowsprite had a similar idea back in 2010.
Who else greeted Wavertree on the rest of the way home? John J. Harvey is always in on celebrations.
Lettie G. Howard was there,
as was the helicopter. Feehan presented herself on the far side of Rae.
Pioneer accounted for
herself with crew in the crosstrees.
Pioneer and Lettie teamed up at times.
Wire showed up.
New York Harbor School had two boats there, including Privateer and their
newest vessel Virginia Maitland Sachs, about which I’ll post soon.
Melvillian throngs came down to the “extremest limit of land” on Pier 15 and 16, for one reason or another, but who were about to be treated to some excellent ship handling.
Rae took the lead, showing the need for tugboats of all sizes.
The larger tugs pushed and pulled as needed to ease into the slip
until all lines were fast and
and the shoreside work needed doing.
Bravo to all involved. If you want to take part in a toast to Wavertree, you can buy tickets here for the September 29 evening.
If you haven’t read the NYTimes article by James Barron yet, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes I left no one out and who as before is grateful to the South Street Seaport Museum and the photographers’ boat provided by US Merchant Marine Academy and crewed by a set of dedicated cadets.
Often folks ask how one can learn about the harbor or is there a book about the sixth boro. Volunteering at South Street Seaport Museum is a great way available to all to get access to the water, to learn from like-minded folks, and to start on a journey of reading the harbor and its traffic for yourself. Each volunteer’s journey will be unique, and willing hands make institutions like this museum survive and thrive.
For context, let’s look back here. And last year among some of the great photos shared by Harry Thompson, here (scroll) was a crowded harbor photo I really liked.
Last Saturday saw threatening weather; even so, lots of small boats and crowds braved the possibility of rain to see the races.
Vigilance prevailed and I heard of no incidents.
And yes, I paid a lot of attention to the Bath Maine-built 1906 Mary E, but that’s because I haven’t seen her in 9 years . . . obviously I was looking in the wrong places. Click here and scroll for a photo of Mary E in Greenport almost 9 years ago.
Harvey was there. Scroll here for one of my favorite photos of the 1931 Harvey, cutting through the pack at the 2013 tugboat race.
The 1885 Pioneer was there. Click here for a sail I did on Pioneer a few years back.
A raft of small boats clustered yet kept orderly.
The 1935 Enticer . . . well, enticed, spectators as a platform.
as did a range of people movers.
including the 1983 Arabella.
The captain of the heavyweight out there, the 2014 Eric McAllister, treaded lightly through the crowd.
Of course, out in the mist along the Jersey side there are more heavyweights, a Moran tug and its huge NCL gem.
And as for my ride, Monday morning it was earning money going for a load of scrap.
Another tall old ship that might have been present–the 1928 Bivalve NJ-based A. J. Meerwald had other missions to perform.
All photos by will Van Dorp. And for photos of some of the people on the boro who were working during the race, check out NYMediaBoat’s blog post.
Photo thanks to John Skelson . . . it’s not a bird . . . it’s not a plane . . . it’s NY Media Boat, one of the recent recipients of the Life Saving Award from the Marine Society of New York for a February 2014 rescue from a sinking tugboat.
So . . . what might you see on a customized adventure sightseeing tour of the sixth boro aboard NY Media Boat? Well . . . if you’re interested in fireboats or firehouses . . . they’re near their Pier 25 pick up site.
A bit farther north . . . you can see Chelsea Market or Pier 66 Maritime from the water, a perspective quite different from experiencing either of them by land.
You never know what private boats might be docked at the passenger terminal . . . this one obviously wanting proximity to
the car wash. Thanks to Phil Little for this unique perspective from the cliff at Weehawken.
You can see the newest NYC scalloper port. F/V Endurance was back there yesterday.
If Alice is in town, you can meet her up and personal. Alice Oldendorff, aggregate carrier, was the focus of the very first tugster post over seven years ago, as well as many since. Use the search window.
The East River offers unusual juxtapositions . .. like the UN and the WTC.
You might see remnants of industrial Brooklyn riverfront or
demolition happening to IER 17.
You can see classic architectural icons of NYC like the 1929 Chrysler Building or
1976 tramway. But if you’re like me, you’ll be hoping for
unexpected sailing vessels like Halie & Matthew or all manner of work boats like
Long Island built Maryland.
How about the “interior” side of Red Hook Container Terminal?
Of course, then there’s nothing that beats close-ups of wherever you want on the sixth boro by open boat. Book a tour here. By the way, the boat offers warm, waterproof gear and PFDs.
Here’s an article on Bjoern Kils and the boat from a publication of Willard Marine, manufacturer of the boat, which formerly lived on a US destroyer. Also, here are some recent NY Media Boat clients.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, except the delightful one of the private boat at the car wash by Phil Little and the lead photo by John Skelson. Thank, Phil.
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