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Mary Turecamo has the distinction of having been built at Matton Shipyard near Waterford. She’s a big boat: 106′ loa and 4300hp.
James William was originally Lisa Moran. She’s 77′ and generates 2800hp propelled by three screws.
Barney Turecamo, built in 1995, was intended to push cement barges. She’s 116′ and rated at 5100hp.
Brendan Turecamo was launched in 1975. She’s 106′ and her twin EMDs generate 3900hp.
James D. Moran is one of the four 6000hp tugboats that have worked in the sixth boro for the past five years. She’s 88′ loa.
Notice that all the above boats had some connection with Moran? Anyhow. Ava M. is the newest escort tug in the boro. She arrived here about a year ago, 100′ and 6770hp.
Alex McAllister has been in the harbor–I believe–about five years now. Built in 1985, she is 87′ and 4300hp.
When I first saw Genesis Vigilant, he was a Hornbeck Offshore boat called Michigan Service. Built in 1981, she’s 99′ and rated at 3000hp.
Josephine might be the newest T of an ATB in the boro. She was launched in 2018, is 110′, and moves with 4560hp.
Here she was pushing the 347′ loa RTC 83 into a berth at the east end of IMTT, with assistance from Franklin Reinauer. Franklin was launched in 1984, is 81′ and generates 2600hp.
All photos, WVD. Again, sorry I posted prematurely sans any text. Sometimes I’m looking right at something, seeing a word or a number, and just calling it something else. I believe my brain is becoming like my mother’s.
She’s been around about half a year, but this was my first time to see her closeup. And I was fortunate to catch her in most of a rotation . . . below pointing one o’clock,
near twelve,
eleven,
nine,
[with a digression]
back to ten,
and here I missed a headon clearly six view, but skip directly to a three and
tending toward a two.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has no judgement but finds the design unique, as is true of the buildings of Hudson Yards in the background..
Here’s another calendar’s worth . . . starting with Josephine. I have many more of this bot coming up soon.
Capt. Brian heads out through the Narrows to meet a tow.
Cape Lookout returns for her anchored barge.
Nathan G delivers a brace of scows.
Ava M heads out for a job.
The “new” Kristin Poling returns to her barge as well.
Ellen and Bruce A follow a job.
St Andrews heads east and
Ernest Campbell, west.
Challenger, some weeks ago, brings a Weeks crane up for a lift.
Stephen B has some additions to her paint job since last I saw her.
CMT Pike heads back across the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who can’t believe it’s already mid-November 2019!!
The first in this series posted eight years ago!
Of course, tugs currently working in freshwater haven’t necessarily started there, as is true of Manitou.
Victorious had to traverse halfway around the world before quite recently beginning its life on the Great Lakes, such as it is now pushing hot asphalt seething within John J. Carrick.
Ditto G. L. Ostrander, here pushing LaFarge barge Integrity.
Josephine (ex-Wambrau) has likely had the greatest amount of saltwater time and distance before coming to the Great Lakes watershed. Here she’s docked in the Maumee river with the Mightys . . . Mighty Jimmy, Mighty Jake, and mighty small.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has more Mightys and more freshwater tugs to come.
. . . the Detroit River, an international race. See my post here from four years ago for this quite eclectic set of boats.
Sheila Kaye and Josephine,
J. M. Westcott II,
R & R,
Jessie T,
and more.
I wonder if there’s ever a chance of getting a higher horsepower class to arrive some year as well . .. like Ken Boothe Sr., Everlast, GL Ostrander, Samuel de Champlain, Jane Ann IV . . . and their size.
All photos by Jan van der Doe, taken the same day as the Mermaid Parade and the last run of Pegasus.
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