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Here’s what the Upper Bay looks like on an overcast but calm dawn . . . with panamax Torm Elizabeth being lightened by Josephine and her barge. The tanker is not quite a year old. There’s a lot going on in that expanse of protected water: ferries passing, lots of tug/barge units anchored, Nautical Janine anchored, and who knows how much movement sits beneath those buildings in the distance.
Seamagic is slightly larger and dates from 2006. She’s taking on bunkers from Kings Point and her barge.
Hafnia Lise has half Seamagic‘s carrying capacity, dates from 2016. Here she heads out for sea.
I just love some of these names, especially the next ones, although my all-time favorite is still Surfer Rosa. Maybe that’s because when I saw it I knew a Rosa who surfed. Meet Solar Katherine at dawn. She’s also from 2020, like Torm Elizabeth.
Pacific Sarah dates from 2017.
Nautical Janine is two years old.
I wonder if these names– Janine, Sarah, Katherine, etc–have namesakes who know they’ve inspired a vessel name? I know that can be true of tugboats . . . . because I’ve met actual namesakes.
One more before I hit the road . . Silver Joan, taking on some fuel.
All photos, WVD.
Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
I recall my first time seeing the KVK, astonished by the density of commercial traffic. Of course, I’d just come from northern New England’s freshwater meandering rivers, surfable sandy coastlines, and marsh creeks.
Patrice steamed westbound, light,
Kimberly eastbound,
Josephine,
Daisy Mae, moving a half acre of scows…
Helen Laraway,
Daisy Mae again a few seconds later.
But to put it all together, here are Pegasus, Josephine, and Cape Henry.
Pegasus and Patrice,
Josephine, Kings Point, and Cape Henry….
It was a busy morning. All photos, WVD.
I caught this small open boat eastbound on the KVK.
She passed Ernest Campbell. Clearly by her markings, she’s a survey vessel.
Between traffic, they seemed to focus their work near the transition between the KVK and the ConHook Range . . .
returning to their area of interest, as I said, between traffic.
Work completed, they headed back west
from where they’d first come.
That might be a cold job with minimal protection for employees of Aqua Survey Inc. in
a crowded waterway . . .!
All photos, WVD.
It appears that Aqua-Survey Inc. (ASI) has another boat called RV Tesla, which I’d love to see. I caught R. E. Hayes here over 10 years ago, also an ASI boat.
Angelina Autumn . . . that’s not a common sixth boro boat . . .
so of course I needed to go check her out as she entered the Narrows yesterday with a deck barge headed for Coeymans NY.
Arriving with Angelina Autumn was Shannon Dann,
towing a huge Weeks crane. I did not get an ID on the crane. Neptune was in the procession also, but it was miles back and I had other places I needed to be.
Genesis Eagle had GM 11103 alongside a tanker.
Josephine came in from sea with
RTC 83.
Lois Ann L. Moran departed the Narrows
bound for Philly with the barge Philadelphia.
Anacostia headed out as well with
with Double Skin 510A.
I should know but am just guessing . . . Nicole Leigh Reinauer alongside Energy Centaur over by the Sandy Hook Pilots’ station.
All photos, WVD.
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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