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Adeline Marie was at anchor off the Coney Island Light.
Douglas J and a dump scow were shuttling to and from HARS.
Mary Emma was arriving from sea.
Joyce Brown passed a big unstuck green ship,
Stuff is always happening, and all photos, WVD.
Remember Solar Sal from yesterday’s post? A sharp-eyed reader recalled having seen in in a boatyard this past June. Question: Where is that boatyard? Answer follows.
Geoquip Saentis is a “regular exotic” in the sixth boro, although at a certain time that becomes an oxymoron. But what is that irregular shape along her starboard side?
Here you see more of it on the shore beyond Joyce D. Brown.
Here’s one more shot . . . from a different angle.
Here was the roughly the same area back in July. It’s the Military Ocean Terminal, a shoreside that’s changing quickly.
Here from two years ago that now imploded building is to the right below. Click here for the implosion less than two weeks ago.
Oasis of the Seas has been in town the past few days, the first cruise ship here in about a year and a half. I’ve never notice this “wave breaker” on previous cruise ships. It appears to be protection for the tenders.
Yesterday Oasis was docked opposite YM Width.
This head-on shot shows the bulky profile of Oasis.
Getting back to Solar Sal, that photo was sent along yesterday by George Schneider, who took then photo in Berkeley, California!
All other photos, WVD.
See the note at the end of this post.
Traffic in the harbor of NYC, aka the sixth boro, has a lot of unpredictability. I tend to do a fair amount of categorizing in this blog.
For example, this was a surprise. Usually this vessel–Admiral Richard E. Bennis–shuttles the river between Haverstraw and Ossining,
but here it must have had business in the Upper NY Bay. Bennis had a distinguished but tragically short USCG career.
A more typical sixth boro scene is this: Jonathan C assisting an 8200 teu Maersk ship out to sea.
The only markings on this ferry is the name, Schuyler Meyer. Its namesake had a storied life, but my favorite stories relate to his 1991 saving and reimagining tugboat Urger. That story is mentioned in this article from a few years ago. It’s expanded upon in Riverhorse by William Least-Heat Moon.
In the warm months, lots of small boats take fisherfolk out to hook what’s schooling.
More containers come into the port escorted by James D., a Moran 6000.
Joyce D. moves a small deck barge to a shoreside project somewhere.
Andrea takes bunker fuel to a recently arrived ship.
Explorer-class CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci comes in at dawn . . . hazy dawn, with at least four tugboats getting it around Bergen Point.
A warm morning brings an NYPD launch out about
the same time as this small dragger (?) explores the outside of the channel as CSCL Brisbane comes in.
All photos, WVD, of this place that always has a rich variety of traffic…
Now if you have a few free hours, go sit somewhere near the bay, dangle your toes in the water if you like. Or, read tugster. Or, a new option has presented itself: watch this new high-res harbor cam sited near Lehigh Valley Barge 79 aka the Waterfront Museum. Or . . . do all three at times you can. Waterfront Museum does their cam through “stream time live”, where you can also pay attention to shipping at points in the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and Alaska.
And if you can and if you feel like, send some $$ in the direction of the Waterfront Museum.
I’m preparing a “road fotos” post from last week’s gallivant, but along the way, I walked along a portion of the Lehigh Canal.
I’m on a short gallivant, but I have no shortage of sixth boro photos, mostly of tugboats engaged in commerce. Sometimes I look for meetings, and interesting (how ever that’s defined) ones are best. Like here…. Kristin and Kimberly,
B. Franklin and Dylan Cooper,
Mary H and Joyce,
Reinauer Twins and Pokomoke,
R/V Ocean Researcher (a multirole survey vessel [aka an exotic] for the offshore energy sector) and Emery Zidell,
and Fort McHenry and Philadelphia.
Then sometimes there are more than two at a time that can be framed in a shot, like here, Elk River, Paula Atwell, Chem Bulldog, Kirby, and B. Franklin . . .
More Bulldog soon. All photos yesterday, WVD.
Because the name and focus of this blog is tugster, you’d expect to see a lot of tugboats, both within the confines of New York harbor, aka the REAL sixth boro, and I hope you are satisfied that you find a plethora of tugboats in installments of this blog. So here’s Random Tugs #337, post 4877, and the tugboat is Foxy 3 moving an aggregate scow.
In the foreground, it’s Crystal Cutler; off in the distance it’s Normandy.
Diane B here heads east with a cargo in John Blanche. I did an article on this unit some years back.
Joyce D. Brown pushes an empty scow east. Notice anything on the scow that identifies it? See the end of this post.
James E. Brown passed sister Joyce D. that morning in the Kills.
Franklin Reinauer that morning may or may not have been under control of the author of a tugboat captain who shared his tales a few years back. I will stay mum. Off to the left, that’s Capt. Brian A. McAllister.
HMS Liberty muscled a barge full of bunkers to deliver to a thirsty ship over in New Jersey.
Centerline operates both Liberty above and HMS Justice below.
Susan Miller moves some material and equipment over to the project just west of the St. George ferry terminal.
Brendan Turecamo heads over to the next and the next and the next job.
Bruce A. McAllister assists a container ship into port.
Bergen Point came off the ways at Blount Shipbuilding way back in 1958.
So that scow Joyce was pushing above is called Maria and
this logo says it was once in the Disch fleet, now sold off in many directions.
All photos, WVD.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
Sea Fox as a cold front moves across the Upper Bay.
Mary Turecamo off to the next job.
Dorothy J returns from an assist. I’ve lots more photos of the assist to post soon.
Joyce and James eastbound in the KVK to start the work day.
Dean Reinauer heads over to fuel up.
Kings Point going over to Gowanus Bay.
Brooklyn going to pick up her barge.
Fells Point returning from a job.
The very busy Patrice waiting for a ship as Dobrin heads over to her daily projects.
The always moving Brendan making money, as all these boats and crews are.
And finally Sea Lion outbound in the Lower Bay.
All photos, WVD.
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
This series I use to feature others’ photos that are different from what I typically shoot, different in either location or perspective or subject. I am very grateful to you, readers, when you send these photos in.
David Silver sent this in just yesterday, taken in Norfolk.
Down in Norfolk, Mike Vinik and Rhino had just finished a tow there, and stopped by David’s workplace. I visited Vinik No. 6, Mike, and Rhino earlier this year, although it seems several years ago now. In case you’re wondering, Rhino weighs in at a trim 140 pounds.
Xlime promenaded along the East River in Brooklyn the other day and saw some sights. She writes: “I happened upon three Brown tugs this morning – Thomas, who’s always so picturesque and the mighty James and Joyce (a literary pairing) who I’ve seen together twice now bringing reinforcements to the piers project in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I happened to be on Pier 3 this morning when they pulled up. Okay, maybe I doubled back when I realized where they were going. “
I’d never thought about the literary ring of these names.
A few (2013!!) years ago Brad Ickes sent me photos of Cable Queen. Recently she was hauled out and here are the photos he sent. Brad writes: “Queen was just cleaned up, repainted and made pretty again.”
Pretty she is, and I still hope some day catching her at work.
One more here . . . although I found this on youtube . . . a streaming music/light show on Bannerman’s Island, coming up in a few days. Tickets are available now.
And a last one, survey vessel Shearwater was working at the Narrows the other day. Her track on AIS illustrates what she was doing.
Many thanks to David, xlime, and Brad for use of these photos.
Behold an entire fleet, and the current boats of a family business operating boats in New York since 1927.
The Brown family boats are distinguished by their color and meticulous condition.
Maybe you can’t tell by their condition, but one of these boats dates from 2015, one from 2002, and one from 1962. Styling may give it away, if you don’t just already know.
With all this foggy weather fading out the background, the green livery and polychromatic trim really pops out.
Off to work. In case you don’t know, Thomas is from 1962, and James . . . from 2015.
All photos, WVD.
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