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Turning or spinning . . . and there may be a technical term for “sailing” as vessel by rotating it away from the dock, into the current and making a 180 degree turn. It’s an evolution I enjoy photographing.
Seriana was launched in Japan in 2015, but it’s not as big as it seems, given the current scale of vessels I know: it’s 770′ by almost 138′ but from the deck to the water . . . over 50′ I’d wager. That’s a lot of tank.
Imagine climbing the companionway from Julia Miller. Next on the scene were (l to r) Kirby Moran and Jonathan C Moran.
Water began to sluice through the hawse.
After lots of traffic had cleared,
the rotation began. Seemingly she had enough headway on so that she didn’t drift astern and into the dock there Petali Lady lay on the far side.
This is my favorite in the series . . . a foreshortened tanker.
I like this a lot also: a plumb bow and just enough detail to ID the tugboat company.
Jonathan C heads back to the barn–or the next job–and
Kirby stands by as it anchors in Stapleton, were she remains as of this morning. Can anyone ID the red tug on the far side of the tanker? Delta maybe?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are previous installments and related ones.
Technically, infrastructure could include launch services, without which port activities would slow.
Survey services ensure that channels and depths at docks allow activity without literal impediment.
USACE overlaps with Rogers in some areas.
But more commonly when one thinks of infrastructure, it’s what allows terrestrial activity,
like bridges and their on- and off-ramps.
With all the bridge building and innovation going on the the greater land area around the sixth boro, it’s not surprising to see bridge components arrive this way. And what travels on the waterways post-demolition isn’t only parts of roadways; here large pieces of scrapped vessel traveled.
New bridge component above, old bridge component below . . .
Without liquid infrastructure, these would not be moving.
Thanks to Glenn Raymo for use of his photos. All others by Will Van Dorp.
Type the word training into the search window to the left on this page and you’ll get a variety of posts, as here. And truth be told, many other options exist for summer training and sea time for ocean academy students; I met cadets from at least three on my “go west” trip. Yesterday David Silver got me advance notice of when this training ship would leave port; thanks to him, I got these photos.
Kimberly Turecamo assisted, as did Julia Miller and Amy C McAllister.
By 1230 Friday, she was west of the Brooklyn Bridge and headed for sea,
for Maine, and by
this posting, she’s already east of Cape Cod.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here to watch David Silver’s 20-minute video of her departure from pier side.
Recognize this northbound tanker?
Afrodite.
Another orange PCTC . . . escorted in by Margaret, I think.
Tulane.
Torm Lotte . . .
The Peter Max vessel headed for Florida and back by next weekend?
Breakaway.
Conrad S . . . she of the
whaleback forecastle to lessen greenwater loading?
And another PCTC . . .
Hoegh Inchon escorted in by Margaret again . . . .
All photos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.
In my sixth boro observation, Maersk has more container ships than other types of vessels. Over four years ago, I posted this about the seven-pointed star logo, and all my photos there are ships carrying boxes. So earlier this week when I read about the tanker Carla Maersk colliding with the bulk carrier Conti Peridot, I recalled having seen a Maersk tanker in the sixth boro in January, I wondered. Had it been Carla? Had Carla been in New York harbor?
See it there . . the third tanker in the row, the blue hull at sunrise on January 23? Black hull is Whistler Spirit, then Cape Troy, and then . . .
Nope . .. not Carla here approached by Julia Miller. It’s . . .
Kirsten Maersk.
As to the question . . . has Carla ever been here? The answer I found was surprising . . . yes. I have a photo of her from 2007 but the name then was Bro Promotion. See the second photo here.
All photo by Will Van Dorp.
How many more folks in the cold first months of 2015 would have slipped on walkways or skidded off roadways had it not been for our annual salt infusion? Spar Spica is the most recent vessel emptied here.
How many old trucks and cars have a second life in the Caribbean islands because of this trade conducted by Grey Shark?
What kind of petroproducts does Pula transport?
The classic Ellen McAllister escorts her in. . .
as another tanker . . . Arionas heads for sea
guided by Elizabeth McAllister.
Deep Blue–named for this??– lingered in port a few days as
did NS Lotus, here a few weeks ago when this ice drifted beyond the Narrows. And what did the crews think of the ice drift?
I really have lost track of the number of salt ships that have delivered anti-ice properties to the land sides of the sixth boro. There was at least one between United Prestige–shown here in mid-February–and Spar Spica.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is ecstatic to be in a warmer sixth boro this morning.
For a Caribbean take on a salt pile–production and ship-loading side, see here, here, and here.
I thought all the vessels had left under cover of night. Unceremoniously. It turned out that the Japanese and Colombians had, but lots remained. So the best place to go was near the exit . . . everyone would depart through the Narrows. The forecast was 50 percent chance of rain all day, but I’d shoot from under an umbrella if necessary. At 10, tugs were ready for USS Gonzalez to cast off. Doubleclick enlarges fotos.
10:14 . . . she was under weigh.
10:23 . . . Responder returns for the next departee and Miller Girls (?) shuttles yokohamas back to Miller’s home base.
USS Mitscher at 10:33,
10:36, and
10:38, posing for Black Hawk photogs with a better perch than mine.
10:55 . . . Cuauhtemoc is next.
11:15 . . . USS Donald Cook moves away.
11:25 . . . San Jac next?
Nope. 11:34 . . . Argus heads for the Narrows
leaving Brooklyn’s “gold coast” (as on lots of these fotos) to port.
USS San Jac proceeds at 11:53 with escorts and fans aplenty.
11:56 . . . it’s “local-build” USCGC Seneca.
12:26 . . . Elcano departs under 11 sails . . . and screw turned by ” motor diesel sobrealimentado de 2.000 caballos de potencia.”
Scotty Sky passes. . . WW2 vet and still at work, as is
Julia Miller.
12:50 . . . and I’d thought all vessels had exited, but here comes USS . . .
Roosevelt,
followed by LHD-1 USS Wasp with all her
like this Sea Stallion.
It’s 13:38: Wasp has left the Narrows and Scotty Sky is topping off the tanks of Dewaruci.
Tankers wait in the anchorage, and
. . .oh wait . . . for today, the end of the parade is provided by Guayas.
Some of these vessels will reconvenrge in Norfolk. By 1400 yesterday, I know the French schooners, the Brazilians,
and the Indonesians were still in the sixth boro.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who is looking to score two XL OpSail shirts. Barters . .. anyone?
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