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A quick post today, since I’ll spend most of the day without computer, signal, or free time. The varied and unsettled weather of the recent weeks is evident here as well, the diverse days of summer.
Here are some of the usual workhorses or work oxen of the port.
Brendan Turecamo,
Normandy, and
Evening Breeze and a couple Bouchard barges. There must be a shortage of locations to stack the idle Bouchard fleet, still in limbo no matter what engrossing negotiation is happening behind closed doors in advance of July 23, according to this article.
Continuing with this threat, there’s Normandy and Pelham,
Fells Point,
Justine McAllister,
Marjorie McAllister with Bulkmaster,
Sea Lion and a sailboat under sail,
Brendan Turecamo
Kirby Moran and Miriam Moran,
Miriam and a fishing skiff,
and Kirby, James D., and Miriam, all Moran, and all following an incoming ship.
More soon . . . WVD.
Here was an unusual pair . . . within an hour of each other; Thor Confidence arrived,
escorted by Justine McAllister and
Capt. Brian A. . . .
and a bit later, a very light Thor Courage, escorted by Ava M. McAllister,
headed out for sea.
Built in 2009 and 2008, respectively, the two mostly identical 59000 dwt bulkers are part of the 20-vessel Thoresen fleet.
All photos, WVD, who may be miss a few days of posting . . . .
Here are some previous Sound posts. Recognize those buildings about 30 miles from my location?
How about this tug with a string of scows?
Yacht traffic in this location between Huntington and Stamford seemed to be in a hurry.
If you didn’t recognize this tug earlier you can’t miss the name now . . . Mister T is a Blount built boat from 2001.
How about this one? There aren’t many tugs in the area that look like this when the wheelhouse is hydraulically raised.
Here’s the skyline a few hours after the first photo, showing only midtown and up.
All photos from the Sound by WVD. That tug with raised wheelhouse was Justine McAllister, a 1982 product of Jakobson on Oyster Bay, one bay to the west from my vantage point on Sound Wave out of Huntington Bay.
Justine has been back in the sixth boro awhile now after quite some time away.
She’s a 1982 product of Jakobson, one of the last half dozen built there. From this angle she reminds me of Siberian Sea, now Mike Azzolino. She works with 4000 hp.
Recent days have seen a convergence of the Cape-class,
Cape Lookout,
Cape Henry,
and Cape Canaveral, here pushing DBL 101.
They are attractive 5000 hp boats.
Also pushing an oil barge, Patriot, in fact, was Robert IV.
Usually that barge has Mary H as power.
Nicole Leigh finished fueling, brought down the red flag, and spun around to rejoin her barge.
Her Caterpillars deliver a total of 7200 hp to her wheels.
And closing, it’s the 6770 hp Capt. Brian A. escorting Zim Tarragona out to sea.
All photos, WVD.
Bobbie Ann departs the sixth boro with some GLDD equipment.
Little did I know at the time that Bobbie Ann had left the sixth boro a decade ago, then as Vera K.
Ernest Campbell wrestles along a double hull bunker barge. I wonder why the Centerline Logistics lion has not yet been added to her stack.
When tugs like Mary Turecamo assist a deeply laden tanker, the perspective from the upper wheelhouse is so much different than when assisting a ULCV, with their much higher freeboard.
Sometimes the 46′ x 15′ Rae is just the right size. Recall Rae‘s role in getting Wavertree back into her berth after the big renovation?
One of the newest tugboats in the boro, Cape Canaveral, 105′ x 36′ and generating 5000 hp, has the most evocative name.
She has two siblings, Cape Henry and Cape Lookout.
Again, is it me? I don’t believe I’ve seen Justine in a long while. She’s also 105′ x 35′ and 4000 hp. She has an elevating wheelhouse, which you can see here, scroll.
This is crowded: (l to r) Diane B, Saint Emilion, Meredith C. Reinauer, Lois Ann L. Moran, and Pathfinder.
Escorting from a distance astern, it’s Kimberly.
And finally, a photo from some time back, Vane’s New York, now working on the Great Lakes, Vane’s only freshwater unit . . . that I know of.
All photos, WVD.
March 2009 . . . Stephen Scott here passes Port Ivory, near my old job, pushing RTC 70. I’m still looking for Stephen Scott photo is her new profile, sans upper wheelhouse. Port Ivory was an intriguing place name for me when I first moved here; once a North Shore Branch of the SIRR even had a station there.
Kimberly Poling already had the color scheme, but adding a few more teal stripes to her current appearance is a big improvement.
Lettie passed by once while I scheduled my lunch break. As of today’s posting, Lettie G is in Mobile AL!! If she continues, she could end up back in Lake Erie by way of the great loop. Is that what’s happening? A few months I caught her at the top end of the Welland Canal here.
More Port Ivory area, Specialist was around, then called Specialist II.
So was the huge K-Sea fleet, which included Falcon.
This post should be called “sixth boro and beyond,” since I took this photo of Justine with RTC 120 up near Saugerties. Back then,
was that a red canoe along her portside rail?
Side by side in the Rondout 10 years ago were Hackensack, the 1953 colorful one, and Petersburg, 1954 vintage and still in the general area. Last I knew, Hackensack was in Guyana pushing molasses barges.
And going farther out, it’s Allie B pulling Goliath on a cargo barge Brooklyn Bridge out of Quincy MA, with assistance from Vincent D. Tibbetts Jr and Justice.
Here’s a closer up of Liberty. For the entire reportage on that journey to Mangalia, Romania (!!), click here. Damen operates the crane in their shipyard there, the largest shipyard in the Damen collection.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you enjoy these looks back as much as I do.
More of the Great Race soon . . . but a bit of back story.
When I moved to our fair metropolis in 2000 and started paying attention, I was taken by the Bayonne Bridge, so enamored in fact that I choose it as the header image for this blog in 2006, and now out of stubbornness– or something– have kept the old view.
I renewed my focus on the Bridge in 2011, “turning” became the key word in the titles. Click here to see posts I did for its 80th, 84th, and 86th anniversary of initial construction, and here I marked the 80 mark again twice. Over 10 years ago I alluded to the raising for the first time here.
Here’s a single post that looks at the change from 2011 until 2017.
For a baseline, let’s use sunrise April 24, 2008, looking from the west, those two boats are Justine McAllister and Huron Service, now Genesis Victory.
And from the east, December 2011, and that boat was Barents Sea, currently known as Atlantic Enterprise. As to the bridge, note the box-grid work (not a technical term) on the Bayonne side of the arch.
From Richmond Terrace (Staten Island) perspective, here’s the bridge in February 2012.
By September 13, the box grid was covered, possibly to allow sand blasting.
By January 2014, the cover was off the box grid. Yes, that’s Specialist.
By October 2015, the box grid was being extended upward, as
the vertical supports were being erected farther into Bayonne.
Here’s a December 15 view, showing the symmetry of the construction.
Here’s March 2016, and you can begin to see the location of the raised roadbed.
Here’s a view from May 2016 from the west side of the Bayonne shore.
By August 2016, the new span has been completely defined.
Here’s a closer up, showing the old level–still poet traffic–and the new level, along with the device used to place pre-cast portions of the new road bed. The tug is Taft Beach.
Here, as seen from the west side, is most of the bridge in September 2016. Note the gap still remaining on the Staten Island side.
By March 23, 2017, the upper deck was open to wheeled traffic, and the lower deck was ready to be dismantled.
Here’s a closer-up of that opening.
By April 2, a gap existed, and
by April 11, 2017, ships that might have scrapped year before were shooting through the opening that grew wider by the week.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will continue this progression soon.
To start part 2, I’ll go back upriver a bit to Esopus Island. Craig Eric Reinauer with RTC 103 is anchored to the south. Much of the Hudson has associated with some unusual characters, both in fiction and in real life. Esopus Island is no exception: about a century ago it was the magical hideaway of Aleister Crowley. My friend Mitch–Newtown Pentacle–wrote about him here.
Farther south is a place with a magical name but a quite mundane though necessary construction on it. This is the current resident of Duyvil’s Danskammer Point, idled in litigation I think. The Dutch called it “devil’s dance chamber” because they saw natives doing a ceremonial dance there by firelight . . . A lighthouse and several brickworks also once stood here.
Looking back upstream . . the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge and Danskammer Point in the background. Foreground is picnic boat Gem. A Hinckley?
River Rose previously appeared here about three years ago.
Justine McAllister . . . I caught her the day before east- and then northbound at the KV buoy pushing RTC 120. Also, three years ago I caught Justine towing the same barge on the Hudson.
Upbound off Cornwall . . it’s Kimberly Poling, also a frequenter of both this river and this blog.
I’m not sure why so many large yachts were on the river the other day . . . off Bannerman’s Castle, location of a ceremonial swim a few months back, it’s Blue Moon.
Here’s Bannerman’s from the south side, juxtaposing the residence (left) with the warehouse.
I’ve yet to deliver on closeups of the residence, but here’s a preview. The “picture window” serves to illustrate the interior for now.
That’s Bannerman’s in the background as Black Watch passes northbound. Slope on the right is dauntingly named Breakneck Ridge.
The Hudson is truly loved.
Here a crowded Clearwater lowers sail in the Hudson Highlands.
Seastreak New York, usually shuttling south from the sixth boro, travels north when the leaves start to turn color. Not pictured to the left is West Point.
Peak behind Bear Mountain Bridge is Anthony’s Nose, which I scaled back in April.
And finally . . . just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge . . . it’s another people mover usually associated with the confines of the sixth boro, Circle Line Queens, here assisting in leaf peeping.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
I thought I’d used this title before, but I was thinking about this one, backgrounds. The idea here is similar.
From this angle, can you identify this vessel?
It’s a shipshape Pegasus!
From the same perspective, Justine McAllister and Franklin Reinauer leaving the KVK for the AK.
Ditto equally shipshape Mary Turecamo, from a perspective such that the visor practically obscures the house windows.
What’s the tale of three wakes . . . one recent and the others less so?
This is a good view of how a model bow fits snugly in the notch.
Where’s this and what’s this? Although it looks like a building being overrun by tropical flora and fauna,
this might generate a different set of associations.
This was taken from the same vantage point but with the camera pointed a bit higher yet, and it makes all the difference.
It’s OSC Vision entering the Upper Bay last weekend, giving new meaning to the term “shipshape.” And the fauna here could be called landscaping goats . . . . or “scapegoats,” for short.
Two ships . . . well, at least until you examine the farther one more closely.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who did this earlier goat homage here.
Need sunglasses for this drama on the Hudson? “Random” means … spotted in a plethora of places, like Elizabeth, passing the Hudson waterfront at dusk with a barged Weeks crane 532 in tow. Note the Crow or Cheyenne in push gear with barge on the far left.
Paul T Moran at Gulf Marine Repair in Tampa. Not to be insensitive to customary modes of dress, but–as east river pointed out– doesn’t this vaguely like a burka or abaya from the eyes down on the tug?
Justine McAllister pulling a light RTC 120 south of Catskill.
Atlantic Coast pushing Cement Transporter 5300 south of –you guessed it–Cementon, NY.
Meredith C. Reinauer pushing a loaded RTC 150 toward the Highlands. By the way, if you’re looking for a fun read, try the novel by T. C. Boyle called World’s End . . . my current source of chuckles.
Sea Hawk in Brooklyn Navy Yard last June appearing tied up to sludge tanker North River.
Connecticut (1959?) crosses the Sound north to south.
That’s it for now. Thanks to Deb DePeyster (who previous contributed to this) for the foto of Elizabeth, and to eastriver for the foto of Paul T Moran. All others by Will Van Dorp.
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