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Here goes another 3-fer, three cargo vessels making their way again through the KVK simultaneously. JRT here at dawn assists orange juice carrier Orange Blossom 2 through the ConHook Range.
Jonathan C passes in front of them, returning from assisting another vessel now bound for sea.
Right behind the juice carrier is a box ship.
As the juice ship nears midpoint in the KVK, notice a RORO rounding Bergen Point at the west end of the KVK.
As I said, congestion . .. that’s routine. Kimberly travels along the starboard bow of the RORO,
Meanwhile, that box ship mentioned earlier has Eric on port
and Capt Brian A. at the stern.
Glovis Safety . . . headed for Philly and as of this moment is midAtlantic on its way to Zeebrugge.
As I said . . . skillful mariners make a congested waterway seem just routine.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
It’s that day, and although I’d planned something different, there are a lot of these green containers coming through the sixth boro. Guess which ship? Unrelated but something else to guess? What is the emerald isle of the Great Lakes USA? Answer follows.
Kimberly Turecamo was on port bow the other day, as
James D. and
Kirby assist along starboard side.
I believe 30 of the L- series have been built. Click here (and look on the left nav bar) for their green features.
Go to any world shipping lane and you’ll see them. The photo below was in Gatun Lake.
Their profile is unmistakeable.
I certainly haven’t even taken a photo of everyone I’ve seen in the sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s ingesting green things like basil and oregano today.
Here is the first in this series. Here’s another. And from 12 years ago here’s an earlier class of Evergreen C-ships.
Emerald Isle of the Great Lakes . . . it’s in Lake Michigan . . . Beaver Island!!
It might as well be spring already. Well, maybe my wish is that spring were here. I heard a spurious claim on a TV I visited the other day that March 20 is the planetary beginning of spring in the north but March 1 is the meteorological start of spring. But it must be true since I heard it on TV!??
But pairs, not Paris. Capt. Brian and Charles D. . . . interesting pair showing evolution of design 50 over the half century between the launch of each.
Fells Point landed Doubleskin 302 with Stephen B doing assist. That’s the first I seen Stephen B in the assist role.
Miss Julia could be Dylan Cooper‘s workboat.
CF Campbell heads east passing Scott Turecamo/New Hampshire and then
makes for the Upper Bay, where JRT is assisting Orange Blossom 2, herself a bloom in the dawn light. The photo above and the one below I took less than a minute apart, yet you’d think the light was saying hours separated the two.
Kimberly passes Eric.
Marie J Turecamo and Mister Jim run side by side under the Bayonne Bridge. Does anyone know when the pedestrian walkway on the bridge will open?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous weather posts. Below . . . that’s easy: it’s a local shower; Evening Tide and Evening Light were in the rain, and I was not, yet.
But a half hour later at the opposite end of the KVK, the clouds were truly wild. Is there a word for these conditions? Again, it wasn’t raining at my location.
Air currents swirled beyond the busy waterway, l to r, Stolt Loyalty, Stone 1, Phoenix Dream, Kimberly Turecamo, and Hoegh Seoul assisted by Bruce A. McAllister.
The Stolt tanker passes Graecia Aeterna before meeting the wild swirl head-on.
Add one more tug to the mix.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d like to know what you call this type of fast-moving dispersal of fog.
Can you identify these boats? This is a game I sometimes play . . . trying to guess before I can read by my eyes or some device . . .
Do you know the unit headed away?
Here’s that Moran vessel from the first photo of this post.
OK. Did you get Sea Fox? I had guessed Sea Wolf. There is no Sea Coyote. Yet.
I didn’t get this one either.
James D. here had just finished the salt ship job,
along with Margaret . . . and headed back to base to await the next job.
And finally, Turecamo Girls heads out for the next job.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
If you squint, you can almost imagine Ellen McAllister is out at sea, with a big blue sky beyond her. But that blue is
also Maersk blue; to know how to create that blue, read through this thread and you’ll get the mix. And this name . . . I couldn’t get the echo “sheer maerskness” out of my brain. There’s also this port town by that name.
It’s fishing season in the sixth boro again, and here Eastern Welder is at work as Kimberly (oops!) JenniferTurecamo tows Portland out toward the Lower Bay. It looks like Timothy Reinauer farther off.
Also, in the anchorage at that moment, were Weddell Sea with DBL 83,
launch Grace D, Mediterranean Sea with DBL 84,
Dylan Cooper, Joanne III, and Matthews Tibbetts.
All photos 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.
November, port month on tugster, ends here, making this GHP&W 30. Here’s how the month began. One thing I learned putting together this post is that Port Richmond and Mariner’s Harbor appear not to share a border, at least according to the wikipedia map. Between the western edge of Port Richmond and the eastern edge of Mariner’s (the west side of the Bayonne Bridge) is a neighborhood called Elm Park. I’d never heard of it. Also, look at the northeast tip of Port Richmond . . . it’s in the water only and includes the Caddell yard. Furthermore, Port Richmond never seems like much of a port if you see it by road only. Click here for photos of the land portion of Port Richmond. Click on the map to make it interactive.
A google satellite view shows the northernmost margin of land is port-intensive. Click here for many vintage photos of Port Richmond, pre-Bayonne Bridge, back when Port Richmond was a major ferry/rail link.
Although the late fall midday sun backlit these shots, let’s cruise the waterside of Port Richmond, starting at its northeastern point, where the Wavertree (1885) project is ongoing.
Delaware River & Bay Authority’s Delaware is undergoing some major repowering work.
Frying Pan . . . light of the night vessel from up at Pier 66 is having some work done.
In the belly of Frying Pan, where the engine and machinery used to be, a night club sometimes comes to life. Click here for some renderings of the vessel by the elusive bowsprite.
Miss Liberty, built 1954, is nearly finished with this dry-docking. Notice here she is high and dry? Well, just 45 minutes later, she had been
splashed and was being towed to a wharf by Caddell’s own L. W. Caddell (1990).
Continuing to the west, it’s the yards of Reinauer and Moran. From l to r, here, it seems to be Meredith C. Reinauer (2003), Laurie Ann Reinauer (2009), Reinauer Twins (2011), and Dace Reinauer (1968 but JUST repowered). . . and Joan Turecamo with (?) Brendan Turecamo. The McAllister tug between the Reinauer ATBs . . . I’ll guess is Bruce A. Marjorie B. McAllister.
This photo, taken a half hour earlier and before Joan Turecamo (1980) tied up, shows Kimberly Turecamo (1980), the very new and beamy J. R. T. Moran (2015), and Brendan (1975).
On the west side of the Moran yard, it’s Cable Queen (1952). Click here for photos of this cable-layer at work through the years.
And for the last shot of Port Richmond–although this may be straying westward into Elm Park waters, it’s Metropolitan Marine Transportation’s newest Normandy.
All the photos today by Will Van Dorp.
So as I said at the beginning of this post, so ends the “gunk holes, harbors, ports, and wharves” series. However, precedent on this blog makes it really easy to do a Port Richmond 2, 3, 4 . . . . etc. post. also, if any of you feel like contributing a set of photos from a port of gunk hole, no matter how large or obscure, I welcome it. Besides, there’s always then possibility of doing an “upland” version of any port, focusing on land-based businesses serving the work vessels.
And as for December, let me reprint this idea for a December theme:
How about antique/classic workboats, functioning or wrecked. Of course, a definition for that category is impossible. For example, NewYorkBoater says this: ‘The definition of an antique boat according to Antique and Classic Boating Society is a boat built between 1919 and 1942. A classic was built between 1943 and 1975 and the term contemporary, are boats built from 1976 and on.’ Hmm . . . what do you call an old vessel built before 1919 . . . a restoration project? antediluvian?
If you take another transportation sector–automobiles, you get another definition: 25 years old or more. And for the great race, here were the rules for this year: “Vehicle entries must have been manufactured in 1972 or before.” Next year’s cut-off will likely be 1973.
So my flexible definition is . . . photo should have been taken in 1999 or before, by you or of you or a family member, and in the case of a wreck, probably identifiable. Exception . . . it could be a boat built before . . . say . . . 1965.”
Many thanks to all of you who sent along photos, contributed ideas, and commented in November.
Here was the first time I used this title, which clearly needs to be used again.
Let me start here at 13:38. Note from far to near, or black hull to black hull . . . Cartagena, Four Sky with Lee T Moran, Red Hook, and Genco Knight.
Twin Tube slides through the opening between Bow Kiso and Genco Knight.
Even the bow of Genco Knight is crowded as their vessel prepares to dock and resupply the salt depot.
Kimberly Turecamo works the bulk carrier’s stern as Evening Star passes with B. No. 250.
Add McAllister Girls in the foreground and Ellen McAllister in the distance against the blue hull, which will appear a bit later.
McCrews heads westbound and Four Sky now seems to be doing the same.
Are you out of breath yet? Only 10 minutes has elapsed.
Linehandler 1 cruises blithely through it, supremely self-assured.
Cheyenne adds color.
Another line handler boat scouts out the set up . . . as a new blue hull arrives from the west, as
. . . does Charles D. McAllister.
Crew on the blue hull–Nord Observer–stows lines as they head for tropical heat, escorted
by Catherine Turecamo although
at the turn on the Con Hook range they meet Mare Pacific heading in with Joan Turecamo and Margaret Moran. At this point . . .
14:12 . . . the mergansers decided to hightail it . . . or at least follow their crests. And I hadn’t even turned around yet to see the congestion on land behind me.
All these photos in a very short time by Will Van Dorp.
My thanks to Brian DeForest and Atlantic Salt, whom Genco Knight was arriving to restock.
Here was a post about a dense traffic day as well as a busy day.
The link here may show the first glimpse I had of Balder. Let me share my getting better acquainted, but first . . . the foto below I took 13 months ago. Note the different colors of salt, reflecting
different provenances, as explained in Ian Frazier’s New Yorker article below. Buy a copy to get the rest of the story.
Without this vessel, all of us who drive the roads or walks the sidewalks and streets within the metropolis surrounding the sixth boro would be at greater risk of slipping and crashing. Framed that way, Balder could not be better named. Here’s what Kimberly Turecamo looks like from Balder‘s bridge.
On the far side of the channel, that’s Dace.
Here’s what has come forth from Balder‘s belly, a bit of the Atacama Desert on the KVK. Huge tractors load the trucks that come to a highway department near you today.
This 246′ arm, reaching nearly to Richmond Terrace, offloads at the relatively slow rate of 8oo tons per hour.
And here’s the hold just emptied, one hold of five. Notice the ladders and the tracks at the base of the hold.
Click here to see the unloading machinery in action.
Navel, perhaps?
Here’s what gets even the last pound making up the nearly 50,000-ton payload onto the salt dock.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Thanks to Brian DeForest of Atlantic Salt and the Balder crew for the tour.
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