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That big “300” is beckoning, so although I had other posts planned . . . let’s increment closer to that 300. I’m inviting your participation here so that i can make it the best “non-random” random post. Random Tugs 001 was here. Random Tugs 100 was more than seven years later, and 200 was about four years after that.
What better way to start than with these two photos of W. O. Decker, taken yesterday by Glenn Raymo. Yes, that’s the Walkway over the Hudson. Decker is taking a freshwater cure.
Many previous posts featuring Decker can be seen here.
Kimberly Turecamo assisted an MSC box boat in recently. A less dynamic photo of Kimberly appeared yesterday. The founder of MSC, Gianluigi Aponte, is alive and well in Italy.
Sarah D was on this blog recently with a unique tow; usually she pushes vessels like this. But hey . . . it pays the bills.
Andrea follows a box ship to the NJ portions of the sixth boro.
Reaching back into the archives a bit, here was Honcho in San Juan PR. I took this photo in March 2013. She’s been all around. I’ve forgotten, though, whether she actually worked on the Great Lakes. I need to find out also what she looks like now that she’s a Moran boat.
Back in April 2012, I caught Bruce A. McAllister bringing in Mars, marked as registered in San Francisco. Mars went onto a heavy lift ship over to Nigeria. The photo makes me curious about traveling to Mars.
See the tugboat here? Name the bridge in the background?
Between Algoma Olympic and CSL Laurentian, it’s Leo A. McArthur, built in Penglai China in 2009. Believe it or not, Penglai was the birthplace and boyhood home of Henry Luce, the magazine guy!
Did you recognize the last two photos as the Detroit River, and the bend between Detroit and Windsor. The reason I asked about the bridge . . . the Ambassador Bridge is that the owner died yesterday. Manuel “Matty” Maroun was 93. The 1929-built bridge, as well as the duty-free stores in its vicinity, have been owned by Maroun since 1979.
Many thanks to Glenn for use of the Decker photos. All others by WVD.
The sixth boro, like any location, offers infinite perspectives, compounded by equally countless nuance of season, hour, weather, and activity variation. This view of Kimberly in the stalls at Caddells the other day differs considerably from the dynamic ones of the past 18 months.
Kust a few days different but quite different location and atmospherics . . . Weddell Sea came into the Narrows the other day as we began feeling the effects of Fay. She had Penn No. 90 on a wire.
Further to the west in another spot, Discovery Coast was on the outside, mostly blocking Brooklyn, who’s been in here for a few months already.
In clear weather, land would be visible beyond the tug, but Fay changed that for a while.
Dace Reinauer was high and dry in Dry Dock No. 7.
And finally, just west of Dry Dock No. 7, stacked up were at least seven Bouchard boats, sadly waiting.
All photos, WVD, who’s starting to think about random tugs three hundred. If you have a photo of a tug never depicted on this blog, send it along. The big three hundred COULD be all never-here-before tugboats.
This is what 13,000 teu looks like coming straight at you in the early morning . .
And when another 8500+ passes you, that’s a lot of boxes, tractors, and stuff.
See the three bridges in the distance . . . Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg? I’d like to see a comparison of the strength to weight ratio of that towline and the cable holding the roadbeds on the bridges?
Lady of the Harbor reaches up, and her assessment is . . . impressive breaking strength.
From here, the tow winds itself toward the Bayonne Bridge, where the big turn to starboard get made, assisted by Jonathan C and that towline, with James D and Kimberly. assisting from vectors needed.
All photos, WVD.
Click here for specs on Cosco’s fleet list.
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.
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