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Winter dawns and dusks can be the best, like this one creating golden water for Miss New York.
The 2000 Brooklyn had Vane livery then.
Haggerty Girls, attached here to RTC 60 and with Grace D alongside, was likely the newest tugboat in the Reinauer fleet. Note the bulbous domes of Ellis Island to the right.
The 2006 Manson dredge Glenn Edwards was in town. Currently, it’s in Florida.
Wittich Marine’s 1977 Iron Mike ranged the boro now and again. I’m not sure if this boat is still around.
Brendan would have about a decade of work ahead of it yet.
The 2012 Evening Star and B. No. 250 made their way east. Star is now Rose, Jordan Rose. In the distance, that’s a Genesis Marine unit.
Then, as is still the case, the 1951 Twin Tube was the boro’s premiere delivery service.
Meagan McAllister still had the red/white striped stacks. Currently she’s Charles James.
And some waterways in the boro could be as congested as the roadways around the watery boro. Note three tugboats with Cheyenne to the left, Kimberly Turecamo forward, and Gramma Lee T assisting in Four Sky.
Laura K heads out for the next assist while Robert E. works another vessel to its berth. Mare Pacific and another tanker line up along the opposite shore.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who wishes you a happy Imbolc aka marmot’s day.
My “scale” posts go way back to 2007 here. I’m still wowed easily, and I’m not apologizing for that. You’ll see what I mean here.
Earlier this month, Teal Ray was assisted into her berth by Laura K. Moran and Kimberly Turecamo.
Imagine the view of the ship’s deck from Kimberly‘s upper wheelhouse, compared with the view of Titan here from Grace.
Here Bruce A McAllister assisted Zim Atlantic last weekend.
Yesterday, Capt Brian did assist on an outbound Dubai Express.
Ross Sea and got assisted in by Kirby.
Compared with the view above of Kirby, check out the perspective from JRT of CMA CGM Callisto.
All photos, any errors, WVD
Evergreen calls them the T-type; I call them the green giants. Here’s a list, of which I’ve seen a few. I caught Titan yesterday morning just as enough daylight allowed me to get some photos.
In the photo above, the 14,000+ teu ULCV is framed by Kimberly Turecamo, Grace McAllister, and Marie J Turecamo.
Can you recall which other T-types you might have seen on this blog?
As of this posting, Titan will be approaching or just have arrived in Norfolk.
Other T-types you’ve seen here include Triton, Talos, and some of the Triumphs in that previous link and here.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I’m not sure what routes Titan has followed recently, but current Red Sea events are affecting a large fractional part of global shipping.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
Kimberly headed out on a mission, as
did Mary.
They converged alongside Bow Chain,
where crew mustered.
As daylight opened between Bow Chain and the dock,
Kimberly moved to the opposite side
and with guidance
Bow Chain moved slightly forward and toward port and
rotated counterclockwise
with Kimberly helping the bow around while
Mary pushed the stern.
Pilot and crew directed from the bridge wing
and once sailed, Bow Chain began a voyage to the Gulf of Mexico.
All photos, WVD.
Tugboats, large and powerful as they are, seem to shrink when beside a global container giant, like Ava here beside Adrian Maersk. What comes to mind, and if a paraphrase of Archimedes is acceptable, give me a tug and position alongside, I’ll move that world-traveling behemoth and make it look easy.
Capt. Brian here and Ellen get OOCL Singapore for the always preferred routine entry, shift of boxes, and then nudge back out to sea.
Ditto Laura K, CSCL Bohai Sea, and Kirby.
Ava stands by here with Mustafa Dayi, in an anchorage usually filled with tankers.
Jonathan C sees Ever Legion in the door.
Mary Turecamo stands by with Endo Breeze.
Ellen escorts a loaded tanker into the Kills. Notice here that the antenna deck is flush with the deck of the tanker, quite unlike the case with the largest container ships into the boro, as in the last image farther below in this post.
MSC Azov gets Kimberly and Laura K as assist boats.
James D has already terminated her business with Cosco Harmony and is now traveling to the next job.
And let’s conclude this post here, as mentioned earlier, the 6000 hp Kirby (?) looks insignificant beside 15000+ teu container ships. The key word here is “looks.”
All photos, WVD.
Bet you can guess where that line leads from the bow of Kirby Moran?
Here you go.
Jordan Rose has been tied up in Bayonne for a while, but
Gregg McAllister passes her on the way to an assist.
Michael Miller is one of the venerable tugs of the sixth boro,
having worked here since the mid-1960s.
Cape Fear has been here for a few years, although I’ve not yet seen
her two sisters, Cape May and Cape Henry.
Ava M. is one of the workhorses, certainly.
Does anyone know when and if Capt. Brian A. will return to service here?
Kimberly Turecamo has worked the harbor consistently for going-on 30 years.
Here she heads into an orange sherbet dawn.
All photos in the past week, WVD., who has more Canal Society archival photos coming but some contemporary posts demonstrate my temporary anchor. Also coming up, a photographer high above Hell Gate has shared a new trove of photos from a perspective I’ve missed. Many thanks for your continued interest.
Happy spring. All photos in this post were taken in winter two days ago and over a six-hour period. Before noon, the five boros and the next state were obscured out of existence. I really think they didn’t exist during those hours, just like the imaginary sun crossed (??) the imaginary equator at 11:33 NYC time. Crossed . . by boat or chariot or blimp or goat cart . . . I don’t know.
Kimberly passed by and Robbins Reef was barely there. Mariner brought boxes in, and Kirby passed by, and they might as well have been at sea.
Neptune shuttled by, and hints of Bayonne showed themselves.
Justine came by and the sunshine was making progress burning off the moisture.
When Cape Canaveral crossed in front of me, Manhattan was there, albeit like a matte painting; right, that’s just a movie set, right?
The large gray ship . . . Soderman, that too was a different painted background, this time for Captain D.
Before Mary Turecamo appeared over on the starboard side of New York‘s trans-harbor load of containers, I had no idea what I was seeing.
It wasn’t until well into the afternoon and–in the near distance–Bert Reinauer passed overtaking the Vane unit that I saw a boat pass by without a hint of fog. That, however, was mostly due to the proximity
All photos, Friday, WVD.
Miriam Moran looks to be alone, with a half dozen other units in the distance, but
she’s converging with a pack.
Minutes later, Kirby takes the stern of the ULCV, and
James D. emerges from the far side, where she landed a docking pilot.
Then, Miriam and Kimberly
like choreography
assume their positions and paths
and assist Monaco Bridge into the terminal.
All photos, WVD, who can’t get enough of this.
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