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A new assist boat in town bringing 3800 hp to the job?
Right . . . I was kidding. It’s Jones Act non-compliant anyhow.
Genesis Eagle is a 6140 hp pin boat.
JRT Moran and Capt. Brian McAllister do an assist of an ULCV.
Pegasus gives Mount St. Elias an assist as it moves DBL 82 out of IMTT bound for New Haven.
Andrea gives HMS Liberty an assist as it delivers a bunker barge to Port Elizabeth.
Miriam Moran delivers a pilot to the ship.
Mary Turecamo assists a container ship.
Doris waits for a job to approach in the Upper Bay,
and finally, Kirby Moran moves in closer to an incoming ship.
All photos, WVD.
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.
See it between those ships? It’s . . .
Utopia! And that’s within the dimensions of 207′ x 36′ and powered by 4 x MTU 16V 2000 M96L’s.
Well, Utopia IV, that is, the $50 million yacht of someone with the net worth . . . of Bob Dylan. Back to that later, the owner’s previous yacht, as you can imagine was Utopia III.
The IV is available to charter for a mere half million a week, chartered through Moran Yacht and Ship, which has no connections, that I know of, to Moran Towing.
The low-profile yacht is capable of 33 knots, with a range of 3600 nm. At 30 knots, it can cover the 950 nm between Miami and New York in a day and a half, if my math is correct.
Not visible here is the fold down transom that has a square footage greater than my Queens apartment!
All photos, WVD.
The Bob Dylan reference above . . . he sold his rights to his work recently for $300 million, said to be the net worth of JR Ridinger, owner of Utopia IV. Maybe he came up for the fireworks?
I had several “pink” posts, but let’s go with the official designation of the hue, magenta. Magenta, believe it or not, is a term for the created color derived from an Italian town where a significant battle took place in 1859!! How’s that for obscure.
In June I caught ONE Hawk (again) and ONE Munchen.
Yesterday brought in another pink sorry magenta vessel, ONE Hangzhou Bay, that body of water that separates Shanghai and Ningbo and can be crossed via the 22-mile bridge that opened in 2008.
Miriam delivered the docking pilot,
while Kirby and James D. stood by.
All photos, WVD.
Hangzhou is also noteworthy as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal, the thousand-mile water first designed and worked on over 2000 years ago, completed over 1400 years ago.
Solo and over along the Connecticut shore last week, it’s Joker, with her distinctive lines and livery.
The other dawn, Ava M. was returning from a job. It was sunny and clear, but with all the rain of the previous day, lots of moisture remained in the air.
Taken an hour or so later, Eastern Dawn passes those same hoses and that ship, Chem Neon.
The top photo here was of a single vessel; the next two had two each. Beyond Christian Reinauer are two tugs and a ship to the left, and one tug to the right.
Normandy is front and center, but I count two tugs, a tanker, and a tank barge in the background.
Ditto here: the seldom-seen (by me) Christine M. McAllister with lots of activity in the background.
See what all is happening here: in the foreground l to r, Kirby Moran, Treasure Coast, Miriam Moran, Sarah Ann, and Marjorie B. McAllister. In addition, there are two tankers and a cement barge.
All photos, WVD.
And since I’ve not seen Christine M underway in quite a while, enjoy another shot below. I count at least four vessels beyond her.
With Eastern Dawn in the foreground, the massive scale of these box boats is apparent.
Foreshortening gives the illusion that MSC Lauren cannot possibly avoid a collision.
Although this may be her first arrival in the sixth boro, this 12400 teu vessel has sailed the seas for a decade already.
See the crewman near the port bow quarter?
Now you see him?
If I recall correctly, she arrived here from Jamaica; from here she travels to Italy.
Again . . . Linda L. Miller and the 6000 hp tugs show scale. MSC Lauren is one of 560 container vessels operated by MSC, the second largest shipping company in the world. Know the largest? The third largest? Answers are here.
So here’s a merger of truckster! and ULCVs, a photo I took last week from a parking lot. I know what was loaded into that 20′ MSC container. I invite you to guess. Answer will be posted tomorrow . . . .
All photos, WVD, who is always happy to collaborate.
Most of you know that dawn is my favorite time. Yesterday dawn–between 0545 and 0645–was quite busy; two of the five vessels that transited the KVK were among the largest–so far–that call in the sixth boro.
Pink sky with gradations, faded purple Brooklyn, huge but silent shapes, and spots of artificial lights.
Birds silhouetted and reflections in the still water make the scene as one point over by central western Brooklyn turns a deeper shade of red.
When the ship blocks the blinding rising sun, its name becomes legible.
Once CS Rose passes my vantage point, all that light illuminates the details. Three tugboats along her starboard, one on stern, and one on the far side, the port side.
Not much later–another smaller container ship has passed–the next hulking shape appears, and the light has already turned gradations of yellow.
When CMA CGM Mexico blocks the rising sun, details become available . . .
By now, 0645, the light suggests the sun has created daylight.
Tugboats on Rose include James D, Mary Turecamo, Kimberly Turecamo, and Kirby. Tugboats on Mexico include Marie J Turecamo, JRT, Kimberly Turecamo, and Miriam.
All photos, WVD.
Where’s there’s a “1”, a “2” must follow, right? Let’s start with Brendan Turecamo on the starboard side of APL Dublin.
Enter a Maersk ship with Bruce tendering the port side.
APL Dublin has Kirby on the stern.
Gerda has Capt. Brian A. on her stern, and
Patrice and
Ava. That makes a total of four tugboats on Gerda Maersk.
Note the rust stains on Maersk Columbus, a US-flagged ship.
Yet, no tugboats work the port side of Columbus,
but on her starboard side, Margaret has been all along, and Kirby has left APL Dublin to assist Columbus as they head for the bridge and Bergen Point.
All photos and interpretation by WVD, who’ll never see this identical concatenation repeated. Hat tip to all the crews who make this happen.
Can anyone explain the story of the rust stains on Maersk Columbus?
Looking back a year, here‘s where April 11, 2020 found us.
Here are the birds. Now what’s the rest of the story?
Part of the story is told by these flags, US courtesy, German registry, and is that a pilot flag?
She was large for a 2008 container ship: 1098′ x 140′ with a capacity of 8606 teu.
I’d love to know more about accessing that lifeboat, given the cargo configuration.
And where are the birds?
Doubleclick on that last photo to see the closeup . . . you can almost hear the excitement!
All photos, WVD.
She looks bigger than the 981′ she is. By today’s sixth boro standards, she’s not, and with a capacity for 9971 teu, she’s nowhere near the 15,072 of CMA CGM Panama, which I missed this week.
I’ve not noticed the wings to add lateral visibility near the stern, or
the starboard-offset stack.
As for the name, I’d thought the reference South American; in fact, it’s Asian, referring to high peaks shared by India and Pakistan, and a river that’s a tributary of the Indus.
All photos, WVD.
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