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Turning or spinning . . . and there may be a technical term for “sailing” as vessel by rotating it away from the dock, into the current and making a 180 degree turn. It’s an evolution I enjoy photographing.
Seriana was launched in Japan in 2015, but it’s not as big as it seems, given the current scale of vessels I know: it’s 770′ by almost 138′ but from the deck to the water . . . over 50′ I’d wager. That’s a lot of tank.
Imagine climbing the companionway from Julia Miller. Next on the scene were (l to r) Kirby Moran and Jonathan C Moran.
Water began to sluice through the hawse.
After lots of traffic had cleared,
the rotation began. Seemingly she had enough headway on so that she didn’t drift astern and into the dock there Petali Lady lay on the far side.
This is my favorite in the series . . . a foreshortened tanker.
I like this a lot also: a plumb bow and just enough detail to ID the tugboat company.
Jonathan C heads back to the barn–or the next job–and
Kirby stands by as it anchors in Stapleton, were she remains as of this morning. Can anyone ID the red tug on the far side of the tanker? Delta maybe?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
You’ll see the entire vessel as you scroll through here, but for starters, any idea of the namesake for this vessel? At what point in these photos can you tell if you’re looking at a Panamax or postPanamax vessel or whether this is a ULCV?
Kirby has the stern and Margaret is portside.
At this point, you can answer most of the questions above. I have to confess I thought she looked small.
JRT has the starboard.
To compare Tucapel with a standard container vessel from 10 years ago, check out this January 2009 post here. And look at Sun Right, now scrapped. Sun Right was launched in 1993. Tucapel was launched in 2012.
Sun Right carried 4299 teu, and Tucapel . . . 8000. The biggest ULCVs in the sixth boro these days are around 14,000.
And the vessel namesake? Here’s the answer.
All photos and info by Will Van Dorp.
Birk certainly got this one better than I did, which you can see here.
Kirby has a new tug out, Cape Henry, and this is my first time to see it. Is it pushing its first load out? What barge is it pushing?
I calculated the two shots above wrong, but I love these next two of Kirby Moran and
Margaret Moran.
All photos since daybreak today by Will Van Dorp, who missed his deadline. Please keep this secret out of the Tower, or understand this is an early post on Central Time.
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning through photos in the blog library, not overthinking it.
January. Gunhilde Maersk with James, Kirby, and JRT plus Miriam Moran. the year of the 1200-footers aka ULCVs becoming commonplace in the sixth boro.
February. Ocean Henry Bain serves as a safety boat during the ice canoe race I documented in my Carnavalons posts.
March. Cerro Grande here escorted a Caribbean-bound LNG ship, one of all the Panama Tugs posts
April. When I saw this section of drained canal bed between O-6 to O-7 in Oswego, I thought the work’d never get done before the season began, but I was wrong. Of all my 2018 NYS Canals posts, this and this posted with the greatest urgency.
May. Reliable pushed seaward by Lucy H. As of today, Reliable lies under the sea gathering fishes and entertaining Davy Jones near Shinnecock.
June. Jay Bee V headed out on a high-profile mission. Has she returned to the sixth boro yet?
July. I missed Rosemary‘s christening because that’s what happens when you don’t look at your calendar. First come first serve for a few tugster lighthouse calendars. Send me an email with your mailing address. As I said, I ran a few extra when I made up my Christmas gifts.
August. Kimberly Selvick with AEP barges was one of the treats I saw in Calumet. This day south of Chicago planted a seed of curiosity about the Lake Michigan/Mississippi River link I hope to be able to explore in 2019. Many thanks to Christine Douglas.
September. J. W. Cooper delivers a pilot in Port Colborne at the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal. Because I hadn’t a satisfying enough fix from the canal earlier, I returned there in October.
October. One Stork, a pink ULCV, came into town. It wasn’t her first visit/delivery, but it was the first that I caught. She’s currently in the sixth boro.
November. Morton S. Bouchard IV rounds Shooters Island light, Bouchard celebrated a big anniversary this year.
December. Ruth M. Reinauer heads west into the Kills in December, the start of heating oil season.
And that’s it for the year, time for me to securely lock up Tugster Tower and prepare myself to meet 2019. The older I get, the more profound is my awareness that although I make many plans for a new year, I might not see the end of it. It’s just how it is. Every day is a blessing. Last year had my own personal ultima thule; I pray that 2019 brings its new ones.
Thanks to everyone who read, commented, and assisted me in 2018. Happy and constructive new year day by day to you all.
I love the morning, and I’ve never gotten a better photo of Tasman Sea. She’s a product of Main Iron Works, class of 1976.
Kirby Moran heads out on a job. There’s no angle from which these Washburn & Doughty 6000s look anything but stunning.
Ernest Campbell, from Southern Shipbuilding’s class of 1969, comes by to pick up a barge.
James E. Brown, a recent product of Rodriguez Shipbuilding, leaves the dock and heads to the railroad, rail float that is. Daisy Mae came out of the same yard two years later.
As Robert Burton makes her run with a less than loaded barge, I hope commuters appreciate that this stuff is not traveling by road.
Lucy Reinauer is a powerful local 1973 product; she came out of Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay.
I’m planning a post on nothing but Brown boats, but I put Thomas J. in here because she’s bathed in that same rich morning light. She’s a 1962 product of Gladding Hearn and is rated at 1000 hp, same as James E.
Elizabeth McAllister has a dramatic and rich history, which you can read here. To summarize, in May 1988 as Elizabeth Moran, she was t-boned in the fog in Lower New York Bay.
And finally, two of Brewster Marine‘s workhorses . . . Helen Parker (2005) and Ava Jude (2013). In the distance is Neptune, built 1992 and sailing for Dann Ocean since 1996.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Sorry about the washout colors below; what happened was the dawn light was intermittently too bright or dull, as winds washed clouds across the sky.
Nevertheless, I headed out because I saw a Spliethoff vessel in the offing, heading into the sixth boro. Painted a unique copper brown, Spliethoff vessels all have names ending in -gracht, or “canal” in Dutch. Saimaa is a lake in Finland. since they carry unique cargoes, I wondered what Saimaagracht would be carrying. I’ll direct your eyes, but won’t tell you until the end of this post. Some of you maybe have guessed from the photo below.
Vertical beams connected to high-up horizontal one, cabins, and wheels.
Closeup of cabins on 182 and 170. Ladders and landing.
Some of them are differently loaded, cabins positioned on the starboard side of the vessel.
Side view of Saimaagracht, showing escort Moran 6000 and all the machines. Who knows what’s in tweendecks–if anything–and holds.
Slightly different angle of cabins, and
cabins in their full context.
Just guessing here, these machines are 25′ to 30′ high, with a spread of just under 9′ or 10′. That actually a clue.
See the scudding clouds. I’m now curious about something else . . . the structure on the starboard side of the superstructure and connected by horizontal ducting. I didn’t zoom in on that in the moment.
My verdict is . . . they are a set of new Boxrunner straddle carriers, aka straddlers, by Kone Crane. The ship was arriving from Finland, so the manufacturing may have been done there. A next generation will be automated, just like self-driving cars, trucks, tractors, and ships.
And my conjecture is that starboard side stern structure is part of a sulphur oxide (Sox) scrubber plant.
All photos yesterday by Will Van Dorp. For previous photos of –gracht vessels, click here. I was unable to find a photo of Spliethoff vessel from the 1920s, when they began, but here I learned BigLift–with their Happy vessels– is one of their subsidiaries. Spliethoff was involved in a pilot container project between Europe and Cleveland a few years ago.
Unrelated: read this and listen to the audio . . . NY Media Boat takes journalists to the islands off the VZ Bridge.
Prescript: As if the “black friday” term were not already overused, now everywhere I look online pops up a cyber reference. If you didn’t see enough there, here are more. If I’d have to pick my favorite cyber, it would be Cyber, the Marvel universe character, a villain, I might add. And who knows, there may be Marvel characters, like aquaMorlocks inhabiting the sixth boro.
NAFTA? MSC Paola‘s trade route seems to be ports between and including Montreal, Canada, and Altamira, Mexico. So NAFTA could expand to “north americans floating and trading along the Atlantic” if we want.
I caught MSC Paola coming under the Bayonne Bridge almost two weeks ago with
assistance from Margaret Moran and
Kirby Moran.
Since then she’s departed NYC, traveled up to Montreal and departed there for St. John.
Happy cyber blog reading, and I recognize the tautology there. All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp.
Remember “badger badger badger“? If I did animation, I’d do a “cyber cyber cyber” . . . .
Unrelated but incorporating another overused word: fake. fake history: the July 13, 1977 UFO abduction of a tugboat crew!
Kirby Moran and James D Moran wait, like a team of horses, actually a team of 12,000 horses.
Here’s a different perspective on Kirby as she returns from a job.
CMT Otter and a salt barge lies alongside Nord Summit while along the other side, the venerable Twin Tube reprovisions from stern starboard.
Atlantic Salvor (or Enterprise??) . . . I’ll never catch up as she heads for one of the many skylines of Brooklyn. By the way, has anyone caught a photo of Hunter D in the sixth boro?
With Shooters Island and beyond that the cranes of Howland Hook in the background, it’s Discovery Coast, these days somewhat rare in the sixth boro.
Mister Jim is looking sharp these days, much better than her earlier livery.
Kodi is quite far away here, but she is a mere 42.6 footer.
Bering Dawn . . . she’s been on the East Coast some time now,
but all told, she’s spent more time on the West Coast.
The elusive Thomas stopped by the salt pile the other morning to retrieve a crane.
Margaret Moran . . . as always assisting ships into and out of the sixth boro. More Margaret soon.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
All All but one of the photos in this post come from David Silver, assigned as a cadet this summer on a Maersk vessel going halfway around the world and back. He departed Port Elizabeth on May 21. This post follows his voyage, focusing on what someone like me–mostly fixed–doesn’t see.
May 24. Charleston. Mark Moran.
May 30. Houston. Thor.
May 31. Houston. Wesley A.
June 06. Norfolk. Maxwell Paul Moran.
June 08. Pilot boards in sixth boro of NYC. JRT Moran.
June 08. VZ Bridge as seen from the ship and
as seen from my location, at about the same moment.
June 09. Port Elizabeth. Kirby Moran.
There was a stop in Algeciras–the world’s 10th largest transshipment port– but no photos of assist tugboats.
June 25. Suez Canal. It could be one of the Mosaed boats, maybe number 1.
June 26. Suez Canal. One of the boats called Salam.
After transiting the Red Sea and stopping in Djibouti, July 9. Mont Arrey,
they rounded the peninsula and entered the Gulf.
July 9. Jebel Ali. P&O Venture. That could be P&O Energy off the stern.
July 12. Port Qasim. SL Hodeida with pilot boat and other Smit Lamnalco tugs.
July 13. Port Pipavav. It appears to be Ocean Supreme and another one of the Ocean Sparkle boats in the distance.
I have enjoyed seeing this variety of towing vessels from this trip halfway around the world. Now I hope the return trip brings more photos and a safe return in late August.
Many thanks, David.
Cosco Prince Rupert came into town recently 27 days out of Pusan, Korea.
She was launched in South Korea in 2011, has dimensions of 1095′ x 141′, and has container capacity of 8208. By current standards, she’s upper medium-sized calling in the sixth boro of NYC.
Prince Rupert’s namesake? He was the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
JPO Capricornus, 2005, 865′ x 106,’ teu capacity of 4132 . . . makes her a smaller size calling these days. She was a week out of Cartagena upon her arrival in NYC. She was built in South Korea.
Atlantic Sky, a CONRO vessel with capacity of 3800 tea and 1300 vehicles, was launched in 2017 in China. The tape has her at 970′ x 121′.
Ever Leading launched in 2012 in South Korea. She has 8452-teu capacity and has dimensions of 1099′ x 151′.
Zim Ukrayina was launched in 2009 in the Philippines. Her dimensions are 849′ x 105′ and her teu capacity is 4360.
She made the voyage from just north of Hong Kong (Da Chang Bay) to NYC in 40 days.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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