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Spring and fog coexist a lot, and from there, the gradation from fog to summer haze is somewhat blurred. Blue-hulled Oyster Catcher, in the foreground, gives clearest indication that this in not a black/white/gray photo. I’ve searched online fruitlessly to confirm that Oyster Catcher is an NYC DEP vessel. When
A panoply of vessels converge in the Narrows as the great gray ULCV approaches from many days at sea.
I’ve not been paying attention to how many of these ULCVs have multiple bow thrusters. Anyone know the horsepower on each?
Three 6000s, one 3900, and two brants . . . all converging along with Cosco Faith.
For scale, notice the 25′-to 30′ outboard passing just to the right of the letter O in COSCO. More to scale, note the size of engineering crew next to this crankshaft.
I waited for a messenger line for the deckhand to send up the towline, but . . . it happened after they were out of range for me.
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Way back when, I had some fun abridging “__ Express” names, generating Glex and Sex. While out at the KVK, then, I thought I’d seen Dublin Express aka Dex before, so I’d take some photos, of the box ship and
the two escort tugs.
And I wondered about the unusual pyramidal arrangement of containers on the stern.
I hadn’t known that Gary Haszko, credited for the next two photos, was taking photos almost simultaneously from Elizabethport, and aware of something else.
Here the two tugs assist in pinning Dex to the pierced in Howland Hook. He also knew something else I was unaware of, ie, containers tumbling overboard during a rough ocean transit may have damaged the hull and led to oil spilling into the Kills. For more on this spill, click here.
After a concerted investigation and clean up effort, USCG cleared the ship to depart.
Many thanks to Gary for use of the last two photos above; all others 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!!
When the almost 20,000 hp team is assembled this way, it means one thing.
Sometimes it’s a big bright bird in flamingo, but other times it might be a dark bird.
Kirby went in first,
followed by Miriam. This one’s a crane, dark like NYK Blue Jay is.
Click here (and scroll) for the anticipated seven other bird names in this series of 14,000 teu ULCVs.
James D. and Joan stayed on this side . . .
I’d love to see NYK Crane side by side with NYK Daedalus, as shown here in 2008.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who forgot about time today.
By my interpretation, this ULCV is propelled by about a 38,000 hp engine. But NYK Eagle has a different and more powerful engine. I’m not sure my interpretation here is correct.
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.
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