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Maersk Wisconsin headed out, . . . my attention is on the figure between the tugboat and the ship.
You know the unseen players on two vessels in this maneuver must be 100% focused here.
The way is prepared and the pilot begins the final steps of egress as all eyes remain on him.
Once he steps back onto Catherine Turecamo, the tug breaks to starboard, and
the Maersk crew begin to retract the passageways as
vessel heads to the next port and the next pilots.
I took these fotos and assembled this draft on a cold morning back in March 2013. Pilots must have one of the more potentially life-threatening jobs in the harbor.
If you read Latin, you get it, this statement of Snug Harbor’s motto. Otherwise, I’ll translate a bit farther down. If you’ve never been, it’s worth a visit.
Here’s what KVK traffic looks like from the Minard Lafever-designed buildings of Snug Harbor, and
here’s what the waterside entrance to Snug Harbor looks like from the KVK . . . just between IMTT Bayonne and the “salt pile.”
The current feature exhibit is called “Treasures of Sailors’ Snug Harbor.” The bust here is Robert Richard Randall, the sea captain whose charity established what became a home for thousands of aging seafarers.
The will establishing the institution was drawn up by Alexander Hamilton.
The Latin in this John LaFarge stained glass window translates as “We who are exhausted seek a harbor.”
If you’ve never been to SSH, you’ll enjoy three floors of exhibits, which include ship models like Massapequa and
and Japan Ambrose. And of course much much more, such as
the entire John Noble collection, which I just scratched the surface on earlier this year here. There’s even a Herman Melville connection here.
For directions to SSH, click here.
Value is a creation from 2011
in the Samsung Heavy Industry yards in Goeje. Currently the yard is working on–among other things–Utopia.
Value docked for a few days in Bayonne, but now
passing container ships and all the other traffic
will see . . . Ice Blade. And Value, as of this morning,
has anchored somewhere off Rockaway, Queens.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, from various spots along the KVK.
Here and here are some other vessels delivered by Samsung in Goeje.
Unrelated: Do you suppose Costa Concordia will really float away?
The thermometer read 23 degrees F, winds gusted between 20-27 mph, and my blood has stayed thin in this mild winter.
Crew on Brendan does exactly what they’d do if it were midsummer, anchor hawse rinse notwithstanding.
For this or any job, each person has private mix of motivation, some set of reasons for tolerating the discomfort . . .
This blogger/fotographer comes out here for the big bucks, of course. That and the ability to see great names like this Silver Lining.
This 3-plus-mile ditch is a microcosm of places like the Panama Canal, the Shanghai offing, the English Channel/La Manche.
There’s something to be said for being inside, but at the same time . . .
it’s exhilarating out here.
By now Brendan and Kimberly have their tanker secured at the dock, and have no doubt moved on to the next assist.
All fotos this morning by Will Van Dorp. For a scientist’s tracking of sixth boro weather this season, check out seaAndsky.
If you’re in NYC, this movie comes out this week at Anthology Film Archives and it’s about this world and called The Forgotten Space. I plan to see it next weekend.
By the way, according to the site Shipspotting, here’s Silver Lining‘s itinerary for the past three months:
| 2012 February 10th, 13:00:18 UTC | New York |
| 2012 January 26th, 23:30:17 UTC | Milford Haven |
| 2012 January 22nd, 22:30:40 UTC | Amsterdam |
| 2012 January 8th, 19:00:25 UTC | Freeport |
| 2011 December 22nd, 22:00:37 UTC | New York |
| 2011 December 4th, 14:01:32 UTC | Brofjorden |
| 2011 November 28th, 19:00:54 UTC | Skagen |
| 2011 November 28th, 09:00:54 UTC | Brofjorden |
| 2011 November 28th, 00:01:18 UTC | Rotterdam |
| 2011 November 12th, 14:30:24 UTC | Montreal |
I took this foto at 15:40 yesterday, and I’ll call it “prelude to afternoon golden hour,” but this is a view of the turbine from the Battery Park direction. A few weeks ago, I recorded 18 minutes, so here’s more than twice that.
Geese head to wherever they go at dusk.
SalvageMaster passing Caletta ushers in the golden times, 16:30.
Over toward the Narrows, Hellas Progress radios in an initial departure call. In the distance, Tokyo Express approaches.
Lucy Reinauer pushing barge RTC 83 exits the KVK, followed
Kristy Ann, her bronze and red color enhanced by the setting sun.
By the time Kristy Ann reaches the Brooklyn half, Tokyo Express has started her approach into MOT, and
Hellas Progress has spun around toward the open sea.
By now, it’s 17:10, temperature starts to drop as quickly as the color intensifies.
It no longer feels like summer in February, nor does it look like it.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
UPDATE: If you want to see in real time developments from the waterfront in Giglio, click here and here for two webcams Giglio Porto Panoramica, each from a different perspective. Thanks to David Hindin for these links. David sent these fotos along last year from San Francisco.
Less than a half hour after waking up this morning, drinking coffee, reading the paper and wanting to find out who “James H. Thompson” and “Pridi Banomyong” were, I encountered this page. Countless times today I met it again. I support wikipedia’s opposition to SOPA and PIPA and urge you to tell your congressfolk too. Or at least find out about the issue.
But of course, I’m not darkening this blog. Especially when I can share such colorful fotos of Sand Master yesterday before the rain.
Sand Master looks a lot like Greenland Sea and Na’Hoku, but . . . surprise, each comes from a different shipyard although all at one time belong to Otto Candies.
Sand Master was built by Swift Ships in Pass Christian, MS in 1983.
Amboy Aggregates uses Sand Master in their sand mining activties, and as such, she spends most of its time off Sandy Hook, a presence on AIS but not so commonly seen.
John P. Brown is always a delight to see, as
is Thomas J. and yesterday
was no exception. It was worth my while to get my feet wet taking this foto.
As I said yeasterday, I got the sense that the flag raising on Mount Hope was a signal for all manner of activity to commence. Capt. Fred Bouchard moved into the notch of B. No. 275 and Barbara McAllister (ex-Bouchard Boys) (see the upper wheelhouse on the far side) added her 4000 hp to
Capt. Fred‘s 5750 . . . and the waters started to churn.
Meanwhile, what or who can make the slack waters of the KVK rise up like this?
Barbara E. . . . with her 6140 hp.
Some minutes later, Barbara E. and Capt. Fred Bouchard round the bend to exit the KVK. Interesting guy, the original Cap. Fred.
All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp during less than a one-hour party.
Please do something about SOPA and PIPA.
Unrelated: Click here for the “hugest” set of links to cruise vessels that I’ve ever soon. I’m lamenting the loss of life, but I’m not speculating about what transpired off Giglio. But for an eerie foto of the Costa Concordia appearing to ”float in clouds,” click here. Here’s a portentious video from the vessel’s launch.
About a year ago this blog featured “turning 70,” with a vessel that subsequently played an unexpected role in history.
See the crewman on the bridge wing looking up? What’s he monitoring?
Ten minutes earlier I’d caught Suez Canal Bridge nosing around a bend on E 1st Street in Bayonne. That’s Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Shipyard over on the far side.
Six weeks ago she actually was at the north end of the Suez Canal,
and now she’s headed for a portal that turns 80 this month, the Bayonne Bridge, dedicated on November 13, 1931. For the next 46 years, vessels passing here like Suez Canal Bridge–escorted by Maurania III and Amy C McAllister–could say
they were passing beneath the longest single arch steel bridge
in the world.
In 1977 the New Gorge Bridge took that distinction from the Bayonne Bridge. See what the New Gorge Bridge looks like here, and that was in turn eclipsed by the Lupu Bridge.
Some vessels traversing this waterway and squeezing under this arch may in fact know the Lupu Bridge.
Anyone have fotos to share of tugboats on the Huangpu in Shanghai?
Maurania III churns the waters to turn Suez Canal Bridge the 90-plus degrees into Newark Bay at Bergen Point.
By the way, the Lupu Bridge is itself no longer than longest steel arch bridge in the world, a distinction that now belongs to the Chaotienmen Bridge.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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