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I was at the KVK the other morning waiting around for an appointment. Overnight it had rained, dawn was overcast, but gradually the sky cleared. Just before I departed, Gabby came by, pushing a small barge with minimal freeboard, maybe spill remediation equipment.
Before it looked to clear, Helen came by, as
did Haggerty Girls,
Bruce A.,
Miss Madeline,
Brooklyn,
Laura K, and
Patuxent. So did these, posted a few days ago.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who muses about the fact that although there’ve been a couple different tugboats in recent years called Brooklyn, there’ve been none in that same time frame named for the other boroughs or boros that come to mind.
Here are previous installments.
JRT and Doris
above Kirby and below Kirby, JRT and Margaret
Laura K on the stern of Ever Fine
Laura, Margaret, and JRT surround Fine.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s traveling.
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
Sometimes whatzit means I/we have no idea what something is. Here, I know what it is but don’t know anything else about the photo.
My friend John Huntington took this photo during a snow squall yesterday but then had to hurry on to other business. It shows a barge with eight “box carriers” aka straddlers possibly painted in DSNY blue; a Moran tugboat, likely Laura K, is alongside.
Can anyone share more info?
Many thanks, John.
It’s been over four years since number 13 in this series here. Of course, besides the first measurable snow today in 700ish days, the past week has had some weather highlights as well.
The next eight photos I took in the space of less than one hour, as clouds swirled above and around, rain fell twice, winds gusted, and temperatures plummeted.
Helen might be doing all the work as Mister Jim tags along. Some brightness was trying to break through to the west, but
directly above, the sun was blotted out by a dark cloud over Stephen Dann and Sea Gull. Only five minutes elapsed between the two photos above and the one below.
Less than half an hour later, rain fell over Jersey City and Manhattan, but Robbins Reef Light bathed in sunshine.
Then Manhattan cleared briefly before
a moist veil draped itself back over it,
a veil that then came my way.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s doing a presentation on Great Lakes cruising in Port Washington this Friday at noon. Registration is required.
You can type in the search term weather with numbers from 1 to 12 to see all the installments, but weather 11 and weather 3 might be best comparison, from January 2018 and March 2010, respectively.
New Year’s dawn interests me much more than old year’s countdown away. These are some sights I saw in the first daylight of 2024.
Integrity and her barge were alongside IMTT; currently they’re Galveston bound and off Cape Hatteras.
Lincoln Sea has already been from IMTT to Providence and is heading back west.
Denali is New England bound as of this posting.
Count the boats here?
I’d say a dozen of more.
Teal Ray was just coming in, and has now
headed out for Tampa.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
Let’s start in the SLSW. Algoberta here transits the South Shore Canal; that’s the Saint Lawrence itself to the left of the barrier. The river drops there about 45′ in three miles of distance. Today, a month after I took the next several photos, snow already has dusted the bank.
From 2007 until last year, its operated as Chiberta.
Zelada Desgagnes began her career in China, as Beluga Freedom.
Above, note the heavy machines on the dock waiting to be loaded, and vehicles already placed aboard, below.
She currently supplies settlements in northern Canada.
Going from the freshwater portion of the Saint Lawrence to a saltwater port, ULCV OOCL Singapore, arriving in the sixth boro recently. She’s currently making her way back to Asia.
The next three vessels are all ONE pink. Note some differences.
Grus above and Apus below are from the same order.
Their measurements are the same and both date from 2019.
See the crewman waiting to send the messenger line in the hull opening between the O’s?
ONE Monaco dates from 2018.
As recently as February 2023, she appeared on this blog as Monaco Bridge.
Note the differences in the stern between Apus and Monaco.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I’m late to posting, but I wasn’t late for sunrise.
Solar Madelein rode the flood tide at anchor,
Regulus headed out to where farms might be while ferry John A. Noble shuttled the early folks across the Bay
a ULCV followed the inbound channel beneath a large incoming aircraft,
Laura K tested out the fire monitor,
another big pink ULCV followed in another . . . one from Halifax and the other from Charleston,
a large soaring bird certainly not a turkey surveyed it all,
and Doris went to a job along with
Yankee.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’d like to send out this PSA: if you get a FB request from anyone, first check if you might already be friends with that person. Spoofers lurk out there impersonating real folks.
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