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Day in day out . . . and night in night out, port work goes on. Here James D finishes up escorting a gargantuan “flower” ship out.
Sea Eagle stands by with her barge while Dace refuels.
Pearl Coast heads for Caddells,
where Kings Point is getting some work done.
Discovery Coast leaves the Gowanus Bay berth.
Atlantic Coast lighters a salt ship while Lucy waits in the anchorage.
Lyman moves Sea Shuttle southbound while some Bouchard units heads for the KVK.
And completing this installment, it’s Kirby, all finished with another assist.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Note about ongoing voting below. Also, previous “cranes” posts can be found here.
I’ve long included photos of Chesapeake 1000 but never devoted a post to it. These posts here and here from seven years ago are my favorites, largely because my camera and I just happened onto the lift while prowling at night, not a common time for me to be out. Is it possible that was already seven years that that WTC antenna went up?!!
So yesterday morning, I left home early for a midmorning rendezvous, and this is what I saw.
Mary Alice handed the Chesapeake 1000 off to Thomas,
who took the crane under the VZ Bridge and
toward the cliffs of the Upper Bay, including the WTC with the antenna it assisted the lift for . . . seven years ago.
As is always the case, there’s a lot going on in the sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who reminds you that the polling for my 2020 calendar pages is ongoing. You can see all the choices in these posts; ultimately you and I will choose one photo for each monthly calendar page. Polling ends on December 21, when I send the order in. Again, to vote, just put the letter for each month in the comments or send it in an email to me. Moreover, for the December page, I’m soliciting photos from you; rules here.
“Here are guidelines: a qualified photo for polling must involve a vessel and a non-verbal detail(s) identifying it as having been taken in a December. I hope that’s ambiguous enough to keep it interesting. Whoever sends in the chosen photo . . . to be determined no later than December 21, also gets a photo credit and a free calendar. Another option is for me to choose a December photo from a previous year. See what I’ve done in the previous 13 Decembers in the archives; the location near the bottom of the leftside navigation bar allows you to select any month going back to November 2006.”
Thanks to all of you who have already voted.
For folks who’ve been watching sixth boro traffic much longer than I have, Lyman must conjure up a sense of ressursction that I don’t have whenever I see the profile. Then called Crusader, she was tripped by her barge and sank just over 30 years ago. I’ve almost always seen her with
barge Sea Shuttle, towing sections of subs. For a spectacular view of this tow in the East River seven years ago click here.
Rockefeller University’s River Campus makes an unusual backdrop here for Foxy 3. See the support structure for the campus being lifted from the River here.
Treasure Coast . . . offhand, do you know the build date?
Carolina Coast,
with sugar barge Jonathan, which you’ve seen some years ago here as Falcon.
Pearl Coast with a cement barge off the Narrows remaking the tow to enter the Upper Bay.
In the rain, it’s Genesis Victory and Scott Turecamo, and their respective barges.
Franklin Reinauer heads out with RTC 28, and heading in it’s
Kimberly Poling with Noelle Cutler.
And let’s stop here with JRT assisting Cosco Faith.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who’s been inland for a week now and sees Shelia Bordelon on AIS at the Stapleton pier this morning. Anyone get photos?
Why wood? It’s been awhile since I asked that . . . I suppose I should ask why so many wooden runabouts and cruisers suddenly swarmed in the St. Clair, but it was enjoyable. But here is the event, and if you want to get into a wooden boat, as maybe I do, here’s a ticket.
Jeffery Dave is a Higgins . . . maybe early 1960s?
Miss Minneapolis IV.
Bette Noir heads into the Black River…
Names as I can read them . . . Tiger Lily,
Cracker Jack and Cracker Jack (?),
just a beautiful classic,
and Nigel’s Launch. Can anyone identify the manufacturer?
Don’t tell Nigel . . .
Let’s end it here with a SeaSkiff named The Old Lady.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who would be happy to attend this boat show.
Lots more of everything to come . . .
Here was 55.
Glenn Raymo took this photo in Germantown yesterday, the all-new Sarah D; previously I used these photos by Glenn. Check out an example of one of many of his zazzle products here.
Sarah D until very recently was Helen D. Coppedge. Almost all these photos were taken by other people, but I add the next two I took in 2010 for comparison purposes.
Also, new–as in out-of-the-shipyard new . . . it’s Barry Silverton, with the Fight ALS barge. Click here for the story of the names. Many thanks to Allen Baker–click here for previous photos he’s shared– for this photo and to
Ted Bishop for the photo below.
This photo comes thanks to Renee Lutz Stanley. It’s Lyman–I think–looking insignificant in one of the huge graving docks at the Brooklyn Navy yard. Click here for previous photos by Renee. Anyone know which dock this is?
With news of a wooden boat found under a house during a construction project in Highlands NJ still –well news– what you see below are photos of another wooden vessel found during a construction project in Boston. Many thanks to Tom Mann for these photos. Here are previous photos from Tom.
As soon as imaging is complete, it will be removed.
Archeologists at the site believe it was a 19th century vessel delivering lime.
Many thanks to Tom, Renee, Ted, Allen, and Glenn for photos used here.
Related: Here’s a story about a shipwreck discovered during construction of WTC1.
Taken about 10 days ago . .. Lyman headed south towing Sea Shuttle.
Lyman used to sport a red star on its stack.
Harry McNeal (1965) escorts Clyde, whose vintage I don’t know. Here’s a very similar scene (foto 4) from almost four years ago.
Atlantic Coast dates from 2007.
Perennial “repeater” on this blog, Gramma Lee T Moran, waiting to retrieve the pilot.
34-year-old Emerald Coast used to answer to the name Maggie Swann.
Calusa Coast first appeared here six and a half years ago.
Jill Reinauer and Kimberly Turecamo westbound in morning light.
As I went into work this morning, there was no more than 10 minutes of spectacular dawn light, before the clouds dulled it.
Actually, I should call this “eight hours on the boro.” I took these shots in reverse chrono order from 8 pm yesterday til about 3. Would you believe I share these fotos because I wanted to convey the exhilaration of living time backwards? I think there’s a movie about getting younger.
Schooner Liberty brings a new face to town. I’ll bet she’s younger than her appearance although I shouldn’t write this.
The northwest corner of the state has the Maid of the Mist; the sixth boro has W. O. Decker, a wooden hulled tug operating for South Street Seaport Museum. I probably shouldn’t say this either, but … imagine a foto of a vessel like Lincoln Sea with the helmsman looking DOWN onto Brooklyn Falls.
Lyman moves eastbound past waterfront previously occupied by warehouses.
When a Buchanan tug with moves a string of barges like this, it travels through water and time crabwise.
In Erie Basin, John, Franklin, and Stephen-Scott await orders–be they forward or backward.
It’s now 3 pm Doris Moran moves northward into the Buttermilk Channel with the Statue still facing the space on the boro Doris occupied at 2:30.
Tomorrow, Saturday July 26 is City of Water Day. Here’s a schedule. “City of water” is the term the MWA uses to describe what I’ve coined the phrase “sixth boro” to capture, aka New York harbor with all its related waterways. Enjoy it.
Photos, WVD.
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