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Before I left the boro, I took a quick survey trip to check on some painting I’d expected had happened. I took some photos, knowing I’d be away for a while. No, not upriver, as they used to say.
Buchanan 5 runs a shuttle.
Margaret Moran has worked the harbor since lajnch, i believe. This perspective shows her triangular profile.
That’s Rockaway moving in the opposite direction and Margaret waiting for her container barge to be loaded.
This is a rare view of Robert Burton not moving sanitation containers across the boro.
Sea Lion was running
alongside Charles James, almost as if they were joined on a mission, which
possibly they were.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s left the wordpress robots in charge for a few days. I hope they water my plants.
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.
In today’s post . . . it’s exactly as I call it . . . some random assists all taken in the month of October m2023.
Quebec City above and NY City below,
More NY City sixth boro above and below here,
Lackawanna below, and we were being assisted,
and finally . . . Halifax.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Let’s wake up this . . . the longest series on this blog. At very first cooperative light, Topaz Coast passed.
Mary Turecamo headed out to a job.
Nothing shows the satin finish on this tugboat, like the satin finish on this fleet.
Jill Reinauer had a mission with RTC 28.
Stephen Dann appeared to be positioning, or repositioning.
It was time for Cape Fear
as well as Philadelphia to harness up.
Margaret had a job to get to,
as did Lightning.
And Pegasus, likely returning from a job, never looked so good.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
If you’re new to this blog, the Kill van Kull (KVK) is the waterway leading to the major container port in NYC/NJ. It’s a great place to see lots of shipping in a short period of time, and I prefer seeing that traffic as the sun rises. Today, as often, that was true. These photos I took during a 20-minute period, while I stayed in the same spot.
Above, as CMA CGM Apollon rounded the bend, the Hudson River’s own Mary Turecamo headed toward sunrise for its own job.
Jonathan C followed the CMA CGM ship, as Margaret Moran went to her next job.
Laura K Moran shifted her location as the box ship headed for then bridge and the sharp turn.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s happy to be back in the sixth boro for a while.
If it seems I have a dirty lens, I don’t, but this winter has been a season of the good light and my schedule not coinciding. No matter . . . the subject just looks grayer than I’d like much of the time.
When this ULCV arrived the other day with Mary Turecamo as one of the assists, I was reminded of how high the deck is on these ships, and they’re getting ultra-larger and higher. In this post, Mary’s upper house was way above deck level on the tanker.
Will this nose be superseded by Marco‘s style of nose?
Janet D was sharp, but note how hazy the distant shore is.
HMS Liberty is appreciably closer than Barney Turecamo, and therefore is sharper, until
Barney gets closer.
Enjoy these others: Jillian Irene,
Horizon’s Edge (a newby in the boro?) and Regulus,
Schuylkill,
another shot of Liberty,
Crystal Cutler and Patricia E. Poling,
and finally Margaret.
All photos, WVD.
Seen yesterday by Donald Edwards . . . whose photos previously appeared here. The story behind the paint job follows.
Today’s post features exactly what the title says . . . a random set of recent visitors to the sixth boro, like the 2015 Hafnia Raven, here escorted in by Margaret Moran.
Bass is a 2021 build.
Britta Oldendorff dates from 2020.
ONE Wren is a 2018 vessel.
Proteus Bohemia is a 2022 LNG-capable tanker.
with externals to prove it. And for all I know, she’s using LNG for fuel.
Captain Paris has come and departed the port, and as a 2014 crude tanker, is the oldster of this set.
Leikanger is a 2016 build, with its fuel touted on the side, as was the case with Grouse Sun, a few months back. For a comparison of LNG and methanol, click here.
Here’s more on CMA CGM Kimberley: this livery marks CMA CGM’s splash into new cleaner fuels. This begs the question: among the innovations passing through the sixth boro, LNG fuel and methanol capability is one that’s touted on the ships themselves. When will LNG bunkering be available in port of NYNJ? How about methanol bunkering? It’s happening elsewhere.
Many thanks to Don for sharing the CMA CGM Kimberley photo he caught while she was inbound passing Caddells. All others, WVD.
Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve seen lots of pairs in winter, some in spring, but never until now in fall, at least not acknowledged until this post.
Two sets of pairs appear below, one Centerline and another Moran, the latter escorting in CSCL South China Sea.
Ellen and Patrice here are going to different jobs.
Mary Turecamo and James D Moran here work on the CSCL box ship.
Lots are boats here; clockwise from the farthest, Haggerty Girls (I think), James D, Margaret, Marjorie B, and James William.
Around 0900, a brace of migratory birds headed north . . . F-18s maybe.
B. Franklin got an assist from Matthew Tibbetts.
Two old ferries ply their trade: Barberi with the highest flagpoles and Marchi.
Two top of the line sixth boro McAllister tugs joins forces.
Two old style boats: Manhattan II and Wanderer, the latter from the Sippican River.
And finally, this juxtaposition passed and allows a comparison of the lines of the 2015 6000 hp Kirby Moran with the 2008 5100 hp Laura K.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
It’s hard to beat morning light for drama, as is the case here with QM2 getting assisted by James D. and
Doris Moran into her berth in Red Hook, as I shoot into that light.
Taken only a few minutes later, this photo of FV Eastern Welder dragging the bottom in front of the Weeks yard had me shooting with the rising sun behind me.
Bayonne dry dock is full of business. Note the formerly Bouchard tug Jordan Rose and Cape Wraith off its bow. I’m not sure which Miller’s Launch OSV that is. To the left, that’s Soderman.
Hyundai Speed and Glovis Sirius shift cargo.
More shooting into the light here toward Bay Ridge, where lots is happening.
Torm Louise‘s color just looks cold.
Afrodite has been around the world several times each year since the hoopla of her moving Bakken crude from Albany has subsided. Note the unidentified formerly Bouchard tugboat to the extreme left.
And with the drama of morning light, wild clouds form the backdrop to three tugboats seeing CMA CGM Pegasus out the door on a windy day.
All photos earlier this week, WVD, who feels fortunate to live in a place like this where my drama exists only in photos.
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