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Valentine’s Day is quite hard to ignore, although I was thinking to do just that because I had no inspiration for something . . . amorous, heart-alluding, swoon-worthy . . . you know what I mean. My fortunes changed in an unlikely way when I investigated this 2013 tanker inbound from Sumatra’s state of Riau.
You might be wondering how . . . .
Stolt Beluga turns out to be perfect
if you scrape off the paint a bit. Before it was coated in this primer gray rather than the usual Stolt yellow, it had another name. Can you make it out? G – E – N…..
As evocative as the Stolt Beluga might be . . .
it had the best connotative name . . . Genuine Venus!
All photos, any errors, WVD, who dedicates this post to all the clad-in-drab-gray genuine Venuses of the world. Here and here are my previous installments of this title; the second one has even more February 14 links.
Moran is one of the quintessential NYC marine companies, formed before the boros existed as such. The harbor then was THE water boro. Since I’m upstate right now, I was intrigued to find a Moran Street in the canal town of Lyons, not far from a asphalt depot on the canal which used to be served by Moran tugboats. Maybe someone can fill in when Moran adopted the distinctive dark red color.
Since I’ve not yet devoted a non-random tug post to Moran yet, I’ll call these part one.
Above JRT takes the stern of Wonder Polaris, while
Jonathan C has the port side.
Same day, Miriam has the port side of NCC Tabuk.
Marie J meets them on her way to a job.
Having returned to the sixth boro, Laura K here heads to a job.
Laura K stays quite busy.
James D here returns from assisting a container ship into Port Elizabeth.
All photos, WVD, who has at least another part of this post coming soon.
More relevant Lyons photos can be seen here and here.
Earlier in the month, I got views of the first details marking the October awareness of the scourge, one of many. Since then, I saw more, which I honor here.
Eastern Dawn marked it.
Kirby Moran shows the awareness.
So do Mary Turecamo and Laura K mostly obscured.
ONE Stork and ONE Wren have that color as livery.
Marie J Turecamo does too.
Sapphire Coast does.
All photos, WVD, who tips this hat.
Lightning is here and has been for at least four years, and Thunder is on its way.
From 2014 and therefore two years newer than Lightning, Adeline Marie, previously Denise A. Bouchard, was heading over to the Industry Day on Wednesday. I caught a few photos of her as Rubia in between her original and her latest livery.
The 2006 Kristin Poling first came to the sixth boro as the 5000 hp 111′ x 36′ Chesapeake. Here was my first good view of her as a Poling/Cutler tugboat.
Atlantic Enterprise has been keeping busy with runs with dredge spoils from the North River passenger terminal out to the dump site aka HARS. For a day’s worth of reading, click here for a July 2022 report on HARS.
The 1981 Susan Miller pushes a small deck barge through congested waters here. She’s been working in the boro for as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
The 1968 Marie J. Turecamo has worked in the Moran livery for over 20 years.
Scale is clear from this side-by-side photo of the 2007 Saint Emilion (105′ x 38′ and 4800 hp) and the 1982 McCormack Boys ( 74′ x 26′ and 1200 hp), both hauled out over at Bayonne Dry Dock.
The 2007 Normandy (79′ x 27′ and 1900 hp) has been in the boro since 2015.
The 1981 Navigator (64′ x 24′ and 1200 hp) has to be one among the busiest boats in the harbor and the region.
The 1975 Mary Emma (100′ x 31′ and 3900 hp) has worked under this livery since 2021. I caught her transformation here about a year ago.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who thanks you for continuing to read this blog.
Apologies in advance for possible whiplash, but let’s return to the sixth boro. I write blog posts one day at a time; only rarely do I schedule posts in advance, so more photos of the December road trip aka F2 remain and will be posted later in the month. When I post them, you’ll understand why I delayed.
Given how bright today is, let’s peer back at yesterday’s sixth boro fog. Marie J.
assisted Stolt Focus from a berth to an anchorage in the Upper Bay, as
Berto L. Miller traveled westbound in the Kills. The word focus here seems important.
One thing I love about fog in photos is its selecting foreground details only, narrowing the field of view, if I’m understanding the terms correctly.
Going wider angle here, all that pops out of the textured gray water and the uniformly gray sky are the boats, channel marker, a bank, and some disused pilings.
The blue tug, Sarah Ann, is the central focus here, with no distracting details in the background. Treasure Coast is there with the cement transporter, but that, I think, enhances the focus on Sarah Ann. I don’t think about all this while taking photos; I just go for what looks good to me.
All photos yesterday, WVD.
I will return to road photos and even street photos in Louisiana later this month, and pick up the New Jersey road photos after that.
The sixth boro offers many vistas. Enjoy a few, starting with Sarah D towing a deeply loaded scow past Bay Ridge.
At sunrise, Atlantic Salvor and Patrice McAllister head in the same direction for different tasks past Stapleton Heights.
Jonathan C works shipside on the ConHook range in the sixth boro
Julie Anne heads north or so inside the VZ Bridge. I should know what buoys are there, but . . . I don’t.
Sarah D again and here shipside in the KVK.
Mary Turecamo assists alongside a rust-flecked box ship.
Seeley pushes Weeks 250 eastbound in the Kills.
Kirby Moran, Patrice McAllister, and Gregg McAllister assist another box ship, as Marie J Turecamo heads in their direction.
Sea Fox moves a barge past Global terminal in Bayonne.
Navigator rotates clockwise away from St George and heads north.
And finally, Charles James stands by with a scow off Sunset Park.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
I happened onto a very busy sunrise this morning, five ships of which two were ULCVs and a half dozen of so tugboats can be seen.
The first ULCV was CMA CGM Chile,
and the light, as last night’s Hunter’s Moon settled in the west, was perfect.
Marie J Turecamo and Margaret Moran assisted,
The sixth boro terminals are doing something right, because no backups as in southern California and Savannah are happening here.
All photos, WVD.
Elli, built in 2010 and with 113k capacity, gets an assist out of the berth from Ellen McAllister.
Kimberly and Brendan assist STI Finchley, 2014 and 38k, out of a dock, and
and Ginga Cougar, 2005 and 26k, heads into that same dock.
See the blurry name above, and somewhat blurry below?
I’d seen it before in the boro as King David and then King Dorian.
Khawr AlAdid is a crude tanker, 2006 and 106k.
When I saw Maersk Navigator on AIS, I’d expected a box ship.
It’s a tanker, 2016 andn 46k.
Seabreeze is 2007 and 54k.
Persepolis, a classical name for a world heritage site,
was launched in 2018 and 74k.
Front Clipper is huge for the harbor, 157k and built in 2017.
And closing it out . . . all rise for The Judge, an asphalt tanker, 2016 and 37k.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a tanker with a great name I stumbled upon while looking through the November 2016 archives. St Aqua . . . i’ll expand that St to “saint,” who we sometimes need . . .
Most of you know that dawn is my favorite time. Yesterday dawn–between 0545 and 0645–was quite busy; two of the five vessels that transited the KVK were among the largest–so far–that call in the sixth boro.
Pink sky with gradations, faded purple Brooklyn, huge but silent shapes, and spots of artificial lights.
Birds silhouetted and reflections in the still water make the scene as one point over by central western Brooklyn turns a deeper shade of red.
When the ship blocks the blinding rising sun, its name becomes legible.
Once CS Rose passes my vantage point, all that light illuminates the details. Three tugboats along her starboard, one on stern, and one on the far side, the port side.
Not much later–another smaller container ship has passed–the next hulking shape appears, and the light has already turned gradations of yellow.
When CMA CGM Mexico blocks the rising sun, details become available . . .
By now, 0645, the light suggests the sun has created daylight.
Tugboats on Rose include James D, Mary Turecamo, Kimberly Turecamo, and Kirby. Tugboats on Mexico include Marie J Turecamo, JRT, Kimberly Turecamo, and Miriam.
All photos, WVD.
This photo is out out order in this sequence, just to show scale.
Before a tanker leaves, the boom gets removed by these small boats, which
also help handle the lines.
Miriam came in to deliver the pilot(s). She then gets a line toward the stern to pull the tanker off the dock.
Marie J. gets a line on the bow to pull it away from the dock for the turning.
The top photo would come here; once the bow has moved off the dock sufficiently for Marie J to get behind the bulb, she does so . . and pushes the bow around while Miriam holds the stern.
She’s now more than 90 degrees off the starting point, and turning into a flood tide, if I remember correctly.
Once the tanker’s turned 180 and pointed into her desired course, Marie J. speeds ahead to get onto the port side of the tanker.
All photos, WVD.
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