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Kimberly headed out on a mission, as
did Mary.
They converged alongside Bow Chain,
where crew mustered.
As daylight opened between Bow Chain and the dock,
Kimberly moved to the opposite side
and with guidance
Bow Chain moved slightly forward and toward port and
rotated counterclockwise
with Kimberly helping the bow around while
Mary pushed the stern.
Pilot and crew directed from the bridge wing
and once sailed, Bow Chain began a voyage to the Gulf of Mexico.
All photos, WVD.
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.
Kimberly Poling and barge lie alongside Maritime Gracious for lightering.
Eastern Dawn, here pushing a mini barge, continues to work in the sixth boro,
with a base over alongside the dormant Evening Tide.
Bruce A. travels west in the East River after a job over near Throg’s Neck.
I love the “whitewater” on the uptown side of the 59th Street Bridge.
A mile or so behind Bruce A., Ellen McAllister passes Rockefeller University’s River Campus.
Back exactly six years ago, pre-fab sections of the new campus building were lifted in place by a fleet of DonJon vessels here.
And finally, in the late spring haze, it’s Mary Turecamo
approaching her next assist.
All photos, WVD, who’s entrusting these posts to the tugster tower robots. Hat tip or whatever, robots. Actually, I don’t even know how many robots are involved in this effort, since they appear happy to subsist on nothing more than the electricity I provide.
I’m trying to get together a post or two from my current location, which I was supposed to depart from a week ago . . .
Two boats working for the same company. Mary Turecamo dates from 1983, and built in NYS at Matton Shipyard, their last build. She’s 107′ x 32′ and brings 4300 hp to her work.
Doris Moran dates from around the same time, but built by McDermott in Louisiana.
She’s a bit larger and more powerful than Mary, at 118′ x 34 and 4610 hp.
It’s always a joy to see them at work.
All photos, WVD, who has more Matton and Turecamo boats from the Canal Society archives coming soon.
See the crew?
Scale is interesting here, even though Torrente is NOT a large container ship by today’s global standards.
Now you see him clearly, but recall the context provided by the first image.
That line is bigger around than his arm, yet gossamer compared with the ship and the tug.
With line all made up on the forward H-bitt, the crewman is done . . . for the moment.
All photos, WVD.
Now contrast this set of photos with a set from almost a decade ago, when a crewman had a very bad day.
I’m surprised I’ve not used this title in almost a year, since the thought often comes my way that some very busy waterways exist in the sixth boro. Like below with the four Moran tugs and one tanker. Since three are headed to the left, you might be wondering why. Easy . . . those three–JRT, Kimberly, Margaret— are assisting an incoming ship, the single tug, Jonathan C, in the foreground heading to the right will soon assist another ship coming in. Polar Cod–a great name–is transferring petroleum product.
Here’s that incoming ship, exciting the birds as the ship and maybe stirring up the menhaden and their predators below. We’ll get back to this.
Here’s a closer up of that fish/bird stirring ship, a torrent called Torrente. Portside the ship is Mary Turecamo, and starboard, it’s the Belford-based Osprey.
And here’s the most dense photo, eight tugboats from four different companies, two loaded container ships, and one tanker, all in less than two miles of waterway.
Getting back to all those birds and fish in the Con Hook Range . . . a lot of people in small boats are putting their baited hooks in the water there.
Unrelated: An unconfirmed report with this photo below says the 1912 Argo sank in Long Island Sound off Wading River NY on November 1. Can anyone confirm that this happened? I looked for a report but couldn’t find one anywhere. To see a photo I took of it underway in the sixth boro just over 10 years ago, click here. And here, taken in June 2011.
The photo below was posted by Steve Adkins and said to be taken by USCG responding to the distress.
All photos except the last one, WVD.
Happy 31st, aka Halloween, World Savings Day, Day of Seven Billion, National Candy Apple Day, Annual visit a cemetery or graveyard day . . . and more. If you need suggestions for a graveyard, consider this one. And just yesterday, I learned of this one and this one. Who knew?!!? Want to revisit a tugster ghost post?
For this post, there’s a quiz. The first part is … name the oldest and newest boat here. The second part … identify the only two boats here NOT built in Louisiana. Of course, building is one thing, and designing is another.
All photos taken this October. Susan Miller,
Miriam Moran and Pegasus,
Andrea,
Gregg McAllister,
Robert IV,
Buchanan 12,
Navigator,
Robert Burton,
Shawn Miller,
Pearl Coast,
Miss Ila,
Mary Turecamo,
and the always seasonal Kimberly Turecamo.
There you have it . . . And I’ll give the answers tomorrow.
And my question is . . . who is Miss Ila‘s namesake and what do you call that shade of red?
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