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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.
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.
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