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Mackenzie Rose and Paul Andrew are eastbound, and Mary Turecamo, westbound.
A light Haggerty Girls westbound,
passing Laurie Ann Reinauer.
Kimberly Poling moves a barge out of the Kills.
A bulker in the anchorage gets bunkered by
Kings Point. Katya Atk needs to repaint the name on the starboard bow.
And Helen Laraway makes her way east.
All photos, WVD.
Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp ad waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Sea Fox as a cold front moves across the Upper Bay.
Mary Turecamo off to the next job.
Dorothy J returns from an assist. I’ve lots more photos of the assist to post soon.
Joyce and James eastbound in the KVK to start the work day.
Dean Reinauer heads over to fuel up.
Kings Point going over to Gowanus Bay.
Brooklyn going to pick up her barge.
Fells Point returning from a job.
The very busy Patrice waiting for a ship as Dobrin heads over to her daily projects.
The always moving Brendan making money, as all these boats and crews are.
And finally Sea Lion outbound in the Lower Bay.
All photos, WVD.
Here are previous installments. What’s different here is that in this case I’m inside the Narrows and shooting to the east and north.
Yankee passes in light before sunrise.
I rotate the lens 90 degrees to the right and Margaret stands by
along with James D to support Maersk Chicago, anchored in Stapleton. As I write this, 24 hours later, the container ship is leaving port, although her destination shows NYC as both “from” and “to”….
Meanwhile Mary Turecamo comes out of its base in the KVK
just as the sun rises above the horizon and its cloudbank and gets reflected.
All photos, WVD, who thinks this set perfectly illustrates why I take photos at dawn whenever I can. It’s worth getting up and out.
Megalopolis roadways see dense traffic, and so do waterways in these areas. I hope these photos convey a sense of that. All but two of the seven vessels are underway. Underway vessels, l to r, are Frederick E. Bouchard, MSC Athens, Jonathan C. Moran, C. F. Campbell, and Fort McHenry.
Dense means tight quarters, Brian Nicholas looking barely larger than the bulbous bow.
Here everything is in motion.
Again, everything here is in motion. I’m not sure what the Reinauer units there are.
All are moving here too . . Frederick E., Pegasus, Meaghan Marie, one of the Moran 6000s, Mister T, a bit of the bow of Mary Turecamo, and CMA CGM Nabucco.
Sometimes a confluence of schedules make the KVK resemble rush hour. Photos, WVD.
Bobbie Ann departs the sixth boro with some GLDD equipment.
Little did I know at the time that Bobbie Ann had left the sixth boro a decade ago, then as Vera K.
Ernest Campbell wrestles along a double hull bunker barge. I wonder why the Centerline Logistics lion has not yet been added to her stack.
When tugs like Mary Turecamo assist a deeply laden tanker, the perspective from the upper wheelhouse is so much different than when assisting a ULCV, with their much higher freeboard.
Sometimes the 46′ x 15′ Rae is just the right size. Recall Rae‘s role in getting Wavertree back into her berth after the big renovation?
One of the newest tugboats in the boro, Cape Canaveral, 105′ x 36′ and generating 5000 hp, has the most evocative name.
She has two siblings, Cape Henry and Cape Lookout.
Again, is it me? I don’t believe I’ve seen Justine in a long while. She’s also 105′ x 35′ and 4000 hp. She has an elevating wheelhouse, which you can see here, scroll.
This is crowded: (l to r) Diane B, Saint Emilion, Meredith C. Reinauer, Lois Ann L. Moran, and Pathfinder.
Escorting from a distance astern, it’s Kimberly.
And finally, a photo from some time back, Vane’s New York, now working on the Great Lakes, Vane’s only freshwater unit . . . that I know of.
All photos, WVD.
0545 at the Narrows . . . in the hazy days of summer . . . nothing beats it.
I had not come here just to beat the heat.
Surprisingly, Turecamo Girls (I believe) delivered the docking pilot.
Then she dropped back, to where one of the 6000s took the stern and
another the bow.
Only a couple hours into the day, another ULCV appeared in the offing . . .
Hyundai Drive, which sounds almost like a car ad framed as an order if you reverse the words . . . .
In the clearer light, you can clearly see Drive‘s crew asisting the docking pilot, boarding from Capt. Brian A.
For scale, notice the deckhand on the bow waiting . . .
. . .
for the messenger line.
To digress a bit, in July 2018 Hyundai Jupiter was in the sixth boro, and the company was still called Hyundai. On March 31, 2020, it rebranded itself as HMM. Jupiter, 1059′ loa, had a capacity of 10,000 teu.
In March 2013, Hyundai Grace, a 2007 build, had a capacity of 4571 teu on her 964′ hull.
In April 2009, Hyundai Voyager was in town . . . built in 2008 with the same dimensions as Grace.
So in a decade, typical Hyundai (HMM) vessels calling here have increasing carrying capacity by nearly 300%. If you consider HMM calling elsewhere, the increase has been greater than 500%.
All photos, WVD.
Glovis Cosmos has a beam of 105′. YM Warmth . . . 167′. Of course, we’re looking at the pier from an angle,so there’s that accentuating the difference in beam. We’ll return to YM Warmth.
The next day just after 0600, CMA CGM A. Lincoln appeared around Bergen Point with an entourage of tugboats.
As big as these 1200′ box ships are, they will be diminshed by the 1312′ size working other ports around the watery globe.
To make my morning even better, Warmth was bound for sea the same time as A. Lincoln.
As booming as the ports of NY/NJ seem to be, they’re asking for relief money, as explained here, with the cost of temperature checks on local port workers adding up to $60,000 weekly.
All photos, WVD. That morning, obviously, two 1200’ers left port in succession. As I write this [Sunday morning] three of the current sixthboromax vessels are in our fair port. For a look at the next generation, in this case coming into Rotterdam, check out this video . . . and I’d jump ahead to the 23-minute mark . . . behold the 20,000 teu 1312′ Ever Given.
Two final points . . . I find it odd that CMA CGM has named these vessels for former US presidents. Imagine US-flagged ships with names like Jules Armand Dufaure or Charles Dupuy . . .
And second, for a glimpse of CMA CGM plans in the next two years, check out CMA CGM Jacques Saade, named for the company founder.
Jasmine and Rose are two of eight, all ordered mid-year 2015 At about $120 million each, that’s close to a billion dollar order handed to the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Ltd. co., right across the river from Shanghai proper. Google-map that to get a sense of the shipbuilding and shipping infrastructure along the mouth of the Yangtze.
Mary Turecamo overtook Jasmine at the perfect moment to give the sense of projected power, while Jonathan C holds back and otherwise guides the stern.
A few days later, a clone arrives from the Ambrose Channel . . .,
one of the clones that I’ve not yet seen. I’ve have seen Peony, Camellia, and Sakura. I believe I’ve yet to see Azelea, Lotus, and Orchid. I’ve seen some of them come and go, but just didn’t have reason enough to go out to see a clone.
Whenever you see a clutch of tugs like this, you know they’re waiting, and the more tugs, the bigger the escortee.
Maybe someone can instruct me on the air draft of these ULCVs.
JRT delivers the docking pilot.
To conclude with an echo back to the scale posts . . . see the 2014-built Taipei Trader off the port bow of Rose. Both are container ships but their size is vastly different. One way to think of it, it would take 13 Taipei Traders to carry the same number of containers as Rose.
All photos, WVD, who wants to know if there is a term used for small “feeder” box boats like Taipei Trader.
Mary Turecamo has the distinction of having been built at Matton Shipyard near Waterford. She’s a big boat: 106′ loa and 4300hp.
James William was originally Lisa Moran. She’s 77′ and generates 2800hp propelled by three screws.
Barney Turecamo, built in 1995, was intended to push cement barges. She’s 116′ and rated at 5100hp.
Brendan Turecamo was launched in 1975. She’s 106′ and her twin EMDs generate 3900hp.
James D. Moran is one of the four 6000hp tugboats that have worked in the sixth boro for the past five years. She’s 88′ loa.
Notice that all the above boats had some connection with Moran? Anyhow. Ava M. is the newest escort tug in the boro. She arrived here about a year ago, 100′ and 6770hp.
Alex McAllister has been in the harbor–I believe–about five years now. Built in 1985, she is 87′ and 4300hp.
When I first saw Genesis Vigilant, he was a Hornbeck Offshore boat called Michigan Service. Built in 1981, she’s 99′ and rated at 3000hp.
Josephine might be the newest T of an ATB in the boro. She was launched in 2018, is 110′, and moves with 4560hp.
Here she was pushing the 347′ loa RTC 83 into a berth at the east end of IMTT, with assistance from Franklin Reinauer. Franklin was launched in 1984, is 81′ and generates 2600hp.
All photos, WVD. Again, sorry I posted prematurely sans any text. Sometimes I’m looking right at something, seeing a word or a number, and just calling it something else. I believe my brain is becoming like my mother’s.
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