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Let’s do 2013 and 2014, or redo them, same conditions as I stated yesterday. But first let’s look at the 2013 crowd, packing in like you wouldn’t with covid. Here was the crowd at 1010 and
by 1035 they had grown significantly.
The compulsory muster takes place, irrigated by fireboat John J. Harvey.
Once the race begins, a front-runner like Decker
might soon get left in the wake.
The fire boat slices up from behind and
propels itself between two Miller boats.
Pushoffs happen next, sometimes quite equally matched like here, with 3900 hp countering 4200.
Let’s jump ahead to 2014, with the arrivals on the watery carpet,
the processing to the starting line,
and get straight to racing without all the preening and posturing.
Someone seems a bit oversize in that gray livery.
This is a fairly mis-matched pair: Wayne at 5100 hp, and Ellen at 4000. Maybe a re-match is in order Wayne v. Ava.
Thanks to Jeff Anzevino for this shot, the Media Boat has military background in common with Wayne.
After Wayne has strutted its stuff in the push-offs, some of the boats lined up for the roping the bollard.
Let’s hold it up here. All photos, WVD.
I’ll devote a whole post once again to the 2012 races, since I have a lot of photos. What I did was look for the most dramatic or interesting photos and, in some cases, re-edited them. What I didn’t do is go back through the 2012 posts, but you can here if you want.
Again, you can identify these, or I’ll help you if you can’t. I call this the pre-race cluster, with some even pointing upstream, as if Yonkers would be the finish line.
The cluster continues as more boats arrive.
And then there’s the burn-out, or in this case . . . froth-out as two Cat D-399s crank out over 2200 hp.
The pack spreads out quickly. This was almost 60 seconds into the race. If this were a terrestrial drag race, the contest would already be over and the smoke clearer.
I’m not sure I’d want to be in a kayak, particularly a double, as all this wake translates into wave motion.
A full five minutes into the race, Quantico Creek‘s two Cat 3512 3000 hp power plants take her past the finish line with sturm und drang . . .
Seven minutes into the race . . . they’re still coming.
At the 19-minute mark, the race is over, but the bulls appear to have scores to settle . . .
and next thing you know . . . it’s tugboat rugby!
Tomorrow . . . how about returning to 2013.
All photos, WVD.
Like lots of things, the Great North River Tugboat Race is, as ws said in a comment yesterday, “alas . . . cancelled this year.” So here’s some consolation, ws. . . If you need a dose of racing, you can click here and get all the way back to tugster post 2006, or for a sampling from 2006 until 2011, follow along. In 2006, I followed from W. O. Decker and had this view. I’ll let you try to identify these; if the group-source gets stuck, I’ll help out.
In 2007 . . . of these, only Lucy Reinauer is still around here.
HMS Liberty is still around.
In 2008 . . . throttling up releases some smoke . . .
In 2009, two of these are still running around the sixth boro staying busy. The third was involved in a scandalous grouding and has been scrapped.
Meagan Ann has unique safety headgear, inspired by an ancient design.
In 2010 . . . this was a motley armada, ranging from Atlantic Salvor to The Bronx.
Catherine C. Miller and Mary H were hurrying to the starting line here.
That year saw lots of pushing match-ups.
Vulcan III could be matched up with Viking later.
In 2011, THIS could be called the heat . . . actually, it was a misting from one of the fire boats.
Pushing around happened all over the field for spectators on deck and photographers up high.
As always, getting a line on a bollard . . . just another event in the sixth boro games.
USMMA’s Growler is closing on the bollard as a crewman demonstrates a rodeo-influenced style.
More to come . . . all photos, WVD. And if the last four photos above suggest a muddy Hudson, remember that 2011 had just seen Hurricane Irene flood the valley creeks feeding into the Hudson.
This series goes way back to 2007, when I erroneously thought a song existed called “Paris in springtime.” My deciding it must be a faux memory did not prevent me from doing a bunch more posts, with variations like “pairs in winter,” like today’s posts. It still is winter. And there is a movie with a somewhat similar name; a fun trailer can be seen here.
Let’s start with Sarah Ann and Thomas E. pairing up to get a crane off to Sims.
Ellen and Ava team up to see a small container vessel into the kills.
Meagan Ann and Emily Ann each bring a scow for the filling, likely with scrap?
And for a variation, a mixed triad of Margaret, Alex, and Ava return from assists.
All photos, WVD, who wishes you happy springish late winter and successful social separations.
CB is obviously “Chicago bound.”
Neither Thomas D. Witte nor Clearwater here off Mount Beacon is that, but we were.
Meagan Ann headed south with
used and abused cars on
SMM 157 for the start of their last trip.
James William pushed several loads of building materials southbound.
Rebecca Ann turned around for her next trip.
Lisa Ann worked on the bulk heading project in Troy.
Frances moved a scow south, and
Ancient Mariner too moved on.
All photos by will Van Dorp, and this was Newburgh to Troy.
Previous installments can be found here.
Thomas and Ellen,
Thomas and Meagan Ann,
Meagan Ann and DS 71
Meagan Ann solo
Emily Ann and SMM 157, and
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Carl Sandburg said: “The fog comes . .. on little cat feet.
It sits looking . . . over harbor and city . . . on silent haunches
And then moves on.”
My unrehearsed version is : “The old cat once . . . patrolled the wharf
Now it sits over the sunlight . . . and sheds on the riverbanks
masking the distances.”
What I really mean is that taking photos on limited visibility day like yesterday benefits from heightened foreground details in comparison.
Jennifer Turecamo heads out to Gravesend Bay along with the USCG patrol vessel.
A tanker arrives with a name
that’s ironic on a few levels . .
Meagan Ann hauls Witte 4002 out to dump and
Mary Alice returns Witte 4004 from HARS before Meagan Ann returns.
And Barney Turecamo comes into port a bit while the barge is monitored by Jennifer.
To finish, here’s another shot of Combi Dock 1 arriving from China with lots of sea miles logged….
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for some of the many posts I’ve done on this boat since 2008, including one where she’s still Scorpius.
Sunday morning Meagan Ann was headed to points North
towing crane barge Columbia with a massive component that needs lifting at the Mystic Power Station in Massachusetts.
Here from September 2009 are my favorite Meagan Ann crew shots.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here and here for the first two sets of photos taken by JG. JG’s photos–of the past–give context for the present and future.
In today’s post, all of the vessels at one point belonged to the same fleet, except one. All have continued in service, except one.
Volans, photographed here in 2009, is now being reborn as Hannah.
For a short time, Volans became David McAllister, photo below from 2013.
Leslie Foss, photo from 2011, is now Simone, and I caught her in the sixth boro here in 2015. Simone trades internationally.
Leo, taken here in 2007, now works as Bridget McAllister.
Scorpius, photo from 2008, has worked mostly in the sixth boro as Meagan Ann, who first appeared here in this blog in . . . 2008.
Orion, which I visited back in 2008, became Matthew McAllister.
And finally, the last one, the one facing left, the only one that is no more. She was scrapped after sinking in Narragansett Bay in 2008. The photo below is from 2006.
All these tugboats except the last one once made up Constellation Maritime, which is no more.
Many thanks to JG for use of these photos.
The first six photo here comes from Jonathan Steinman, taken on June 13. The Donjon tugs has delivered Chesapeake 1000 to a point just off Rockefeller University’s campus to prepare for lifting prefabricated modules for Rockefeller’s River Campus.
Step one for Donjon is to secure the gargantuan crane.
Then Atlantic Salvor moves into place to
receive the massive anchors, a job that Salvor may be IS uniquely qualified to perform.
The yellow lighted buoys mark the anchors’ positions.
By the time I got there on June 17, sans camera other than phone, several of the modules had already been lifted from the waterborne transport into the locations where they’ll stay for a very long time. See time lapse of the installation of modules 1 and 2 on youtube here.
A dozen more modules will still be lifted when
water, tidal, and atmospheric conditions allow.
Click here for more information of the River Campus project, one of many construction sights to behold along the East over. A calendar of additional lifting can be found here, subject to change.
And many thanks to Jonathan for use of his photos and information about the project. Next time, I’ll bring my good camera.
Previous sights to behold there can be found here.
And while we’re on the topic of heavy equipment, here’s a vimeo update of of invisible gold project happening off Block Island. I want to get back there soon.
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