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J. George Betz and Morton Bouchard Jr. raft up on the floating dock.
Helen Laraway pushes toward the east.
JRT passes Weddell Sea on the way home after completion of another job.
Daisy Mae moves a deeply loaded scow westbound. I’m not certain but believe the product is road salt.
Discovery Coast heads over toward the Kills.
A light Elk River makes for the next job.
Emily Ann tows astern passing the collection of boxes in the Global Terminal.
And Majorie B. passes Pacific Sky while she steams back to the McAllister yard.
And one more, Ellen S, Pearl Coast, and Evening Light . . round out this installment.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose sense of this decade’s end is growing more palpable, offers this photo of Michigan Service and a whole lotta dredgin’ from the last two weeks of 2009.
It’s that time again . . . a glance back at exactly a decade ago. Back in June 2009, the 400th anniversary of the Half Moon going up the Hudson kicked off with a 20th century version of the Half Moon going up the Hudson. Note the banner hung to the old TZ Bridge along the right side of the photo. That replica is now in the Netherlands, looking for a new home, and that bridge–parts of it–have become fish structure somewhere off Long Island.
A newish boat in town was Peter F. Gellatly, now Vane’s Long Island.
Bounty–alas her fate–was still an irregular visitor to the sixth boro. Here she’s made up to Harvey just outboard of Frying Pan.
Brian Nicholas moves a scrap barge out of the East River.
Paul T. Moran made one of her really rare visits to the sixth boro.
Container vessels calling in the ports of NY and NJ had not yet become UL . . . ultra large versions
Harvey follows Half Moon northbound on the Hudson.
Michigan Service and Erie Service gather near IMTT.
Sisters assists with a tanker, and
here’s more of the River Day procession marking the year of Half Moon the first.
All photos taken in June 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
All hype . . . like Camping and others . . . just to mention recent hoaxes.
Nevertheless, I made my rounds. High winds chill to the bone but no doomsday out here . . . Brian Nicholas pushed recycling into the Kills,
Catherine Miller moved semis beyond the end of the bridge,
Nomad and Alpine Alaska waited inside the Narrows,
as did Mount Karava, which first appeared here almost brand-new over five years ago.
Padre Island anchored off the BAT, taking time off from vacuuming the channels south of the Narrows.
Michigan Service headed for the Kills.
OOCL Kuala Lumpur shifted containers.
Given the hype about the apocalypse, I kept eyes wide open for debris and found some, although this is long-planned and controlled demolition.
USCG made their own rounds.
Six years ago, I put up this winter solstice post, led off by this fine foto . . . compliments of Richard Wonder . . . of an elegant John B. Caddell, recently lifted off a place where floating things should never go. And speaking of vessels finding themselves in places that should remain off limits, check out this and this article about a tanker bottomed out on the upper Hudson. “Bakken crude” . . . that’s a term I’ve not heard before. If anyone upriver has fotos to share, please get in touch.
I made my way to the Kills looking for the wayward Ilya, and several times a surfacing cormorant startled me, but alas. Except for knowing that the origin is Carib, I’d make a lame joke that Ilya should be called a woman-atee rather than a man-atee. OK, I’m sure it’s been done. Anyhow, instead, believe it or not, I spotted a motley group of tugs, ships, and boats. I’ll start with the tugs, both ones I saw and others I remembered.
Bismarck Sea ex-John H. Malik (who was he?) and ex-Gulf Ruler, built 1976. Notice the oval on the stack awaiting a K-Sea logo.
Remember the color scheme? It’s John H. Malik, foto taken winter 2007 in the sixth boro. Malik was a “founding Roehrig employee who helped to guide and grow the company until he passed away in 2001.”
Here’s that Roehrig color scheme on Eileen M Roehrig, now North Sea, built 1982 and pictured a week and a half back here.
Herbert P Brake . . . built 1992 of recycled steel by Bart Brake. Anyone tell more about the evolution of this tug?
Foto by Jed of Michigan Service, ex-Kevin Candies, 1981. I love those Gowanus Bay gravel piles in the distance.
Frederick E Bouchard, 1975.
Atlantic Coast, 2007!
Adriatic Sea, ex-Diplomat, 1978.
Linda Moran, 2009
All fotos but the two Roehrig boats taken in the past week.
Michigan Service by Jed; all others by Tugster. Some info thanks to Harold Tartell.
Someone I care about expressed delight in seeing Hornbeck boats. “They’re pretty, beautiful white and orange,” I recall a statement. Well, I have news for you: they’re Candies. What? are Candies? Well, many of them are ex-Candies, at least. That’s Otto Candies, LLC, Marine Transportation and Towing.
Like Patriot Service, ex-Sean Candies. From a distance, I imagined the black stack-fronts as darkened windows. Guess the total horsepower.
114′ loa and launched in 1996.
Spartan Service . . new to boro6 this summer? Formerly Domar Captain.
Redundant radars? Spartan is 101′ loa and launched in 1978.
Huron Service, ex-Eric Candies. Left to right in background: Zachery Reinauer and Baltic Sea. I first wrote about Huron here over a year ago.
Left to right here in Gowanus Bay: Huron Service 98′ loa and from 1981, Sea Service 104′ and 1975, and Atlantic Service 100′ and also 1975. Bridge in the background is the BQE.
Here’s Sea Service over at the Palisades anchorage . . . or is it called Yonkers anchorage.
Erie Service, ex-Brett Candies 98′ and 1981.
And here’s Michigan Service, ex-Kevin Candies 980 and 1981; along with Erie. Now given these names, you know there has to be a Superior Service. I’ve just never seen it. Maybe it operates elsewhere. Here’s the Hornbeck site.
When I saw the colors here, I thought it was a Candies boat operating as a Candies boat in boro6. Wrong. It’s Sandmaster of Amboy Aggregates. Oh, it’s ex-Ben Candies, 107′ and 1983.
Answer to Patriot Service hp: 6140.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Again, click on a foto to enlarge it . . . at least, it does so on my machine.
If you’ve never sat along the KVK, you might have no idea how much traffic passes. I left two hours early for work yesterday to allow a 120-minute savoring. What you see here is only the big stuff. Zim Virginia bound for sea. Note the apparent lowering of the hook onto the house of Maria J.
Notice the port of registry: Haifa.
Next vessel out, bound for sea and escorted by Laura K Moran: Ever Deluxe.
As Ever Deluxe bends to the north in the Constable Hook Reach, she passes Michigan Service and Stephen Reinauer.
Next outbound vessel is Tessa PG, with Justine McAllister looking to assist. By the way, where’s Douglas? Answer below.
Actually providing the assist is McAllister Responder.
Inbound is Americas Spirit, an aframax tanker.
And just as I know I have to rush to work, outbound sashays MSC Endurance, (ex-Sea Land Endurance) guided by Marie J. Turecamo to port and . . .
Kimberly Turecamo. See the guy descending the ladder. Would he be
deckhand? And all the spectators?
Maybe I’ll put up more fotos of Endurance and others later, but my point here is . . . two hours equaled five large ships with combined 278,000 deadweight tons.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp on June 23, 2009 between roughly 0700 and 0900 h. By the way, if it seems dark in these fotos, New York has seen rain every day except a handful since the start of June, nine inches over the past 30 days versus the “normal” three.
Douglas . . . port and largest city of Isle of Man. Douglas population is almost 27,000!
Unrelated: I might not post this Saturday because I’m . . .er . . . er . . . going for a hike on the Appalachian Trail, probably the South Carolina portion, said to have stunning vistas, easily confused with the southern hemisphere, I hear.
I won’t dredge up this heavy eloquence of Melville’s “November in the soul,” but I can attest that today I witnessed the cure to “gloomy June.” And it is: a hike and a ride around the Upper Bay. All manner of friendly gestures did their best to bring cheer. Like Baltic Sea and the two lighthouses, one black/white and the other green/gray. Oh yes, she was a lighthouse once!
Hornbeck’s Atlantic Service . . . call it a bone in her teeth if you want, but I saw it as sweet fizzy water to a thirsty man.
Sludge tanker Red Hook. Yeah . . . New Yorkers, every one of us including the Mayor, as fertilizer producers .. that always makes me chuckle.
Michigan Service, another Hornbeck boat . . . just looks like good energy.
Maas Trader in Red Hook Container Port, shuttling between Brooklyn plus other eastern ports and points on the island of Hispanola. Maybe someone who was nearer by got a better foto? No matter . . . I know there was excitement over there that I’ll hear of later.
Peter F. Gellatly, a mere youngster among boats in the Bay.
Potomac not quite two years off the ways . . . . and already immortalized in Bowsprite’s sketchbook.
Jack Newman, a Great Lakes Dock and Dredge boat. More on Jack Newman and other GLDD vessels and toothy tools tomorrow.
So I fail to understand the mechanisms at play, but this day on the bay –overcast as it was–chased away the “gloomy Junies.” By Saturday I might feel prepared for the mermaid invasion.
200,000 + . . . . that’s the number of hits this blog has registered since November 2006. Thank you for reading and telling your friends to check out the site. We bloggers get a $10 bill from the Madoff Fund for each hit we register, right?
A little more than 1 . . . . that’s the number of days left for you to EBay bid on an utterly delightful dinner with Bowsprite and Tugster as part of a Mary Whalen fundraiser.
All fotos . . . unfortunately . . . by Will Van Dorp.
Imagine the waves that for three-fourths of a century have buffeted the ancient Kristin, strained her skeleton.
Now picture her skin pulverizing ice of varying thickness. In your mind’s ear, hear the sound of ice breaking.
The captain below, recently delivering a fiberglass vessel upriver, could continue northward only after Michigan Service led the way, breaking ice with steel.
Given the season, I’m soon off in search of my own ice fotos for the season. I’d love to foto Lynne Cox swimming to Antarctica, a great read, by the way, or someone else. I’ve done a SHORT winter ocean swim myself and know the spears of pain, followed by never feeling cold again the rest of the winter.
Meanwhile, I’m wondering about the impact, literally, of ice breaking on hull paint. I recall once talking with workers at a shipyard in northeastern Massachusetts who were attaching oak sheathing planks as ice protection over a forward waterline area of a wood-hulled dragger. I understand from “steel vessel” math that thin ice goes into steel only once, but … how many times (or what if any abrasion of paint/coating results) does steel go into Hudson River ice?
Fotos here by tugster, Jeff Anzevino and Aaron Singh, respectively.
As a means to thaw, check out this website, pelican passage . . . as its author says, “from a boatman’s point of view. Another interesting site is “sleepboot” (Dutch for “tugboat”). Although the text is Dutch, the pix are interesting. Both have been added to the blogroll.
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