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Sterling Equipment’s Miss Yvette carries what has to be the most vivid red I’ve ever seen.
And in that mist, the red
seems lit from within.
Well . . . starboard side to us, I see green.
Miss Ila, Jay Michel, and Lynx all carry that same distinctive red.
For the two photos directly above, many thanks to Lew. The top three come from Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Check out Hudson River Maritime Museum‘s online “photo museum” here.
Time to recapitulate the “go west” journey and post the many photos of tugboats I’ve omitted . . . .
Passing Senesco, we saw Buckley McAllister approaching us; I photographed the boat as someone there photographed us. I’m not sure which Reinauer tug that is in the background.
In the East river the next morning, we passed Cornell at the Brooklyn Barge, a food and drink venue I need to make time to visit.
Over by the Circle Line pier, it’s–well–Miss Circle Line, a reinvention of a Matton tug launched in 1955 and previously called Betsy. Thanks to Paul Strubeck for reading the name board lettering here before it’s applied . . . That was a joke, but thanks, Paul.
James William moves stone Mississippi River style down the sixth boro into the gargantuan building site encompassing the other five boros.
Near 79th Street, this unidentified tug was supporting a pier project.
Along the Palisades north of the GW Bridge, Comet pushed Eva Leigh Cutler.
And Miss Yvette moved a scow not far from where
Carolina Coast waited for her sugar barge to be emptied into the maw of the Domino plant in Yonkers.
All photos by will Van Dorp, who hopes to see you at the screening of Graves of Arthur Kill at the the Staten Island ferry terminal on August 13.
Going, going . . .
working . . .
standing by,
heading to the next job,
waiting,
traveling to the next job,
looking good in green . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who . . . yeah . . . was running out of text today.
This is the 98th installment of this title. If you’ve any ideas about what I might do with the 100th, let me know. Of course, I could just let it pass by . . . randomly.
All these boats have some things in common, like . .. they passed through the sixth boro although in all types of weather/light in the past week or so. I’l let you know what I’m thinking at the end of the post.
Miss Yvette, 1975 built in Houma, Louisiana (LA), here attending to Kraken.
Freddie K Miller, 1966 . . . Madisonville LA.
John P Brown 2002 Morgan City LA
Atlantic Salvor 1976 New Orleans.
James Turecamo 1969, Waterford NY.
Pegasus 2006 Tres Palacios TX
Pathfinder 1972 Houma LA
C. Angelo 1999 Lockport LA
Margaret Moran December 1979 Morgan City LA
Miriam Moran November 1979 Morgan City LA
And another thing they all have in common right now is that
they all work in trades other than directly pushing oil.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who’d love to hear ideas about the “Random Tugs 100” post.
Unrelated: I read this line yesterday about a withdrawn lawsuit between the NY Port Authority and a Canadian steel company: “The deal means the lawsuit will be dropped and the steel for the [World Trade Center] tower antenna can set sail before Canadian shipping channels freeze over in winter.” Here’s the rest of the article. But it made me wonder . . . by what vessel . . . barge or ship . . . will this steel arrive in the Upper Bay. Anyone know? Here’s info on the fabricator of the antenna.
And a Q . . . has anyone seen evidence of construction of the crane(s) to be involved in the Bayonne Bridge raising? I’ve heard rumors, but not read or heard anything authoritative.
Kirbyfication, which looks
like this on Norwegian Sea, is only one transformation, although if you asked me to personify and interpret, I’d say Norwegian looks positively
mortified in these fotos. “OMG!! I can’t bear bare . . .
myself, can’t bear to see this,” she seems to say.
Here’s the changes from Barbara C (October 2010) to
Arabian Sea sand stack decorations (March 2012) to
this past weekend.
Others, like Miss Yvette take things much more in stride from here (third foto down) to June 2011
to yesterday.
Heron transforms from this March 2011 foto to
this one last week. And a year from now, as she plys waters off Equatorial Guinea . . . what will that look like?
Sun Road was clearly not always known that way, although
one of my sources was of no value.
For a thrilling transformation story, check out The Skipper & the Eagle, which relates how Horst Wessel became Eagle back in 1946.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
If you like to hear Jefferson Airplane, click here: their lyric based on a John Wyndham sci-fi novel goes “Life is change. How it differs from the rocks . . .”
Another close-up of the mystery tug . . .
Thanks to Harold E. Tartell, who suggests it might be a transformed Miss Yvette (his foto) with “after house” removed and some adjustments of paint . . .
Here’s the entire tow . . .
and sure enough, as some of you suggested, the name of this construction company, Kiewit, appears at the tip of the crane . . .
Photos, WVD.
as promised . . . Allie B, eastbound on the East River, out of Tampa and ex-Express Explorer, Janet Graham.
Below it’s Lucky D, out of Chesapeake, VA, southbound in Arthur Kill.
Pushing lots of foam is Miss Yvette, westbound on the East River and out of Bourne, MA.
Captain Zeke, ex-Island Eagle and Lady Ora, out of landlocked Syosset, NY.
And finally, in familiar green-white-black colors, the unfamiliar Kimberly Poling.
At this link, check out this closeup of Kimberly Poling showing the back of a nameboard that reveals her previous identity, Jaguar. See the portside nameboard. As you might suspect from the color scheme, Kimberly is the niece of the generation that includes John Caddell, Coral Queen, and Kristin Poling, all featured previously. Use the search window.
Photos, WVD.
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