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Marjorie moves her train cars.
Nathan G goes for fuel.
Crystal Cutler pushes her barge.
Paula Atwell travels light for a change.
CMT Pike does her harbor rounds.
Mister Jim here looks brighter than usual in the morning sun; in cloudy weather, that gray livery
obscures details.
Robert IV assists at the stone anchorage.
Cape Henry leaves her barge to take care of some business.
Captain Willie Landers makes a pass through the boro.
And a rare sighting, Sea Crescent transits the boro on her return from Port Hawkesbury NS to Fort Eustis VA. It’s likely that Sea Crescent originated this voyage from a port on the Saint Lawrence or even the Great Lakes.
All photos, any errors, WVD, whose 380 in this series was posted here.
Let’s jump back to the present . . . and Doris Moran, both light
and moving containers across the harbor to the other container port back fields. If I count right, that’s 160 containers not on chassis pulled by trucks on the BQE, SIE, or other such clogged arteries.
Brinn Courtney is moving a scow, as
is Eastern Dawn.
Mister Jim and all the CMT boats seem to
be getting
a makeover.
Marjorie B. might be going to pick up her daily train cars.
Kimberly Poling basks in the dawn liight.
All photos, recently, in the sixth boro, WVD, who won’t be in the boro for the rumored tugboat race this weekend. If you’re out there, take photos, especially ones with splash!
Let’s get back to some Pete Ludlow photos. Co Morgan has such a long history of names going back to 1951 1965, I’m just going to paste it in here.
A high vantage point helps convey appreciation for the train of three Mister Jim tows through Hell Gate.
Ditto Navigator. From this perspective, her smart color scheme is clear.
Meghan Marie heads into Hell Gate with a destination somewhere along the Sound or farther.
All photos by Pete Ludlow. Thanks, Pete.
I’m fortunate to live within easy distance of all this activity: Nathan G, Treasure Coast, B. Franklin Reinauer, an ULCV, Doris Moran, and who knows how much is obscured behind these . . . And then there’s the crane atop the building to the left and the gull lower right.
Or here . . . Margaret Moran and a tanker off her stern.
Or here, HMS Justice and Mary H . . . .
Philadelphia outbound with her barge and Ava M. McAllister inbound with an ULCV.
Mister Jim crosses in front of the slower moving Captain D with a Covanta barge. Note the cranes at Caddells, with the diagonal lines off the left from Left Coast Lifter.
Jonathan C Moran, Doris Moran, and Kimberly Turecamo . . . follow a ULCV and
and here head east for the next job.
Tugboats cross.
All photos, WVD.
A new tug in town . . . Osprey? Built in 1961, she’s a sibling of Kodi. Photo thanks to Tony A.
B & B . . . it’s Brendan Turecamo in the distance and Bruce A McAllister. It turns out they are not clones: Brendan is a year newer, and Bruce A. is few feet longer and packs a few more horses.
Curis Reinauer is the third tug to carry that name. This Curtis dates from 2013. The previous one was sold to Nigeria, and the one before that has been reefed.
Emily Ann dates from 1964; she appeared on this blog just a few weeks ago but out of the water then.
Mister Jim, 1982, has been in the sixth boro for about eight years.
Doris Moran, also 1982, is a powerhouse.
Navigator, 1981, is the only boat currently operated by Balico Marine Services.
Gulf Coast, 1982, got her upper wheelhouse up at Feeney‘s on the Rondout.
Patrice, 1999, has so far spent half its life working on the Great Lakes.
Shannon McAllister is a rare one in the sixth boro, but she passes through here once in a while. like this week. She dates from 1991.
Thx to Tony for that first photo; all others, WVD.
Here’s a new one, Stephen B with
James Joseph. I’ve not seen Stephen B with that barge in quite a while. Maybe I just have not been looking carefully.
Kristin Poling
is moving Eva Leigh Cutler. When we’re past the first of November, usually the number of barges increases, even if the outdoor temperatures are in the 70s.
Mister Jim, for the first time that I’ve noticed,
has a bunker barge, this one Richardson Sea, a Centerline Logistics barge.
Evelyn Cutler was moving a fully loaded Edwin A. Poling.
Genesis Eagle
had a deeply loaded GM 11103.
And finally for now, RTC 80
gets moved through the Kills with Kristy Ann.
All photos, WVD.
Long Island, eastbound, gets overtaken by a small fishing boat.
B. Franklin, light, heads to the Reinauer yard.
Doris Moran, light, heads east.
Ellen McAllister assists a Maersk ship through the channels to her berth.
Helen Laraway heads east to pick up a scow.
HMS Justice pushes HMS 2605 through the KVK.
Charles A. and Matthew Tibbetts follow a ship so that they can assist as needed when called upon.
Ava and Kimberly head out to different assignments.
Brendan Turecamo provides port assist.
Mister Jim follows Seeley.
Gulf Coast has been a Dann Marine vessel since it was launched way back in 1982.
All photos, WVD.
We’re past the big 300 and on our way to the 400, maybe. Nine tugboats appear in this post. Can you arrange them greatest to least in horsepower? Longest to shortest? To make it easier, you can rank them in top group of three to bottom group.
Ruby M eastbound one early morning,
Sarah D entering,
Sarah Ann with a flotilla of crane barges,
James E Brown going to work,
Larry J Hebert and the the dredging operation near MOTBY,
Mister Jim departing the Kills by the Back Channel,
John Joseph entering the Kills,
William Brewster heading for the fuel dock,
and finally, East Coast entering the Kills.
She’s generally moving the sugar barge. Has anyone seen Sea Robin recently?
Ranked in three groups by horsepower, it’s Larry J Hebert (3600), John Joseph (3400), and Sarah Ann (2700). Next group are Mr Jim, East Coast, and Sarah D. Third group is Ruby M, William Brewster, and James E. Brown (1000).
Ranked in length . . . East Coast (120′), John Joseph, Ruby M. Sarah D, Larry J Hebert, Sarah Ann. Mister Jim, James E. , William Brewster (65′)
Info comes from Birk Thomas’s fantastic database.
All photos, WVD.
It’s been a while since I’ve acknowledged this my favorite time of day. Golden hour at 80+ degrees is quite different than it at 40- degrees. But here are my shots; I took them and then headed for the shade.
Larry J Hebert lies alongside the dredge and Mister Jim is happening by, westbound. Actually, i took this about 15 minutes after sunrise on a muggy morning. The haze makes it appear everything and everyone in the boros is asleep, except those on the sixth boro.
Laura Maersk, in a haze of very cantaloupe colors, waits to sail and carry cargo again.
Mister Jim, continues, a few minutes later.
By the time Wolf River passes, carrying crews to and from the dredging operation, the morning atmosphere has changed to orange.
I move farther west, and looking back to where I’d been, a cluster of traffic heads toward me.
Ernest Campbell and barge have a Maersk ship following them.
When Andrea passes, the ridge begins to look like a featureless mass, a tear of greenish blueberry.
All photos, WVD.
Today’s post will have low verbal density, but I could not pass up noting the arrival of a vessel named Captain Haddock, especially since it’s a bulk carrier with a salt cargo, not a fishing boat.
This is just a hint; it is a container vessel but with many refrigerated plug ins, it might just be transporting some citrus.
No comment.
Put rail on water and you’ll see graffiti.
Let’s end this post with more context on Captain Haddock.
All photos, WVD. Stay healthy.
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