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Happy please-go-vote day. If you know anyone at all who is eligible to vote but won’t, have a chat with that person. As a New Yorker, I voted over a week ago . . . early voting on a Saturday afternoon.
Some photos . . . and your part is to 1) rank these boats by highest to lowest horsepower, and 2) identify which if any were built north of central sixth boro. I’ve provided dates of initial construction, but tugboats are required to be well-maintained, sometimes repowered and extensively rebuilt.
The 1979 Miriam Moran looked this way in her October markings. Cancer is a scourge, and I know this remembrance each October means a lot to folks who’ve seen the disease from nearby.
HMS Liberty has worked in the boro for over a decade now.
Laura K. Moran came off the ways in 2008, spent some years here, some away, but now she’s back in the boro.
Mister T, 2001, has carried that moniker ever since.
Andrea, 1999, has been in the boro a half dozen years. Here‘s how she looked back in 2016.
Shannon Dann was built in 1971.
Dace Reinauer dates from 1968 but has been considerably rebuilt from the first time she appeared on this blog here. See pre-2010 photos of her here and here.
Brian Nicholas, 1966, has been in the boro about as long as I’ve been doing this blog. I did post a photo of her with Banda Sea name clearly on her bow here 12 years ago.
Foxy 3 was built in 1974 and first appeared on this blog as Barker Boys, a name she carried until 2009, when she was renamed Buchanan 16. I don’t believe I ever saw her in the Balico livery as BF Jersey although I did see her with BF Jersey nameboards here. Note the folded back upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
Answers?
Laura K 5100 horsepower, Dace 3400, Andrea and Miriam at 3000, HMS Liberty and Mister T and Shannon D all at 2400, Brian Nicholas 1700, Foxy 3 1600.
Built north of the sixth boro: Laura K in Maine and Mister T in Rhode Island; all others were built in Louisiana.
Divemasters MV Atlantic Surveyor came into Tony A’s lens the other day.
Click here for some of the diverse projects this boat has been involved with.
Kapitein Rob caught a few tugboats in the foggy west end of Long Island Sound last week: Mister T and
Navigator.
Tony A caught this view of Pacific Reliance and this one of
Helen.
Phil little sent this along, a “dramatic shot of the Douglas J in front of the ‘Sail on the Hudson.'”
And finally, how about a formerly saltwater boat now on the inland seas, Caroline McKee, sent along by Great Lakes Mariner.
Thanks to Tony, Rob, Phil, and GLM for sending along these photos. Below is a photo I believe I’ve never posted . . . I took it from the Mississippi River in November 2016; Coastal 303 was later to become Southern Dawn and then Caroline McKee, depicted above. Does anyone know the story of the snapped mast?
Here‘s a freshwater-to-saltwater Coastal 202.
I am way out of the boro again and hoping to leave the bayous in the desired fashion. So yes, the robots are back on the button, sticks, and levers. The robots seem to love posts like this, random collections of mostly tugboat traffic,
like Ava escorting MSC Christiana out of the port, while
Timothy follows. MSC Christiana is currently following the West African coastline, east to west.
Durham must have been working all night and was entering the Kills from the Upper Bay.
Vane’s Brooklyn was eastbound and met
Mister T.
Andrea went to rejoin her barge, and
Jordan looks resplendent in her new livery.
We started with Ava, so she makes the last image as well,
standing by as Mustafa Dayi waits, anchored in a location where container ships rarely do.
All photos, WVD, with posting by the tugster tower robotic team!
If you’ve never hung out at any of the public places on the KVK and you’re interested in tugboats or shipping in general, you are missing something.
The Upper Bay is a busy place also.
MFaber Park is a great place when it’s open.
You get views of the Bayonne Bridge and the east side of city of Elizabeth from Faber Park.
Shooters Island, once a major shipbuilding site, shows up like a jungle now. Pres. Theo Roosevelt went there to shake hands with a foreign monarch who had a yacht built on Shooters.
Beyond Shooters, major port facilities can be seen.
For the past 22 years, Schuykill has been a Vane Brothers boat. When I saw the name on AIS, I assumed it was a new Vane boat.
Welcome to the sixth boro.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
Here are some previous Sound posts. Recognize those buildings about 30 miles from my location?
How about this tug with a string of scows?
Yacht traffic in this location between Huntington and Stamford seemed to be in a hurry.
If you didn’t recognize this tug earlier you can’t miss the name now . . . Mister T is a Blount built boat from 2001.
How about this one? There aren’t many tugs in the area that look like this when the wheelhouse is hydraulically raised.
Here’s the skyline a few hours after the first photo, showing only midtown and up.
All photos from the Sound by WVD. That tug with raised wheelhouse was Justine McAllister, a 1982 product of Jakobson on Oyster Bay, one bay to the west from my vantage point on Sound Wave out of Huntington Bay.
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.
I’m still not over how large these vessels are. Note the two Moran tugs off the stern of ONE Minato.
As for numbers, she’s 1200′ x 167′. They’re all approximately this length, which is roughly what the Empire State Building is without its spire. She has capacity of 13,900 teu. She was built near Hiroshima in 2018. Currently she’s off Algeria and heading for the sixth boro, eta August 21.
CS Jasmine is the same length as ONE Minato, but at 157′ is 10 feet less broad.
Her capacity is 13,500 teu. She was built in Shanghai in 2018. Currently she’s eastbound in the Pacific, expected to arrive at the Panama Canal on August 22.
CS Rose is basically identical to CS Jasmine. She’s expected to arrive in her sixth boro berth on August 19, ie, next week.
Hyundai Pride has the same dimensions as CS Jasmine and Rose.
Pride is currently in Busan, not far from where she was built in 2014. Her capacity is 13,500 teu.
There are more to come, but for now we end with YM Witness. By the numbers, she’s 1207′ x 167′, carrying capacity of 13,800 teu. She was built in 2015 in Ulsan, not far north of Busan on South Korea’s SE coast.
She’s currently heading for Vietnam from China, passing Hong Kong.
These are not the largest container ships currently afloat. HMM Dublin, appearing quite similar to Hyundai Pride, is 1312′ x 200′ and has a carrying capacity of 23000 teu and is currently underway between Rotterdam and Singapore around Cape of Good Hope, a 24-day voyage.
All photos and reported numbers, WVD.
Blessings of summer heat, if you don’t have to work out in it, are best relished right after dawn, or from the shade. I chose the first option here as Barney Turecamo, made up to Georgia,
gets an assist in rotating from Turecamo Girls.
Once pointed, a burst of power from its 5100hp EMDs commits the ATB to its course.
Foxy3, with its bright trim ribbons gleaming in the dawn, is off to the job.
Doubleskin 57 arrives from somewhere in the Kills and Elk River
waits to assist Wye River
in placing it alongside the dock gently.
Marjorie B is off to some work, followed by and Poling & Cutler and Vane units.
The P & C unit was Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler.
On another day, Mister T was arriving from outside the Narrows
just as the sun cleared Bay Ridge.
And yet another day and different place, Curtis Reinauer waited alongside RTC 82 during cargo transfer.
All photos, WVD.
in the sixth boro and visible from my location . . . and that I saw. Those are all the qualifications I need to make to that title. That’s yesterday’s dawn in the background at 0817, light has just begun to allow clear photos, and I’m on Staten Island looking toward Brooklyn. Name that tug?
Here’s another shot.
Three tugs appear in this shot. Name the closest one?
It’s obvious now. Getting these shots was part of my goal yesterday morning, the first light of winter 2019, and this part was done by 0835. Days can get longer now.
More tomorrow. Notice that in salt water-surrounded industrial landscape, there’s little sign of snow or ice.
And the tugs were Pegasus above and Mister T farther above.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who visited the local post office this morning and mailed off HALF of the calendar run. Get your order in and you’ll likely still have your calendar before 2020.
I didn’t hear any wind speeds for yesterday, but it was blowing . . . winds of November according to the date, but fortunately not a November witch.
Chem Wolverine scudded through the Bay,
Kings Point went on with her routine,
Gabby Miller returned to home base,
Joyce aimed for the Kills,
Mister T slung a scow,
Crystal pushed Patricia E. Poling,
ONE Ibis had some containers shuffled after spending time off Long Beach,
Fort Schuyler dispatched Double Skin 30,
and Chem Wolverine, on her way to Albany, passed Dace Reinauer.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes a safe day to all.
Previous excessively windy days posts can be found here.
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