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I’m rushing December, but I’m eager to get through winter and back to spring. All photos here date from December 2008.
Bowsprite took this from one of her cliff niches: June K (2003) here is moving the Floating Hospital (1974, Blount) up to the Rondout, where she remains. Is she really now called Industria at Sea.
The geography is unchanged, but McAllister Responder (1967) is no longer in the sixth boro, and Sea Venture (1972) is dead and likely scrapped . . . .
Maryland (1962) has become Liz Vinik, after operating with Maryland in the name for more than a handful of companies.
Choptank (2006) is back in the sixth boro and environs. My autocorrect always wants to call this tug Shoptalk. Puzzling. NYK Daedalus (2007) is still at work, just not here. TEN Andromeda is still on the oceans as well, still transporting crude.
Now called Charly and working the Gulf of Guinea, Janice Ann Reinauer (1967) used to be a personal icon in the sixth boro. Note that 1 World Trade does not appear in this photo, as it would today.
Closing this out . . . Margaret Moran (1979 and the 4th boat by that name) passes APL Jade (1995 and likely scrapped by now) in the KVK.
I’m hoping you’re enjoying this glances back a decade as much as I am.
With the exception of the first photo, all these by Will Van Dorp, who alone is responsible for research errors.
Unrelated: Win a trip on a Great Lakes freighter/laker here.
Sea Power has been lurking in and around the sixth boro the past few days, and I will continue trying to get some good photos of her, but on 9-22-16 Jack Ronalds up at the Canso Canal caught these photos of her as she headed into Lake Erie to pick up her barge constructed in Erie PA.
Remember, if you need photos of a vessel traveling between the Great Lakes and the west Atlantic Coast from the Maritimes southward, Jack’s your guy. See some of his work (2440 photos) here.
4-24-08 Dean Reinauer passes NYK Daedalus. This Dean left NYC for Nigeria in June 2011.
6-16-08 Juliet Reinauer pushed oil a decade ago. She’s still in the harbor working as Big Jake.
6-23-08 Odin . . . no longer has an adjustable wheelhouse and may be laid up, and ITB Groton, single-hulled tanker, . . . was sold in later 2008 to Nigerian interests first to ship grain and then returned to petroleum trade. It was sent to Alang and scrapped in late 2013.
9-13-08 Viking seen here out of the notch has made its way to Kirby and is currently very busy on the Hudson.
9-05-10 Here’s another showing Viking out of the notch and all gussied up, and (it seems) terrifying W. O. Decker.
And finally, another from 9-22-16, a shot of Sea Power heading north through the Canso Canal and ultimately to Lake Erie to pick up its mated barge. In the background is the 60+ year-old quarry now operated by Martin Marietta Materials in Aulds Cove, where vessels like and including Alice Oldendorff pick up the aggregates. Last year, four million tons worth of rock was shipped from here.
Many thanks to Jack for use of his photos. All others by Will Van Dorp, who has learned that as of this morning, Sea Power is sailing for Charleston SC.
Here was 14.
And in the photo below, dozens of people occupy the vessels, mostly invisible even as the weather starts to warm up.
But some work is done outside . . like preparing to retrieve a docking pilot, whereas
others, after a time at sea, feast their eyes on details of a foreign port . . . one that might NOT look like the legendary port they are entering,
looking at the south side of KVK and thinking, “This is New York?”
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Simon and Garfunkel … original release date 1966 . . . now paraphrased, “Slow down, we move too fast. We got to cut the greenhouse gas. Just kicking down the rpms. We’re steamin’ slow and feelin’ green, we.”
OK, here’s a visual/auditory aid, and alas . . . I have no future as a lyricist, but can I convince you to scan this Elisabeth Rosenthal article from the 2/16 NY Times about Ebba Maersk, taking a week longer now than it did two years ago on the run to Guangdong from Bremerhaven, a week more at sea deliberately . . . as a means to increase efficiency and thereby reduce carbon emissions.
Some statistics: “halving the top cruising speed reduces fuel consumption and carbon emissions by 30%.”
Interesting, but it makes me wonder whether crew compensation would decrease on a per-day basis? The article says Maersk saved more than enough on fuel to pay the crew.
“Driving on the highway at 55 instead of 65 miles per hour cuts carbon dioxide emissions of American cars by about 20 percent.”
But it might get you rear-ended quickly as well. And I’ll be honest, I speed whenever I forget that the journey trumps the arrival.
“Transport emissions have soared in the past three decades as global trade has grown by leaps and bounds, especially long-haul shipments of goods from Asia. The container ship trade grew eightfold between 1985 and 2007.”
“Today more than 220 vessels [worldwide] are practicing ‘slow steaming’ — cruising at 20 knots on open water instead of the standard 24 or 25 — or, like Maersk’s vessels, ‘super slow steaming’ (12 knots)”
I’m no expert on this complex topic, but
“slow steaming” seems to make sense.
Ships shown from the top:
Turkon Line Kasif Kalkavan (I had fotos with surprises of another Turkon boat here –second half of post)
MSC Carla, NOT the one built in 1972.
NYK Daedalus
By the way, NYK Daedalus left New York on 9 February for Taiwan. Will leave Taiwan on 16 March for arrival back in New York on 9 April. I don’t think that’s slow-steaming.
For thoughts on sailing (v. petro-powering) from very different blogs (though locked in delightful squabble) see ODocker and Tillerman.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
“feelin’ green, we.” I hope you like my nod to cajun english dialect, there, you.
Related: from today’s NYTimes, “Clearing the Air at American Ports.”
(cont. from yesterday)
Divine decks and the city . . . with Zeus. Between Zeus and the city, that’s GMD docks at Bayonne, where both Tavrichesky Bridge and Sichem Defiance are having some attention lavished on them. Notice between Zeus bow and the left side of the foto … just beyond the ivory colored building then to the right of Three World Financial Center … it’s Zurab Tsereteli‘s 9/11 monument.
Miriam Moran spinning the decks of Affinity while survey deck of Wolf River slips past. Wolf River . . . now that’s a vessel whose name is begging for lyrics and a tune.
Over on the opposite side, we see Jersey City astride the afterdeck of Gramma Lee T Moran.
East Coast decks approaching a scrap tow pushed by a blue boat . . . and just off and beyond the clusterflurry of Manhattan, you can see Citibank Tower in Queens.
Of course, it’s June K, pushing two decks worth of scrap, with fishing decks way off in the distance in front of the ferry terminal/Whitehall portion of the city and headed toward the East River.
Parting decks and the city: the decks of NYK Daedalus and the ex-city Brooklyn, now one of the six boros, topped by the ex-Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower.
Any time you’re ready for more decks and the city, call me. Don’t expect any resemblance to characters with names like Henry or Harry or Carry or Chary or … But all these banks, time for some Pete Seeger. Indulge me.
All fotos, Will Van Dorp.
Traffic crowded this end of the Arthur Kill the other afternoon: count the three tugs and two ships and lots of petrol engines crossing the Goethals Bridge. Andromeda, the handysize oil tanker dead center, heads for sea. The voice of the AK RR bridge might be about to announce a lowering, and all who know better scramble to distance themselves.
Of course, Andromeda still needs to negotiate twists and turns and smaller vessels like the NJ State Police and Odin who motor helterskelter around front. So “Andromeda” I learned in science class as a constellation, a word that felt nice dripping off my tongue.
Smaller traffic gone, the Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) tanker turns to starboard past NYK Daedalus,
the front of its house like a billboard proclaiming the company mantra to the few who see. And such a megamantra: “No smoking” and “Safety first” are intended for crew working out front. But who is the audience for “Protect the environment,” except of course everyone, but does writing that on the house make a difference? Most tankers have at least two of those messages, but since when? How long ago did this trend begin? The really unusual text is is “Trust Tradition Teamwork.” Is “Tradition Teamwork” the object of the command “Trust”?
Yeah, I know, we all know that our surroundings are filled with text, some of which is critical and other . . . fluff. Being able to distinguish the two is a survival skill.
As she heads for sea, consider whether Andromeda as a name of your vessel might make you comfortable. Some info on the mythological reference below. Meanwhile, have you ever seen a foto of the tanker Condolezza Rice? See it here. Might there be a tanker needing renaming before the incoming Secretary of State is confirmed?
Andromeda, the myth persona, was offered as a sacrifice to the sea to atone for the sins of her bratty mother Cassiopeia, only to be saved by the adroit bladesman Perseus. Enjoy the wild 19th century paintings inspired by the myth: reading the paintings suggests Andromeda, the daughter, came close to being lunch to some vile sea beast or dessert to some lecherous sea dog. The good news is that actual ship names don’t matter. So what if she’s called Andromeda; she’s not a sacrifice. And the bad news is that actual ship names don’t matter . . . disappointing that we don’t at least fit these stories into contemporary context. Suppose they paint the house, at least, with mantras related to protecting Andromeda, not sacrificing anyone to anything, and trusting something or someone decipherable and reliable, whoever that might be these days.
By the way, the NYC National Boatshow has begun. See you there.
Here, all images by Will Van Dorp.
Channeling Galahad, Tennyson wrote: “My good blade carves the casques of men,/My tough lance thrusteth sure,/My strength is as the strength of ten,/Because my heart is pure.”
Mostank delivers the lubrication.
Diana plays lead romantic interest in my own personal mythology. In foreground, the tug Lee T. Moran walks her Norwegian tanker like a dog on a leash, or vice versa.
Daedalus, who built some really imprudent toys for his son, otherwise plays hero in my imagination. The tiny workboat Becky Ann zooms chooses not to linger nearby like a tool.
Hero was the ancient engine guy whose work we’ve mostly all seen.
We all know about Poseidon, although it might seem arrogant of titanic proportions to name a ship so. But where’s the Kafka?
Recently a good friend inspired me to pick up a Franz Kafka anthology, and I saw a short piece called “Poseidon.” Dedicating this to kennebec captain, whose blog about a recent voyage I’m really enjoying, I quote the first and then the best lines from Kafka.
“Poseidon sat at his desk doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. He could have had assistants, as many as he wanted–and he did have very many–but since he took his job very seriously, he would in the end go over all the figures and calculations himself . . . ”
For all the hilarious set-up, the ending disappoints me: “Poseidon became bored with the sea. He let fall his trident. Silently he sat on the rocky coast and a gull, dazed by his presence, described wavering circles around his head.” Only Kafka would imagine the seagod as a frustrated pencil pusher.
Click here to read the short Kafka but complete text.
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