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Quick post today . . . If you ask me what has been the biggest surprise since I moved to NYC, discovered the sixth boro’s delights, and began tracking its flora, fauna, and mechanica, I’d say the the orange juice ships.
Orange Sun came off the ways in 2007, and has called in the sixth boro many times.
From my observer’s vantage point, she’s as immaculate as a well-used ship can be.
Even the assist boats keep a white canvas (?) between the rubber rendering and the light-colored hull.
Is that mismatched touch-up paint?
A recent foggy day enhanced the appearance of her buttery color scheme.
It’s fair to say that since seeing my first OJ tanker, my consumption of the juice has increased. To be fair, I use the word “butter” to describe hull color, but my consumption of butter has not increased.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders why these vessels are managed from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Lest someone think all container ships built these days or calling in the sixth boro are ULCVs, consider YM Evolution. She was launched less than 10 years ago and has a teu capacity less than 5000. The company is based in Taiwan.
I’ve seen Ebony Ray before, but this is the first time I post a photo. She was launched in 2008 and is part of the Ace Tankers fleet.
Nord Chesapeake (2016) needed to be lightened before she proceeded up river to Coeymans. Note the USCGC Katherine Walker in the distance?
Cronus Leader is an NYK RORO. To see the “insides” of a vessel like this, click here. For a NYTimes article on cat/truck/etc. ships, click here. For more on this vessel and other “vehicle carriers”, click here.
Denak Voyager is a regular calling in the sixth boro. She moves scrap metals primarily from here to Turkey these days.
I would never have expected a juice carrier like Orange Sun to be a regular in world ports, but New York has very few orange groves, and given the thirst folks like me have for the juice, juice carriers bring the supply.
And finally, New Ability is an example of the crude oil carriers that call here. Since I took this photo, she has departed the sixth boro for Mexico, likely to load more crude.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Sometimes the sixth boro gets crowded, as you can see from these posts. This post tries to show that, but keep in mind that foreshortening makes these vessels seem closer than they are–the two ships below are more than a mile apart. Keep in mind also that a water channel is a dynamic medium, current and wind are in play, and . . . there are no brakes.
About a hundred yards are between the docked “orange/green hull” and Cronus Leader.
Also, the KVK has numerous curves; it seems here that the pale yellow will pass starboard to starboard with Cronus Leader,
but because of the winding channel, a few minutes later they’re clearly headed port to port.
The dark hull along the extreme left of the photo–and several shots above– is tied to a dock. It’s the NYC DEP sludge tanker Hunts Point, now in service for over five years, as profiled in this article. It’s time I do another post on the sludge tankers.
Orange Sun has safely passed Cronus Leader, leaves plenty of space passing Hunts Point,
and lets Denak Voyager, heading to Port Newark to load scrap metals, ease through the opening along its portside.
A total of fifteen minutes has elapsed between the first photo in this post and the one above. Scale here can be understood by looking at the crewman on watch–all wearing orange– on the nearer orange juice tanker and the farther bulk carrier.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who thinks that at least two things are remarkable here, both the efficiency of effort on the part of the vessel crews and the variety of cargo represented.
Here are previous posts with this vessel, but first, decide what color the metal below is. I’ll come back to this photo.
When a tug has a sheet the bow, it means one thing about the vessel involved in the assist.
A fleet of fruit juice tankers like this floats the oceans. Maybe someone can comment on a fleet involved in this trade in eastern Asia.
Here the shadows of the Bayonne Bridge glide across the hull.
That first photo . . . that was the forward portion the here here. Shadows have a way with color.
Here was an early encounter I had with a juice carrier.
She may have discharged a partial load, as she’s now bound for Tampa. Or am I missing something here?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
This is my Janus post . . . which I’ll start with a photo I took in January 2007 of an intriguing set of sculptures, since licensed to Trinity Church in Manhattan.
Since I’ve tons to do today, comment will be minimal. The photo below I took near the KVK salt pile on January 14, 2016. Eagle Ford, to the right, has since been scrapped in Pakistan.
The history of Alnair, photo taken in Havana harbor on February 4, 2016, is still untraced. It looks like an ex-USN tug. Click here for more Cuban photos.
This photo of JRT Moran and Orange Sun I took on March 12.
This photo of Hudson was taken in Maassluis, very near where my father grew up, on April 4. Many more Maassluis photos can be found here.
Sandmaster I photographed here on May 6. since then, she’s moved to Roatan, I’m told, and I’d love to go there and see how she’s doing. Maybe I can learn some Garifuna while I’m there.
June 1, I took this, with Robert E. McAllister and an invisible Ellen escorting Maersk Idaho out the door.
July 14, I saw GL tug Nebraska yank bulkier Isolda with 56,000 tons of corn through a narrow opening and out the Maumee.
August 23 I caught Atlantic Sail outbound past a nearly completed Wavertree. And come to think of it, this is a perfect Janus photo.
September 9 at the old port in Montreal I caught Svitzer Montreal tied up and waiting for the next job.
October 18, I caught Atlanticborg and Algoma Enterprise down bound between Cape Vincent and Clayton NY.
November 4, while waiting for another tow, I caught Sarah Ann switching out scrap scows in the Gowanus.
And I’ll end this retrospective Janus post with a mystery shot, which I hope to tell you more about in 2017. All I’ll say is that I took it yesterday and can identify only some of what is depicted. Anyone add something about this photo?
I feel blessed with another year of life, energy, gallivants, and challenges. Thank you for reading and writing me. Special thanks to you all who sent USPS cards ! I wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2017. Here’s what Spock would say and where he got it.
Here was my “last hours” post from 2015. And here from the year before with some vessels sailing away forever. And here showing what I painted in the last hours of 2013. And one more with origins “oud jaardag” stuff from the finale of 2011.
Oops . . . I “published” this prematurely and unintentionally if you saw it in disarray. And by the way, today I saw the woodchuck and his shadow; he saw mine and dove for cover. I wonder if that means six more weeks of cold weather. Please, someone advise.
From the wandering eye of Maraki . . . it’s in Nassau and
called Big Crab. No further info. I’ve never been to Nassau, and googling leads to me Nassau tugs on the bottom as well as someimpressive ones one the surface. Maybe I need to get myself to Nassau.
And from a secret salt via Ashley Hutto . . . four days I saw Orange Sun depart the sixth boro here, he caught it inbound Tampa. Thanks . . . salt.
Finally . . from the jaunt captain Fred of tug44, it’s what hibernates at the bottom of Lock 6 of the Champlain Canal . . . front to rear . . . HR Hawk, HR Beaver, HR Otter. You’d think there’d be a woodchuck there too!
September 2013 I took this photo of a sibling of the hibernating tugs . . HR Bass, assisted by Herbert P. Brake. Interestingly, HR Bass used to be Delta Tiger, HR Hawk . . . Delta Parrot, HR Otter . . . Delta Ram, and HR Beaver ???
. .. Mr Lane. I’ll bet you thought I’d say . . . Delta Woodchuck.
Many thanks to Maraki crew, secret salt, Ashley, and Fred.
. . . or citrus yellow . . . there was a movie almost half a century ago that intrigued me as a teenager, and the phrase has stuck. But this post is about those tanker that call in the sixth boro with orange juice. Click here to learn more about the Brazilian orange juice industry. It made my morning Tuesday to catch Orange Sun leaving, after nearly a week in Port Newark at a facility I’d love to visit. And I do have something I’m curious about.
Orange Sun came here from Santos, Brasil. Right now it’s speeding to Tampa before –I think–heading back to Brasil. Here‘s a couple months of itinerary. My question . . . why would it stop at a port in our domestic orange state before traveling back to the Brasilian orange state?
Please let me know if you have answers to the question or connections with the Port Newark juice facility.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Previous orange juice posts can be found below:
https://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/orange-juice/
https://tugster.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/southern-juice/
https://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/bebes-baaack/
https://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/bebe/
https://tugster.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/osj/
https://tugster.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/random-ships-4/
There are probably more.
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