Random Tugs 331

Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better.  She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard.  In fact, she was their last product.

Christiana heads out as

Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979,  comes in

from sea, out of the haze.

Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries.  She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.

Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100)  and  barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat:  The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.

Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT:  Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout:  (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).

Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.

She’s pushing Patricia Poling. 

And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.

All photos and any errors, WVD.

Thanks to David Silver 2

Here’s the first in this series.   David sent me some photos earlier this week and offered to write the commentary as well.  Hence the quotation marks.

“Marie J. Turecamo steam harmlessly through the harbor.”

“James Turecamo makes a splash as she heads towards the Kill.”

Lincoln Sea sits patiently in the notch of the DBL 140.”

“Two displays of heritage in the form of New York State Marine Highway tug Margot and Ellis Island.”

“Herbert P. Brake pushes a scrap barge (possible future additions to her hull?) through the harbor.”

“Crystal Cutler pushes the Patricia Poling as Andrew Barbieri bears down upon her.”

My take:  if a waterborne Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep 80 years ago and awakened today, the bridge and the light might be among the very few structures he would recognize.

“Stephen Reinauer steams lite through the harbor towards her next assignment.”

“Ever ready, ever vigilant.”  

Thanks, David.    The sixth boor’s the star here, IMHO.  To post some corny doggerel in Poetry Month “collaboration is the game and “sixth boro” the star’s name!