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Jeremy Whitman took this photo of the big blue Konecranes #38 crane. Tail boat is Candace Elise, prior to 2015 known as Stephen Dann, as here. OXBO is managing the transport.
They departed Manitowoc a week or so ago and are now in a very wide portion of the Saint Lawrence, downstream from Gaspé Peninsula. Manitowoc, among other things, is the western terminus of SS Badger.
Jake Van Reenen took this photo as they passed Clayton. Molly M I has replaced Candace Elise. The barge supporting the barge is Cashman Equipment Corp.’s JMC 253, with dimensions of 250′ x72′ x16′ deck barge.
René Beauchamp got this shot –and more on FB Seaway News-Voie maritime Infos–of the tow. His vantage point over the South Shore Canal portion of the Saint Lawrewnce Seaway was the Cartier Bridge. ETA for the tow at the mouth of the Piscataqua and Kittery ME is June 17. I look forward to photos from there.
Harry McNeal moved deck barge 1962 with crane away from the IMTT docks the other day,
Face on, the crane appeared to be straight up.
Allan Seymour caught this Denali with tank barge DBL 104 upbound on Penobscot Bay yesterday. If I have the right number, DBL 104 has a capacity is just over 105,000 barrels.
I spotted Paul Andrew with the recycling scow DS 171 heading for the Arthur Kill.
The destination for this is PS&S/Visy Paper.
Erich A. caught Emery Zidell up the Hudson in the notch of 83,000 bbl tank barge Dr. Robert J. Beall.
James Turecamo meets the Centerline unit up in the scenic Hudson River below Albany.
And I saw Eastern Dawn aka Toula pushing two
mini-barges.
The minis, one at a time, carry dredge spoils from the depths of Gowanus Canal. Prior to this project, I’d never seen mini barges, or scows.
All photos, as credited: Jeremy, Jake, René , Erich, and WVD.
Unrelated, the highest bid for tug Grouper as of this morning is $26.00.
Mackenzie Rose and Paul Andrew are eastbound, and Mary Turecamo, westbound.
A light Haggerty Girls westbound,
passing Laurie Ann Reinauer.
Kimberly Poling moves a barge out of the Kills.
A bulker in the anchorage gets bunkered by
Kings Point. Katya Atk needs to repaint the name on the starboard bow.
And Helen Laraway makes her way east.
All photos, WVD.
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
Here are previous iterations, just to change things up. Non-random here means I took these over a few weeks, which should be obvious as you look through the photos.
Atlantic Enterprise . . . she’s big at 136′ x 40′. Over the past few years, she has appeared here. Before that, she was in the sixth boro but much less active as Barents Sea. She had different names before Barents going back to 1976.
Although slightly older than Atlantic Salvor, the two boats appear to be mostly similar. An Atlantic Salvor tow I’ll always remember relates to the WTC antenna here.
Some companies have a crew boat. Behold Matthew Scott, a 1968 Gulf Craft 65′ x 16′.
When I first saw Caitlin Ann, she was called Vivian L. Roehrig.
The 79′ x 24′ tug keeps busy.
Hidden behind this barge,
it’s Sarah Ann, who i first knew as June K.
I did a post on Brian Nicholas some years back. I don’t recall ever seeing her as Banda Sea, but in this post from June 2009, that name was still showing . . . .
My favorite photo of Paul Andrew over the years
is this one, showing the 64′ x 23′ tugboat getting transferred, so to speak.
Mary Alice is one of the larger DonJon boats, at 92′ x 27′.
We’ll end with another shot of Atlantic Enterprise, distinguishable from Salvor (my photo during the tugboat race September 5, 2010)
by that fire monitor.
Other DonJon boats– Meagan Ann, Emily Ann, Rebecca Ann, Thomas D., who else did I miss–I’ve not seen so far in fall 2020.
All photos, WVD.
It’s the end of another month, and maybe because everything’s been so bleak of late, let’s just admire and enjoy the complexity of the sixth boro.
Diverse people work here on diverse missions.
Places like NY Harbor School and M.A. S. T. as well as SUNY Maritime College and King’s Point MMA are here.
On foggy days a narrow navigation channel gives the illusion of being as expansive as the ocean.
Keeping it as ideal a place as possible is the mission of many people and much infrastructure, seen and unseen.
Professionals pass through the sixth boro without ever technically entering the space, both a boon and a bane to all involved,
and their safe passage is ensured by the named and the nameless.
Work and recreation can happen in the same space because of
professionalism. If you have a lot of time, you can binge watch these videos by a pro who works the sixth boro and beyond. Now, when I hear his voice on VHF, it’s familiar. There are books as well.
The universal language of gesture is powerdful.
The sixth boro has at least as much specialized equipment as the other five boros combined; another way to put it, the specialized equipment of the sixth boro enable the other boros to perform.
And if the land boros have spirit, don’t imagine the sixth boro lacks anything.
Photos and sentiments, WVD.
Tony Acabono wrote me that he was confused, although maybe he was not.
As this approached and passed by, I was briefly confounded.
The shape reminded me immediately of a tidal power installation in the East River, which I’d written about here 12 years ago.
The three nodes of the structure on the barge are marked A, B, and . . . as you see . . . C.
I got out ahead of it. The main tug here is Harry McNeal, and alongside is Miss Julia. I’m not sure who owns Miss Julia.
A tidal strait, which the East River technically is, with tides in first one and then another direction, will spin these turbines and generate electricity. Winds may be variable and intermittent, but the tides never cease.
Verdant Power is the clue will get you much more info.
The three turbines/blades are fitted into a triangular structure, a TriFrame. It will be submerged in the East River as part of RITE, Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project, as yet a pre-commercial operation. Materials and design are being tested.
And finally, from the Tideland Institute, Julia, Harry, and the turbines eastbound, like some low-flying albino birds, in the Buttermilk.
Read gCaptain’s take here.
And how would you imagine the Tri-Frame got lowered to the bottom?
Columbia specializes in lowering and raising.
This post reminds me of Whatzit 36 . . . from three and a half years ago.
Thanks to Tony, Tideland, and AC. Photos not credited to others by WVD, who’s repeatedly astonished by the sixth boro surprises and complexity.
I’m always excited to see something new, even if I almost miss it . . . like Wachapreague. I chased it here, but interminable stop lights, slow drivers . . . grr. But enough of me. Wachapreague was in the sixth boro the other day, of the newest class of Vane ATBs. She’s 110′ x 38′ and powered by two QSK-60M generating 4400hp.
Follow up on John Joseph . . . photo by Ben Moll, she’s almost completely made over.
These two photos of Paul Andrew and scow . . . demonstrate directionality of dawn light. This one was west of me at 0538, and this
east . . at 0541. Being out in the morning is not just about comfortable temperatures.
Harry McNeal is a sixth boro fixture in marine construction, but at 53′ x 18′,
she’s easy to miss, as demonstrated here alongside Linda Moran (116′ x 36′) and Houston.
Cape Canaveral, with its evocative name for anyone who came of age in the brief US space era, is another fairly new vessel in the sixth boro.
She comes in at 105′ x 36′ and 5000′.
Two Bouchard units waited in Grabesend the other day . . .
Denali bunkered intriguingly-named Eco California.
Another shot of Wachapreague eluding me . . . is a good place to end.
Many thanks to Ben for the John Joseph photo. All others by WVD.
On we go . . . Alexandra does not appear frequently here. If my count is correct, this is only the third time since and including 2008 that this 120′ x 34′ 4000hp boat’s been posted here. She’s currently working on a dredging project near Sandy Hook.
An action shot here of Mister T doing what the 82′ x 24′ 2400hp Mister T does.
Pegasus has to be among the cleanest looking boats, a fact accentuated here by the rusty stains on the hull of the tanker beyond her. Dimensions . . . 75′ x 26′ x 1900hp.
The Browns . . . James and Joyce, move this car float across between Owls Head and Greenville. The absence of leaves on the trees shows how long ago I took this and most of these photos. They are 74′ x 30′ x 1000 and 78′ x 26′ 2400, respectively.
Patrice, 105′ x 34′ 4500, has been here almost 10 years.
Nathan G, 73 x 24′ 1200′, moves a scow westbound on the KVK. I’d have guessed her larger than that.
Paul Andrew does the paper barge. She’s 64′ x 23′ and 1200hp.
And finally, JRT sees one ship out and positions herself for the next job.
Here was my first photo of the 6000hp 89′ x 38′ tugboat back in late 2015. The photo reminds me I should use the fisheye more often.
All photos, WVD.
The blog is called tugster, and not tatter, taster, tagster or truckster, as much fun as those digressions may be, being able to be a bit obsessively focused, this is the 249th installment! If you add in the non-random tug posts, it’s even more than 249.
W. O. Decker, the only wooden-hulled tug in this post. Built in Long Island City in 1930 and 52′ loa.
Christian Reinauer, built 2001 in Mobile AL and 118′.
Haggerty Girls 2013 built in North Kingston RI and 110′, and I think, Dean Reinauer 2013 in North Kingston RI and 112′
.
Ellen McAllister, … 1967 in Sturgeon Bay WI and 102′ and she’s been a staple in the sixth boro for as long as I’ve been paying attention. A former YTB, she works–it seems– every day.
Paul Andrew, … 1968 in Loreauville LA and 63′. She too has been working the harbor since I’ve been paying attention.
Jill Reinauer, … 1967 in Houma LA, and 91′ loa.
And to round things out with a photo I took in September 2017–all others have been since mid-February–it’s Sarah D, built 1975 in Palatka FL [Mary Kay, 1973 in Palatka FL] and 90′. She has appeared on this blog fairly recently.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you warmth today.
Now about tats and tasting . . . those might be franchise expansion ideas . . .
Joyce D. Brown with a resplendent paint job on a bright spring morning.
A new boat entering the Narrows in springtime. Know it?
Sea Oak, which I last saw in Southport, NC.
Crystal Cutler, also looking great in the spring sunshine.
The extraordinary Bosco, passing the boscage of Shooters Island.
The vertically oriented Genesis Vision, previously known as Superior Service.
Paul Andrew, once sported a respectable Christmas tree here (scroll).
Another great name . . Sea Fox.
Marjorie B McAllister, perfectly positioned with the arrow on CMA CGM Almaviva,
Rebecca Ann, with a great origin story that maybe someone who reads this knows better than I do. All I remember is that it was locally built . . . with spare steel . . . I hope I’m right about that. And she’s currently involved in a project that might place her in tomorrow’s post. I believe she first appeared in this blog in 2010 here (scroll).
Any guesses?
Answer below.
Yes, Seeley, which was once a Vane Brothers boat called Vane Brothers.
All photos taken in april 2018 by Will Van Dorp.
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