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It’s a 24/365 proposition for a petroleum hub. Here Potomac stands by while
DoubleSkin 58 lighters Kuwaiti crude from Odori.
Tanker Boxer settles in with assistance from JRT Moran and
Jonathan C Moran to hold her in place while dock lines get set out. More on the line boats doing their part in a future post. I’m intrigued by Boxer as a name for a tanker.
Meaghan Marie assists as Philadelphia eases
DoubleSkin 503 into a west end dock at IMTT.
For a time, I thought Genesis Vigilant and Justine McAllister were drifting
randomly in proximity to each other, but when the Genesis tug moved into the notch to make up to GM 8001, it was clear there were an assistance plan.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Coincidental, here’s what I found when I looked up the term “odori.”
Here are previous “moving fuel” posts.
One of these is not like the others . . . and I’ll tell you why later.
By the way, in case you can’t make out the names, it’s Wicomico, Fells Point, and Kings Point.
When I first started this blog, the dominant bunkering company in the sixth boro was K-Sea, and on a given routine day back then, I might have caught three K-Sea boats at work. When the first Vane boat arrived in the boro–was that in 2008 or 2009?–I never expected this many white with blue trim and V on the stack to work here.
Potomac has been in and out of the harbor for over 10 years.
Above and below, it’s Wye River.
And circling back to a tugboat from earlier in the post, enjoy another shot of Fells Point.
All photos, WVD.
My cryptic statement that “one is not like the others” might have you wondering what I meant by that: Wicomico, Potomac, and Wye River are 4200 hp models; the others are 3000 hp.
Thanks for the well-wishes yesterday; the blog marches on with post 5051.
Here’s a sampling of boats working I saw in the sixth boro the past week; the variety of boats, though, is greater than these would suggest.
Frances . . . was launched on Long Island in 1957. Scroll through here and see photos of Frances I took in 2010 when she still had the Turecamo wood-grain paint.
Emily Ann was built in Louisiana in 1964. She’s been a DonJon boat for eight years; to see her in K-Sea colors, scroll here. I’ve no photos of her in previous liveries.
Potomac, 2007 in Louisiana, and Fort McHenry, 2016 and Maryland. They were built as Vane equipment.
Paula Lee is not a tugboat, nor is
Trojan, the anchor tender, but this equipment is currently in the sixth boro, but owned by a company based in California. I don’t know the history of any of these pieces of Dutra equipment.
Ellen McAllister, Wisconsin in 1967. Ellen may very well be the most frequently-appearing boat on this blog. Here she is passing the southern tip of Manhattan just entering the East River.
Meagan Ann, Washington state in 1975. See Birk’s encyclopedia-like site for photos of Meagan Ann as a Foss boat. I have more photos of her wrestling in this DonJon crane.
And Joker, 1979, Louisiana. Eight years ago, I caught these photos of the boat when she was called Taurus, a Kirby boat, and looking rough. Here, from 2007, is Taurus in K-Sea colors.
All photos, WVD.
Friday I hit the road going pretty far west, and maybe even finding a vessel called Far West.
Janice Ann Reinauer came on line at some point in the past few months, but this is my first viewing light.
She’s bigger and more powerful than the previous boat by that name: 113′ x 35′ v. 82′ x 24′ and 4720 hp v. 2200.
She might be a carbon copy of the 2013 Dean Reinauer, in the distance, although I’m sure upgrades have been built in.
Cape Fear came into service right about the same time as Janice Ann.
She’s one of two of the latest 3000 hp in the Vane fleet; her twin in Cape May, which I’ve not seen.
Here Cape Fear goes into the notch, alongside Potomac to her starboard side . . . as Jacksonville passes. Potomac and Jacksonville are 4200 hp boats.
All photos, WVD.
The other morning was without wind and busy, so this next “hour” is actually 30 minutes, and these are only a few of the photos I took between 0900 and 0930 of this extraordinary morning from my single vantage point.
A team of Dann Marine tugs leave the dock, framing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer dock.
Vane’s Brooklyn leaves her dock; notice the Moran barn (red with the white M) and Pegasus at the Metropolitan dock.
Charles D heads to job.
Bulker Maina heads for sea, passing Elandra Blu and
Marjorie comes to retrieve the docking pilot. Do you see four people in the photo below? Elandra tankers are based in Latvia.
The calm here is barely broken by MSC Korea.
Brendan waits to retrieve the pilot. Note the scrubber and its effects on emissions?
Over by IMTT Glory and Potomac sand by with their barges.
And we’ll leave it here, actual 28 minutes elapsed . . . name that approaching ship?
All photos, WVD.
Here are the previous iterations of this title. Keep in mind that the long lens foreshortens these scenes. The scene is this: MSC Alicante has just entered the KVK heading west. Note the Vane Potomac hurrying away to the east.
The “N” vessel is Athenian. JRT is along the port side of MSC Alicante.
Note that JRT is along the port bow quarter.
To compare, Athenian has teu capacity of 10000, and MSC Alicante, 5550. The photo below belies the fact that their relative dimensions are 885′ x 131′ v. 1145′ x 149′ respectively.
Brendan Turecamo peels off Athenian.
When my attention turns back to the west, I notice another container ship by the Bayonne Bridge, Brendan has replaced JRT alongside the MSC, and Jonathan C Moran on a sternline.
See the whitewater wake forward of Jonathan C? She’s racing the engines astern.
Gunhilde Maersk has a 7000 teu within its 1203′ x 140′ dimensions.
Dense traffic . . . it’s just another day on the KVK.
All photos, observations by Will Van Dorp.
If you’re new on this blog, for the past 27 months I’ve been posting photos from exactly 10 years before. These then are photos I took in June 2010. What’s been interesting about this for me is that this shows how much harbor activities have changed in 10 years.
Tarpon, the 1974 tug that once worked for Morania and below carries the Penn Maritime livery, is now a Kirby boat. Tarpon, which may be “laid up” or inactive, pushes Potomac toward the Gate.
North River waits over by GMD shipyard with Sea Hawk, and now also a Kirby vessel. Sea Hawk is a slightly younger twin, at least in externals and some internals, of Lincoln Sea.
Irish Sea, third in a row, was K-Sea but now is also a Kirby boat.
Huron Service went from Candies to Hornbeck to now Genesis Energy, and works as Genesis Victory.
Ocean King is the oldest in this post . . . built in 1950. She’s in Boston, but I don’t know how active she is.
Petersburg dates from 1954, and currently serves as a live aboard. Here’s she’s Block Island bound, passing what is now Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Kristin Poling was built in 1934 and worked the Great Lakes and the Eastern Seaboard via the Erie Canal.
To digress, William Lafferty took this photo on 15 May 1966 at Thorold, Ontario, in the Welland Canal, same boat 44 years later.
And finally, she who travels jobs up and down the East Coast, the 1970 Miss Gill. She’s currently working in the Charleston area.
All photos, WVD, who never thought a decade ago while taking these photos that I’d revisit them while in the midst of a pandemic. June 2010 was a great month for photos, so I’ll do a retro a and b.
It’s hard to believe that this title has come up 286 times before today, but here they all are. And yet, I’m starting out with a photo of Ellen McAllister, who herself has appeared here hundreds of times, but never quite like this, heading into the dawn and about to pass an unidentifiable Vane tugboat.
Ditto Pegasus, passing between a Bouchard tug to the left and some Centerline boats to the right, and below that ONE container on the bridge and the Fedex plane in the sky.
Double Skin 57 and Long Island, previously Peter F. Gellatly, moves a barge past IMTT, where some Reinauer boats–RTC 103 and Morgan— are taking on product.
Potomac gets an assist from Fort Schuyler.
Ava M. McAllister passes UACC Ibn Al Haitham, where Genesis Victory is lightering and Liz Vinik assisting.
On another morning, Fort Schuyler heads for the Upper Bay, and that looks like Kristin Poling in the distance to the left.
And where Meredith C. Reinauer is lightering Marvin Faith, Bouchard’s Linda Lee, Ellen S., and Evening Breeze look on.
All photos recently by WVD,who had to look up the namesake of the UACC crude carrier. He turns out to be a Basra-born scientist from a millenium (!!) ago. That link is worth a read.
Quick . . . name those units?
Type Vane Brothers into the search window, presuming you know these are Vane Brothers boats, and you’d get all the previous instances of this title, going back to 2009.
Now you can see the names . . . Potomac above and Fort McHenry below.
Philadelphia is legible here, as is
Kings Point.
On a related note, I’ve been doing some blog maintenance; I finally added tags to the first three and a half years of this blog. Tags? You can find them in the “fine print” just below the title. When I started the blog back in November 2006, I had enough to do just remembering the process of getting images and text on the page. So until April 2010, I just skipped tags. Their addition matters because now–if you want–you can efficiently trace all instances of a certain vessel appearing here. For example, the first time I saw any Vane Brothers boat in the sixth boro was at the 2007 tugboat race; it was Patapsco. If you want to locate all the photos I’ve posted–and now tagged–type Patapsco into the search window, find it in the tags, click that tag, and voila . . . you can go all the way back to the first one.
The system is not fool proof because Patapsco, the word, might refer to the river and watershed also. It refers to any other vessel by that name as well. For example, if you type in Pegasus, you get both the 1907 tug and the 2006 boat. However, with tags undated, you get more of the older images than previously. Similarly, Philadelphia may refer to the boat above or the city; type that in the search window, and you’d get both.
And if I neglected to tag something in posts more recent than April 2010, it’ll be harder to find. If I made a mistake, you’d be given my mistaken info . . . GIGO. Those caveats given, searching is now a bit easier than it was.
All photos, WVD.
For your quick peruse today, I offer the inverse of yesterday’s post: I went to my archives and selected the LAST photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if that photo was a person or an inland structure, I didn’t use it; instead, I went backwards … until I got to the first boat or water photo.
For January, it was Weeks 226 at the artificial island park at Pier 55, the construction rising out of the Hudson, aka Diller Island.
February saw Potomac lightering Maersk Callao.
March brought Capt. Brian and Alex McAllister escorting in an ULCV.
April, and new leaves on the trees, it was CLBoy heading inbound at the Narrows. Right now it’s anchored in an exotic port in Honduras and operating, I believe, as Lake Pearl.
A month later, it happened to be Dace Reinauer inbound at the Narrows, as seen from Bay Ridge.
June it was MV Rip Van Winkle. When I took this, I had no inkling that later this 1980 tour boat based in Kingston NY would be replaced by MV Rip Van Winkle II. I’ve no idea where the 1980 vessel, originally intended to be an offshore supply vessel, is today.
July . . . Carolina Coast was inbound with a sugar barge for the refinery in Yonkers.
Late August late afternoon Cuyahoga,I believe, paralleled us in the southern portion of Lake Huron.
Last photo for September, passing the Jersey City cliffs was FireFighter II.
October, last day, just before rain defeated me, I caught the indomitable Ellen McAllister off to the next job.
November, on a windy day, it was Alerce N, inbound from Cuba. Currently she’s off the west side of Peru.
And finally, a shot from just a few days ago . . . in the shadow under the Bayonne Bridge, the venerable Miriam Moran, who also made last year’s December 31 post. Choosing her here was entirely coincidental on my part.
And that’s it for 2019 and for the second decade of the 21st century. Happy 2020 and decade three everyone. Be safe and satisfied, and be in touch. Oh, and have an adventure now and then, do random good things, and smile unexpectedly many times per day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will spend most of tomorrow, day 1 2020, driving towards the coast. Thanks for reading this. Maybe we’ll still be in touch in 2030.
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