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It should be no secret that I’m an early riser, have always been one to get up in the “o’dark” hours for the morning golden hour, the best time of day. Here are two Miller’s Launch OSVs, possibly Rana and Rosemary.
A bit later on a different day, I caught Dylan Cooper westbound, with another Reinauer unit off in the distance.
Janet D headed into that same morning, here eastbound.
Ditto . . . Charles D McAllister and
Mary Turecamo. In fact, in the photo below, you see all three. Did you get the golden hour this morning?
All photos, WVD, who thinks this morning’s overcast skies here blocked any gold.
In case you’re keeping track, I’ve been home a long time quite a while, happy to help by staying put. I’ve had harder work, and I’m really busy. Nautical Sarah is still in town, a week and a half after she appeared to be departing.
USNS Watkins has been all the way to Florida, I believe.
Atlantic Sail is back in Liverpool, albeit briefly.
Lalinde is heading back to Guatemala.
Cardiff is underway, halfway to Brasil.
Songa Winds is anchored off Savannah. Rana Miller may be farther south than that, and Ernest Campbell is in the KVK.
An very light RHL Agilitas is bound for the Halifax portion of its route, and
Lady Saliha is in Veracruz.
Seebee, CMA CGM Orca, etc. . . . I see your intriguing signal . . . but I’m not getting photos.
All photos here, taken and not taken, WVD.
Let’s start with two photos thanks to Ashley Hutto, first one from last year. Remember the HRSG aka “the cyclops” that came down the Hudson? Tomorrow, another is scheduled to start a journey, then heads for Bridgeport.
Mister Jim above and below as platform, as well as Daisy Mae in the distance, will be involved in the transfer. By Tuesday late afternoon, the HRSC is scheduled to be at the GW Bridge, and will overnight near the Statue of Liberty before entering the East River and into the Sound. I’ll miss most of it, since I’ll be in Albany all next week.
No . . . I’m not entering politics.
Another unusual visitor was captured here by Tim Hetrick; Megan Beyel passes Storm King here, towing a barge upriver. The photo effectively shows the scale of Storm King.
OSVs like Megan Beyel are quite rare in the Hudson Valley, but they do appear. Four years ago Michael Lawrence spent some time in and out of the sixth boro working on a pipeline project.
Of course, there is a sixth boro quasi-resident OSV . . . Rana Miller.
Rana‘s frequent mission is transporting Yokohamas, used to fender tankers transferring product offshore.
And from rubber to rubber, here’s a small USN tug moving rendering barrier around. This photo comes from George Schneider, who writes, “Your photo (scroll) represents the smallest of them, the 19-footers, [like this one] one towing fender-style booms (barriers?), but they also work as gate boats for the anti-swimmer booms (barriers?) mentioned. As you can see this one is officially designated 19BB0212, but has the local designation BB4. They adopt some of the jargon from their origins as log broncs (and scroll to Skillful) and call them “Beaver Boats” to differentiate them from the other boats designed to transport or place the light oil pollution booms. This one was built by Chuck’s Boat and Drive Company (“C-Bad”) of Longview, WA, who also built 25-foot version for the Navy. I imagine you’d find them at just about any station where the Navy ties up their ships. At least 12 of the 19-footers and at least 22 of the 25-footers have been built for the Navy, as well as other designs that begin to look more like conventional pushboats as they grow in size. ” Thanks much, George.
Finally, thanks to Steve Munoz, another one of these small tugs, this one spotted near the USS Constitution in Charlestown MA.
Many thanks to Ashley, Tim, George, and Steve for the photos and info. The photos of Rana Miller by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the posts I did each of the past two years. I’ll call this the beginning of the processional. How many government vessels do you count in the photo below?
Carefully screened support vessels--Rana Miller, Elizabeth McAllister, and Resolute— lead the procession, here past Ellis Island,
while small craft of the NYC Navy and Air Force and others patrol.
Other McAllister boats include Alex McAllister . . . and
Eric.
CG-56 USS San Jacinto leads the larger vessel contingent. She was here as well in 2012. Know the import of that location in April 1836?
Tomorrow will feature close-ups of the rest of the fleet, but for now we’ll leave it here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who counts eight government craft in the first photo. Here’s a post-fleet week photo set from 2009.
Another secret salt’s been photographing, this one in the waters near Galveston, a place I’ve not been.
Here he passed San Roberto and Rana Miller, which I have not seen in the sixth boro since 2009.
The orange boats are AET, and assist with lightering operations, as does Rana. Josephine K Miller must be offshore.
Mr. Henry works for Barry Graham Oil Services.
Thor is one large tractor tug.
I’m not sure what vessel that is in the foreground, but
Ocean Star appears to be a petroleum museum, a concept I’d not considered,
whereas these rigs have not yet been promoted–or demoted–to museum service.
One of these years, i’ll have to gallivant this way. Many thanks to the secret salts.
Quick post on the 1st annual Atlantic Salt Maritime Fest. Atlantic Salt brings salt from Ireland, Chile, and Mexico through the sixth boro to keep icy roads less treacherous. Where salt made a huge mound in this winter post, today there was frivolity, free food, and lots of smiles. Thank you, Atlantic Salt. Below Half Moon and container vessel Sumida meet.
Kristy Ann Reinauer and Thomas Witte paraded past, and
as did Rana Miller. More Rana later; she’s quite similar to Guardian, posted here last winter.
There was singing, drumming, and dancing.
Did it rain??
No, problem. Did tugster find friends? Oh, this is getting frivolous.
Bowsprite took the foto above; all others by Will Van Dorp. By the way, if you know the Where’s Waldo series, bowsprite is depicted in TWO of the fotos above. Where’s bowsprite?
By the way, as of this writing, Flinterduin, the 15-masted motor vessel, approaches 50 degrees west, due south of Newfoundland. She should enter the harbor before Monday morning; I will do the math later to narrow the ETA. Remember the foto contest.
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