Star to Rose

In the last decade, I got this photo of Evening Star and B. No. 250 and others like it.  Little did I know at that time

 . . . what I had dismissed as scuttlebutt, that things were not sustainable.

Enter RCM 250.  Some of you know the connection, the one that’s been there for a few years already now.

I’m not sure I understand the substance of the change(s) announced in articles like this and this.

 

The transition was gradual, but 

 

what’s on the surface looks good. 

All photos, any errors, WVD.

Random Tugs 392

With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick.

The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that 

was getting towed.  Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched?  Decide that for each of these and arrange them by age, before checking the answers at the end?

Carolina Coast came in light the other day, possibly just off a sugar barge. 

Meagan Ann was eastbound, maybe heading north for scrap.

Michael Miller was moving who knows what.   As a reminder, have you decided the launch date on each of these as you’re going through?  Answers are posted at the end here.

Miss Madeline a bit earlier was working on a dredge project.

Charles A was in from another dredge project.

Susan Rose was pushing oil.

Stephen Dann has since gone to Bridgeport.  

Charles James is still the the boro as of this writing.

And that’s where we leave it today.

All photos and any errors, WVD.

Maverick 1967

Carolina Coast  1970

Meagan Ann 1975

Miss Madeline  1976

Charles A. 1979

Charles James 1985

Stephen Dann  1999

Susan Rose  2019

 

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Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River?  Its current name?

 

Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook.

 

Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no one.”

Continuing in that direction to the south of Erie Basin, a Dann Ocean fleet waits:  l to r, Captain Willie Landers, Sarah Dann, and Ruby M.

In the anchorage, Susan Rose awaits her next appointment with the RCM 250.

Fells Point heads to the Narrows to retrieve her bunker barge.

Bruce A. McAllister escorts bulker Thor Fortune into Claremont for a load of scrap.

And finally, Everly Mist is the newest renaming I’ve seen.  Ellen S. Bouchard has also been renamed Jeffrey S, but I’ve not caught a photo yet.

 

All photos, WVD.

Summer Sail 4B

I’ve compartmentalized my photos from the Pioneer sail the other night, in part because in a short two-hour sail there was so much to see.  For starters, Stephanie Dann had earlier just rushed eastward and came back with Cornucopia Destiny, a dance partner on her starboard side.  I can speculate about this, but I don’t know the details.

As we headed into the Buttermilk, we met Susan Rose AND

Jordan Rose, ex- Evening Breeze and Evening Star, respectively.

This sweet downeaster passed.

I suspect Jordan came along to assist 

Susan into the notch.

Meanwhile, a ways down the piers, Stasinos Jimmy and currently still Evening Tide were rafted up for the moment.

Whatever brought Jordan to the Red Hook piers, by the time we had sailed passed the gantries, she was overtaking us.

On the return, as night began to fall, we met Thomas D. Witte and

then her fleetmate Douglas J.

At this point, my photos were pixelating, but I still managed to get Eastern Dawn, heading back to the “barn” at dusk.

All photos, WVD, who has handed the keys to the tower over to the robots again for a while.