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Here was installment 1. Right over beyond Race Rock Light, that’s the entrance to
New London, where Rowan M. McAllister lighters a salt ship named Feng Ze Hai.
A Reinauer unit heads for the sixth boro, and not taking refraction into account,
I figured I could just read the name here. Can you make it out? My guess is Ruth E. but there are others similar to her.
Cape Canaveral passed Bridgeport bathed in morning light.
Later, Sapphire Coast
with Cement Transporter 1802
overtook William F. Fallon Jr. and her barge at
As the early winter’s night approached, Reinauer Twins
and RTC 104 passed close enough to read her name, refraction notwithstanding.
All photos, WVD, who has many more and closer up lighthouse photos from the Sound.
To start, let me reiterate what I said over a half year ago here: “Way back in 2007 I started this series, and I now think I should never have called it “bronze” since it’s more like a golden brown.”
I recently saw Josephine pushing a fuel barge, and
then light, pirouetting in the current, training perhaps. Josephine dates from 2018, brings 4560 hp of Tier IV power to the job.
She’s 110′ x 33′.
I missed a shot of Dylan Cooper from the sunny side, so here’s a “dark side of the moon” shot. She’s a 2015 boat, 112′ x 35′, and brings 4720 hp to the job.
The 2013 Curtis looks a lot like Josephine, in fact the two of them have the same dimensions and maybe mostly the same design. Differences in the two boats built five years apart may relate to the power plant and invisible upgrades.
What I said about Curtis and Josephine might be the case with Dylan Cooper and Reinauer Twins; the boats are four years apart and have the same dimensions and power rating. Of course, details matter, and that’s where the upgrades are to be found.
Dace was out and about today; she’s been around since 1968, 109′ x 30′ and rated at 3400 hp.
Franklin dates from 1984, 2600 hp and 81′ x 28′, and is very much a traditional looking diesel tugboat.
Closing out this post, Meredith C. dates from 2003. She’s both the largest and the most powerful of the Reinauer tugboats here: 7200 hp and 119′ x 40′
Note in the photo above two very different tugboats, Meredith and James E. Brown.
All photos this month, WVD.
It’s October 1, and travel on we do, in this case, back in time exactly a decade. Waterford was still recovering from Hurricane Irene, and farther upriver, that recovery would go on for at least half a decade.
Reinauer Twins was recently completed, and WTC1 had a long ways to go.
This 1929 trawler was patrolling the waters over by the Statue. This has to be one of the best government boat-to-yacht conversions I’ve seen. Fred tug44 profiled it here.
Beware the arm monster that lurks below. Who knows . . . it could have been a very hungry mermaid or her sister Sedna approaching the unsuspecting kayaker . . .
This beautiful bar, which did need some cleaning up, disappeared
when Binghamton met its crusher fate. The process also was hastened by Irene.
Pride of Baltimore II passed the Statue, as did
this unnamed yawl keeping some water
on its starboard rail. I never did figure out what yawl this was.
There’ll be a part B. Guess which vessel had this helm.
All photos, a decade ago, by WVD.
Unrelated, have you seen this footage taken by a sailing drone inside Hurricane Sam?
I’m on a short gallivant, but I have no shortage of sixth boro photos, mostly of tugboats engaged in commerce. Sometimes I look for meetings, and interesting (how ever that’s defined) ones are best. Like here…. Kristin and Kimberly,
B. Franklin and Dylan Cooper,
Mary H and Joyce,
Reinauer Twins and Pokomoke,
R/V Ocean Researcher (a multirole survey vessel [aka an exotic] for the offshore energy sector) and Emery Zidell,
and Fort McHenry and Philadelphia.
Then sometimes there are more than two at a time that can be framed in a shot, like here, Elk River, Paula Atwell, Chem Bulldog, Kirby, and B. Franklin . . .
More Bulldog soon. All photos yesterday, WVD.
There’s lots of lifting capacity here, but no towing or pushing capacity.
Philadelphia passes the Manhattan skyline solo.
From the west, Justine and Jonathan head for a job.
Magothy passes Helen Laraway, Cape Lookout, and Lois Ann L. Moran.
There’s a progression here . . . more tugboats in this photo than in the previous . . .
See the three guys . . .
here? I wonder who they are.
Yesterday a hearing had been scheduled in US Bankruptcy Court, and I suppose some report on that is forthcoming . . .
All photos, WVD.
Marjorie B. McAllister is one of those tugs that confused me when I first started paying attention. Below the house is down, and
and here the hydraulics have raised it up to look over Bulkmaster.
Ava M. McAllister‘s elegant lines are shown off as she assists a tanker to the Arthur Kill.
Cohoes on the Hudson River was the launch site of Mary Turecamo, the last tugboat to be built there.
Thomas D. Witte originally had a telescoping wheelhouse to fit under bridges on the Erie Canal and elsewhere, but I’ve never seen photos of that superstructure.
Ever sharp-looking 2006 Pegasus goes to a job.
The veteran Ellen McAllister escorts in a tanker. I’ll do a tanker post here one of these days soon, maybe later this week.
Capt. Brian heads eastbound on the KVK to a job.
Pathfinder is rarely seen light, but here she heads over to pick up the TUP at the trash transfer station.
Twins . . . at the 10-year mark . . . looks to need some TLC.
Here was Twins a minute earlier, coming out of a busy but typical traffic pattern on the KVK. I count five tugboats besides Twins.
The mighty Patrice powers her way east to pick up a job. Note the crew aboard Chem Singapore.
And to end this post, which of course could go on and on, the 4610 hp Doris powers along a container barge from one NY/NJ container port to another, a local example of short sea shipping.
All photos, WVD.
The challenge here is to have clear photos and lights. Evening Star with B. No. 250 starts us off,
Jean Turecamo is on assignment with a barge,
Reinauer Twins heads back for the Kills,
TRF Memphis waits in Stapleton anchorage,
Mount St. Elias departs her barge,
and Alice Austen, usually the wee hours ferry, runs early.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Another day I went out and lots of Reinauer boats were around, like Gracie M., which I’d not seen up close. Launched in the second half of 2016, she’s the fourth of their Twins series and the newest vessel in the fleet. Here’s the first Twins post I did and here’s another where she appears.
Curtis has slightly less hp than Gracie M and follows the B. Franklin line.
Christian came by; at 7200 hp and dimensions of 118′ x 40′, she’s a big boat.
Here’s Christian in profile.
Zachery is one of the oldest in the fleet, built at Matton up near the Canal, and formerly a Mobil tug.
Now that we have a few different classes already in this post, you can see that Dean, like Gracie M, follows the Twins class.
B. Franklin, mentioned earlier, spawned Curtis, so to speak.
And here’s another slightly different angle on Gracie M.
The photo below I took in Auguast 2006. Subtle differences are visible in the background, like the color of the cranes over in Erie Basin. The slightly different shade of bronze and red may be due to the fact that I used a different camera.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Bear with me here. Let’s go back to 1999. Nicole Leigh Reinauer was built in Alabama Shipyard to push a 135,000 brl barge. Look at the lines of this 118′ x 40 tug working with 7200 hp.
Ruth M. Reinauer is Senesco hull # 202, 112′ x 35′ and 4000 hp. She is the first of the “facet tugs.” As you can read in the link in the previous sentence, the design change was driven by easing the construction process of both tugs and double-skin barges. If the shape of the reminder of tugboats in this post seem odd to you, read this interesting article by Casey Conley with a title that alludes to the (now retired) F-117 fighter.
Laurie Ann Reinauer followed, same dimensions and power and hull # 203.
Reinauer Twins came out in September 2011, same basic dimensions by greater horsepower . . 4720.
I’m not sure what happened with hull#205, but #206 is B. Franklin Reinauer, 110′ x 33′ and 4000 hp.
By the way, there’s a LOT going on in the background of this photo, including what appears to be dredge Atchafalaya in dry dock.
Curtis is hull# 207, same numbers.
Haggerty Girls is hull# 208, same numbers.
Dean Reinauer is hull# 210, 112.2′ x 35′ and 4720 hp.
And that brings us up to date with respect to Reinauer facet tugs . .. it’s Dylan Cooper, operating less than a full year now, with the same numbers as Dean Reinauer.
Note that it was exactly five years ago that we were following the trials and tribulations of loading the previous Curtis and Dean Reinauer onto the heavy lift ship for West African waters. I’d love to see photos of those tugs five years on and working out of Nigeria. Does anyone out there have access to such?
For extensive documentation of many of these facet tugs during the building process, click here for the bulging albums created by Rod Smith at Narragansett Bay Shipping.
All photos of the handsome set of workhorses by Will Van Dorp.
Please read the El Faro Relief event notice at the end of this post. TODAY is the deadline to sign up.
It’s rained most of this week and last . . . and the forecast is the same for next week, but that just means sheltering (and wiping) the lens of the camera, as needed. I wonder if John Huibers knows something we need to pay attention to . . . but that’s another story.
For now, I noticed a lot of Reinauer boats the other day, like . . . the 1971 Matton-built Zachery Reinauer,
interrupted by the 1960 Blount-built Eric R. Thornton with the best logo in the sixth boro,
the 1984 Rayco Ship and Main Ironworks Franklin Reinauer,
the 1983 Cenac Shipyard-built Stephen B,
the 1967 Main Iron Works Jill Reinauer,
the 1966 Allied Shipyard Brian Nicholas,
1973 Jakobson Lucy Reinauer,
the 2010 G and S Marine Incorporated Crystal Cutler,
the 2011 Senesco Reinauer Twins.
and the 1978 Eastern Dawn, though I know not the builder. And it appears to the the 1947 Harbor II alongside, though I noticed that almost too late.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s been evading raindrops.
Anyone have more info on the previous Lucy Reinauer, the 1943 Odenbach Shipbuilding M/T? Birk has this photo, but I’d love to see some more and to know what became of her.
And here’s a note from the organizers of the El Faro fundraiser event: “On Sunday, May 15th from 12-2 at Club Macanudo we will be holding a fundraiser for the families affected by the loss of the El Faro. All proceeds will go to the Seamen’s Church Institute El Faro Relief Fund. Pricing is $75.00 per person with Beer and Wine being served. Email me at Goodwindmaritime@hotmail.com. Please see the attached flier (the link in the first sentence above).
Please send your checks as soon as possible. Make the checks out to Good Wind Maritime Services and mail to Good Wind Maritime Services 14451 25th Drive, Flushing, NY 11354″
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