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A couple days ago in the 77 Days post (which I’ve since learned added up to 79 days) I saw a mariner I know on the boro on a Maersk container vessel.
Most of the time though I don’t know the folks I see working on the water. The folks in yellow and orange coats below are likely longshoremen mustering before ruunning in and driving all the vehicles out that are to be discharged here . . . in the sixth boro.
Note the mariners below preparing the messenger line down to the tugboat.
The deckhand retrieves it, makes it to the tugboat, signals,
and the ONE crew move forward to standby at the forward mooring area.
Meanwhile, the deckhand secures the line.
All photos, WVD.
Hat tip to the people out on the boro in all kinds of weather.
One day in April, I noticed five ROROs in the sixth boro at the same time.I’m think the volume of ROROs in the port has increased. Anyone have substantiation of that hunch?
Contemporary ROROs look quite similar one to the other, but a careful point by point comparison reveals differences. Look at them here.
Hoegh Chiba was first in this line up, and
Amethyst Ace was next. The Ace vessel was built in 2008; the Hoegh in 2006.
On a different day, Glovis Companion arrived.
She was built in 2010.
Wallenius is often credited as the company that originated the roll on-roll off concept,
Nicholson Transit was moving cars around the Great Lakes a few decades before that. Click on the photos above and below for context.
Previous Glovis vessels on this blog can be found here, and other ROROs here.
All color photos by Will Van Dorp.
In the continuing project of posting a sampling of the variety of vessels calling in the sixth boro, here’s a variation on the RORO profile. Click here to see the many previous RORO posts. Several minutes before I took this photo, I saw it and couldn’t quite understand what I was seeing.
It’s about the location of the bridge, much farther toward the stern than typical. It might be a more comfortable ride, but view forward is decreased, I imagine. Maybe this is the immediate future of the design.
I wish I’d gotten a bow-on shot. She is not large–460′ loa, but she’s on the run Grey Shark used to do, at least this voyage.
Here she is juxtaposed with Meredith
It is a new profile, built in Japan in 2010.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a nagging sense of seeing this RORO recently but unable to find any previous photos. Maybe it was one of those few times I was near the water but sans camera. It happens.
I don’t know who to attribute this photo to, but it is said to show a laker crossing Lake Superior with a deckled of automobiles, mid-1930s. I wonder when automobiles were last transported on the Great Lakes in this fashion . . . Anyone?
RORO . . I don’t know how long ago this acronym entered English. This one has a particularly interesting name, although
the naming convention for all NYK ROROs uses mythological references and then the “last name” LEADER. Aphrodite comes from Toyohashi Shipbuilding.
Click here for an informational site on ROROs. Now I have to admit that –in spite of many references online to this vessel as a RORO–it’s more likely a PCTC . . . pure car and truck carrier. It arrived in port yesterday, and even now is already back to sea, headed for Europe.
Technically, Blue Marlin is a FLOFLO . .. as in “float on and float off.” After the New York loading experience, which still puzzles me in its apparent plethora of problems, Marlin might be dubbed “flofloflofloflo ….”
The next set of fotos show closers-ups of the cargo deck and cradles. Blue Marlin–see technical info here— was launched in 2000 from CSBC in Kaohsiung, and “remodeled” a few years later in Ulsan.
(double click to enlarge) here’s an even closer-up.
Judging by the depth marks on the portside gray bulkhead, I’m guessing that last week about 20′ of water covered the load deck.
Maybe this week, this FLOFLO will SO (sail off), finally SISO.
Some reflections on ROROs can be found on Deep Water Writing and Kennebec Captain, here and here. Has anyone seen reflections/reportage from crew aboard a FLOFLO?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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