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The first part of this was four months ago here. Follow the red flag.
Know the tug moving this RTC 81?
B. Franklin was the first of her class when she came out in 2012.
Some numbers are 110′ x 33′ and 4000 hp.
How about the approaching tugboat?
That red flag is really visible in this light.
RTC 107 is
pushed by the 2013 Haggerty Girls, the third of the B. Franklin class, same numbers.
All photos, WVD.
RTC 81 … 80,000 barrels capacity. RTC 107 … 100,000 barrels.
The light has been right the past few times I’ve seen Chele-C.
After seeing these winter draggers in the sixth boro for over a decade, they still amaze me; that it happens is surprising. Here Chele-C works the water alongside Barney Turecamo and barge Georgia.
She’s down by Cass Gilbert’s Brooklyn Army Terminal and alongside RTC 107.
The many backgrounds like Erie Basin and the Red Hook Grain Terminal behind her . . . all make her a sight to be seen.
All photos, WVD.
After about 3600 posts and almost 11 years, I’ve concluded my titling is based on a flawed assumption, i.e., nothing is random or generic except such things as our understanding. Another way of saying that is . . . everything has a specific context. A better title for this post would be something like tug/barge units between Kingston-Rhinecliff and Bear Mountain Bridges on such/such date with various sceneries related to autumn in the case. But, I’m not switching so bulky or to re-title everything, so on we go; life has no first drafts.
Having blabbered all that, I just have to say the Hudson Valley is a beautiful place, and the creations of our work in it serve to complement the natural beauty.
Consider Delaware and DoubleSkin 50.
Or Coral Coast and
Cement Transporter 5300.
Sarah Ann and Cape Wendy.
And Haggerty Girls with
RTC 107, with birds rounding Bear Mountain . . ..
Here’s a closing look.
All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp.
What gives the location away . . . if you’ve never seen Albany, is the prolate spheroid along the right side of the photo. Prolate spheroid? Think football. But actually that one is called the egg. It’s a performing arts center, and I’ve never been inside. Albany is the new home of Marie J. Turecamo.
You’ll often see a Reinauer unit parked here, this time it was Haggerty Girls with RTC 107.
Two of these Liebherr Mobile Harbor Cranes serve to transfer heavy cargoes.
Although Albany is over 120 miles from the Atlantic, ocean-going vessels call here regularly.
Road salt was the
cargo delivered by Siirt.
Mary Kay stands by; she previously appeared here as Mary Loy Turecamo.
Closing out this look at the port of Albany, a common barge cargo out of Albany is scrap metal.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will post again after finding reliable wifi.
First, thanks to Peter Eagleton, Philip T Feeney in the 1970s. I haven’t the heart to go see her in her current condition.
Next, Miss Ila, resplendent as a springtime cardinal!
Haggerty Girls nudging RTC 107 out of the Kills,
Helen Laraway passing TS Kennedy over by ConHook,
James William leaving Mister Jim over by the scows,
James E. Brown taking some rail cars past a wall of containers . . .
and finally . . . is that Durham setting up Willy Wall? Is that what it’s still called?
All photos by Will Van Dorp, except that first one supplied by Peter, whom I thank.
If you depart at 0400, there’s not much to photograph. Light beckoned as we approached Newburgh/Beacon.
I saw Mt. Beacon as I never had before;
ditto Storm King in sunrise that even dappled
the wave tops.
Once around Gee Point, we saw the statue (to the left on the ridge)
of Kościuszko’s, fortifier of West Point.
Once south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, passengers traveled upstream
for seasonal seesighting.
Scrap was sought.
Sloops sailed and
work boats waited their time.
More statues sighted, and
vessels waited their time.
And we had arrived at a place where at least two boros approached each other.
Will Van Dorp, who took these photos, is back in the boros for a while.
The first two photos–showing the newest and fastest (??) ATB to arrive in the sixth boro– were taken by Randall Fahry.
Tina Pyne is one immense mover, and Kirby 185-02 is one of two 578′ ocean going tank barges with 185,000-barrel capacity built by Gunderson Marine for Kirby. See her christening here.
Zachery Reinauer is a Hudson River-built tug from 1971 one of the last 10 built at Matton, and she looks as good today as new!
This was taken a few seconds later, and this
as she stands by, while Haggerty Girls finesses RTC 107 into position.
An occasional sixth boro visitor, it’s Rhea I. Bouchard with B. No. 284.
As I began this post with another photographer’s photo, so I’ll end. Thanks to Gerard Thornton for this rare catch of Ticonderoga assisting Pleon (?) into the Kills, possibly the last float for Pleon. That’s also Barry Silverton in the distance.
Thanks to Randall and Gerard for use their photo. All others by Will Van Dorp.
Given that “154” number, I had to check when I started this series. Although there’s a search window on this wordpress blog, it’s not always the most efficient. It took a while, but I started the series in October 2007 with this prototype, this post. A couple of things I notice right away include that photos don’t “enlarge” themselves when you click on them, I tended to use fewer photos back then, and IMHO the photo and text standards were just lower than now.
One of the goals of this series is to spotlight any new boats in town, from a very subjective PoV, but here’s one. It’s Pops, which I saw from a distance in the 8th photo in this post from two months ago. It seems Pops was built in 1961 and is registered south of Savannah GA.
Charles A used to be Lucinda Smith, but I can’t tell if she used to be THIS Lucinda Smith. I think so, but they’ve modified her a bit.
Here’s an example of a photo which would have sent me down the road to the west if I’d seen the background. Capt. Willie Landers . . . have seen her before, prominent mast, but in the background beyond HMS Liberty is the sixth boro’s latest triple screw . .. . Andrea. I only noticed that third tug in the background when I was home looking at it on the computer screen.
Can you identify this Reinauer ATB from this angle?
I guessed wrong . . . it’s Haggerty Girls with RTC 107.
Eastern Dawn . . . heads east with a fuel barge, and I forgot the barge she was pushing.
Larry J. Hebert works up here with various dredge projects.
And here’s my first photo of Vane’s Fort Schuyler with Double Skin 29. For outatowners, Fort Schuyler is currently part of the SUNY Maritime campus.
And finally . . it’s another shot of Pops.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
or I can call this Port of Albany 2, or better still Ports of Albany and Rensselaer. Albany’s fireboat Marine 1 has been on this blog here. Anyone know where it was built?
The port has not one but . . .
but two large cranes.
And bulk cargo is transferred through the port in both directions, whether it be solid or
dusty.
Over on the Rensselaer side, scrap seems to be a huge mover.
North of Port Albany is USS Slater, about which lots of posts can be found here. But it’s never occurred to me until now that the colors used by Slater camouflage and NYS Marine Highway are a very similar gray and blue!
Kathleen Turecamo (1968) has been in this port–135 miles inland–for as long as I’ve been paying attention, which is only a little over a decade.
This September, NYS Canal Corp’s Tender #3, which probably dates from the 1930s, traveled south to the ports of Albany and Rensselaer.
The port is also a vital petroleum center, both inbound and out.
With the container train traffic along the the Hudson and the Erie Canal, I’m only less surprised than otherwise that Albany-Rensselaer currently is not a container port.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s general info about the Port of Albany, although a lot of info there seems a bit out of date. For a blog that visits visits the ports of Albany and Rensselaer more regularly, check here. Here’s the port of Albany website.
And last but not least, check Mark Woody Woods’ broad sampling of ships heading to and from Albany-Rensselaer.
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