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Back in the sixth boro . . . it’s a head-on shot of Thomas J. Brown, with multiple icons of the harbor behind her.
Mister T pushes some loaded barges out east beneath the 59th Street Bridge in the photo below,
and tows twice as many empties westbound in the next photo.
Mary Turecamo shifts deck cargo barge New York from Red Hook over toward the other container ports of NYC/NJ, keeping a good number of trucks off the roads and bridges.
Meredith C. Reinauer moves RTC 150 out in the direction of the Sound.
Philadelphia pushes fuel barge Double Skin 503 into the Kills, over to where Ellen McAllister assists Genesis Liberty out of her IMTT berth.
Then Genesis Liberty moves GM 11105 around and outbound.
Robert Burton, usually pushing compacted garbage barges, the other day was doing
rock scow duty.
And rounding out this post, Ava M. McAllister, still in her first half year of working in the sixth boro, heads out to escort in a vessel just in from sea.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp.
This Bob Hill OT/B creation juxtaposes well with the ever-changing skyline of lower Manhattan, as seen from the East River.
Meredith C. is timing her eastbound trip with a fair tide through the Gate.
Catching the same tide, it’s Evening Star.
Farther SW, Gracie M. makes her way around Bergen Point.
Evening Breeze is a Bouchard new build, only recently arrived here.
On this sunny morning, Janet D pushes a Hughes construction barge past
an inbound scrap bulker.
And in closing, notice the soft spring colors of the trees along the KVK as
Dylan Cooper pushes her barge into the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose energy level is rising along with the outdoor temperatures.
Lucy Reinauer, according to Birk’s site–has an interesting history, acquired by one of her owners from lottery winnings.
She came off the ways in 1973, from Jakobson, source of many older boats in the sixth boro.
Franklin is a few years older, built in Louisiana, and formerly called Ocean Tower and Matthew Tibbett‘s, both names now used on other boats.
Meredith C. Reinauer is a 7200 hp behemoth, here pushing
RTC 150.
All photos by Will Van Dorp
Maersk Taiyo shows how to park 4000 cars simultaneously: slow, lower,
and let out scope. Lower New York Bay serves as parking lot for the beast with global habitat. Btw, “taiyo” means “sun” in Japanese, I believe.
Barge RTC 150 and Meredith C. Reinauer parks on the hook off the Upper West Side of Manhattan,
close-up of the upper pilothouse,
and a little farther south, barge Doubleskin 55 and Patapsco.
All photos, Will Van Dorp.
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