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I’ve felt this before . . . this need to reconnect after having exercised an equal need to get away. Here was number 5. Getting back to that feeling of simultaneous but dueling centripetal v. centrifugal inclinations, might there be a term for that, besides extreme ambivalence? But I digress.
You might be able to identify the location above and below, and maybe the tugboat. Answer follows. I saw the sister tugboat–Cape Ann-in San Pedro here. The tanker is Yasa Pelican, now anchored off Long Beach NY.
Farther from my location, Silver Houston awaited an escort in.
A short distance away nicely illuminated Kristy Ann and RTC 80 were standing by over at IMTT.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who still has photos to process from my jaunt.
The tugboat with DBL 101 is Cape Canaveral and is in the Arthur Kill as of now.
A year ago, I was at the start of a long, compensated indulgence of restlessness.
I caught Gabby (?) trucking the other day.
Some time later, I caught Gabby returning to her base, as Grace did the same.
Maddie K was southbound in the Upper Bay.
Haggerty Girls was at anchor with RTC 81 as Kristy Ann pushed RTC 80, likely toward the Gate.
Coral Coast pushed Cement Carrier 5300 out of the East River and into the North.
Mister T made fast to the flotilla of scows off Bayonne.
Earlier T had come out from somewhere. Note the sea-miler Thomas in the background.
J. Arnold Witte, probably heading into the Kills with her scow, took the stern of Driftmaster,.
I still register my almost catching J. Arnold several times summer ’23 in Port Colborne.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
A decade ago, Capt. Log delivered vital juices to boats around the sixth boro. On this particular February morning, we traveled the North River to feed to Classic Harbor Line fleet, here Manhattan.
Then, we crossed over to Brooklyn to top off the iconic Water Taxi fleet. Capt Log then and Chandra B now, this fueling happens, rain or shine, sweltering or
glazed. This vessel’s namesake was city royalty. Water conveyance using the sixth boro to link the other boros has grown in the past decade.
Stephen Reinauer pushed RTC 80 northbound.
Later, just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, Stephen Scott headed down through the Highlands with RTC 42.
Line crunched her way up to the Newburgh dock and then
eased out out and
made its way up to Saugerties, while Doris returned light from a mission. That’s the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.
Farther upstate at lock E-20, Governor Roosevelt and a bevy of NYS Canal tenders hibernated, some frozen in
and other just drained and frozen. Tender #7 was later reefed. Tender #4 was electrified, used for several seasons, but will be moved (has been?) permanently ashore in Amsterdam NY. I’m not sure we ever figured out what the third tender was.
All photos and any errors, 10 years ago this month, WVD.
Related, Fred Tug44 recorded E-20 here, and I did by water here and by bicycle here.
Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
Here was the first installment; winter’s eve is a great time to do a part B, starting with Reinauer Twins.
B. Franklin left her barge at anchor while Dylan Cooper tackled the ground with RTC 108.
Ruth E. waited alongside RTC 102 the other morning when sunrise was obscured by mcloud cover.
Dace headed for the North River with RTC 83.
Jill brought in a light RTC 80 a few weeks ago.
Her color was hard to capture as the weird light before this past weekend’s storm system was moving in.
B. Franklin moved her barge out of the Kills,
as did Kristy Ann here under the same leaden skies as the winter hurricane approached.
Her appointment was somewhere up the North River. In the distance Alex McAllister goes to work.
Stephen here muscled her barge on a sunnier day
For favorable light, Matthew Tibbetts here passed the Statue on her way into the Kills.
All photos, any errors, WVD, with all these photos taken in the past month.
Franklin. Know the numbers on her or what are your best guesses?
Name the tug behind RTC 26?
Matthew Tibbetts 1969 92′ x 27′ 2000 hp
Name the tug with RTC 61?
Stephen 1970 100′ x 31′ 3000 hp
RTC 80?
Kristy Ann 2018 110′ x 31′ 4560 hp
RTC 82?
Curtis 2013 110′ x 33′ 4000 hp
Moving up to RTC 83?
Josephine 2018 110′ x 33′ 4560 hp
RTC 100?
Morgan 1981 120′ x 34′ 3900 hp
RTC 109?
Gracie 2016 112′ x 35′ 4720 hp
Franklin on a different day . . . And the numbers are 1984 81′ x 28′ 2600 hp
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s soon leaving the boro again.
Barry Silverton first came to the sixth boro five and a half years ago. Her twin Emery Zidell appeared here earlier this year, and i believe this is the first time to catch the ATB light and head on.
Roughly the same size, Haggerty Girls waits alongside as RTC 80 loads.
Mary Turecamo heads out to meet a ship. Mary Turecamo, Haggerty Girls, and Emery Zidell are all over 105′ and 4000 or more horsepower.
Margaret Moran here hangs close to a bulk carrier she’s escorting in.
Like Margaret above, Buchanan 12 is rated at 3000 hp and each has worked under the same name for the same company since coming from the shipyard. Buchanan 12 is a regular shuttling stone scows between the quarries up the Hudson and the sixth boro.
Franklin Reinauer has operated under that name since coming from the shipyard nearly 40 years ago.
I first saw Fort Point in Gloucester here over five years ago.
Joker seems to have become a regular in the sixth boro since this summer. She used to be a regular here as Taurus.
Known as Brendan Turecamo for the past 30 years, this 1975 3900 hp tug is getting some TLC up on the floating drydock.
All photos here where we leave it today, WVD.
Here’s a shot of a 1962 tug named Kristy Ann Reinauer I took in August 2008 near Howland Hook/Elizabethport
and another in Bayonne in December of that year.
By August 2015, she was waiting to be scrapped.
In late March the 2018 Kristy Ann anchored in the Upper Bay with her barge.
I can’t make out the barge name.
Here’s Kristy Ann light, just leaving the fuel dock.
The new tug is rated at 4560hp and the hull is 110′ x 33.’
Her twin, Josephine, I’ve yet to see close up.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I sometimes refer to a golden hour, but recently I heard someone talk about the “blue” hour, when the sun is still or already below the horizon. The light is dramatic in both, or through that whole continuum, as seen here.
Fort McHenry heads east . . .
as does Amy Moran, who technically is moving later than the blue to gold but still enjoys the subdued light.
RTC 80 is pushed westbound by
Dace Reinauer.
Treasure Coast waits with its barge amidst the industrial landscape of IMTT.
Viking (sometimes pronounced “vikin“) moves toward the AK with DBL 134.
Buchanan 12 heads for the fuel dock.
Ruth M. Reinauer takes her barge to the AK as well.
Evelyn Cutler moves her barge to the west, and
fleet mate Kimberly Poling crosses the strait to tie up at Caddells.
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Sheesh . . . someone forgot to sweep all the leftover letters from the garage floor after work.
All photos and lack of sweeping by Will Van Dorp.
Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, late October 2013.
Same bridge February 4 2014.
WYTL 65611 Line and Doris Moran passing under that same bridge February 4 2014.
Looking south toward Bannerman’s Castle late October 2013.
From not as close . . . but that’s Bannerman’s slightly off to the left.
Northside of Bear Mountain Bridge in October 2013 and
yesterday with Stephen Reinauer with RTC 80 north bound and
and Stephen-Scott with light barge RTC 20.
Doris meets the train.
Here’s looking south from Newburgh dock mid November a few years ago, and
here’s the same view from earlier this week.
All fotos of two of the faces of the Hudson River by Will Van Dorp.
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