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The idea of recent posts in this series is to look at a single fleet.
As temperatures cool off, my perception is that demand for fuels rises, especially in the Northeast. Let’s look at the Reinauer fleet, starting with a light Nicole.
Haggerty Girls exited the KVK into the Upper Bay a few days back.
Ruth M. does the same here, likely returning to rejoin her barge.
Dean made for the East River
after having left the KVK minutes earlier.
Janice Ann enters the KVK from the Upper Bay.
Matthew Tibbetts heads for the Sound . . .
followed by Dace . . .
and then drops anchor beside Janice Ann.
who had been at the east end of IMTT a day or so earlier.
Christian waits with her barge before heading
somewhere in the Northeast.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who in the past has posted about these as bronze tugs.
What’s wrong with me that after all these years and thousands of posts I’ve still to do one focused solely on this boat!
She dates from 1970 and the long-lived Exxon fleet, and her lines are beautiful. So many of the dispersed Exxon fleet still toil on, especially in the sixth boro.
But Stephen . . . I’m not sure what she’s like to work on, but she always a pleasure to see for this bank sitter.
Excuse the blurry photo from September 3, 2006 . . . the tugboat race, I recall being astonished by the height from which the deckhand tossed the line, missing the cleat in this case. By the way, dimensions on the boat are 100′ x 31′ ….
Looking at the photos above and below has me wondering whether she’s had her pin arrangement modified in the 16 years between those two photos.
She came into IMTT the other morning to give Ruth M an assist.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve mentioned before here that I used to freshwater fish, a lot. Canoe fishing at daybreak was the best, although there were days when nothing seemed alive in places where other days the waters fizzed with life and I could have several meals of fish in the boat before most people were awake. The same could be said about sitting in certain places along the sixth boro. This happened the other morning. First Pelham left the dock.
Just east of the salt pile she passed Treasure Coast, which was just more than stemming at two or so knots.
After pirouetting for a while just off Atlas Yacht Club, she spun back eastward and I thought she was going to refuel. Adjacent to Treasure Coast are ATBs Galveston and Ruth M. Reinauer. I was introduced to US Shipping back in 2008 with their ITB Philadelphia here, here, and here.
And we’ll pick things up there tomorrow.
All photos, WVD.
Related: File this under the “I heard that but didn’t process it at the time” heading: US Shipping Corp was acquired by Seacor almost a year ago. Seacor is quite the diverse shipping company. I recall last late summer was busy, and I didn’t come to understand that fact until now. US Shipping has maintained their white/red/green livery.
Tangentially related: Want to see a tugboat “constructed” in a 10-minute video? Check out this video from Ocean Groupe from Canada.
Clearly unrelated but FUN: Check out this live-eel barge . . . it transports live eels! Thx, Phil.
Name that tug? She’s 91.5′ x 26.8′ and used to be called Traveller. Answer follows.
Part of a defacto ghost fleet around the sixth boro, it’s J. George Betz, and mostly invisible beyond, Rhea I. Bouchard. J. George is longer, stronger, and newer.
Also in the dry dock a week or so back, it’s Emily Ann. My favorite story of this tug dates from a time she was called Cabo Rojo.
Lincoln Sea was featured in my second ever tugster post, back in November 2006. In the background, that looks to be Mount St. Elias.
I usually see Captain D alongside a DUP barge, but behold, in good light, she’s light. That’s my acronym, DUP.
Ditto . . . Robert Burton.
Ruth M. Reinauer was just a year old when it appeared here in 2009. Ruth is 112.9′ x 35′.
Ellen McAllister . . . what more can I add to what I’ve written already about this former USN YTB. I know three of her dozen or so siblings, ex-USN YTBs, include Robert E., Timothy, and Stacy.
Miriam and Doris Moran follow along a ship, ready to put their force where needed when needed.
More fleetmates to Captain D and Robert Burton above, it’s Paula Atwell and Pathfinder . . . all unusually light.
And finally . . . that tug in the top photo . . it’s Marie J. Turecamo.
All photos, WVD.
Alongside Pilot No. 1 New York, the current one, it’s the newest-in-name vessel in the sixth boro . . .
Meaghan Marie, ex–Kathleen Turecamo, has become part of the same green & buff fleet as Joseph John.
Here’s a photo I took of her in port of Albany, September 2013.
A different use of green . . . Vane’s Philadelphia, a 4200 hp tug launched in 2017.
A slightly darker buff, it’s Matthew Tibbetts. What I didn’t realize until I looked it up just now, Tibbetts was launched as Dann Ocean’s first boat to carry the name Ocean Tower. More on that later.
It’s always a good day when I catch two Reinauer tugboats together, Haggerty Girls (4000 hp) and Ruth M. Reinauer (4720 hp), with a deeply loaded RTC
Alex puts its 4300 hp to bear on Viktor Bakaev.
I mentioned Ocean Tower earlier . . . here’s the current tugboat by that name. It’s about a decade newer, one-third more horsepower, and 15′ longer, and 5′ broader than the earlier boat, now Tibbetts.
Kristin Poling began life as Chesapeake, an early version of Patapsco but longer, broader,and with a full 5000 hp.
And to conclude, examples of the classes of the two largest tractor tugs in the sixth boro . . . Capt. Brian A. and
JRT, each approaching their next job.
All photos very recently, WVD, who has more tugboat race photos from previous years . . .
Here from 2013 was the first in the series. Since then I’ve done another series called “tale of the tape,” borrowing from boxing analysis or automotive competitions. Consider today’s and tomorrow’s post as something similar to what you’d see and read if a car magazine compared a 2020 C8 Corvette with a Tesla Cybertruck, or a 1969 Karmann Ghia convertible, or even a 1948 Willys Overland Jeepster . . . more on that later.
The photo below I use with permission from Fred Miller. It carries Oneida name boards; Oneida is the same vessel as Grouper, the 1912 boat I’ve posted so much about over the years.
Ruth M. Reinauer dates from almost a century later and could not be a more different boat, built for an entirely different mission. They are apples and oranges, you might say, dogs and cats. I’ll let you enumerate the differences and similarities for yourself.
Thanks to Fred for the top photo; the bottom one I took.
Here’s a calendar’s worth of harbor tugboat shots, starting with Sarah D., looking brand new although built in 1975, her colors matching the shades of Manhattan building materials in the background.
Brian Nicholas (1966) moves into the Upper Bay, her blue repeated in the sky and water and more.
Buchanan 12 (1972) heads down bound and then
back upbound, day after day and year after year. It’d be interesting to quantify the tons of aggregates she’s moved out of Hudson Valley quarries.
A Blount-Barker product from 2002, Brooklyn moves from Brooklyn over to Bayonne.
HMS Justice is one of the newer boats in this post, launched in 2012.
Kristy Ann is the newest boat in this post, having arrived here last year to replace the nameplate of a boat from 1962.
James E. Brown, here assisted by Janet D, both 2015 products of Rodriguez Shipyard, brings a daily load of rail cars across the harbor.
Ruth M.Reinauer (2008) heads back to her barge.
The 1979 CMT Pike . . . I can’t not think of Odin when I see her.
JRT Moran (2015) rounds the KV buoy with Kristy Ann in the distance.
We started with Sarah D and we’ll end with her.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning through photos in the blog library, not overthinking it.
January. Gunhilde Maersk with James, Kirby, and JRT plus Miriam Moran. the year of the 1200-footers aka ULCVs becoming commonplace in the sixth boro.
February. Ocean Henry Bain serves as a safety boat during the ice canoe race I documented in my Carnavalons posts.
March. Cerro Grande here escorted a Caribbean-bound LNG ship, one of all the Panama Tugs posts
April. When I saw this section of drained canal bed between O-6 to O-7 in Oswego, I thought the work’d never get done before the season began, but I was wrong. Of all my 2018 NYS Canals posts, this and this posted with the greatest urgency.
May. Reliable pushed seaward by Lucy H. As of today, Reliable lies under the sea gathering fishes and entertaining Davy Jones near Shinnecock.
June. Jay Bee V headed out on a high-profile mission. Has she returned to the sixth boro yet?
July. I missed Rosemary‘s christening because that’s what happens when you don’t look at your calendar. First come first serve for a few tugster lighthouse calendars. Send me an email with your mailing address. As I said, I ran a few extra when I made up my Christmas gifts.
August. Kimberly Selvick with AEP barges was one of the treats I saw in Calumet. This day south of Chicago planted a seed of curiosity about the Lake Michigan/Mississippi River link I hope to be able to explore in 2019. Many thanks to Christine Douglas.
September. J. W. Cooper delivers a pilot in Port Colborne at the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal. Because I hadn’t a satisfying enough fix from the canal earlier, I returned there in October.
October. One Stork, a pink ULCV, came into town. It wasn’t her first visit/delivery, but it was the first that I caught. She’s currently in the sixth boro.
November. Morton S. Bouchard IV rounds Shooters Island light, Bouchard celebrated a big anniversary this year.
December. Ruth M. Reinauer heads west into the Kills in December, the start of heating oil season.
And that’s it for the year, time for me to securely lock up Tugster Tower and prepare myself to meet 2019. The older I get, the more profound is my awareness that although I make many plans for a new year, I might not see the end of it. It’s just how it is. Every day is a blessing. Last year had my own personal ultima thule; I pray that 2019 brings its new ones.
Thanks to everyone who read, commented, and assisted me in 2018. Happy and constructive new year day by day to you all.
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.
I love the clear air of winter days, better to see details, like the horizontally mounted ladder and all the trucks in the background moving containers at the Global Terminal. See how many trucks, i.e., tractors, you count in this post.
And more trucks, as Erin McAllister stands by.
Again, see the trucks, as Scott Turecamo passes. And you wonder why I don’t do even more truckster posts.
I happened to be down by South Street Seaport’s row of ships the other day and noticed W. O. Decker there alongside Wavertree.
And then lots more traffic passed on the East River, like Ruth and
Helen and
James.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. I counted around 18–20.
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