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Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
From right to left then, that would be Allie B, Sarah D, and Weeks 533.
The two tugs assisted the crane barge that lifted a large electrical component onto a many-wheeled trailer inside the Red Hook container port. I’ll post my photos of the truck on my next truckster! post.
Well over a decade ago, I traveled up to Quincy MA to see Allie B move a long time piece of the landscape out of Quincy and over to the Black Sea port of Mangalia, Romania. What piece of landscape, you ask? It was the Fore River Goliath Crane, now painted yellow and set in a yard operated by Damen, although it seems it may now be inactive again.
Landing the crane at Red Hook yesterday, lifting the cargo, and departing all happened quite fast, less than 90 minutes from arrival to departure.
Happy solstice. Next stop summer.
All photos, WVD. Hat tip Cyclone Shark.
Let me interrupt my “out of the bayou” aka “regular programming” posts to a) announce my return to the sixth boro and b) update you on some exciting cargo that arrived in the sixth boro earlier this week. For the first 4 photos, I’m grateful to Benjamin Moll, since I had not yet returned here when he took those.
But first, do you remember 20 Barges, the post about a delivery of that many barges on a barge in June 2016? This is similar. Tradewinds’ Caitlin came into the sixth boro with barge Prometheus, seen below. Prometheus is a large 300′ x 100′ barge that came to the sixth boro at least once before and reported on here, back in spring 2019.
Two tugs also tagged along as cargo.
Eastern Dawn provided the assist.
I took the rest of these photos. By the way, as of today’s posting, Caitlin and Prometheus are still in town, over by the Weeks yard.
The new vessels will operate for the Haughland Group. More on Haughland tomorrow before I return to my Gulf of Mexico reporting.
Sarah D was assisting over at Weeks yesterday.
Many thanks to Ben for sharing his photos. Some previous posts with Ben’s photos can be seen here.
Any errors can be pinned on WVD, who provided the last four photos.
The Hudson treats the traveler with magical sights like these. The castle atop the lush riverbank is still there, but that tug–Viking–is no more. I’m not sure the disposition of DBL 134.
One morning soon after sunrise that summer 2017 I followed Delaware a ways up the Hudson before overtaking her.
Ernest Campbell had started working in the sixth boro by 2018, but its livery has changed since then.
On the last day of June, I took a ride on the Rondout and saw (l to r) Johannsen Girls, Fells Point, and Severn. Severn now works in the Pacific Northwest although still for Vane.
Tarpon was working in the boro, but since that time has been sold to interests on the West Coast, although I’m not sure she’s made it there.
In June 2019, I caught Stephen Reinauer heading out the Narrows to rejoin its barge;
North of the border, SLS aka Sheri Lynn S was tied up at a Picton ON dock.
June 2020 one morning, I spotted Kirby Moran meeting ONE Minato, and
Janet D returning to her Elizabethport base.
In June 2021, it’s Charles D passing Adventurer while standing by for an incoming ship.
And finally, Sarah D was eastbound here in the Kills.
All photos, WVD, who may have made some errors here with dates, having had his brain baked in the Louisiana heat.
The sixth boro offers many vistas. Enjoy a few, starting with Sarah D towing a deeply loaded scow past Bay Ridge.
At sunrise, Atlantic Salvor and Patrice McAllister head in the same direction for different tasks past Stapleton Heights.
Jonathan C works shipside on the ConHook range in the sixth boro
Julie Anne heads north or so inside the VZ Bridge. I should know what buoys are there, but . . . I don’t.
Sarah D again and here shipside in the KVK.
Mary Turecamo assists alongside a rust-flecked box ship.
Seeley pushes Weeks 250 eastbound in the Kills.
Kirby Moran, Patrice McAllister, and Gregg McAllister assist another box ship, as Marie J Turecamo heads in their direction.
Sea Fox moves a barge past Global terminal in Bayonne.
Navigator rotates clockwise away from St George and heads north.
And finally, Charles James stands by with a scow off Sunset Park.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Two sets of photos, taken three weeks apart exactly, seem a good way to bookmark the 5000 miles I drove during two-thirds of September. Yesterday I caught these sights of
Sarah D earning her keep and that of her people in the sixth boro industrial setting she’s comfortable in.
Back three weeks before, she was in Waterford showing the flag and
the skill of her operators in this playful push-off in the fresh water at the eastern end of the Erie Canal.
All photos, WVD, who has only these photos of the Roundup.
“Random Tugs 001” I posted in October 2007, 14 years ago. The motivation for such a post then, as now, comes from the observation that what passes you by, either on the water, the roadway, or even the sidewalk or hallway, is often just random. It’s foolish to look for meaning or significance where there is none. So here’s installment 339.
Genesis Glory, 1979, 3900 and 120′ x 34′
Janet D, 2015, 1320, and 67′ x 26′
Sarah D, 1975, 2000, and 90′ x 29′
HMS Justice, 2013, 2000, and 75′ x 30′
Sarah Ann, 2003, 2700, and 78′ x 26′
Charles D. McAllister, 1967, 1800, and 94′ x 29′
Durham . . . I’ve seen her a long time, I believe she’s operated by Ken’s Marine, but I don’t know anything more.
Kodi with Hayward back by the bridge. Kodi dates back to 1974, under 500, and 43′ x 15′, I think.
L. M. Caddell works near the floating dry docks. The upper wheelhouses at the Reinauer yard in the background, I’d guess Dace, Stephen, and JoAnne III. I’m sure I’ll be corrected. I don’t believe the shorter “upper house” to the right is installed on a tugboat. Now I’m really sure I’ll be corrected. As for simple specs on the Caddell yard tug . . . sorry.
Coho, 2008, 4000, and 111′ x 36′
All photos, WVD, and happy “fly the official flag day.“
Spring, for a few more weeks, means it’s no longer winter. Warmer temperatures bring mariners out, to clean glass,
to plan the docking procedure,
to flake out the lines,
to retireve the boom . . . although these boom guys have to be out all year round, as do all the crew above.
Spring temperatures just make it more pleasant to stay out,
on the way to work,
catching fresh air,
or just contemplating all the oceans this cargo vessel has already transited and will still transit in future months.
All photos recently, WVD.
Quick . . name those two tugs and barge?
Here’s that same barge, and the previously obscured third tug, Pegasus.
Is it possible that this is the first time I post photos of the 2015 Leigh Ann Moran? My blog index tells me it is.
A double assist gets her gently into the IMTT dock, Pegasus and Sarah D.
And when the job was done,
Pegasus returned to her base,
Sarah D did the same, and
Leigh Ann appeared to go take on some fuel.
Welcome Leigh Ann, a few years late for me.
All photos, WVD.
This title goes back more than 10 years. But I got some congested photos recently, so I dredge up an old title. Count the boats of all sizes here. Of course, foreshortening makes them seem much closer to each other than they really are. I count at least 12 vessels on the photo below, including some I had not noticed when I took it.
There are five here, and maybe two miles of separation between the two container ships.
Three operations were happening simultaneously in this stretch of the channel, and all were either stemming or moving very slowly.
Again, there’s lots of foreshortening here.
It may be exhilarating to get this close to a large ship, but if your engine stalls . . . stuff’ll happen really fast.
Here’s a different sort of “traffic” photo from august 31, 2008 . . . exactly 12 years ago. And it gives me an idea for a post. By the way, left to right, can you name at least half of the 12 boats at least partly visible here?
All photos, WVD.
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