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How about a new day, a new month, a new year, and a new hull in the sixth boro! Can you recognize the profiles sans color?
As it passes Norton Point inbound, you begin to make out the color.
Once well inside Gravesend Bay–that’s the west end of Coney Island in the background–the colors increase in their vividness.
Here is the moment when the new ferry,
Sandy Ground, actually enters the Upper Bay portion of the boro, where she will work, if ferry JFK is her model, until the year 2078!! That’s 56 years from now, and I’ve no clue what the sixth boro will look like–or what vessels will traffic it– 56 years from now. Here‘s more context on Sandy Ground, Staten Island.
Once she was inside the VZ Bridge, I ran from South Beach, where I got the photos above, to Fort Wadsworth, and caught Margaret Moran sidling up to Sarah Dann.
I first thought the final portion of the tow would be Margaret‘s, but I was wrong;
while Susan Miller provided a close-up platform, Margaret then delivered
crew to the new ferry, and
lines came across from Doris Moran, the tailboat for the last several miles to Caddell‘s , where the protective gear will be removed and the ferry prepped for service.
By this hour, the fog had cleared just enough that the iconic skyline of Brooklyn and Manhattan was blotted out, giving the illusion that the tow is still at sea.
All photos December 31 morning by WVD, who likes illusions and unreality sometimes.
Healthy, harmonious, hard-working, hearty 2022 from all of us at tugster tower.
And if you’re not going on a First Hike today, check out Trevor’s Seapixonline from New Zealand and beyond. Tell him tugster suggested it.
For some other high profile tows done by Sarah Dann recently, click here.
I’m posting early today and can’t guarantee I’ll be able to move this on to FB the next few days because I’m traveling. So, sign up to get new posts straight to your email. Also check the note at the end of this post.
Here’s one that got away: the tug to the right is the 1975 Mary Emma, ex-Evening Light. I’d been waiting in St George hoping she’d move from Mariner’s Harbor eastbound. Finally I gave up and boarded the ferry. Partway to Whitehall, I noticed she was headed east, right past where I’d been. Once in Whitehall I boarded the next ferry south, hoping to get photos near the St George side. It’s not a great shot and it would have been if only I’d stayed put . . . but life is full of as many missed opportunities as fulfilled ones.
Sarah Dann (1983) recently made a big move of a crane from Wisconsin to Maine, a longer trip by water than by land. Two years ago, she made another long tow with components for a refinery.
Franklin Reinauer (1984) has been based in the boro and carried that name since she came out of the shipyard.
Osprey (1961) is a recent newcomer to the sixth boro.
Christian Reinauer (2001) is the most powerful of this batch, with 7200 hp moving her payload.
A year ago Eastern Dawn (1978) was still painted white.
Andrea (1999) came here without the upper wheelhouse.
Thomas D. Witte (1961) and James E. Brown (2015) pass each other in the Back Channel.
Diane B (1980) seemed to drift through this part of the channel the other day.
And finally, I believe, Morton S. Bouchard IV (2004) is the only remaining Bouchard tugboat over at the stack in Stapleton. When will her transformation to Jesse Rose begin?
All photos, WVD, who has left the boro for a while.
By the way, a few days ago I made up some 2022 calendars, of which 17 are left for sale. I used a subjective process for selection this time. More details later but if you’re interested, email me your interest and your address. Send no money at this time, please, but prices will likely be up a tad because, of course, politics.
Excuse the duplication here, but since this was a long voyage, I’ll repeat some of the early shots and add new ones farther down the page. A Great Lakes mariner took this is Manitowoc on May 29.
Jeremy Whitman got these as the tow left Manitowoc on May 30.
Jake Van Reenen got this in Clayton NY. Note that the tail boat above, Candace Elise, has been switched out. Now below it’s Molly M I.
René Beauchamp got this in the South Shore Canal, near Montreal.
A week later almost, Jack Ronalds got the next three shots at the Strait of Canso and its lock, separating Cape Breton from the mainland of Nova Scotia.
Many more of Jack’s photos can be seen here.
The tail boat here is Svitzer Montreal.
And finally, posted yesterday on St. Lawrence Seaway Ship Watchers FB by Stephen Graves, who stated the photo was not his, the tow arrives in Kittery ME, home of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Bravo to all the crews and pilots and photographers!
Jeremy Whitman took this photo of the big blue Konecranes #38 crane. Tail boat is Candace Elise, prior to 2015 known as Stephen Dann, as here. OXBO is managing the transport.
They departed Manitowoc a week or so ago and are now in a very wide portion of the Saint Lawrence, downstream from Gaspé Peninsula. Manitowoc, among other things, is the western terminus of SS Badger.
Jake Van Reenen took this photo as they passed Clayton. Molly M I has replaced Candace Elise. The barge supporting the barge is Cashman Equipment Corp.’s JMC 253, with dimensions of 250′ x72′ x16′ deck barge.
René Beauchamp got this shot –and more on FB Seaway News-Voie maritime Infos–of the tow. His vantage point over the South Shore Canal portion of the Saint Lawrewnce Seaway was the Cartier Bridge. ETA for the tow at the mouth of the Piscataqua and Kittery ME is June 17. I look forward to photos from there.
Harry McNeal moved deck barge 1962 with crane away from the IMTT docks the other day,
Face on, the crane appeared to be straight up.
Allan Seymour caught this Denali with tank barge DBL 104 upbound on Penobscot Bay yesterday. If I have the right number, DBL 104 has a capacity is just over 105,000 barrels.
I spotted Paul Andrew with the recycling scow DS 171 heading for the Arthur Kill.
The destination for this is PS&S/Visy Paper.
Erich A. caught Emery Zidell up the Hudson in the notch of 83,000 bbl tank barge Dr. Robert J. Beall.
James Turecamo meets the Centerline unit up in the scenic Hudson River below Albany.
And I saw Eastern Dawn aka Toula pushing two
mini-barges.
The minis, one at a time, carry dredge spoils from the depths of Gowanus Canal. Prior to this project, I’d never seen mini barges, or scows.
All photos, as credited: Jeremy, Jake, René , Erich, and WVD.
Unrelated, the highest bid for tug Grouper as of this morning is $26.00.
Click here for the previous 85 posts with this title. Lead photos today come from former owner of this push boat in West Burlington, Iowa.
The vessel, then known as Izona, has since traveled the Interstates and two-lanes to Highlands, NJ, towed by the much-loved Peterbilt of John Zook, of Lewisburg, PA.
Maybe you saw them on the roads, or since then, at a marina in Highlands NJ?
“Mister __” is a common name for tugboats. Here, from a secret salt is Mister C.
Hobo has appeared here before, but never with this outstanding fendering created here. Hobo is a 1953 product of Caddell Dry Dock. She’s now living the good life, in the hands of Donna and Charlie Costa.
Emery Zidell is a Centerline tugboat, currently in the sixth boro. She’s the older twin of Barry Silverton, a more frequent visitor to the boro. Photo comes from Capt. Anon E. Mous. Zidell is married to Dr. Robert J. Beall.
And finally, currently underway in the western center of Lake Erie, it’s Sarah Dann, pushing this huge crane on a barge from Manitowoc WI to Kittery ME, almost 3000 nm.
Get ready to see Sarah Dann and “Big Blue” in the Welland Canal and Saint Lawrence. You might see them passing Strait of Canso too.
Below, Jeremy Whitman caught a fabulous photo of the unit passing the 10th Street lift bridge in Manitowoc WI. Thanks much, Jeremy.
Here’s part of the story from John Buellesbach and MKE Marine Reports in “Around Wisconsin” “Konecranes of Finland partnered with Illinois-based Broadwind to build several large cranes for the U.S. Navy at the Broadwind Heavy Fabrications yard in Manitowoc, former site of Manitowoc Shipbuilding. The first, a portal jib crane for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was completed in early May. It weighs 2.7 million pounds, has a lifting capacity of 140 tons, and stands about 160 feet tall. This custom designed crane incorporates unique features that allow it to be operated on the multiple rail section sizes, straight or curved, located at the naval base.”
ETA in New Hampshire is around the 18th. Track them on AIS.
Thanks to Jeremy, John, the Powells and the Costas, Great Lakes mariner, and other nameless contributors.
By the way, does anyone have photos to share here of CMA CGM Marco Polo and from the same day, Kurt J. Crosby?
Sarah Dann left the sixth boro the other day with
this deckload on CBC Savannah.
Some questions I had were . . . what and where to?
Inquiring ducks wanted to know, and yes, this is the opposite scenario of “little loquacious birdie.”
Modular structure for a refinery perhaps? As of this posting, she’s nearly off Charleston, South Carolina.
Photos and curiosity by Will Van Dorp.
What caught my attention was the towed side-by-side barge arrangement in the KVK,
GL 65 and 66,
with Stephanie Dann hanging off the stern.
Once between Stapleton and Bay Ridge, the tow was re-made and
and Sarah Dann took the two out the Narrows.
Forty-eight hours later, they are still southbound, almost 350 nautical miles out of the sixth boro and off Cape Hatteras, and still southbound.
So I have this question . . . so since there are southbound train songs, why do I know no southbound tow songs.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Robert E. McAllister has quickly become my favorite tugboat in the sixth boro. I know how fickle that sounds . . . But here, muscling Victorious Ace around under cover of darkness, Robert E. is incomparable.
Of course, Margaret Moran nudging in Carnival Glory is no slouch either.
As many in the sleeping city have eyes closed, not everyone does. Mary Alice (I think) grabs scows by the pair.
Sarah Dann and scow have invisible bottoms as WTC1 has no top. I hope to put up some nekkid hull pics soon. To see nekkid car carrier hulls like Victorious Ace, click here.
Behold Discovery Coast, sleepless in the sixth boro.
Ellen, . . . whom I’ve long admired and still do, I’m happy to meet
your sister. According to this 2004 article, McAllister had at that time converted over a dozen of these.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
It felt like spring this past week along the Arthur Kill, where Sarah and Shannon Dann gathered, maybe their crews spoke of fleetmate Allie B now approaching Gibraltar. But the the boats, what secrets might they have shared?
Responder was light and downbound; Rowan M in pushgear upbound. When they met, I heard a hailer and Responder turned 180 and followed Rowan M back toward the east.
Later, Shannon, awaiting orders, stayed fast to barge Prysman 1 , while in the distance, Sunny and Rolf Williams, just forward of an unidentified K-Sea tug, delayed, as if asleep in a double bed.
Meanwhile this amorous couple weren’t waiting for anything . . . in March, things could turn too quickly turn cold again.
Maybe Cupid really did operate from the unidentified boat that sped past.
Unrelated: see this article from the University College of London on mermaids assisting seismologists detect potential earthquakes on the seabed. Really!!! Mermaid, in this case, expands to Mobile Earthquake Recorder in Marine Areas by Independent Divers. Now spring, pairings, Cupid, and deep earthquakes . . . might they actually be related?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
When New Amsterdam became New York, it must have been easy: just run up a new flag and defend it with cannon. RSGuskind documents what happens on buildings in his faded industry post.
This tug used to be known as Exxon Empire State, but all that’s left of the previous identity is raised metal. So grind it off or lavish on the paint? A friend named Mary had a similar dilemma when she divorced the husband whose name she had had tattooed on her back.
To mask the raised metal that previously announced this vessel as Fidelio (sibling of Faust), more than 10′ of plate was cut and the structure masked by adding a lifeboat assembly to mark its transformation to Patriot.
Sarah Dann‘s renaming is well-executed, but I’m wondering why she’s no longer Stephanie Dann. What sibling rivalry underlies this?
I just finished a book that involves a tugboat Rose renamed as Babe. Check it out here.
Photos, WVD.
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