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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.
Today’s a good day to complete my Rondout Creek post, begun here.
Three bridges up the Creek leads you to Feeney’s Shipyard, a quite busy place. Last Saturday when I was there, two Vane Brothers boats and Johannsen Girls–the shipyard tug I believe–were docked. Click here for a photo of the Girls nine years ago when she was still called Dolomite II.
W. R. Coe awaits ice season.
It’s not only towing and towed vessels that you might see up there.
Over at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, a worthwhile stop, Clearwater is tied up, staying east of the 9W Bridge. That’s Mathilda on the landside of Clearwater.
Above and below, a Great Harbour 37 yacht.
Across the water and a ways back up the Creek, it’s wooden yacht Choctaw, which I’d have loved to see in its prime. Anyone know the story?
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who encourages you to stop in at the Hudson River Maritime Museum and buy tickets for solar-powered passenger vessel Solaris.
Here are posts one through five in this series.
Just a photo essay, Vane tugs and barges in the KVK through all the daylight hours today.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Kristin Poling 2006
5000 hp.
Severn 2008
4200 hp
CMT Otter 1980
1200 hp
Gulf Coast 1982
2400 hp
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has more to say . . . just not today.
I don’t care that it’s February, but the number of subsequent days with temperatures over 50 degrees in the sixth bor0 tells me it is spring–or has been.
Notice the difference between Severn and Fort Schuyler? Here proximity highlights the difference in height of the upper wheelhouse,
but Severn is of the 4200 hp class and fort Schuyler, the 3000.
Ah, the line and boom boats.
Joan is one of the Moran “giraffe” boats and see HR Otter?
She reminds me of the long gone Odin.
Here’s a closer-up of the HR Otter, a name that immediately conjures up Kenneth Grahame.
Some different pairs are possible here, and they’d be the same.
See the pair there?
a pair of hands. Is there a word for the painted design centered on the bow of some vessels, like figureheads but not?
Hope they clap for mardi gras!
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I considered calling this “random vessels,” since I haven’t used that title in a while, but here is a tighter focus for a few days: tugboats. Here I also randomize the backgrounds and seek out some vessels infrequently seen. Like the rare and exotic Shelby Rose and
Jay Michael and Vicki M and
Patricia with her racing stripes up against the gantry arms.
Wye River and James E. Brown here cross the south end of Newark Bay, where
Sandmaster has been tied up for (?) nearly a year now.
Sassafras did a circle in Erie Basin recently, and
Thomas, the Weeks tug, strode into town, picked up a barge and headed straight for Texas! The first time I saw Thomas was January 2009. Remember what memorable event splashed into the Hudson around the middle of that month?
Buchanan 12 here is light and seen from almost her prop wash. I hadn’t noticed the Boston registry before.
Quantico Creek stays local a lot, but Severn I don’t see much.
Here’s Tangier Island behind . . yes, Gerardi’s Farmers Market.
OK . . . that’s it for today. All photos by Will Van Dorp. More random tugs tomorrow.
Gramma Lee T Moran, 2002
Jay Michael and Mister Jim, 1980 and 1982
Mister T, 2001
Mister T again
Brandywine and Viking, 2006 and 1976
Kimberly Turecamo, 1980
Red Hook (a first on this blog) and Severn, 2013 and 2008
B. Franklin Reinauer, 2012
Shelby Rose, 1963
Hubert Bays, 2002.
All fotos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.
This is the first post in the fourth year of the blog, and I’m not telling much about the fotos. Tomorrow I’ll identify what I can. The onliest clue I’ll give is this: all fotos have been taken since November 26 sunrise, and all fotos but one were by tugster. Tomorrow I’ll identify the other photographer.
1. Which ship?
2. Which ship?
3. Which ship lies beyond Vane Brothers Severn?
4. What provenance?
5. Aboard which ship?
6. I actually do not know the name of this vessel or the significance of its colors. Maybe someone does?
All photos, WVD.
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