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Radar helps when you can’t see in the fog, but
even on a clear day, you can’t see the crew operating this 2013 2000 hp tugboat, or its history . . . how it got to become a fixture in the sixth boro.
Ditto this 1994 tug, operating with 3000 hp. Here Kimberly Poling is docked, and the outside viewer knows no reason why.
Brian Nicholas was launched under a different name before Nixon was elected. If only one could be privy to all the conversations and dramas even happened aboard.
Mister Jim was based for 30 years in the Gulf of Mexico, although without looking at her logbooks, who knows where all she worked.
Ellen McAllister has the distinction in this post of having been launched before Nixon was elected also AND worked both sides of the Atlantic, and I would suspect she’s appeared on this blog more times than any other of the machines here, but still . . . even I, what do I know about her quirks and feats?
Helen Laraway, unless I tell you, would you know that she was working before Kennedy was elected POTUS? And with rehabbing and repowering . . . she’s as good as new, I believe, and working hard for a 63-year-old.
James E. Brown is the youngster of this post, built in a fishing village originally called Coq d’Inde, now anglicized.
Finally, back in the fog . . . It’s Stephanie Dann, a product of the Carter era. As to these dates and use of POTUSes as time references, it’s not political, but you’ll see my point here in tomorrow’s post.
And yes, all photos and info here by Will Van Dorp.
Weeks 533 has credibility: she lifted the USAir Flight 1549 Airbus A320 out of the Hudson back almost 11 years ago and more. So the other day when I was on my way to “yon” and saw her “hither” and she was working with Susan Miller, I decided to linger and inquire.
That’s when I noticed the pier 11 Wall Street float was partially submerged, and a heavy lift crew was aboard securing cables.
Besides that crew, one tug and Susan Miller, even the Green Lady was craning her neck overtop the ferry and over in my direction, paying attention.
When I managed to board a conveyance and get to the middle of the East River . . .
I saw there were actually four tugs involved, two Dann tugs and another Miller tug.
Once the landing barge was lifted over the spuds and large pumps installed–I think that’s what I saw–Susan Miller whisked the barge away to be repaired, rehabbed.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who calls this another feat for Weeks 533.
Lots more tugster cranes here.
Here are the previous weather posts. Below . . . that’s easy: it’s a local shower; Evening Tide and Evening Light were in the rain, and I was not, yet.
But a half hour later at the opposite end of the KVK, the clouds were truly wild. Is there a word for these conditions? Again, it wasn’t raining at my location.
Air currents swirled beyond the busy waterway, l to r, Stolt Loyalty, Stone 1, Phoenix Dream, Kimberly Turecamo, and Hoegh Seoul assisted by Bruce A. McAllister.
The Stolt tanker passes Graecia Aeterna before meeting the wild swirl head-on.
Add one more tug to the mix.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d like to know what you call this type of fast-moving dispersal of fog.
About four years ago she arrived . . . and has been lifting into place this huge structure sometimes described as one of the largest current civil engineering project in the country. Her original name Left Coast Lifter , a ZPMC product, stuck despite attempts at New Yorkizing it, renaming it I Lift NY or Ichabod Crane.
I saw the size of those blocks recently when I drove across the new bridge for the first time, but being alone in the car . . . obviously, no pics.
But the Lifter has been repurposed now. I don’t suppose my attempt to rename her now will succeed any better… But how about Downstate Dropper Lowerer, Tappan Zee Deconstructor, Dewey-Driscoll-Wilson Dismantler?
But thankfully, the crane does more than just drop lower the sections for scrap, and I’m often not so thrilled by state or federal decisions, but here’s a good one: sections of the old bridge will be used to replace compromised infrastructure in the Hudson Valley. Here’s a story.
And the rest of these photos, thanks to Glenn Raymo, show these sections on their way to re-use, signs and all.
Many thanks to Glenn for use of these photos. The top three photos by Will Van Dorp, who has posted about this bridge many times . . ..
It’s always a joy to be under way on the Hudson. Enjoy these shots from last week.
Stephanie Dann passes a chimney of what may once have been an ice house.
Click here for previous Stephanie Dann photos.
With the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in the background, Sapphire Coast approaches pushing Cement Transporter 1801.
Near Catskill she passes Coral Coast with another cement barge.
And here my first time to see the rebranded Kristin Poling, moving Eva Leigh Cutler.
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All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Let me start here . . . the boat below can be yours. Click on the photo for full information. It’s currently in the Seattle area, and I’m posting this for a friend.
Turecamo Girls –this one was launched in 1965 and is rated at 1950 hp. Here was a previous version, which may or may not still be working in South America.
Gulf Venture–She’s a new vessel in this harbor. Launched in 2016 and “married” to Gulf Carrier, call her powerful at 5150 hp.
Any guesses?
Tangier Island, the tug, 2014 and 3000 h.
Mister Jim, 1982 and 1800 hp.
This Stephanie Dann, 1978 and 3200.
Evening Mist, 1976 and 3000.
Here she’s framed by the bow of Yantian Express.
Finally, James Turecamo, 1969 and 2000.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who recalls a wonderful tour of parts of the Salish Sea aboard Coot (for sale above) almost seven years ago here.
Here were the previous posts on Deepwater Wind.
The work on the first US offshore wind farm is becoming visible from Block Island, these taken from Monhegan Bluffs.
There is one . . .
no . . two
actually five bases emerging from the waters,
each in a different state of completion.
Here Stephanie Dann tows a barge with three further elaborations of bases. A barge passed through the sixth boro two months ago, as shown here.
Here’s a vessel I’d like to see close up . . . L/B Robert. Each of those legs is 335′ long, allowing it to place them on the ocean floor in water as deep as 280 feet. Click here for more info on the self-propelled L/B Robert.
Click here for more ongoing news about the project from the Block Island Times.
All photos 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.
. . . raised arms. When I notice something about them, maybe the angle, they seem everywhere. On this blog you’ve seen them lift airplanes and containers and locomotives and even tugs. Stephanie Dann moves this one west to or from a job while
Mighty Helen Parker moves this crane to the east. I say “mighty” because previously the house was more anemic,
shown here.
I’ve forgotten what I knew about physics and this angle, but it’s everywhere, even on fish boats and Ikea decorations that once were shipyard cranes, a story documented here. That’s a tugster foto on the cover.
It’s roughly that same angle, at attention, 45 degrees. No, this foto only gives the illusion of Matthew Tibbetts escorting in MSC Rachele.
One more look . . . Bering Sea with DBL 31.
Oh-oh. I hear April knocking and opening the front door. Gotta go.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated but cool pix from today’s NYTimes: Ellis Island ferry relics.
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