Random Tugs 193

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.

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Invisible Gold 3

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.

Sixth Boro Southbound

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.