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It’s hard settling back into the blog after being in steamy alligatorland for most of the month, and didn’t even expect to be suddenly back. So my solution, the ether in my air intake, so to speak, is to just somewhat randomly choose and post photos I took in Junes from 2012 through 2016.
Starting with June 2012, behold Sam M and
Buchanan 1. I recall learning that Sam M made its way to Alaska, and Buchanan 1 . . . to the Rondout. Would you consider Sam M to be a lugger tug?
June 2013 took me to Philly a few times, where I got photos of Madeline and Captain Harry in the distance and
Sentry pulling El Rey, San Juan bound. The two Wilmington Tug vessels still work the Delaware River, whereas Sentry–last I read–flies the Bolivian flag. I should get down to Philly again one of these days.
In 2014 it’s Navigator and
Sabine. Navigator is still based in the sixth boro and Sabine is in the GOM.
In 2015, it’s Stephen B–still in the sixth boro–and
Evening Star, along with Wavertree during her makeover. Stephen B still works out of the boro by that name although Evening Star now has started working out of the boro again as Jordan Rose.
And 2016, it’s Eric McAllister and
a newly arrived Jonathan C Moran. Jonathan is still here, but Eric is in Baltimore.
All photos in a series of Junes, WVD, who does Junes from 2017 through 2021 tomorrow.
Here’s a new one, Stephen B with
James Joseph. I’ve not seen Stephen B with that barge in quite a while. Maybe I just have not been looking carefully.
Kristin Poling
is moving Eva Leigh Cutler. When we’re past the first of November, usually the number of barges increases, even if the outdoor temperatures are in the 70s.
Mister Jim, for the first time that I’ve noticed,
has a bunker barge, this one Richardson Sea, a Centerline Logistics barge.
Evelyn Cutler was moving a fully loaded Edwin A. Poling.
Genesis Eagle
had a deeply loaded GM 11103.
And finally for now, RTC 80
gets moved through the Kills with Kristy Ann.
All photos, WVD.
More low verbal density from a weak wifi signal . . . in my social media distanced outpost. But I do wonder about the story here: Liz Vinik with a barge of small response boats beside Barry Silverton with Fight ALS.
HMS Justice has the orange centerline, but still a name with hMS . . .
Brooklyn pushes DBL 27.
Lucy Reinauer pushes RTC 61.
Stephen B, here looking like Ste, heads for the next job.
And finally, Cape Henry appears to be preparing to tied up to her barge.
All photos, WVD, who encourages all actions aimed at staying healthy. I accidentally shook hands with some this morning.
Count the tugboats in this one shot . . . six! And a seventh is obscured right behind the nearest. And no, it was not part of the annual tugboat race. From (l) to (r), it’s JRT Moran, Amy Moran, Stephen B, (and Ellen McAllister is obscured) then Genesis Eagle, Magothy with Double Skin 57, and Elk River doing assist.
In case you suspect I’m making up the seventh tugboat, here’s a closeup of Ellen assisting Eagle just nine seconds earlier.
A bit later, I noticed a similar density over in the anchorage. Just naming ships, (l) to (r), there’s Advance II, White Horse, Sten Odin, and Cielo di Londra.
Then among then, there are two more tug/barge units with tugs Barry Silverton and Helen Laraway. Interesting how Barry Silverton is shrunk when beside a tanker.
And a bit later I zoomed down, around, and in to see the service vessels clustered around White Horse: HMS* Liberty (I think), a Miller Launch boat, and on the far side Lesney Byrd.
All photos, WVD, who’s now outa town for a while. Thx to everyone who’s sent in or pledged relief posts.
Also, a certain exotic ship is coming into the harbor, and I’d be very grateful if someone stepped forward to get photos of it as it arrives. Email me, please, if you might be able to get the shot.
*HMS . . . Harley Marine Services is no more; out of its ashes rises Centerline Logistics.
I’m always on the look out for new tugboats in the harbor, and Camie mostly fits that bill. A bit of research, though, finds she’s been on the blog a few times already, however.
Here, l to r, it’s Polar Bright, Ava, New York, and Stephen B.
Robert Burton here is tending a rock scow in front of the very busy Bayonne background.
James Brown moves some scrap barges . . . likely in the direction of the East River.
Weddell Sea stands by with Penn No. 90, demonstrating all the components of “push gear.”
Maybe someone can clarify here, but it appears No. 90 has cargo heating gear.
Helen Laraway moves a scow toward a morning.
And Fort Schuyler heads straight for us–I’m zoomed in–away from a marine/industrial Brooklyn background.
For the last day of November 2019, all photos by Will Van Dorp.
And finally, click here for Paul Strubeck’s Vintage Diesel Design blog post on tugboat Luna in Boston. It expands a post I did on Luna here almost four years ago.
Excuse the branches and tendrils reaching out over this dense pack of tugboats: five Bouchard boats plus a Harley behind Denise and a Genesis on the drydock.
Crystal Cutler here in profile is heading for the Kills; this photo prompts me to wonder how this wheelhouse “window” configuration has worked out.
Stephen B assists Fells Point leaving IMTT with Double Skin 302.
Marie J Turecamo heads east on the KVK.
I can’t recall now whether this is my first time to see Vane’s New York, here with Double Skin 53.
Seeley moves a scow eastbound.
Mount St. Elias goes west here.
And finally . . . J. George Betz heads east, possibly to pick up a barge.
All photos and interpretation by Will Van Dorp, who is solely responsible for content . . .
Here’s another calendar’s worth . . . starting with Josephine. I have many more of this bot coming up soon.
Capt. Brian heads out through the Narrows to meet a tow.
Cape Lookout returns for her anchored barge.
Nathan G delivers a brace of scows.
Ava M heads out for a job.
The “new” Kristin Poling returns to her barge as well.
Ellen and Bruce A follow a job.
St Andrews heads east and
Ernest Campbell, west.
Challenger, some weeks ago, brings a Weeks crane up for a lift.
Stephen B has some additions to her paint job since last I saw her.
CMT Pike heads back across the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who can’t believe it’s already mid-November 2019!!
This post, beginning with Miriam Moran juxtaposed with downtown Newark NJ, is intended to demonstrate just how diverse the sixth boro is, in terms of vessels and shorelines. Has Miriam been in the sixth boro all of its 40-year career?
Ernest Campbell is 10 years older than Miriam, and did the better part of a decade up in Alaska.
Sapphire Coast, stemming here in the East River just off Rockefeller University, was launched in 1982.
In the KVK, Stephen B, 1983, is trying to pass as Hen B.
Pacific Reliance, launched in 2006, was designed for long hauls.
Kenny G, in its distinctive blue livery, has appeared on this blog several times, but I’ve never learned where and when she was built. Here she’s working on refurbishing to Pier 40. Check out this link to Pier 40 as a prep to a series I’m starting in a few days.
At one point, C. F. Campbell was in the same fleet as the vessels that became DonJon’s Atlantic Salvor and Atlantic Enterprise.
And finally, it’s Harbor II, as before, in the Harlem River with the 44th precinct NYPD station in the background.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Stephen B heads light westbound about to pass under the Bayonne Bridge, as
Mary H, especially busy during the cold times of the year, pushes some petroleum product in the opposite direction. Soon leaves will decorate Shooters out beyond her. There’s a pool hall in Queens by the name Shooters, so to clarify, here are some Shooters history posts from way back.
Mr Jim moves some aggregates, also eastbound out of Newark Bay.
James D. nudges Dublin Express as needed into Howland Hook.
Eric and Capt. Brian A. assist a CMA CGM box ship.
Evelyn Cutler moves some petroleum along the supply chain.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s burning high octane himself these days.
Related: Let me reiterate Lee Rust’s question of a day or so ago: What is the current working estimate of operating tugs in NY’s sixth boro? For starters, I think it’s hard to count because of the dynamic, transient nature of traffic. Just ballparking it without breaking it down by company and enumerating, I’d say 75 at least. For consistency, let’s say we can count a tugboat as present if it shows up on AIS/VHF/traffic control at least once a month. I’d love to hear you estimates.
It might as well be spring already. Well, maybe my wish is that spring were here. I heard a spurious claim on a TV I visited the other day that March 20 is the planetary beginning of spring in the north but March 1 is the meteorological start of spring. But it must be true since I heard it on TV!??
But pairs, not Paris. Capt. Brian and Charles D. . . . interesting pair showing evolution of design 50 over the half century between the launch of each.
Fells Point landed Doubleskin 302 with Stephen B doing assist. That’s the first I seen Stephen B in the assist role.
Miss Julia could be Dylan Cooper‘s workboat.
CF Campbell heads east passing Scott Turecamo/New Hampshire and then
makes for the Upper Bay, where JRT is assisting Orange Blossom 2, herself a bloom in the dawn light. The photo above and the one below I took less than a minute apart, yet you’d think the light was saying hours separated the two.
Kimberly passes Eric.
Marie J Turecamo and Mister Jim run side by side under the Bayonne Bridge. Does anyone know when the pedestrian walkway on the bridge will open?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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