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With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick.
The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that
was getting towed. Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched? Decide that for each of these and arrange them by age, before checking the answers at the end?
Carolina Coast came in light the other day, possibly just off a sugar barge.
Meagan Ann was eastbound, maybe heading north for scrap.
Michael Miller was moving who knows what. As a reminder, have you decided the launch date on each of these as you’re going through? Answers are posted at the end here.
Miss Madeline a bit earlier was working on a dredge project.
Charles A was in from another dredge project.
Susan Rose was pushing oil.
Stephen Dann has since gone to Bridgeport.
Charles James is still the the boro as of this writing.
And that’s where we leave it today.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Maverick 1967
Carolina Coast 1970
Meagan Ann 1975
Miss Madeline 1976
Charles A. 1979
Charles James 1985
Stephen Dann 1999
Susan Rose 2019
I’ve mentioned before that I’m always looking for novelty. Here’s one, new to me at least,
the 4400 hp Chincoteague with Double Skin 802. I’d love to get closer-up pics one of these days.
Nicole Leigh Reinauer, a 7200 hp beauty twenty years almost senior, passes Chincoteague on her way to
rejoin her barge, RTC 135.
Meanwhile Miriam Moran follows in a ship as one of the assists.
Moments earlier, the 1979 3000 hp Miriam had accompanied 1982 4610 hp Doris Moran to meet the ship.
The 2021 4000 hp Jordan Rose, ex-Evening Star and now in Rose Cay colors, is high and dry alongside Sorenson (?) Miller on the hard at Bayonne Drydock.
The 2008 4200 hp Pocomoke passes the KV buoy, which made soothing noises as it rose and settled in the chop.
The 1999 4500 hp Patrice heads out to meet a ship.
And finally, 1999 3600 hp Stephen Dann looked particularly good as she headed out to her next job.
All photos, this week, WVD.
Photos from the sixth boro . . . although I’m a thousand miles away and in the eastern mountains… 1974 ex-Exxon Ocean State and
and slightly smaller 1975 ex-Exxon Granite State, now Marjorie B. McAllister and Brendan Turecamo.
The 1999 ex-Crosby Knight now Stephen Dann was pushing a Centerline barge.
The 2009 ex-Allison Crosby is now Mount St. Elias, is one of the Kirby boats in the boro that I perceive as a winter boat. Where was she all summer?
The 1975 Robert IV has been in the boro since 1989. Where was she for her first decade?
And finally, the 2020 Janice Ann Reinauer is the newest, largest, and most powerful tugboat in this post, here overtaking the 2010 6589-teu Maipo.
All photos, WVD.
As you know from some earlier posts, those red morning skies . . they mark my favorite times.
Here Coral Coast with Cement Transporter 5300 has just departed the dock with Ruby M‘s assistance.
Soon afterward, Sapphire Coast arrived with Cement Transporter 1801, and assisted
by Stephen Dann.
Later in the morning, Sarah Ann pushes scow Michelle D.
Durham moves deck barge Arlene, bound for some work in the East River.
Harry McNeal returns with barge 1962 to IMTT to continue the job there.
Nicole Leigh stands by with RTC 135.
Pathfinder delivers empty garbage containers from the railhead to the marine transfer station.
Charles D. returns from Earle.
And finally, departing IMTT,
Genesis Victory gets an assist from Normandy.
All photos, WVD.
Stephen Reinauer westbound as the sun heads in the same direction.
Mary Turecamo assists an MOL ship into port.
Ava M pushes toward the pilot’s door on the side of another container ship.
James D heads to the next job amid two container ships in the approaches.
Margaret throttles up alongside.
James William travels toward Howland Hook.
James E. heads, no doubt, for the car float with rail cars awaiting it.
Stephen Dann heads in to get some fuel.
Emily Ann travels light toward the Upper Bay.
All photos from a socially-distanced, physically-isolated, seasonally-adjusted, pent-up energized, freely-masked, and emotionally-stale WVD.
Call it a sea change. The air warms up although the water is still very cold.
Sea Lion does what it has all winter, but what’s different is the reappearance of non-workboats. Sea Lion has some history on this blog.
Evening Light moves north in anticipation of summer.
Pleasure boats move into an environment that has been consistently about work throughout the winter.
Mischief passes New Champion and Stephen Dann, which brought in highway ramp sections. Would these sections be for the Bayonne, the Tappan Zee, or another?
Small party boats
head out to catch what spring fish migrate in. Should there be a Really Never Snuff Express?
Bigger party boats appear as well.
Fast open boats and
slower enclosed cruisers, of all sorts
pass Atlantic Salvor as it returns from another dredge spoils run.
Norwegian Escape has smaller boats
accompany it on its way into the Narrows and the harbor. If my numbers are correct, Escape has capacity for 5999 souls, including crew, which is more than the population of Taos, Marfa, and well more than the town where I grew up.
I’ve not seen many of these smaller boats since early last fall, and on a warm Sunday, they start to reappear. Drive safe; work safe.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose other posts about small craft can be read here.
On a day in the sixth boro, you’ll see a lot of working boats that’ve been around a while. These are randomly chosen. Lynx dates from 1967.
Stephen Dann from 1999.
Weddell Sea from 2007 and Lincoln Sea, 2000.
Joyce D. Brown, 2002.
Buchanan 1 . . . is she aka Buchanan 10? If so, 1967.
Marty C, 1981.
Little C, 1988. She looks somewhat similar to Lil Rip.
Pearl Coast, looking huge out of the notch, 1978.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Eastbound and from left, it’s Sunny Williams, Sarah Ann, and Ellen McAllister.
Around the same time, it’s a light Patrice McAllister eastbound. Compare the April 2014 shot below with these April 2012 ones of her first arriving in the sixth boro after the tragic fire on Lake Ontario.
After all the ice work Kimberly Poling has done the past few months, Sunday was a welcome sunny day, I’ll assume.
It wasn’t until this tow turned away from head-one that I understood what I was looking at . . ..
but closer in . . . it was clearly Stephen Dann (I think this is her first appearance on this blog) towing
crane barge Strong Island.
Off Owl’s Head, it’s Pacific Reliance and Discovery Coast (I think) off to the west.
Pacific Reliance appeared here about six weeks ago.
Catherine Turecamo stands by near Gulf Pearl.
Parting shot . . . following up on the opening shot of this post.
All photos the past few days by Will Van Dorp.
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