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I did this once before here. This time I was deleting near duplicates to limit the size of my photo library to accommodate the many photos I brought back from the gallivants, and my mind quickly formed today’s post. Enjoy all these from August through October 2009 and marvel at how much the harbor changes. As I went through the archives, this is where I stopped, given the recent developments in Bella Bella BC.
For background on this tug, check here.
Notice also the Bayonne approach to the bridge.
IMO 8983117 was still orange back then.
King Philip, Thomas Dann, and Patriot Service . . .
…
Odin . . . now has a fixed profile.
And these two clean looking machines — Coral Queen and
John B. Caddell — were still with us.
This is a digression to March 2010, but since I’m in a temporally warped thought, let me add this photo of the long-gone Kristin Poling.
Back to 2009, Rosemary looked sweet here in fall scenes.
John Reinauer . . . I wonder what that tug looks like today over in Nigeria.
And Newtown Creek, now the deep Lady Luck of the Depths, sure looked good back then.
And while I’m at it, I’ve finally solved a puzzle that’s bugged me for a few years. Remember this post from three and a half years ago about a group of aging Dutch sailors who wanted to hold a reunion on their vessel but couldn’t find the boat, a former Royal Dutch Navy tug named Wamandai A870? Well, here’s the boat today! Well, maybe . . .
Another boat you can dive on is United Caribbean aka Golden Venture.
Photos and tangents by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s the index to all previous posts in this series.
For today, all come from Jed . . John Jedrlinic. Any ideas on the locomotion of the person nearer than Diane Moran, photo taken in Miami in February?
The Thomas Dann photo is from almost a year ago.
Ditto . . . Schuylkill, taken in Norfolk last May.
Ditto . . . Jed took this photo of the 1960 Marion in St. Maarten.
Mr Chester and
Miss Niz . . . Miami, February 2015.
Allie B has been a favorite of mine since I caught photos here and here or her departing for the Black Sea this time eight years ago.
Finally, the closing shot is Diane Moran without the guy on the jet ski.
Many thanks to Jed Jedrlinic for these photos.
North Sea (ex-Eileen M Roehrig, ex-El Gallo Grande) launched 1982 
Comet 1977
Odin 1982
Pati T Moran 2008
Thomas Dann, ex-Yabucoa Service, Yabucoa, Yabucoa Sun 1975
Nicole Leigh Reinauer 1999
Virginia, ex-Bayou Babe 1979. Yes
this used to be Bayou Babe, not Bayou Base.
All in all, amazingly diverse machines and physical backgrounds.
Top foto by Carolina Salguero. To see many more recent fotos by Carolina in connection with Portside NewYork, click here. All others by Will Van Dorp.
First this, . . . from a certain waterblogger I tandempost with, about a Saturday gathering.
The Dann Ocean towing boat below bore no identifying info. At first I wondered if it was Allie B returned from Romania, but it seemed smaller than Allie B. An erudite reader helped me identify it. Answer follows.
Here’s another shot, with Dorothy Elizabeth on the Staten Island side.
I posted Outrageous a year ago here moving a barge on the hip westbound on the East River. Just today, thanks to Bob Beegle on the tugboats yahoo group I learned it’s the ex-Maya “built in 1981 by Dravo Steelship for Apex Towing Company (Apex Oil), as a shallow draft tug capable of working both inland and coastal waters and fitted with both steering and flanking rudders. Reportedly very maneuverable.” Great name, unusual profile.
Brian Nicholas 1966 (ex-Banda Sea, Jenna B., Bunker Tide, Dad II) pushes
a scow. Note: Dad is an acronym. Expansion comes tomorrow.
Approaching is Dorothy Elizabeth 1951! (ex-Gotham and Christine Gellatly) with its unmistakeable color scheme.
And we’ll end as we started with a Dann Ocean Towing boat . . . but this one is identified: Thomas Dann 1975 (ex-Yabucoa Service, Yabucoa, Yabucoa Sun), named for a town in southeastern Puerto Rico.
Here’s another shot of Thomas Dann.
So if you identified that first boat as Comet, you’d be right. Thanks to Harold E. Tartell for the ID. I ran a foto of Comet here a year ago.
Photos, WVD.
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