Film Tugs 10 Follow-Up

In case you don’t remember, here was Film Tugs 10 as well as  Spring Giddiness 4, as background.  Last night I used a streaming site to finally see this movie, the one I caught being filmed in the image below back in April 2022.  The camera crew had set up on the bow of the white party boat following the tugboat.  Here’s a teaser:  what’s being filmed in the photo below may very well be the climax, which involves a tugboat and the delightfully quirky crew aiding and abetting a young couple eloping in a honey of a romance.  That’s all I’ll say.

Sunny’s Bar also figured in the movie.  I took the photo below back in May 2010, and Sunny’s Willys, which appears briefly in the movie, was still parked there last time I walked Red Hook.  

Kudos to the perfect oddball cast, notably Peter Dinklage.  I had to look this up, but the director has a famous father, last name Miller.  I’ll let you learn it from the link.

Because I know the tugboat, and the tugboat played a significant role in the movei–Pelham aka Katrina pulled the plot forward–I watched the credits all the way to the end.

In the credits was the name Dorothy Julian, owner of the tugboat.

Dorothy died very recently.  Condolences to Dorothy’s family and friends.  RIP, Dorothy.  I met you very briefly more than a decade ago, but your presence on the sixth boro will live on.  

 

 

Eastern Lights

I was unsuccessful in seeing the spectacular aurora, but I’m sure you’ve seen others’ photos or maybe you even saw the Northern Lights yourself.  I was out very early and it was the Eastern Lights that astounded me.

The ferry’s orange pales in comparison.

I was not the only one out.

Discovery Coast was moving.  Victoria Glory was taking on fuel before heading out to sea and Houston shortly after sunrise.

Ibsa solo sailor was coming into port.  More on Transat CIC in a later post.

That eastern light before sunrise is more delicious than mango sherbet.

 

Name that tugboat?

All images, any errors, WVD.

Details Change

Below is an image I posted on February 27, 2024.  Cape Kennedy had only recently arrived, the latest in a string of government vessels getting rehabbed at Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair.

Below is a photo I took yesterday.  Notice the detail change?

From a different angle, this is the door removed from the graving dock and being escorted out of the way by Sarah Ann and Nathan G.

Wind sock and door crew monitoring the float away.

In the presence of a mustering of McAllister tugs, Samantha Miller begins Cape Kennedy‘s exit.  The McAllister tugs (l to r) are Marjorie, Timothy, Capt Brian, and Rowan.

Positions are assumed the farther out the 5083 floats.

 

 

I’m wondering if the exit is timed so that a slight current can ease her in the direction of the KVK side of the pier.

Once alongside the pier, Timothy, Marjorie, and Capt. Brian stand by as she’s made fast.  USACE Moritz, foreground, must be serving some function, not just loitering.

I’ve posted photos of this process at least once before, as seen here.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

 

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Substantial intrigued me not only because of the name, the A-frame, but also the day shape that could be seen although I think it was not being displayed.  A day shape with two black balls and a black diamond in between means “while working, restricted in ability to maneuver.”  Substantial  is a made-over yacht, now used as a day-ops survey vessel.

Suzanne McAllister has been at Bayonne for some time now for a make-over;  the name is not yet displayed.  Here’s how she looked 10 weeks ago.  

Any guesses what relatively smaller scale McAllister tugboat is off her port side?

I count at least seven workers in the photo of the substantial Suzanne below.  Given all that gray primer, I suspect the red paint will be opened up fairly soon.  Beyond and in green, that’s MV Don Pasquale.  I wonder how many millions of cars and trucks she’s transported in her lifetime!?!

It’s good to see a drill/test run of one of Marchi‘s rescue boats.

That name seems more suited to a starship?

The anchorage was busy the other day.

Any guesses on Alexia?

All photos, any errors, WVD.

My guess for the McAllister tugboat next to Suzanne is Ellen McAllister.  And Alexia, I believe, is a transAtlantic rowboat.

 

Road Photos 2024 a

I have a point to make with this post, other than putting out photos I took along the roads and streets in my March-April jaunt.  You’ll get to that point at the end.   For now, here’s something different with road photos.  Enjoy these photos  and whatever memories they bring.  In order, a 1936 Chevrolet seen on the street in San Francisco, 

a 1950* and a 1948 Jeepster, taken in upstate New York, 

a 1950 Plymouth, the only one in this post not currently registered or street legal but for sale on a used car lot in Delta CO [along with some other beauties with patina],

a 1957 Belvedere Plymouth, almost like a movie prop, and like the rest of the images all seen on the streets of San Francisco,

an original 1963 Chevy Impala, 

a dramatic red 1968 Rover V8, 

a low-riding late 1970something Toyota pickup, 

and a 1975 Ford Maverick on hard times maybe . . .   Well, cars have changed a lot, but so has

automobile advertising.  This is a Ford advertisement from 1924.

This is a 1948 ad.

A year later, this ad actually touts specific features that matter in terms of performance, a logical selling point.

Here, as in the 1924 ad, liberation is assumed to be on the buyers’ minds.

And here finally is my point,  the whole justification for this post:  a piece of mail I received yesterday for a vehicle to be built in Georgia.

Electric, three-row, SUV . . . I get all that.  But then, this string:  “purposefully designed available customizable digital pattern lighting grille”.      What on earth, why would they think I think that matters!@#!!?  The tear on the photographed image was my initial reaction, a healthy impulse to put it in the recycling bin.  Did you get this same piece of mail?

Here and here are some previous posts with old cars.

All photos I’ve taken in the past month, except the Jeepsters taken by my brother. The * on the Jeepster caption signals that the Jeepster to the left is mounted on a Chevy Colorado pickup frame;  the body was lengthened to fit.  

And since I have adverts above, let me add one more below.  It’s worth taking time to read the fine print.

I like the part about “special” people who tire of the ordinary and always seeking the uncommon.

 

 

 

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Enjoy a few more from that day it was raining and I was waiting around.  Another detail is that I was charging the battery on my camera #1 and used my older #2.

Jason Reinauer looks just as good with this camera, but I’ve developed a new interest, harder to satisfy, seeing their hull design.  It was built here in 1968 as Walton.  Cabot [now Harold A. Reinauer] and Daley [now Vincent D. Tibbetts Jr.] were likely the same plans.  Correct me….?

As for the next two boats once part of the same fleet, close to 40 years passed between the two, their superstructures are quite similar although their actual dimensions are slightly different.  The Beatrice has more power and slightly larger dimensions.

Susan Rose has less powerful but lower emissions engines.  As recently as four years ago, Susan Rose looked like this, and before her transformation and intermediary livery looked like this.

I like the current livery but I still wonder how different these two boats are below the waterline.

All photos, any errors, WVD, who bases his info on tugboatinformation.com.

Speaking not of hull design but fuel innovation, I’m curious about the latest on the Amogy project.  Anyone help?

Names 52

Names on ships . . . you gotta love some of them.  Some of my all time favorites include Platanos, The Patsy Paulie, M.A.R.S. War Machine, Yoga, Herman Hesse, Surfer Rosa, etc . . . .

A few months back I saw a ship with a good one, but didn’t manage to get a photo.  It was MV Dali.  Hindsight says I’m glad I didn’t get that one because of subsequent notoriety.

Little Tommy Slick is a boom boat, not a bumboat or another kind of boom boat, which are  whole other things.  Little Tommy transports, deploys, and retracts spill prevention boom during fuel transfers, i.e., preventing any spillage from creating slicks and worse.  It’s time Little Tommy gets a sibling named Grace maybe? 

Clean Cajun, as it turns out, has siblings with less flamboyant names, like Clean Copano and Clean Destiny, running US LNG around the watery parts of the globe.

This one I’ve posted before.  No, not Melissa Lynn but that “bargette” just forward of the push knees . . .

That time it was associating with Louisa Frances.  Yes, I’m talking about Chuck Norris . . . he gets around.  Sometimes the extra power bow boat looks like this.  Fleetmates?  I don’t know if there are any but names that could apply include Mike Tyson, Sun Tzu, Rocky 99, etc.

All photos and opinions, any errors, WVD.  Ooops . . . all photos except the first one, thanks to eastriver.  Opinions and first photo, WVD.

But if you really want weird names, look to the tech industries.

 

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I was at the KVK the other morning waiting around for an appointment.  Overnight it had rained, dawn was overcast, but gradually the sky cleared.  Just before I departed, Gabby came by, pushing a small barge with minimal freeboard, maybe spill remediation equipment.

Before it looked to clear, Helen came by, as 

did Haggerty Girls, 

Bruce A., 

Miss Madeline, 

Brooklyn, 

Laura K, and 

Patuxent.  So did these, posted a few days ago.

All photos, any errors, WVD, who muses about the fact that although there’ve been a couple different tugboats in recent years called Brooklyn, there’ve been none in that same time frame named for the other boroughs or boros that come to mind.

Whatzit 53

Here were installment 52 and follow-up.  This one is different because I know what this is, but I’ll let you look at it from different perspectives before I identify it.  My photo regret is that I saw one deployed and failed to get a photo because I saw it over the top of a warehouse and didn’t snap the pic.

Above and below are the same shot, just cropped differently.  A key clue is that I took these photos in port of Long Beach CA.

When I took this set of photos I knew what tugboat was moving the green barge, but I’ve lost that piece of information.  No matter . . . because the focus here is on the green barge.  Oops . . . that’s another clue.

 

Last chance.

And the answer is this barge is part of an effort to reduce emissions from ships in port by “inhaling” those emissions and treating them.  See the company website here. Here and here are more articles on the “stack suckers.”  See this link for the Stax device deployed.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

 

Exotics 37

Whatever you think about offshore wind farms, you have to admit that the enterprise has brought unusual vessels into local waters, like Trustee and 

Target.  But since some of these never come anywhere near local coasts, what do you imagine they look like?

Here’s Trustee, 

and here’s Target.

Some, however, do come into the sixth boro and tie up in fairly public water’s edges, like Paul Candies.  The Candies name is  synonymous with ship design and innovation.  Some formerly Candies boats have been regulars in the sixth boro, like some of the Genesis boats.

Even closer to home in registry than New Orleans is Cape May, current port of registry for Northstar Navigator.  What do you suppose they look like?

Here they were yesterday in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 

Northstar Navigator is 265′ loa.

Previously she worked as Keith Cowan and Seacor Sherman.  For all the specs, click here.

Paul Candies is 331′ loa, launched in 2018, making her six years newer than the Northstar boat.

Within the Candies US organization, Paul is classified as a service operation vessel.

For specs on this vessel, click here.

I’m not sure why the two boats are in port.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

Unrelated:   If you’re ever in the Kingston NY area, check out this exhibit by Peter K. Eagleton.