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0545 at the Narrows . . . in the hazy days of summer . . . nothing beats it.
I had not come here just to beat the heat.
Surprisingly, Turecamo Girls (I believe) delivered the docking pilot.
Then she dropped back, to where one of the 6000s took the stern and
another the bow.
Only a couple hours into the day, another ULCV appeared in the offing . . .
Hyundai Drive, which sounds almost like a car ad framed as an order if you reverse the words . . . .
In the clearer light, you can clearly see Drive‘s crew asisting the docking pilot, boarding from Capt. Brian A.
For scale, notice the deckhand on the bow waiting . . .
. . .
for the messenger line.
To digress a bit, in July 2018 Hyundai Jupiter was in the sixth boro, and the company was still called Hyundai. On March 31, 2020, it rebranded itself as HMM. Jupiter, 1059′ loa, had a capacity of 10,000 teu.
In March 2013, Hyundai Grace, a 2007 build, had a capacity of 4571 teu on her 964′ hull.
In April 2009, Hyundai Voyager was in town . . . built in 2008 with the same dimensions as Grace.
So in a decade, typical Hyundai (HMM) vessels calling here have increasing carrying capacity by nearly 300%. If you consider HMM calling elsewhere, the increase has been greater than 500%.
All photos, WVD.
Blessings of summer heat, if you don’t have to work out in it, are best relished right after dawn, or from the shade. I chose the first option here as Barney Turecamo, made up to Georgia,
gets an assist in rotating from Turecamo Girls.
Once pointed, a burst of power from its 5100hp EMDs commits the ATB to its course.
Foxy3, with its bright trim ribbons gleaming in the dawn, is off to the job.
Doubleskin 57 arrives from somewhere in the Kills and Elk River
waits to assist Wye River
in placing it alongside the dock gently.
Marjorie B is off to some work, followed by and Poling & Cutler and Vane units.
The P & C unit was Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler.
On another day, Mister T was arriving from outside the Narrows
just as the sun cleared Bay Ridge.
And yet another day and different place, Curtis Reinauer waited alongside RTC 82 during cargo transfer.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a company I’ve not encountered before . . . LMZ.
LMZ Europa was northbound at Stuyvesant as we passed, and following her
were James Turecamo and
Turecamo Girls, both
have been regulars down near the mouth of the Hudson, but these days the
main ship assist horsepower up in this part of the River. As it turned out, the ship had completed discharging cargo in Coeymans (named for the Koijemans family) and was headed north only briefly to spin around.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes to see them again in these parts a few weeks farther toward winter.
aka Names 34
What??
Xena, Lady Tara, one of exactly three barges squired in by Foxy3,
Denise A. Bouchard,
Silver Cindy,
Elbabe . . . El Babe? . .. with Bruce A. minding to port,
Turecamo Girls, and I’ll bet more than just one British Sailor or sailor of any of the seafaring nationalities . . .
along with a high voltage shore connection . . .?!@#! That can mean only one thing… there might be a Debbie around soon too . . .
See tomorrow’s post, for which the photos have not even been taken yet, but it’s June fishing time. All photos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp. Here’s a previous Xena reference on tugster.
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.
Can you identify these boats? This is a game I sometimes play . . . trying to guess before I can read by my eyes or some device . . .
Do you know the unit headed away?
Here’s that Moran vessel from the first photo of this post.
OK. Did you get Sea Fox? I had guessed Sea Wolf. There is no Sea Coyote. Yet.
I didn’t get this one either.
James D. here had just finished the salt ship job,
along with Margaret . . . and headed back to base to await the next job.
And finally, Turecamo Girls heads out for the next job.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Big sky and small ship? Actually it’s among the largest ships currently serving NYC, at 1063′ loa, or almost 2.81 times loa of Peking and 3.3 times the beam.
Actually, Hyundai Jupiter is the first of HMM’s “Earth-series” that I’ve gotten any sort of photo of. My recent attempt of Hyundai Pluto was lost in the snowstorm a few weeks back. As of this writing, Pluto is off western US, Mars is off western Mexico, Saturn … off western Korea, Neptune … traversing Tsugaru Straits, and Hyundai Earth … between Madagascar and Cape of Good Hope.
She’s among the biggest in the port, 1062′ x 155.’
Other ships calling recently include Bow Jubail, here assisted by
Turecamo Girls. By the way, did you even notice the assist tugs on Hyundai Jupiter above?
Shrike loaded scrap,
APL Yangshan and Hamburg Sud Monte Rosa transfer boxes, and
Polaris waits at anchor.
To return here to the tugs visible on the Hyundai ship, they were Robert E. and Erin.
Invisible but assisting on the starboard side was Ellen. And as of this writing Hyundai Jupiter has tied up in Norfolk, doing a steady almost-20 its much of the way.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
So what’s with the white sheet over the fendering? It must mean
a creamy-white hulled vessel is arriving with what the Brazilians call “SU coe,” or . . . my favorite cargo.
It appears this is the third voyage of Orange Sky from Santos to Port Newark this year. My friend John Skelson caught her here on her second voyage. By the way, you might want to check out John’s photo exhibit on Lilac this month.
In the next few photos, watch the teamwork between tugboat crew and ship crew.
Ship crew has sent down the monkey’s fist line and deckhand makes it fast to a towline . . .
which is then hauled up and made fast by ship crew, while deckhand keeps eyes on tug captain.
Line is made fast on ship but slacked as needed on the tug until
tug is correctly positioned.
Now with a name like this, I couldn’t resist using
this photo recently sent along by a secret salt.
Any errors in interpretation of what I was “seeing” while taking these photos . . are my errors.
Unrelated . . . given that this is Brazilian orange juice and that world cup play is on many people’s minds, check out this interesting essay by David Brooks on . . . more like life . . . baseball or soccer?
I’ll start here for a reason. This 1941 vessel built in Stamford, CT, was originally YTL 169, 61′ loa. In November 1997 she was called Spuyten Duyvil and used to transport the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from Stony Point to the East river. I’ve mentioned this before, but although I’ve searched high and low, by letter, word-of-mouth, and electronically . . . I’ve located NO fotos of that event. None!! Can this event have completed eluded the photography crowd? If you know of a foto, please get in touch. Click here for a foto of this tug–I believe–I took almost 8 years ago now.
Ever Decent . . . foto taken 10 days ago, here being passed by Evening Star, is already well into the Pacific Ocean.
Turecamo Girls, here in the KVK, was waiting on the outside of the Amtrack Prtal Bridge last week, but of course I didn’t have a camera.
Amy C McAllister slings in a Bouchard barge, and
McAllister Sisters does the same with a Reinauer barge.
Bering Dawn moves another dredge scow out to sea.
Bob-tailed B. Franklin heads back to her barge, and
Eastern Dawn heads west into the Kills.
So, does anyone know of a foto showing Spuyten Duyvil with the 1997 Rockefeller Christmas tree heading south from Stony Point?
All fotos except the top one by Will Van Dorp.
But first, an orange digression leaving the Narrows this morning under the tow of Michael J. McAllister, with Resolute alongside. Is it
Senator John J. Marchi or Guy V. Molinari? These years maintenance is done in Virginia, and here are fotos from just under a year ago of Marchi at sea. Is special ballasting need to facilitate better towing of a ferry? What other preps happen before a tow like this?
The juice in this post is here, my reason for getting out at daybreak.
She glowed with health as she came through the KVK today . . . . Orange Star, a 2011-build out of the Adriatic.
She and escort passed Discovery Coast at the east end of the KVK.
Turecamo Girls throws on some extra anti-skidmark gear as she escorts the juice ship.
The juice ships are my favorite, although I prefer the lines of the previous Orange Star to this newer vessel. My fotos of Orange Star fleetmates include Orange Blossom, Bebedouro, Orange Wave, and Orange Sun. I don’t believe I’ve gotten a foto of Orange Sky. An unexpected detail about these tankers is that they are managed/operated from the peerless maritime nation of Switzerland.
All fotos this morning by Will Van Dorp.
For some great fotos of lakers laid up about 500 miles from here in Sarnia, check out tugboathunter here. He found some frozen-in tugs there too.
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