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I made my way through all the weird car wrecks on the Belt Parkway this morning to get to my cliff just before sunrise. A small bulk carrier headed to Gravesend Anchorage while a tanker was anchored farther out. About those wrecks . . . three multiple-car collisions in same-direction lanes between Woodhaven and the VZ . . . what is it about impairment and driving that people don’t yet know!!?
Motorboat Yankee headed out to the mothership.
Miss Emma McCall was just off the USCG quarantine station.
From a different perspective, this is bulk carrier/general cargo vessel Meloi anchored.
When the sun rose, it painted ABC-1 and pilot boat New Jersey in light.
Philadelphia and
Josephine waited to rejoin their barges.
Sunlight began to hit the tops of the cranes on Castlegate, a bulker with Chilean salt.
All photos, WVD.
Wow! August almost passed us by without my doing a glance back to a decade ago. McCrews is now in Philly I’m told. Reliance and Justine are still with McAllister. Lynx was sold foreign and experienced an incident while being delivered, although I’m not sure how that turned out. Barents and Yankee both were refurbished by Donjon: Barents Sea is now Atlantic Enterprise and Yankee is now Signet Atlantic and sans upper wheelhouse. Mark McAllister was scrapped, and Na-Hoku under the same name works for a company based in Charleston SC.
Ellen McAllister here was bringing in the future Alex McAllister, which has gone on to spend a lot of time working in the sixth boro, although I’ve not noticed her recently.
Patrice (had just had a tragic delivery fire in this photo) and Bruce still work based out of the sixth boro.
I never did see Yankee after her upper wheelhouse was removed. I may have to return to the GOM if I ever want to see her.
Duty is now Nydia P, and I’d have to go to Puerto Rico to see her.
Ireland became Hoppiness, and has been converted to a liveaboard on Lake Ontario but headed the inland waterways of the TVA system.
Labrador Sea is now Vane’s Brooklyn.
And finally, here’s a mixed set: OSG 350 and OSG Vision still work under those names, Amy Moran became Stasinos John Joseph, and Scotty Sky became a snow bird and sails the Caribbean.
All August 2012, WVD, who after reflecting on all those changes admits to not being the same person as in August 2012 any more either.
It’s been a while since I posted any of Jed’s shots, but I hold them to concentrate them rather than posting them one or two at a time. Anyhow, of the photo below, Jed writes: “[Atlas 1974] is my first Estonian tug . . . .” although this photo shows her in Dutch waters.
photo date 6 june 2015
Esvagt Connector (2000) is a prime example of a North Sea anchor-handling supply tug.
photo date 12 Jume 2015
The photo below provides a bit more context: Esvagt Connector is towing a high voltage subsea station for the North Sea wind farm GODE SEA. Assistance is provided by Esvagt Don and Smit Emoe. Click here for more of the Esvagt fleet, with some interesting names.
photo date 12 june 2015
Smit Emoe is a new boat for me. Some previous Smit tugs posted on tugster can be found here.
photo date 12 June 2015
FairPlay X and a crewman take a wave while alongside MSC Venice,
photo date 16 sept 2016
here with a bit more context.
photo date 16 sept 2016
MTS Taktow is British built but with a Dutch language name.
photo date 11 june 2015
Let’s end this post with a boat on an entirely different continent: it’s Yankee in the KVK. Yankee worked for K-Sea when I first started this blog, but I believe I have no photos of her in that livery.
photo date 2 dec 2016
Many thanks to John Jedrlinic for these photos.
Thank the verizon gods for internet service after a few more days’ drought. Click here for previous snowy posts.
I think today was the snowiest day yet in the sixth boro. So I hope you enjoy watching Orange Ocean emerge from the “particle fog.”
Orange Ocean is a new sighting for me, bringing in my favorite commodity.
I missed Donjon’s Yankee leave town this morning, but I did catch Marie J Turecamo pivot Stolt Capability. Click here to see tug fax photo of Yankee in Halifax a few day back. Please get in touch if you got any Yankee photos .. . I’m that kind of a Yankee fan.
MOL Expeditor remianed in the Lower Bay anchorage for some time after losing power on the outbound run last night. Losing power in the narrow Ambrose Channel must be a terrifying experience.
Like I said earlier, I missed Yankee, but I caught Frances coming in the Narrows, and passing a vessel with the unlikely name . . .
Neverland Dream. I include a link here just in case you don’t believe me.
All photos today by Will Van Dorp, who is not certain of internet service from one day to the next.
No, this isn’t the January River. I leave for there today, but this . . . !! These next four fotos come from the perspicacious bowsprite, taken yesterday afternoon. The tug in the foreground is Sea Wolf is 1982. In the background is –of course–Ellis Island, 1900. In between with the yellow stack is
Yankee, 1907. Her long history includes a stint as Machigonne moving passengers across the sixth boro from Ellis Island to other boros and to NJ. The tow began at the far right of this foto.
More tugster on Yankee when I return, but before then, I’m sure there’ll be other info.
Six plus years ago, a friend Mike caught these fotos of Sea Wolf‘s sister–Sea Lion–moving an unusual vessel named Abora III out of the Morris Canal to sea. The reed craft made it more than halfway across the Atlantic.
All fotos by bowsprite. Advance notice came thanks to Rod Smith, who once worked as deckhand on Yankee and who will have his own account of this move . . . to Brooklyn. Here (2007) and here (2011) are my previous posts with Yankee fotos from New Jersey. Click here to get some backstory–and video of Sea Wolf departing with ferry– from a supporter who wanted to keep them on the watery edge of Hoboken.
Now, I pack and head south myself. Vou escrever mais em breve.
Here was the first post by this title. I’ve been back for a few days, but it’s been hard to transition from my jaunt in Utah areas of wilderness back to the densely settled areas in and around the sixth boro of NYC. I didn’t take the foto below of Binghamton, but her time is clearly running out. If you notice human/mechanical demolition (as opposed to destruction by natural erosion . . . as in the desert) happening, please get in touch or send me fotos? This was taken Friday during the rain by Allan and Sally, whose sweet vessel you’ll see later. I did three posts early October 2011 about Binghamton, then ravaged by Hurricane Irene.
I caught this foto of Miller Boys yesterday when it seemed the winds were blowing more rain in.
Ellen McAllister was moving this “unmarked” McAllister tug (anyone recognize it?) around the yard. Info follows, thanks to Birk Thomas. That’s Cashman’s Lynx in the background.
Also in Mariner’s Harbor, it’s Mark McAllister, not typically a sixth boro boat.
And slightly west, lined up from left to right are Barents Sea, Yankee, NaHoku, and Taurus.
Potomac stands off with Lower Manhattan in the background after an assist.
Over in North Cove, expedition yacht Copasetic costs more than twice any of the tugs appearing in this post; that bow is inspired by much larger ships.
And finally, my host vessel for a jaunt and great conversation . . . the Lord Nelson Victory tug Sally W, operated by
Allan and Sally, who’ve kept this blog during their recent jaunt up to Ottawa. By the way, has anyone seen Chase, the long distance padleboarder?
Binghamton fotos by Sally. All others by Will Van Dorp.
In case you were not able (like me) to identify the tug alongside Ellen McAllister, it’s none other than Winslow C. Kelsey.
Wifi (why? fie!) issues have delayed this series, but let me begin this “better-late-than-never” post with some rhetorical questions.
If tugster sees a tug and doesn’t have his camera, did he REALLY see it? I hereby claim to have looked up from snorkeling at Fort Zachary Taylor to spot Ocean Atlas and Ocean Wind . . . groaned about not having my camera . . . and then returned underwater to watch parrotfish, ballyhoo, grouper . . .
I visited the Mel Fisher Museum, but can you believe I missed the Miss Atocha Bikini contest . . . @!@? What would Captain de Lugo think about this? And might Miss Patty Nolan participate one of these years? Click here for some Patty Nolan history.
And I did hear about schooner Hindu . . . but will have to get fotos . . . later. For now, I present Western Union and Jolly Rover.
Here Western Union headed out for a sunset sail . . . following the tender and two dolphins that JUST dove.
What these stats don’t say is that she was built FOR the cable company in 1939 and ran between Key West and Cuba.
I believe this is Yankee on the far side of Sunset Key, with crew in the rigging, like spiders.
This B & B named for Captain Cosgrove shows how contradictory some historical personages can be: Coast Guard captain, sponger, and wrecker!! I read this as “government servant, business person, and . . . pirate.”
Fort Jefferson, a 35-meter National Parks Service vessel, is part of a contract to deliver support to the Iraqi Navy . . . . Am I reading something wrong here?
I haven’t found much more out than that Retriever is attached to Naval Air Station/Key West.
Another foto for the currently elusive bowsprite: a landing craft with a camper trailer on board . . . for how long? And I’m not so sure I’d feel confidence in a boat named “Maybe.”
And a final shot for now . . . is this a production boat or a one-off? Round . . . a water pod with at least one floor panel transparent . . . I failed to check if there was a propulsion unit anywhere. Foto was taken at the east end of the Conch Republic . . . in Key Largo.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who has actually just returned, albeit haggard, to the sixth boro.
The future starts today. At this link is an opportunity to comment on the Mayor’s plans for the future of all six boroughs. Please comment and pass this on to your friends to comment.
Meanwhile here are some gratuitous wooden vessel pictures. But aren’t they beautiful relics of a very different time? Will they have second lives?
Yankee, below, may still have some life in her. Right now, she waits for the future on this North Hoboken dock. Might she have a life in the city’s 2030 plan?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Blogs and the internet are fantastic collaborative tools. In just a few months, this blog has introduced me to like-minded folk on all continents. Nothing from Antarctica yet. Of course, the mysteries of Alice still remain, but that’s appropriate with unrequited love. The beloved, shown below in this summer 2006 photo, is almost in Canadian maritime water returning from Gibraltar as I write. But why she dashed across the Atlantic and never communicates…. I’ll enjoy the unattention and just have to guess her motivations.
Below are some of your revelations.
Brendan: the tug being restored in the 2/22 post is New York Central Tug #13. Some info on other historic New York vessels can be found here, North River being an alternative designation to the Hudson and as distinguished from the East River.
By the way along the North aka Hudson on the cold Hoboken side, here are two vastly different projects, schooner Anne and Ferry Yankee, described in the link in paragraph above.
Fred: the delightful caravel in the 2/17 was the Nina and the “invisible” vessel in my “header” photo, top of every blog is Drillboat Fractor. See blogroll “tug44”.
Bonnie aka frogma: too numerous to list all, but notable was Rosemary Ruth, Mystic Whaler, and Klang II in the 1/23. See blogroll.
Carolina: all about Mary Whalen in the 1/20, who floats again this week. See blogroll.
Enough for today. Thanks all.
Let me end by introducing the first blog I knew . . . er . . . blogg that is. Check out their schedule on this homepage; see them if you can… and dare.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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