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From Capt Nemo, a few years ago, the 2000 Mary Gellatly high and dry and before she was Mackenzie Rose. Also, I see Tasman Sea, Dace, an unidentified Bouchard, and Yemitzis.
From KP, Dace getting her upper wheelhouse . . . over 10 years ago.
From a Great Lakes Mariner, the oldest working ship on the Lakes . . . Alpena, a survivor launched in 1942, as she backs out of a Wisconsin city.
From Tony Acabono, it’s Kodi, among the smallest, hard-workingest tugs of the sixth boro.
From Bob Stopper a few years back, when Grouper was facing another no-starter season.
Another one from Bob, it’s tug Syracuse with a comatose Governor Roosevelt alongside.
From back in March 2020, thanks to Jan Oosterboer, via Jan van der Doe, it’s the world’s largest vessel by displacement . . . Pioneering Spirit. Here are tech specs and lots of images from her operator, AllSeas.
Here she enters port without an assist. Jan writes: “Moves complete oil rigs, drilling platforms, can work as pipe layer.
Has a working crew of about 400 people including sailing crew.”
If I read this correctly, she has eight 20-cylinder engines that generate 127,000 hp and can cruise at 14 kts!
And finally one of my own from almost 15 years ago, it’s tug Hackensack. As I understand it she’s now in South America somewhere.
Thanks to Nemo, KP, Mariner, Acabono, Stopper, and the Jans . . . for use of these photos.
I hope to “see” you tomorrow for my Turnstile Tours on zoom doing “Exploring the Erie Canal.” Tomorrow’s tugster post will be up early so that you can get interesting info for the zoom meeting.
Of all the project boats, converting work boats into yachts, few get completed to the degree this one has.
I took these photos last weekend in a cove just off a major portion of the sixth boro, thanks to a tip from MM & MM.
M. V. Santandrea keeps some elite company, its humble beginnings notwithstanding. Click here to see her working lines usually submerged. Now here’s the most important link . . . to see what she looks like inside, thanks to MM. I have not found photos of her as she looked in 1961.
Converting a workboat to a yacht seems a common dream and sometimes succeeds, as in the 255′ salvage tug later called Lone Ranger, now called Sea Ranger. Another success would be the 193′ Sea Wolf, former sister of pilots’ mothership Elbe. Then there’s the sixth boro’s own Yemitzis. And there’s Wendy B, which was 1940 built in Owen Sound, ON, and which generated lots of interest at the 2012 TBRound Up.
There’s no mistaking that rigging.
Meanwhile, Santandrea . . . she’s a beauty.
PS: Does anyone have updates and/or photos to share of Sea Monster, formerly of Narragansett Bay and once being worked on in Mamaroneck?
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, and thanks again to MM & MM.
See the decorated Dutch bar? That’s not something you see every day.
but July 4 is not an ordinary day. Just look at all those people at the land’s edge: “water-gazers” Melville called them, as you can read here with the last sentence of the second paragraph and go through the next two paragraphs. All wanting to see the decorated Dutch bar?
Brendan Turecamo, showing the Turecamo flag!
Marie J Turecamo brought a barge of pyrotechnics too.
Marion Moran–like Brendan Turecamo–brought a barge full to midtown, I believe.
. . . as did Doris Moran. Again, see the water-gazers fill the esplanade.
Other tugboats brought other gazers . . . sky-gazers soon.
like Kimberly Poling and .
Yemitzis, launched as a PRR tug in 1954. Click here and scroll to see her original look.
My goal at the fireworks on Pier 16 had been to get shots of Ambrose bathed in pyrotechnical light, but alas . . . without the right orientation of camera to boat to flashes . . . this is the best I got.
This photo from July 2012 was what I had imagined I could get. Well . . . it’s all about a lot of things, including location. See the different version of this shot of the left of this page and please let’s continue the discussion on the future of Pegasus.
Speaking of sky-gazers . . . from the back of the crowd on Pier 16, this is what I got.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And if you didn’t see this article in the NYTimes about digital photography and ethics, check it out, even if you just look at the before and after photos.
What’s this? Where? Answer follows. It’s not really sepia per se, just an approximation.
I took this foto a week ago, then stripped out the color. It’s Yemitzis, the former
PRR Philadelphia, launched 1954. Major modifications have happened between the two incarnations.
Here’s another foto I took last week, Resolute. With its ample pudding, it’s a perfect candidate to be sepia-fied.
The top foto was taken by Fred Wehner a few days ago; that’s not Rosie the riveter but Capt. Wendy Marble, working to prep her vessel Urger, for the 2013 season. Here, here, and here are some full color fotos previously featuring Urger, who initially looked like this over a century ago.
Thanks to Paul Strubeck for the foto of PRR Philadelphia.
I suspected as much when I saw this train . . . although I was quite surprised by the tug out front.
I hadn’t seen Yemitzis under way for a few years now. Yemitzis dates from 1954, launched as Pennsylvania RailRoad’s Philadelphia, hull 227. Here‘s the link. . . but scroll about 2/3 through to get to PRR tugs info. So Yemitzis is one of the oldest hulls working here. Tailing tug Robert IV is 1975.
No, the newest hull is the black box between them, hull #92 just launched at Senesco, destined to be part of a drydock at Caddell’s.
Meanwhile , I’m happy to see Yemitzis out and about working again.
Does anyone have a foto of her as PRR’s Philadelphia?
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Sirens . . . their brief season arrives Saturday. Check out the cartoon on p. 72 of the June 23 2008 New Yorker. The siren above . . . what do her hands signal the fish? The fish above . . . what might their interaction with the siren here remind me of? Of course, for me . . .
naturally, it’s like the choreography of Laura K Moran and the great Hapag Lloyd Essen Express as . . .
the couple tango away, Essen back stepping with immense momentum, and although Turecamo Boys urges restraint,
no holding back will happen until . . .
Essen Express pirouettes with proper form as
Boys inspects, approves, and then
Laura K backs away also. Essen has found its spin and not even the smoke pouring from a hasty Yemitzis can delay the trip toward the ocean. Meanwhile, Boys has other errands to run, maybe bigger fish to fry, so to speak. Meanwhile, suppose Essen will anchor off Coney Island for the parade?
More fotos of Essen Express here (scroll about half thru this page). Check out the other several thousand thumbnails also.
BTW, Laura K generates 5100 hp and Boys, 3200. See also Jed’s comment to the left.
Photos, WVD.
I’d never seen this unnamed yellow tug, eastbound on East River, before just over a week ago, unless the yellow covers some familiar red or green. Can anyone Identify it?
More that happened by . . . Yemitzis, 1954, out of Staten Island, up close and Maryland, 1962, also out of Staten Island farther off.
Harry McNeal, 1965, out of Perth Amboy, I don’t recall seeing before either . . .
Sea Wolf, 1982, New York, sibling of Sea Lion pictured here though you need to scroll past mermaids and serpents. (Oh, yes about 40 days away!!)
Vivian L. Roehrig, 1961, Glen Cove, NY, also ex-Peter M. and H. D. Campbell.
Jenny Anne, 1958, out of Hoboken, with an incomparable paint scheme and shifts in identity, ex-Buras Lady, Harbor Lights, John O Seahorse, Gaby Lynn Gisclair.
And nary a red or green or red & green in the lot. Let me end with a question also: what has become of Hackensack, pictured below at the 2006 NYC tugboat race? Don’t tell me it’s now red/green?
Photos, WVD.
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