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If she’s not fishing, I figured she might be heading out to fish, or even returning.
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But unlike the other fishing boats in the boro, she has nothing in the water.
And then I saw this
sign; fishing boats work with offshore wind.
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You can’t approach the sixth boro with a fixed idea of what you’ll see, unless you have special arrangements, but seasonally you can imagine what’s nlikely to be around, like
clammers working the boro and selling out the catch out of New Jersey to the south. Yes Miss Eileen is one of those clamboats,
as are Lobster Boy–here with Jacksonville beyond–and
Eastern Welder.
Other tugboats come and go, here like Reinauer Twins and Sea Fox,
and Caroline M heading in the direction of the cruise ship in Bayonne.
Note the pink reflection on the port side of Odyssey of the Seas? That’s indication that across the entrance to MOTBY there’s a ONE container ship.
Other tugboats work as well.
That’s a typical winter’s day. Of course, since I had no foreknowledge, I missed dead ship AP Revelin, which I noticed onAIS in Halifax back in November before it was towed out of there byEzra Sol,
then handed off to a team of McAllister tugs. I missed the McAllister tow into the sixth boro too . . . no foreknowledge again.
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Trawler Mersey Venture caught my attention as we sailed into Halifax, but I’m not sure what was going on. I suspected it was training for the helicopters. More info on the 1988 193′ trawler can be found here.
All photos yesterday, WVD.
Although southern states so far have more snow on the ground than the five boros, there’s no question it’s cold here. The KV buoy adds a coating of white to look like a flag.
Engine cooling water for this ship’s bow thruster turns into coating on the hull.
A bit of ice covers Desperado‘s bow name board.
But the clammers are out there, the regulars like Dutch Girl and Lobster Boy,
and Eastern Welder.
But here’s the real indicator of January: USCGC Wire is out. Backlit from my position, she came in from sea yesterday.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who encourages you to throw on some layers and enjoy some January sights.
If whales and party boats come into the Upper Bay, you know the health of the harbor has improved.
Come post-summer and almost fall’s end, seeing these same boats year after year makes me giddy.
I’m sure these fisherfolk have their stories.
Want to sample their catch? Click here.
Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy seeing these boats as much as I do.
I’m not sure what these folks are after . . .
but enjoy.
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My friend the wood carver, Nick . . . the N. in Louis N. Carreras gave me an idea with this post here, where he points out that Nick, whose day is today, is the patron saint of travelers and lots of other groups. That same Nick aka sinterklaas had his day in the Low Countries yesterday.
Thanks to Nick the patron saint then I’m catching up some gallivants of the past few months, like this one on the Sound between Bridgeport and Port Jeff in November. You might remember Sea Installer, but I took many more photos, like these . . .
Islander is a clam dredge. I’d love to see one working.
Most recreational boats were out of the water, except these, particularly
this one with a weird name. What’s this about?
The Hunter is out of the water for some spa treatment maybe.
Upon closer inspection, Virginia V is not
the workboat I saw transiting the boro back in mid-October. Is she a clammer?
The one that really intrigued me is Greenport, out working when we passed.
See the clam rake hauled up the port side?
She was off Stratford Point Light.
More road photos to come. These all WVD, as are any errors. Happy Nick day.
Brian Nicholas makes past the Weeks yard followed by Dutch Girl.
Annie G II works underneath the Newark Bay bridges.
Meaghan Marie heads on a mission into the Kills.
Osprey tows a flotilla to a job.
And finally some closer ups of Erin Elizabeth and Hawsepiper floating the caisson into the Bayonne Dry Dock with
International shipping registries is a dizzying topic for me. Look at that link and you’ll see that IRI was founded by an equally elusive person, Edward Stettinius Jr., elusive meaning I don’t understand a person like him. He does have a Staten island/Todt Hill connection. But I’ve gone down this rabbit hole too deep already, and it’s time to just complete this post. Earlier I’ve done this post called Zanzibar, and this one featuring boats still registered in Wrangell AK. AK is not international, but it is so far from the sixth boro that it focused my attention on other places of registry on sixth boro boats..
I took all these photos except the last one this month.
Why is Commodore registered in Highlands NJ?
This one I understand, since the company that operates Robert Burton is called Norfolk Tugs.
There’s history here.
You can’t see it and it’s no surprise, but Arctic Dawn is registered in New Orleans.
Windserve Journey is registered in New York, NY, but again you’ll understand if you read the history.
Sam from Port Comfort TX . . . well, again, follow the history as Birk and TBI Group captures here. I had to look up where Port Comfort is.
Well, this makes sense . . . and yes, I do have a Cape Ann and Rockport road photos post in the works . . . .
Meaghan Marie . . . well, history again.
Philadelphia from Baltimore, again . . . history, and I know it.
But here’s the one I didn’t take. This photo was taken at an unidentified Barge canal lock, likely in the early 1950s. Why Bath ME?
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‘Tis black Friday morn, and all o’er the web
come calls to spend dollars . . . increasing your debt . . . .
I’ll let you finish the words to a soon-could-be classic called “Morning after T’day.” Interspersed in these sixth boro details are other black Friday details or consequences, whichever term you prefer. If you’re not familiar with the vessel below, NYC containerizes its trash and moves it from truck transfer stations to railheads [for burial in other states] via barge, as seen here and below. Any guesses on the number of tons of trash a day the boros chuck? Answer follows.
The other day I enjoyed seeing Washington again over in Bayonne preparing to assist Jeju‘s HMM Hope out the door.
Before the pink ONE ship came in, I checked on progress with gantry assembly in Port Liberty Terminals, and in the past month, the two farther blue ones fully extended are nearer operation, leaving the two nearer ones appearing to my eyes as they were configured upon arrival with lowered center of gravity for safer trans-oceanic passage.
I mentioned these earlier.
Red Hook fits in this general category too.
Black Friday roughly coincides with the start of clamming season in the boro, and an old favorite is the first of the draggers I see arrive.
‘Twas my first time to see Torm India; Jill Reinauer assisted with getting the barge in place while
The 2015 Dylan Cooper stepped away. Many previous Torm tankers have called in the boro.
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Here and here are previous black Friday posts. While my mind’s on trash,
five-boro tons of it a day? That would be 22,000. Tons. Daily. Per captia, most US places are likely similar.
While we’re talking this stuff, NYC does now collect food scraps (think potato peels, egg shells, coffee grounds, etc.) and a recent number is over 4000 tons/year and growing . . . 65% increase in the past two years. And since I’m down this rabbit hole, have another food waste-related link.
Fish tugs are a design unique to the Great Lakes. Here are previous installments. I found the particularly illustrative poster below in the NPS Pictured Rocks Interpretive Center in Munising MI. See articles to accompany it here and here. Harvey Hadland and Bob Macreth put together a good resource on fish tugs. bowling Green State University has info here as well.
Some currently appear derelict, no name displayed, like this one in Whitefish Bay State Harbor.
Vagabond in Grand Marais MI has seen better days. It also appears the wheelhouse and port lights have been removed and covered over. Hadland lists two boats by that name.
Two boats carry the name Arbutus as well.
Mr. M$ne is a trap net boat.
These were also nameless, at least I could see no names from where i had access.
Jensen’s Fishery operates this boat. See the interior of this boat on their FB page.
More on the 1945 boat here.
Hadland has this boat from 1938,
previously named F. Devet Sons,
currently named Shelly or Shelley, she tossed me a line and asked me to take her along.
And it turns out this Janice E, nearby Vagabond, leads me to Isaac Pennock here. It turns out that Isaac has a much longer list than I do. Bravo!
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