Other working vessels: Photos & Discussion

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Nice to see a bit of the van isle barge company. great photos.

Heres some I found from this summer.


The tug KAYMAR of Pacific Towing Services. Which was towing the multi purpose barge.

She is 20.21x7.26x3.11 with 750 HP

Are log booms acceptable for working freight?

[Low Light Mike]

A pusher-tug and barge, at Tofino, in February 2010.



The tug is the Sechelt Ranger. Owned by G&N Towing from Powell River.

[mrdot]

Aug 26, 2010 20:39:44 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

I did a day of ferry-riding on 8/26/2010, and I saw plenty of working-freight during the day:
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I saw this ship in morning and also in afternoon at same place, off of the mouth of the north arm of the Fraser (or somewhere near there). I tried to read the ship's name, but it's not clear.
- Does anyone have an idea of what this ship is?

that pic. off the sandheads mouth of the Fraser is fraser pile & dredge's Fraser Titan. it often lays over at Vito's old shipyard,where the lego queens were pieced together. mr.dot.

[Scott]

Aug 26, 2010 21:25:53 GMT -8 mrdot said:

that pic. off the sandheads mouth of the Fraser is fraser pile & dredge's Fraser Titan. it often lays over at Vito's old shipyard,where the lego queens were pieced together. mr.dot.

Here's a close-up photo of her off Gary Point Park earlier this month:

[Low Light Mike]

Thanks for identifying the Fraser Titan. You guys are great.

[Retrovision]

Aug 26, 2010 22:22:02 GMT -8 Scott said:

Aug 26, 2010 21:25:53 GMT -8 mrdot said:

that pic. off the sandheads mouth of the Fraser is fraser pile & dredge's Fraser Titan. it often lays over at Vito's old shipyard,where the lego queens were pieced together. mr.dot.

Here's a close-up photo of her off Gary Point Park earlier this month:

I like this shot of our Fraser's primary dredge unit a lot. Thanks for this, John.

Again the burden of navigating through back issues of Western Mariner magazine has stopped me in my tracks, unfortunately. I learned recently - through WM of course - that FRPD's Fraser Titan, the workhorse for giving the Fraser River's South arm a navigable passage, recently had 2 new Mains (Cats, I think) installed. Again, I'll report back if and when I am able to properly sift-through this trail of glossy paper.

[Low Light Mike]

Here is some working freight, off of Horseshoe Bay.

- I saw this rig at Sewells Marina earlier that morning (Oct 1, 2010), and then I saw it when I was later on the Queen of Capilano.

- the trucks had been parked in Sewell's parking lot, and then were driven onto the barge at the beach there.

[lmtengs]

Mike,
Do you think maybe those two trucks might be headed up to Woodfibre? I can't think of any other communities up Howe Sound that are unaccessible by road, except for maybe one logging camp, just south of the midway narrows. If they are headed up to Woodfibre, might they be doing something with the Queen of Vancouver?

[Low Light Mike]

Oct 9, 2010 19:00:55 GMT -8 @lmtengs said:

Mike,
Do you think maybe those two trucks might be headed up to Woodfibre? I can't think of any other communities up Howe Sound that are unaccessible by road, except for maybe one logging camp, just south of the midway narrows. If they are headed up to Woodfibre, might they be doing something with the Queen of Vancouver?

The one truck that I saw parked at Sewells had roof-trusses on it. So maybe it's heading to a building site on Gambier Island, or Keats Island?

[Neil]

Oct 9, 2010 21:32:20 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

Oct 9, 2010 19:00:55 GMT -8 @lmtengs said:

Mike,
Do you think maybe those two trucks might be headed up to Woodfibre? I can't think of any other communities up Howe Sound that are unaccessible by road, except for maybe one logging camp, just south of the midway narrows. If they are headed up to Woodfibre, might they be doing something with the Queen of Vancouver?

The one truck that I saw parked at Sewells had roof-trusses on it. So maybe it's heading to a building site on Gambier Island, or Keats Island?

This company...
www.mercurylaunch.com/index.html
operates barge and water taxi services out of Horseshoe Bay. There's another barge company that operates out of Gibsons. www.crosbymarine.ca/barging-tugboat-services.html I've seen them in the Gambier vicinity in the past when I've been leaving Langdale. As Mr Horn suggests, they're probably on a Gambier or Keats run.

[lmtengs]

Ah. Thanks.
Less exciting than my proposal, but much more logical.

[Deleted]

Oct 9, 2010 21:48:17 GMT -8 Neil said:

Oct 9, 2010 21:32:20 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

The one truck that I saw parked at Sewells had roof-trusses on it. So maybe it's heading to a building site on Gambier Island, or Keats Island?

This company...
www.mercurylaunch.com/index.html
operates barge and water taxi services out of Horseshoe Bay. There's another barge company that operates out of Gibsons.

Here is the same water taxi and barge from a few years ago in the same area
July 2007

Attachments:

[Low Light Mike]

For those who like to keep up with shipyard happenings in the news:
- we've lost a news source, in Feb.2011.

HARBOUR & SHIPPING WINDS DOWN

After 48 years of publishing HARBOUR & SHIPPING, Murray D. McLellan, President & Publisher of the has announced his retirement and the end of the monthly publication which has served the local marine industry for over 92 years over four generations of family.

[Nick]

Wow. That is a major loss to the marine community.

[Neil]

Apr 13, 2011 12:21:53 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

For those who like to keep up with shipyard happenings in the news:
- we've lost a news source, in Feb.2011.

HARBOUR & SHIPPING WINDS DOWN

After 48 years of publishing HARBOUR & SHIPPING, Murray D. McLellan, President & Publisher of the has announced his retirement and the end of the monthly publication which has served the local marine industry for over 92 years over four generations of family.

Harbour & Shipping had an extremely low profile in recent years. I didn't even know they were still publishing. I couldn't find a website a couple of years ago when I was wanting to subscribe (still can't find one), and I have no idea where you could purchase a magazine. Good thing we still have Western Mariner, although I'd like them to reflect more the reality of Vancouver being such a major seaport in their content.

[mrdot]

:)you know for years I used to have a subscription to Harbour & Shipping, and occasionaly some of my work was found there! I am loosing items of my life every time I look at the remembering page, just hope I don't read about myself anytime soon! mrdot.

[Low Light Mike]

Apr 14, 2011 14:13:02 GMT -8 Neil said:

Apr 13, 2011 12:21:53 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

For those who like to keep up with shipyard happenings in the news:
- we've lost a news source, in Feb.2011.

Harbour & Shipping had an extremely low profile in recent years. I didn't even know they were still publishing. I couldn't find a website a couple of years ago when I was wanting to subscribe (still can't find one), and I have no idea where you could purchase a magazine. Good thing we still have Western Mariner, although I'd like them to reflect more the reality of Vancouver being such a major seaport in their content.

I think that I only saw "Harbour & Shipping" as extracts on the Seaspan company website (news section), and maybe as an insert in Western Mariner magazine.

[Nick]

I found a random copy once in a BCF gift shop. That was probably more than a year ago, and I haven't seen it since.

[Low Light Mike]

A thread for other working freight vessels.

- for items not fitting into company-specific photo threads.

[Low Light Mike]

A few different working-vessels in Seymour Narrows / Menzies Bay:
- June 2011.
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Inlet Rustler returning towing a boom.
- tall mast for the # of lights required to show the load-extent.


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Check out this rig sailing up Seymour Narrows



- close up of the barge, showing the various vehicles placed like match-box cars atop a box.

[D'Elete BC in NJ]

A flickr page with photos from the tug and barge collision with the Queensborough Rail Bridge:
www.flickr.com/photos/rog45/

[Low Light Mike]

Jun 24, 2011 17:38:33 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

A few different working-vessels in Seymour Narrows / Menzies Bay:
- June 2011.-----------

Check out this rig sailing up Seymour Narrows

I saw this same tug/barge in Milbanke Sound in early July, and the comparative timing (day) between that sighting and my June sighting shown above in Seymour Narrows suggests that this is on a regular schedule.

The tug is the Western Navigator.



She is part of the Western Towboat Company fleet. Their related company "Alaska Marine Lines" has various weekly barge routes from Seattle to Alaska. So that's what I've seen twice this year.
www.aml.lynden.com/shipaml/southeast.html


And here's the barge in Milbanke Sound area

[Low Light Mike]

Fuel barge & pusher tug operated by K-Sea Transportation Services, registered in Portland Or.

I spotted her in Queen Charlotte Strait, off of Port Hardy.
- I was on the BC Ferries Queen of Chilliwack in early July 2011.







The barge is "DBL 55", and I can't make out the name of the tug.

[Low Light Mike]

A working research ship seen near Porlier Pass in Georgia Strait, July 2, 2011.







The Thomas G. Thompson is a University of Washington ocean research ship.

from here:
www.washington.edu/research/field/thompson.html

[Low Light Mike]

A freight scene at Port Alberni's waterfront, on a foggy December 4, 2011.

- the Port Alberni industrial waterfront seems empty without the familiar sight of the ex Queen of Esquimalt.