MOPS 2022 Photo Contest Submissions

Thank you for participating in the MOPS 2022 Photo Contest! We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of your photos and we hope you’ll keep capturing amazing and unique moments at sea to share in our 2023 MOPS Photo Contest.

From all of us at MOPS, smooth sailing in 2022!

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Retired Panama Canal Pilot John R. Carey (pictured) check-rides Captain Matthew Rigby’s progress as he turns a loaded Molasses Tanker bound for sea from the Port of Palm Beach.

View from the M/T Solar Melissa southbound in the Mobile Ship Channel at 0200 on 11/16/21

From the bridge of the MT Ningbo Dawn, inbound Mobile Harbor, looking at downtown Mobile, AL at 0700 hrs on November 12, 2021

MV Pantariste meeting the MV BBC Louise in the Mobile Ship Channel on November 1, 2021 at 1820 hrs.

Taken from bridge wing of MV One Marvel at 0800 on 10/13/21. Swapping berths in Mobile Harbor at APM Terminal with MV CMA CGM Tancredi.

From bridge of MV COSCO Piraeus on 10/14/21 at 1000 hrs meeting the MV One Marvel at the entrance of the Mobile Ship Channel

Buchanan 12 pushing 5 loaded stone scows in the North River off of Peekskill, NY

Mako III on a cold January night in NYC tied up due to Covid 19.

Tug Paulicca North bound in the North River approaching Nyack, NY

Trawler Lilly Rose inbound Manasquan Inlet Point Pleasant NJ.

Towboat US towing the Swaggy B trawler inbound Manasquan Inlet Point Pleasant NJ.

Tractor Tug ST JOHNS ready to assist a container ship Fort Lauderdale FL.

Container ship AS FABRIZIZ Bound for Sea Fort Lauderdale, Tug ST JOHNS ready to push the stern around.

From Mobile, With Love

Austin Reinauer and passenger ship in fog NY Harbor.

Bayonne, NJ sunset.

Christian Reinauer passing Hudson Light, Hudson River.

Great Beds Light, Raritan Bay.

Heat and power.

Liberty through mast.

Nicole and RTC 135 Passing through Chelsea St. Bridge, Boston.

Nicole Leigh Reinauer with RTC 135 East Bound in C and D Canal.

RTC 108 Moving in Drydock at Senesco Shipyard, Kingston R.I.

RTC 108 passing Robins Reef Light, NY Harbor.

Boston Lighthouse in the sunrise.

The newest Staten Island Ferry SSG. Michael Ollis is docked in Whitehall Terminal on a fall afternoon.

The Michael Ollis is the first of 3 Ollis class ferries purchased by New York City to replace older existing ferries in the fleet.

Undocking LMSR USNS Shughart under Pilotage as Captain away from the USNS Yano (left). Newport News, Virginia

Tug Resolute assisting a cement barge in New Haven Harbor

Tug moving a cement barge on the hip with assist tug in New Haven Harbor

Sunset over Bayonne, New Jersey with Tug Cape Henry

Ship outbound from the Mystic River with assist tug

Denali overtaking a sailboat in the Cape Cod Canal

ATB units awaiting berth in Bay Ridge Anchorage New York Harbor

Tug Haden II working the bow of a ship in the Houston Ship Channel.

Tug Haden II working in the Houston Ship Channel.

Container ship backing down from Howland Hook to Bergen Point New York Harbor.

Tug Mary Turecamo working the stern of a ship backing down New York Harbor.

High speed vessel Departing Virginia Port.

Irving Tanker approaching the Casco Bay Bridge outbound on the Fore River in Portland Harbor, Maine. In a few more ships lengths, we’ll be swallowed by the fog before it completely engulfs the bridge.

Tug Dr. Ray and Paula M. Sperry in Alameda Ca with a container crane in the back ground. These tugs operate for LEO Marine Services a subsidiary of Centerline Logistics out of San Francisco CA.

San Francisco Bay.

Tug foxy 3 towing a crane barge in Jamaica bay by Marine Parkway Bridge.

T/S "State of Maine" (152m) sizing up the "Monaco Bridge" (366m).

Tug Frank M & Pilot Boat 2.

Long Climb on a molasses tanker entering Palm Beach.

Docking a molasses tanker at the port of palm beach.

Docking a bulker to discharge 1 yacht at the port of palm beach.

Offshore sunrise.

Alongside heading back inland

Getting off the wire.

Transiting upbound through the American Narrows on the St. Lawrence River.

Teague Tug fog.

Teague Sea Smoke Tug.

Sunrise Approach

Singing River Island Crossing The Bar

The photo was taken on the tug Coral Coast of Dann Marine Towing. Towing the barge Sugar Express. Photo was taken off Frying Pan Tower off the Coast of North Carolina.

Transiting through the Panama Canal at night with friend Capt. William Conley.

MOPS 2022 Photo Contest Submissions

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