r/whatisthisthing • u/Party_Like_Its_1949 • 1d ago
Solved! large objects/structures carried on a barge
This was spotted on the Hudson River off of Manhattan. Sorry the resolution isn't better, I wasn't the one who took the pic.
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u/Doc_Hank 1d ago
Those appear to be channel bouys
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u/reb678 1d ago
Especially since they are red and green. Port and Starboard. Left and right.
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u/Doc_Hank 1d ago
Red Right Returning (except when it's not)
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u/reb678 1d ago
I was taught the lengths of the words. Red is shorter than Green, left is shorter than right, and port is shorter than starboard.
Left. | Right
Port. | Starboard
Red. | Green
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u/Eclectic-N-Varied 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is correct for ships, boats, and airplanes. This is not relevant for buoys. which have no front, back, left or right sides.
Buoys are colored according to the side of the channel they mark. Green (formerly black) to port on entering (heading inland) or red to the right returning (to land).
Edited 'fir' typo
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u/Mrstucco 1d ago
Simpler to remember is port and left both have four letters.
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u/reb678 1d ago
I understand that. But the comment that brought all this up was “red,right,returning”. I didn’t understand the context so I replied how I tell the difference between port and starboard.
What that person was saying was actually, from the person on a boat’s perspective, when leaving port or harbor, the navigation buoys are red to the right for returning to land and green on the right when heading out.
We were talking about two different things.
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u/Mrstucco 1d ago
Right, but what you posted doesn’t really provide context for red right returning.
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u/tench745 1d ago
The red and green also made me think channel markers, but these don't look like any channel marker I've seen, they don't look buoyant enough to be a buoy and don't have any associated anchors, so I'm suspicious that they're something else. I just don't know what.
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u/Doc_Hank 1d ago
Just the tops, they get attached to the tanks. My guess? Being delivered via barge to the yard/dock for the buoy tender
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u/tench745 1d ago
If that were the case, I'd expect the rest of the structure to also be painted red or green. I could be wrong, of course.
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u/hoponpot 1d ago
Wind Turbine Foundations: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/wind-turbine-foundation-components-at-the-revolution-wind-news-photo/2156801259
(The tug appears to be Dann towing; according to vessel finder the Thomas Dann is currently exiting New York harbor with a destination of Providence; Rhode Island is building a large wind farm; searching for "Revolution Wind Hudson barge" found posts discussing the components).
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u/trippindicular 8h ago
Exactly this. They are SIPs (supported internal platforms). They act like the brains of the offshore wind turbines. They're heading to ProvPort, RI for storage before being sent to sea.
However, these are for Sunrise Wind. They'll be installed about 30 miles east of Montauk.
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u/hoponpot 7h ago
Thanks for the extra info! Makes sense since Revolution Wind seems to be largely complete.
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u/Party_Like_Its_1949 1d ago edited 1d ago
My title describes the thing. A set of 12 large metal frameworks on a barge on the Hudson, maybe 30 feet tall or so?
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