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Summer cement
Dann Marine tugs were moving cement barges in both directions on the North River on the final Saturday of August. The 4,860 HP Sapphire Coast came south from the Ravenna, NY plant with a loaded barge en route to Providence via the offshore route. A bit later, the 3,000 HP Coral Coast was heading north back to the plant with a light barge, having offloaded product at the cement terminal on College Point in Flushing Bay.
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Staying in focus
Corrected typo: draft decreased
The bulk ship Orient Focus, 620 feet long and Portugal flagged, came down the North River in ballast Saturday morning heading for sea after departing the Sims Metal dock in Albany. The bulker’s reported draftincreaseddecreased while in port and, having arrived there from northern Chile, she may have discharged a cargo of salt, a lot of which seems to be moving through that facility this summer. Her next destination is reported as New Orleans where she will presumably load a new cargo for export.
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Back on local waters
Haugland Group’s 1,800 HP tug Lily Anne is northbound on the North River Saturday morning, running light and perhaps heading for the company’s materials handling port on Tompkins Cove near Haverstraw. The tug has been far ranging over the past week, having been at Rhode Island’s Davisville Port as recently as Monday and come up from points south last weekend.
UPDATE: Lily Anne wound up collecting stone hoppers from the anchorage off the Tilcon Haverstraw quarry and bringing them down to the old Kinder Morgan Staten Island terminal which at one point was slated for conversion into an offshore wind facility.
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State of Maine
NOT THE NORTH RIVER: A visit to coastal Maine found some vessels similar to occasional visitors to the North River. The Maine Maritime Academy’s training ship State of Maine was in residence at the school’s dock in Castine. The ship is a sister to our local SUNY Maritime vessel the Empire State and was in New York Harbor at the mouth of the North River for this summer’s Independence Day celebrations. Nearby, the Coast Guard station at Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island hosts a pair of 47-foot motor lifeboats, which I have not seen on the North River, but also a more familiar 65-foot small harbor tug Bridle, similar to the cutters Wire, Hawser, and Line who we do see on the North River and the Bollard who I ran into in Montauk last summer, as well as a 29-foot response boat. Back on the North River next week.
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Hello Linda Sue
Hays Tug Linda Sue, who I haven’t seen on the North River in some time, came up from Philly on Wednesday with Vane tank barge Doubleskin 55. Linda took anchorage off Spuyten Duyvil where she remained into the weekend.
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Quenames
Quenames, the older of two tugs in Boston Marine Transport’s fleet, was Newburgh bound on the North River Thursday afternoon. In the photo she is passing West New York with a New York Harbor oil products cargo loaded aboard the company’s New England 29 barge. By Friday evening, Quenames and New England were back in the harbor to load a new cargo along the Arthur Kill.
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Heavy lift
The Donjon Marine heavy tug Douglas J (4,800 HP) brought the company’s massive Chesapeake 1000 crane down the North River on Friday, with the low-slung tug J. Arnold Witte providing an escort. The crane was being brought back from a heavy-lift job at the Port of Albany, perhaps moving a piece of heavy GE equipment from the dock to the barge brought north by the Tradewinds tug Carol, with Carol now on her way back down river and heading to the Gulf, though I’m not sure.
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Here’s Donny
Wednesday brought another tug I’ve not seen before up the North River. Donny F McAllister, who I believe normally works out of Philadelphia, has been at the McAllister yard on Staten Island this summer and this week she took a short run upriver as far as Englewood before coming back, at first a speed, outpacing the ebb current, and then drifting beam to the ebb for a bit before returning to base. If she came up to New York for work, perhaps this was trials (just a guess).
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Park view
The tug Liz Vinik was back at the North River water treatment plant with the sludge barge Maria alongside on Wednesday. Maria was loading residual solids (sludge) for dewatering at the Passaic Valley water treatment plant on Newark Bay. The North River plant is most often serviced by the city’s own fleet of tankers but we have seen this privately owned barge calling here periodically over the past year, perhaps because two of the city’s tankers are currently out of service. The photos were taken from Riverbank State Park, which sits above the sewage facility.
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Wall Street on the North River
The Prospect Park/MAM 80 ATB, a 5,000 HP tug paired with a 400’ /80,000 barrel barge,has been on the North River this week, moving between anchorage off Yonkers and the Upper Bay with the barge looking light.
This is the first time I have seen this unit which I believe normally operates in the Gulf out of Florida but came up to New York Harbor in July and has made at least one trip down to Wilmington since then.
The ATB carries no branding or logos but publicly available documents filed in connection with a recent legal dispute with a charterer indicate it is owned and chartered out by investment company Marathon Asset Management, consistent with the MAM name of the barge, and is operated by a division of Vane.
Observations on the Hudson River as it passes through New York City. The section of the Hudson which passes through New York is historically known as the North River, called this by the Dutch to distinguish it from the Delaware River, which they knew as the South River. This stretch of the Hudson is still often referred to as the North River by local mariners today. All photos copyright Daniel Katzive unless otherwise attributed. For more frequent updates, please follow northriverblog on Facebook or Instagram.
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