Unsustainable heat

Twenty-four hours of summer ended in thunderstorms Friday night and dropping temperatures Saturday. North River anchorages filled up for the weekend despite relatively calm conditions in the Harbor. Traffic was light, with a familiar mix of oil products heading north and crushed stone heading south

Lightning struck the Englewood Cliffs area on Friday evening
Buchanan12 headed north with light hoppers as the rain moved in from the north on Friday
Returning to Jersey City with crushed stone from Clinton Point on Saturday morning.
And then heading back north again Saturday afternoon
Pinuccia headed for Newburgh with a products cargo Friday evening
And returned Saturday with the barge light
North River anchorages filled up by Saturday morning
Chesapeake Coast with their distinctive stripped tower and the 300’ barge Chesapeake was off 72nd Street after returning from New Haven
Kristy Ann was further north with 347’ long RTC80
Kirby’s Lincoln Sea was next in the row with the massive 474’ DBL 140 barge
Last but not least, Centerline’s Adeline Marie had a light barge off Edgewater
Adeline Marie arrived on the River Friday at midday
A Vanes Brothers tug moved south on the River Friday
DonJon’s Meagan Ann had hoppers heading north, probably to collect scrap in Albany, passing Kristy Ann at anchor and a J80 tacking up river into the Northeast wind
Kimberly Poling had a products cargo heading for Albany Saturday afternoon on the 316’ Edwin A Poling barge.
Wittich Marine’s Sea Fox continues to support the DonJon dredging operation at the cruise terminal
Douglas J had a loaded mud scow on the wire heading for the dump site Saturday.
A Blackhawk with medical markings flew upriver Friday
The Riverside Park gosling population seems smaller than usual this year, but this family’s were getting bigger
Mallards enjoy the good life

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