The tug Sitka, appropriately named for a very cold Wednesday morning, came up the North River just after sunrise. Running light, the out of town visitor was arriving from her home port of New Bedford and signaling Kingston, so probably heading for the Feeney Shipyard there and perhaps collecting a barge being worked on. The owner company was recently approved to begin freight roll on/off barge service to Martha’s Vineyard.

UPDATE on Thursday Jan 9: Sitka made a quick turn in Kingston and was heading home within 24 hours with a deck barge in tow with what looked like two spuds lashed on the deck. She paused for some time in the Upper Bay Thursday morning, perhaps waiting for wind and tide.