Donjon Marine’s low-slung J. Arnold Witte came up the North River on a hazy Wednesday morning last week, passing Edgewater and signaling an AIS destination of Erie, PA. This is not a common destination for commercial vessels heading up the Hudson, but J. Arnold was built at Donjon’s affiliated shipyard there in 2021 and travelled back there last September to pick up a new barge, stopping by the Tugboat Roundup in Waterford NY on the way. J. Arnold is designed for creek and canal work but clearances on western sections of the Erie Canal are too low even for her as I understand it and on that previous trip she made a right at the Oswego Canal near Syracuse and completed the trip via Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Land-based AIS coverage is spotty on the canals but I believe they may be crossing the Oneida Lake portion of the canal network as of Tuesday morning.