With less than a week until the July 4 naval review and tall ship parade, preparations are underway on land and on the water. A number of the agencies which will be contributing to security operations for the events had boats on the North River Monday, probably for familiarization and rehearsal purposes.

The U.S. Navy appears to have brought in a port security patrol boat, probably based at one of the naval bases on the East Coast, and the Westchester County Police marine unit’s Tarrytown-based boat also came down-river as far as the cruise terminal before returning to its usual jurisdiction. Also on the river were some local security boats, including a Coast Guard 48-foot response boat from Sector New York base on Staten Island, the 89-foot Coast Guard patrol boat cutter Bonito based at Sandy Hook, and a New Jersey State Police boat.