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Monday greens
Marilyn George, Poling & Cutler’s 4,200 HP tug returned from Rensselaer with the 304-foot Edwin A Poling products barge early Monday and anchored off West New York.
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Trading places
The tug Vinik No. 6, recently famous for towing the SS United States from Philly to Florida, was anchored early Monday on the North River with a tank barge which I believe was A87. On Tuesday, Chrystal Cutler came up to relieve No. 6 on the barge and then, later that day, the big Saint Emilion came up to take over, allowing Chrystal to return to the harbor. The Saint would later bring the barge upriver towards Albany.
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Arriving from Sweden
The 387-foot Dutch-flagged cargo ship Trade Navigator moved up the North River in Monday morning rain bound for the Port of Albany. Previous port was Vallvik, Sweden which makes wood pulp or another lumber product a probable cargo. In the photo, the ship is passing an inbound Edgewater ferry off North Bergen.
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Visit from the French navy
The French navy dropped in for a visit to NYC Wednesday, with the amphibious assault ship Mistral, one of three in the French fleet, and the frigate Surcouf tieing up on the south side of Pier 88. The ships are about half way through a five month training mission making a clockwise circuit around the North Atlantic. They previously called on New Orleans and conducted exercises with the US Navy off the coast of North Carolina.
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Summer cruising grounds
Vane Brothers tug Fells Point stood by near Pier 88 on Tuesday as Norwegian Getaway took on fuel from a barge alongside and disembarked passengers waited for transport. Getaway began its summer schedule last week making regular runs from NYC to Bermuda through mid-August after spending the winter visiting Mexico and Central America from New Orleans. Fells Point later departed with the barge on the hip, heading for the Vane barge docking area on the Brooklyn waterfront.
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Cement waits
Cement barges do not often anchor in the North River, but early on Monday morning Sapphire Coast got only as far as the cruise terminal with a cement transporter barge loaded in Ravenna before heading back up into the federal anchorage area. Sapphire spent most of the foggy day in place there before heading to the Bayonne cement terminal in the afternoon. While at anchor, Dann Marine colleagues aboard Gulf Coast passed by with a loaded Vane tank barge bound for the small products terminal in New Hamburg.
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Business trip
Mary Turecamo passed down the North River in Sunday afternoon rain, running light on her way back to the harbor. Mary was coming from assist work up north, helping the bulk ship Amis Wisdom VI which had called on Port of Coeymans last week navigate from Catskill NY to Hyde Park. See Glenn Raymo post on this FB link for photos of the assist work up there:
https://www.facebook.com/100006838754599/posts/3972917709612815/? -
Summer activities
A 35-foot NYPD Harbor Patrol launch assisted a jet skier on the North River off 69th Street as temperatures topped 80 degrees on Saturday afternoon. In the background, a J80 sailboat headed downriver close hauled with a reefed mainsail.
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Reinauer river
Reinauer power was moving fuel up the North River on Thursday morning, with the big Haggerty Girls/RTC 107 ATB (4,000 HP tug, 413’ barge) and the Curtis Reinauer/RTC 80 ATB (4,000 HP tug, 347’ barge) passing by in quick succession heading for different terminals in Albany. They passed Lucy Reinauer anchored with a light barge about 3 miles south of the bridge after returning from Newburgh. Don’t know the exact cargos any of these barges carry at any given time, but with temperatures warming, gasoline and diesel are probably supplanting heating oil demand up north.
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Sugar express
The last day of April found Dann Marine’s East Coast arriving from Florida with the Sugar Express barge on the wire. The barge was loaded with a cargo of domestic raw crystals headed for the refinery in Yonkers. Coming soon to a table near you.
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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