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Back in town?
The Laurie Ann Reinauer / RTC 85 ATB was anchored on the North River this past weekend. This is the first time I have seen this unit up here since early 2022 and she may have been working outside of NY Harbor for a bit (not sure). Laurie Ann is of similar class/design and vintage as Ruth M Reinauer who we see more often.
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Switching off
Genesis Spirit ran light up the North River on Sunday, meeting up with Genesis Glory which had returned from Newburgh with the GM 11105 barge. Glory dropped out of the notch, allowing Spirit to take over the tow off Edgewater.
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Green on green
Poling & Cutler’s Kristin Poling was anchored on the North River with the Eva Leigh Cutler barge on Saturday evening after a run up to Boston during the week. P&C colleagues aboard Evelyn Cutler passed by with the barge Noelle Cutler returning to the harbor from a products delivery to a terminal in Rensselaer.
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Heading for Philly
Dann’s Chesapeake Bay left anchorage off Englewood Cliffs Friday morning and headed down the North River with the barge Chesapeake on the wire. Tugs towing astern on the North River are almost always returning from sea or heading for sea, and the latter was the case this time. Chesapeake Bay and Chesapeake passed through the Narrows and headed down the Jersey Shore, destined for Philly.
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Summer driving
Petroleum haulers are busy moving refined products up the Hudson River this month as winter heating oil demand gives way to summer driving season. On Thursday, Reinauer’s Kristy Ann/RTC 82 ATB was Albany-bound in the rain with a products cargo, passing Josephine/RTC 83 with a light barge anchored off North Bergen. On Friday morning, the longer Gracie M Reinauer/RTC 109 was moving the other direction, returning to the harbor after a delivery in Newburgh.
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Kennedy’s last visit
The Texas A&M Maritime Academy training ship T/S Kennedy arrived at North River Pier 88 on Wednesday, just a day after the USS New York left the same spot. Kennedy, launched in 1967, is on her final summer training cruise as the maritime academy will receive its new National Security Multi-Mission Vessel the Lone Star State later this year.
Kennedy started life as a break bulk freighter in 1967 and was acquired by MARAD for its Ready Reserve Force in 1985. She was converted to a training ship for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 2003 and, after MMA got its own new NSMMV in 2023, was transferred to Texas A&M Maritime, which had previously used the vessel already for summer tours, visiting New York in 2022. Vane’s Fort Schuyler brought a fuel barge alongside for bunkering.
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Back from Boston
Genesis Vision returned from Boston with GM 6508, a 362-foot long bow-thruster equipped tank barge, and headed up the North River to Yonkers on Wednesday to spend some time at anchorage up there.
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Hatches open
The Hong Kong flagged bulk ship Silhouette Island headed for sea and her next port of call Norfolk at sunset on Tuesday after departing Coeymans the day before. She had several hatch covers partly open for venting or cleaning holds. Don’t know what cargo she discharged up there.
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Up from the Gulf
The big Barbara Carol Ann Moran/Louisiana ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with 468-foot barge, came up the North River Friday morning. She was arriving from New Orleans and headed for a terminal in Albany after first calling at the Port Morris terminal in the Bronx. I last saw this ATB up here three years ago and she is usually down in the Gulf I believe. We don’t see a lot of oil product cargos coming direct from the Gulf to Albany. On the North River, she passed Carver’s Erin Elizabeth, Newark bound with another load of scrap.
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Clearwater revival
The Hudson River sloop Clearwater has been spending some time tied up at the 79th Street Boat Basin’s A Dock in between some public sails the group has been running out of Dyckman Street Marina further north. The relatively recently rebuilt A Dock remains accessible even as the rest of the Boat Basin Marina is off limits. Clearwater used to base itself at A Dock when in New York City but cannot run programming from here with the marina closed. Clearwater is flying a Mexican flag off its mast, presumably in recognition of last week’s East River tragedy.
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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