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Watching the traffic
The big Reinauer Twins / RTC 104 ATB spent some time anchored in the rain on the North River off Guttenberg last week, watching passing traffic. The smaller Josephine / RTC 83 combination came by Wednesday, heading north with a cargo. Later, Kristin Poling with light barge Eva Leigh Cutler headed for an anchorage further up.
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Wind against tide
A 20-knot southwest wind was blowing straight up the North River on Thursday morning, creating some chop as it ran against the ebb tide. Cape Canaveral / DBL 101 left anchorage and headed for the Upper Bay.
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Coast Guard Friday
The Coast Guard was visiting the North River on Friday, with the 154-foot cutter Rollin Fritch, one of two based in Cape May, docked at the end of Pier 86 by the Intrepid for the weekend. Capturing the mast, the 25mm deck gun and the bow in one shot required my iPhone’s wide-angle lens.
Meanwhile, up above, with the timning presumably coincidental, one of the Falmouth-based Jayhawk helicopters also visited, making a loop around the statue and a lap and a half around Manhattan before heading home with a refueling stop at Republic in Islip on the way.
Lastly, also probably unrelated to the visit of the other two assets, a Staten Island-based 45-foot response boat made a trip upriver towards the bridge and back in the afternoon.
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Extra help
Dann Ocean’s Thomas Dann has joined the DonJon Yonkers dredging work Friday morning, ferrying mud scows to the dump site off Highlands NJ.
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Under the cliffs
Timothy Reinauer / RTC 84 had a nice spot to anchor heading into the weekend, seen Friday below the Palisades off Englewood Cliffs with Rockefeller Lookout visible above.
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Visit from a dredge
Hardly a week has gone by this winter without a gale warning in NY Harbor and, as a result, we are seeing more variety of vessels visiting the sheltered North River than usual, albeit in less than ideal conditions for photography. Wednesday morning has brought the hopper dredge Ellis Island and her tug Douglas B Mackie to anchor off Edgewater. They have been working off Fire Island and we last saw this combination anchored here during a winter storm back in January.
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Quick turns
Allie B moved a loaded Double Skin 43 barge up the North River just after sunrise on Monday, heading for the products terminal in New Hamburg, NY . They had loaded a cargo at a terminal in Carteret on the Arthur Kill Sunday night, making a quick turn after just returning from up north the day before. They left New Hamburg before midnight and headed south out of state, passing down along the Jersey Shore by Tuesday morning.
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Stone beats scrap
Erin Elizabeth with a stone cargo overtook their Carver colleagues aboard Mister Jim pushing scrap on the North River en route to the harbor on Friday afternoon.
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Avoiding wind
Vane’s Bohemia brought a light Double Skin barge up to anchor on the North River Thursday morning, joining a number of combinations getting out of the heavy winds forecast for that day.
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Road test?
On Wednesday afternoon at slack tide, Genesis Energy’s Spirit brought barge GM 11105 up the North River as far as Guttenberg. They were shadowed by Genesis Glory, which is the tug we normally see paired with this barge. Spirit maneuvered the barge around and headed back for the harbor, still shadowed by Glory. Don’t know why they did this, perhaps testing out a new tug/barge pairing (just a guess). According to tugboatinformation.com, Genesis acquired Spirit last year.
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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