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Fresh paint
The Kirby Cape Canaveral/DBL 101 ATB came up the North River on Wednesday to anchor. They were coming from the GMD Shipyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where they may have been having some work done.
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Wine and chocalate
You never know what an offshore breeze will bring up the North River. The sail freighter Grain de Sail II is anchored off 72nd Street this morning ahead of gales expected later in the day, first time I have seen her. The ship makes two trips a year brining wine and chocolate from France to NYC and then heads for the Dominican Republic with humanitarian supplies before heading back to France with cocoa and coffee.
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Night moves
It was only 6 p.m. but DonJon’s J. Arnold Witte and Paul Andrew were in full December darkness Monday as they waited at the DSNY Pier 99 transfer station. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a recycling mill on the east shore of the Arthur Kill on Staten Island.
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Harbor Patrol on patrol
One of the Harbor Patrol’s 85’ scuba boats was on the North River Monday. The 10-year old, Detective Dillon Stewart 628 launch was passing the big flag on the Edgewater waterfront, heading north of the bridge.
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Dredging time
Seasonal maintenance dredging seems to be underway on the Yonkers waterfront. DonJon’s powerful Atlantic Salvor was towing a scow loaded with spoils out to the dump site off Highlands, NJ on Monday.
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Pre-Thanksgiving bulk
A second bulk ship in a week came up the North River heading for Coeymans on Monday before Thanksgiving. Eva Istanbul was arriving from the Mediterranean with unknown cargo.
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Glory Glory
Genesis Glory and GM 11105 spent Sunday evening on the North River after returning from a run up to New Haven before heading for the Kill van Kull Monday morning and then an Upper Bay anchorage.
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E-Crain on the move
Erin Elizabeth cam up the North River Sunday, heading back to Coeymans with one of the Carver Companies’ e-cranes. The crane has been working on the coastal resiliency project now underway near Battery Park I believe.
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Heading for Coeymans
The 590-foot Panama-flagged bulk ship Tac Suzuka was on the North River heading for the Port of Coeymans in the rain Thursday morning. I don’t know the cargo or whether they were perhaps heading up to load scrap. The towers of Journal Square are visible in the fog in the background.
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Braving the wind
The collection of tug/barges sheltering from the wind on the North River began to break up Saturday afternoon, with two loaded Vane barges brought to their product destinations. Meanwhile, Reinauer Transportation was busy moving product north on the Hudson.
Gracie M Reinauer and RTC 109 headed for Newburgh Saturday afternoon, passing one of Classic Harbor Line’s boats 
The Reinauer Twins headed for Albany with RTC 104, passing the anchored B. Franklin Reinauer/RTC 81 unit. 
Kristy Ann with RTC 80 headed north on Sunday morning 
Lucy Reinauer anchored Friday night on the North River with RTC 60 but at Saturday midday headed for the terminal at Tremly Point on the Arthur Kill. 
Vane’s Wye river braved the wind and headed for sea with a loaded Double Skin barge on the wire, continuing on down along the Jersey Shore. 
Vane’s Fort Schuyler headed north to meet up with Magothy and her loaded barge north of the bridge. 
Fort Schuyler shadowed Magothy as they fought the wind with a loaded tank barge and headed for the Vane base in Red Hook. 
Patrice McAllister returned from New Haven with RCM 260 on the hip in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning and anchored off Guttenberg.
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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