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Mid-week traffic
Mid-week brought warm temperatures and passing rain storms. River traffic was fairly typical with some notable exceptions. Centerline Logistic’s Barry Silverton brought a barge up from Freeport, Texas, heading for the Sunoco Hudson Terminal in Rensselaer, an usual move as most refined product cargos heading up the river are loaded in New Jersey rather than being shipped up from the Gulf.
Barry Silverton bringing a Texas cargo up to Albany Wednesday evening 
A Reinauer ATB with a more typical routing, bringing a cargo from Cateret north on Thursday morning 
Dann Marine pushed a cement barge south from the Lafarge Ravenna plant Wednesday evening 
An empty cement barge was moving in the opposite direction Thursday late afternoon after a delivery in New Haven 
Kayakers passed a Circle Line boat completing a counter-clockwise circuit of Manhattan Thursday 
Happy Dragon headed back to sea Wednesday evening, signaling Brunswick, Georgia as next stop Sludge tanker Red Hook has been servicing the North River plant this week 
A Coast Guard Dolphin chopper over Pier 98 Thursday morning -
Heating up again
Temperatures have continued to climb after the mild weekend and winds were light on Tuesday. Observed commercial traffic was fairly typical, with stone moving south and refined oil products moving north.
Stasinos Marine’s Jon Joseph was pushing gravel south in the morning sunlight, coming down from Haverstraw Bay and heading for Newark Bay, a similar route as taken by other Stasinos Boats last month 
Buchanan12 was on its usual daily dolomite run down from Clinton Point in the afternoon A Reinauer ATB pushed loaded for Albany, while empties moved in the other direction as usual -
Continuing a good run
Beautiful weekend conditions continued into Monday, with clear skies, pleasant temperatures and winds building from the southeast. River traffic was fairly moderate. Carnival Magic was in town, loading passengers for an afternoon departure for Bermuda, and Royal Wagenborg’s Virginiaborg passed through after unloading wood pulp in Albany.
Carnival Magic gets a fuel delivery from HMS Justice as passengers board for Bermuda 
Morgan Reinauer brought a light barge down from Newburgh and headed for the company dock on the Kill Van Kull 
Buchanan12 headed north with its empty hoppers Royal Wagenborg’s Virginiaborg headed for sea after discharging wood pulp in Albany -
Sweet Sunday
Splendid weather persisted through Sunday, with clear skies, light breezes and moderate temperatures. River traffic was fairly light, with the notable exception of one large cargo ship coming through early.
The Happy Dragon heavy lift cargo ship headed for Albany from Mexico, perhaps to pick up some large deck cargo for export 
Buchanan12 headed south, with no Sunday day off on its daily dolomite run 
Swimmers with escort boats continue to move through, passing below the Palisades here 
The Haggerty Girls headed for Albany with a loaded barge 
The Lake Shore Limited made its daily run to Chicago, passing a J24 sailboat on the river and Castle Village Apartments of Hudson Heights above 
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Splendid Saturday
Saturday brought extremely pleasant conditions, with temperatures holding in the 60s and 70s and light winds continuing out of the north. River traffic was moderate and fairly typical, while sail boats, kayaks, paddle boards, outrigged canoes and even escorted swimmers were out in force.
A DonJon tug brought a scow with scrap metal down from the Sims Metal dock in Albany to the company’s Newark facility 
Passing another DonJon tug with a different kind of recycling, paper waste heading for Staten Island 
And a Reinauer tug pushing a loaded barge towards Albany 
Kirby’s Bluefin, which seems to normally operate in the Philadelphia area, brought an empty barge to anchor further up river off Yonkers 
Daisy Mae was heading back upriver to Tarrytown light in the morning. AIS shows she later headed back down towards the Lower Bay, perhaps with a load 
Her CMT colleagues on Helen were pushing a hopper with large rocks down from Coeymans, passing a large sailboat 
Vane Brothers’ Elk River was pushing a cargo north in the afternoon 
The Corps’ Hayward was making her usual rounds This striped bass has seen better days, but at what looked like nearly 3 feet in length it shows the size these can get to in the river -
A hint of Autumn?
A beautiful cool and breezy morning gave way to a more typical summer afternoon, but for a while this morning it felt like fall might be creeping closer. Winds were out of the north, atypical for summer. River traffic was light and typical.
A DonJon tug muscled a recycling barge out of Pier 99 en route to Staten Island 
The Hunts Point, one of three newer DEP tankers, was servicing the North River plant… 
…as was Red Hook, an older model tanker 
Saint Emilion was pushing for Albany; as usual, her barge was riding high in the water on this route 
Buchanan12 was on its usual daily dolomite delivery run 
Late in the day, the bulker Antigoni B arrived from Colombia heading upriver, passing the Arneborg on the way back to sea after discharging container board in Albany earlier in the week. 
The Naval Academy’s training boats remain tied up at Pier 86 Harbor Charlie has cars. This one was parked in the Intrepid Museum parking lot, presumably supporting the launch based on Pier 86 
A Navy E-2C Hawkey made a loop up the river. This plane is assigned to a training squadron based in Norfolk. 
For the second day this week a pair of swimmers were on the river with escort boats 
An outrigged canoe moved upriver in the morning 
And a pair moved downriver in the afternoon 
A cormorant and a herring gull can be friends -
Cooking again
Yesterday’s respite from the heat was short-lived as temperatures climbed again after overnight thunderstorms. Unfortunately, winds remained light. River traffic was fairly typical. The Naval Academy’s yard patrol training boats were back in town for a fourth time this summer as summer training cruises likely wind up ahead of the beginning of the Fall term in late August .
One of the Naval Academy’s four training boats arriving at Pier 86. J80 sailboats and the tug Nathan G in the background 
Marine Highway’s Nathan G brought a load of crushed limestone down from the Colorusso & Sons quarry in Hudson New York to the New York Sand & Stone dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 
CMT’s Helen pushed a hopper with larger rocks down from Coeymans, which I recently learned is pronounced “KWEE-Mans”. 
Helen exchanged barges off Greenville, Jersey City and was heading back north to Coeymans with a black looking cargo, perhaps asphalt millings, by the end of the day. 
DonJon Marine was moving paper from Pier 99 to the Pratt mill on Staten Island 
Saint Emilion pulled up its hook from the North River anchorage and headed down to pick up another cargo 
Kristin Poling pushed a load north on the River even though signaling New Haven on AIS 
The Vane Brothers’ Philadelphia pushed a cargo north 
Buchanan12 brought its usual lash-up of empty hoppers north Carnival Magic sailed after 6pm with a push from Kirby Moran, heading for Bermuda 
A pair of Marine choppers, including one Viper attack helicopter, flew low up the river just before 6pm -
Cooler!
The heat wave broke somewhat on Wednesday, with temperatures dropping down into the 80s, though winds also dropped off. Traffic was fairly light. The Saint Emilion arrived from Albany with an empty tanker overnight and dropped anchor off 96th Street. She was joined later by Kristin Poling, arriving with a light barge after a delivery in New Haven and then heading back to the Arthur Kill in the afternoon. The Dean Reinauer came through pushing a loaded barge down from Albany and signaling Portland, Maine. Usually loaded barges move north on the River, but we saw a similar move heading for Boston last month, and these could be ethanol cargos transported to Albany by rail and then on to New England by barge.
Kristin Poling with an empty barge anchored after returning from New Haven 
And then heading to pick up a new cargo 
Dean Reinauer bringing a loaded barge down from Albany and signaling Portland, Maine. Ethanol on board? The super yacht Neninka remained anchored off 72nd Street in the morning for a third day. Later in the morning, her tender brought a passenger to the Boat Basin Marina. Did no one tell them it is closed? With no way to disembark there, the passenger returned to the yacht and the yacht subsequently weighed anchor to cruise up and down the river for the rest of the morning.
The Neninka at anchor with her tender 
The DEP tanker Hunts Point headed for the North River plant 
And leaving later loaded with sludge Coast Guard 29’ boats were back on the River, drilling for a second day in a row. 
Another Wagenborg vessel, the Virginiaborg, headed for Albany with wood products from Sweden, the second in the past 3 days. ©2024 Daniel Katzive Uncategorized -
Wind and water
The city continued to bake in unbearable heat on Monday. The River was the place to be with steady south winds providing some natural air conditioning. Commercial traffic was light and fairly typical in nature. The super yacht Neninka remained anchored off 72nd Street for a second day.
Buchanan12 making its daily delivery of crushed dolomite from the Clinton Point quarry 
The Seastreak New Jersey was on its way back to Martha’s Vinyard after spending about 24 hours at the North River Boatyard in Nyack 
The Corps of Engineers crew boat Hocking made a full circuit of Manhattan 
The super yacht Neninka remained at anchor for a second day with its tender alongside 
Coast Guard 29’ boats were on the river 
And so was the NYC DEP’s water quality monitoring boat 
A J80 sailboat ran up river with its spinnaker rigged 
Another J80 ran with a conventional foresail and was passed by the North Bergen fireboat by the Palisades Medical Center 
Jordan Rose made a loop up the River with an empty barge A CMV-22B, which is a Navy logistics version of the Marines’ MV-22 Osprey, made a loop up the river as far as Yonkers, flying out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
A Navy CMV-22B made a loop up the Hudson 
The Cormorant Committee was meeting in morning session again 
Storms were moving through by the end of the day ©2024 Daniel Katzive Uncategorized -
Back on the River in time to see the Eagle
Returning from a 10-day absence from the River brought a sense of deja vu, as conditions were predictably pretty much the same: hazy, hot, humid, with afternoon winds from the south and a few heavy storms moving through.
The Coast Guard’s square rigged tall ship, the Eagle, was visiting New York last week and remained tied up at Pier 86 until departing Monday morning. The Eagle was a German navy training vessel commissioned in Nazi Germany in 1936 and was confiscated by the U.S. as a war reparation following World War II. The ship is based in New London, near the Coast Guard Academy, and officer cadets train on her during the summer months. For more on the Eagle, see the Coast Guard’s web site.
USCGC Eagle leaving Pier 86 Sunday evening saw a load of [update: container board, as per Tweet from ‘@PortofAlbany] from Sweden pass through on the way to Albany after a stop in Philadelphia. Royal Wagenborg vessels make this trip regularly, but as often as they pass I do not recall ever seeing the same ship twice, a testament to the size of the Royal Wagenborg fleet.
The Arneborg brings another load of container board to Albany from Sweden Reinauer ATBs were also busy Sunday evening, with loads heading to Albany and Newburgh. Reinauer’s Haggerty Girls anchored Sunday afternoon off 79th Street but headed out for a new cargo late morning Monday. A Seastreak fast ferry moved slowly past the Girls Monday morning, coming down from New Bedford where she was likely working the Martha’s Vinyard service, and heading (presumably) for repair at the North River Boatyard in Nyack.
Stephen Reinauer, vintage 1979, pushing for Newburgh Sunday 
A newer Reinauer ATB pushing cargo towards Albany Sunday 
Haggerty Girls at anchor off 79th Street, getting passed by a Sea Streak fast ferry. The ferry was heading for North River Boatyard in Nyack. Outside of the Reinauer family, the Saint Emilion passed through Monday morning with a lightly loaded barge heading north. A 68-meter luxury yacht, the Neninka, arrived from Bermuda and dropped anchor off 72nd Street. The Neninka is owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Hank Rohn according to the web site superyachtfan.com
Saint Emilion heading north with a barge 
Super yacht Neninka at anchor off 72nd Street 
FDNY Marine 1’s Three Forty Three boat made a loop up the river Monday 
NYPD on patrol Sunday afternoon 
Mister Jim pushing deck barges south from Coeymans on Monday Late in the day, the heavy-lift cargo ship Anne-Sofie came down from Albany signaling Genoa, with some deck cargo visible, perhaps generators or transformers.
Anne-Sofie heading for Italy with deck cargo loaded in Albany ©2024 Daniel Katzive Uncategorized
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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