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Reinauer parking
Monday morning finds a pair of Reinauer ATBs at anchor on the North River having stopped here on the way back from product deliveries in Albany. The Janice Ann / RTC 103 unit, a 4,400 HP tug paired with a 108,000 barrel barge, was off Guttenberg, while sitting at anchor about half a mile north…
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Made in New York
Island Trader, an 800-HP tug owned by Stevens Towing of South Carolina, came down the North River heading for the Upper Bay with a deck barge loaded with a shrink-wrapped piece of heavy equipment. This is likely something manufactured by GE in Schenectady and transferred to a barge at the Port of Albany. From here…
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Getting stone
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, 18 years old and 3,000 HP, was northbound on the North River with the company’s hopper barge Ellen on Tuesday morning. The tow was en route to the Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie where they would likely be loading a stone cargo for delivery back in New York Harbor.
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Remember Hess
Sea Wolf Marine tugs Sea Fox and Sea Lion brought a construction barge down the North River on Sunday from the work site at the location of the old Hess tanks in Edgewater, NJ. The green tanks were a landmark on that stretch of the river for decades but have been gone for over 10…
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Decommissioning
Donjon tugs Douglas J (4,800 HP) and Paul Andrew (1,200 HP) brought the company’s big Chesapeake 1000 crane down the North River on Thursday afternoon, passing Guttenberg on the way back to the harbor after heavy lift work at the old Yonkers sugar refinery. My guess is that work there probably relates to decommissioning the…
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Event parking
Work is underway this week on a new temporary docking structure between unused North River Piers 90 and 92. With the big Sail250 celebration just a few weeks away, the city is working to increase pier space for visiting tall ships and a group of four connected spud barges will provided a home for several…
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Made in New York
Dann Marine’s Pearl Coast, 48 years old and 5,600 HP, has been moving cement from the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna NY, to terminals in New England over the past month. On Monday, Pearl came up the North River with a light cement transporter barge, heading back to the plant for more product after offloading…
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Dress rehearsal
A French Air Force A400M Atlas tanker and eight French alpha jet fighters flew down the North River Tuesday morning, with the fighters trailing red, white and blue smoke. The flight originated at Stewart, circled the Statue and headed for Virginia. The planes are part of the Patrouille de France, the official aerobatic demonstration team…
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Rabbit Rabbit
The venerable Dace Reinauer/ RTC 62 ATB unit came down the North River on the first day of June, returning from a final May delivery up north. A week later on Monday morning Dace is back in New York Harbor on the Kill van Kull having been up and back to Rensselaer and Newburgh in…
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Substitute
Wednesday afternoon found a rare sight on the North River: towboat Buchanan12 returning to her Erie Basin base running light without her usual raft of crushed stone hoppers from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie. The next morning, Norfolk Tug’s George Holland, who sometimes substitutes for B12, was running with the Buchanan boat’s usual charges,…
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Fill ‘er up
Chandra B, a small bunkering tanker that services mid-sized boats in New York Harbor, was at Pier 40 on Wednesday morning, refueling the sightseeing cruiser The Manhattan 2.
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She’s a keeper
Coast Guard buoy tender Katherine Walker, the Keeper of New York Harbor, came up the North River on the first day of June, the first time I have seen her this spring. Kate had some buoys on deck and travelled as far north as lighted buoy 168 just a bit south of Albany, stopping at…
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Harbor David
An NYPD Harbor Patrol 32-footer, I believe Harbor David, came up the North River in a hurry Monday afternoon from the Harbor David base at the Intrepid. Things get busier for these units as temperatures warm, but the nature of Monday’s call wasn’t clear.
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Moving iron
The 1400 HP Catherine C Miller of the Miller’s Launch marine services company was maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam work site off Pier 66 last Tuesday. If you spend enough time near this spot you will see tugs from pretty much every locally active towing company other than the petroleum product haulers rotating…
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