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Familiar names
Vane Brothers tug Red Hook, 3,000 HP, came up the North River on Friday with a loaded 50,000 barrel barge heading for the Global Terminal in Albany. Red Hook is New York Harbor based but I rarely see her doing Hudson River work like this, though the name is difficult to look up in my…
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The world takes
The heavy lift cargo ship BBC Africa, Antigua-flagged, came up the North River just before sunset on Thursday heading for the Port of Albany. These ships sometimes carry project cargo for delivery up there, but more often of late they are collecting electrical generation and transmission equipment manufactured by GE Vernova in Schenectady for delivery…
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Stopping by
Kirby’s Cape Henry/ DBL 103 ATB came up the North River Thursday afternoon to anchor off Guttenberg with the 100,000 barrel barge looking light. We see New York Harbor-based Cape Henry anchoring on the North River from time to time, but I believe she is mainly servicing terminals in New England. This summer, Cape Henry…
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Foliage watch
Marine Highway’s hardworking tug Sarah D was northbound on the North River on Saturday, pushing empty hoppers past Hoboken’s Stevens Institute of Technology. Tree colors have not really turned yet in New York Harbor, despite autumn foliage being well-advanced up north. By Thursday this week, Sarah is back down south distributing stone quarried upstate, currently…
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Here to help
James D Moran, a 6,000 HP tractor tug, came up the North River Sunday afternoon for an assist job at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, helping to sail the AIDA Diva as she headed for the Bahamas. As of Wednesday afternoon, James is back at Moran’s Staten Island base awaiting her next job.
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Working New York Harbor
Dann Marine’s Atlantic Coast moved a 35,000 barrel Vane bunkering barge up the North River on Sunday, passing Jersey City and Hoboken and headed for delivery at a cruise ship docked at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal. The 20-year-old 3,000 HP Atlantic Coast is usually based on the Delaware River, I believe, but came up to…
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Regatta weekend
This past weekend Hudson River Community Sailing held their annual regatta on the North River. The regatta raises money to fund youth sailing education programs for school kids in Manhattan and the Bronx. The kids learn to sail, how to apply STEM in real world scenarios, about river ecology, build wooden boats in the winter…
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Get out of the rain
B. Franklin Reinauer/RTC 81, a regular on Hudson River routes though most recently having been running up to Boston, was one of several ATBs and tug/barges that came up the North River Friday afternoon ahead of a line of storms. After the storms passed she was on her way to Tremley Point on the Arthur…
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Miller Time
Miller’s Launch tug Michael Miller was moving barges at the Gateway Tunnel North River cofferdam worksite on Wednesday. Up above, at the top of the frame, a helicopter is rolling into position to land at the 34th Street Heliport which remains open on a smaller footprint during the Gateway work.
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Downtown
The Morgan Reinauer/RTC 100 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug with a 100,000 barrel barge, was outbound on the North River on Wednesday afternoon with the barge light, heading for the Bayonne IMTT. The unit has been servicing terminals in New Haven and Providence over the past week but came up the North River early Wednesday…
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Rock and roll
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland was southbound on the North River on Friday morning, passing the Galaxy Towers of Guttenberg NJ. George had a cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry loaded aboard the company’s barge Ellie heading for a materials company yard on the Arthur Kill in Perth Amboy. George has been making…
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Linda Sue comes back
Hays Tug Linda Sue was back on the North River with Double Skin 55 last week, the second time we have seen her this year. She was returning from a products run up to Maine and, similar to last time we saw her in August, she took anchorage off Spuyten Duyvil with the light barge…
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New York makes, the navy takes
NY State Marine Highway’s Sarah D took a break from her usual stone cargos to move a special tow down the North River on Saturday. Hopper barge 78 held a 100 ton condenser manufactured in western New York State and headed for a naval manufacturing site in Rhode Island, I believe to be installed on…
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Six Pack
Marine Highway’s Sarah D brought a six pack of hopper barges loaded with stone down the North River on Thursday. According to the company’s socials, Sarah picked up about 8,700 tons of stone, the equivalent of 435 loaded semi-trucks, from the Colarusso quarry dock in Hudson, NY a day earlier to bring down to NY…
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When you gotta go
Fresh off Tuesday’s appearance in a supporting role on the NCIS New York season premiere, Henry Marine’s Henry Girls was back at work on the North River on Thursday. Her assignment was perhaps less glamorous than TV work but probably more important as she appeared to be picking up a barge that was swapping out…
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Heading back home
Thursday morning found a tug and livery I have not seen before transiting down the North River. Construction company Mohawk Northeast’s 2,400 HP tug Bridgeport was returning light from the Rondout Creek in Kingston with a bone in her teeth heading back to the company’s base in Groton, CT. Along the way, she passed the…
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Job complete
Maintenance channel dredging operations up in Haverstraw Bay appear to be wrapping up, a few weeks before the October 31 environmental conservation deadline. On Tuesday, Curtin Maritime’s Kimberly C had the derrick barge Avalon on the wire heading out to sea and on to Morehead City, North Carolina. We have seen Kimberly coming through daily…
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Pink October
Dann Marine tugs are moving cement barges on the North River this week, heading to and coming from the cement plant in Ravenna. On Monday afternoon, Sapphire Coast came through with a cement cargo heading for the materials terminal on Gowanus Bay in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The next morning, Coral Coast was northbound with a…
