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Business trip
Mary Turecamo passed down the North River in Sunday afternoon rain, running light on her way back to the harbor. Mary was coming from assist work up north, helping the bulk ship Amis Wisdom VI which had called on Port of Coeymans last week navigate from Catskill NY to Hyde Park. See Glenn Raymo post…
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Summer activities
A 35-foot NYPD Harbor Patrol launch assisted a jet skier on the North River off 69th Street as temperatures topped 80 degrees on Saturday afternoon. In the background, a J80 sailboat headed downriver close hauled with a reefed mainsail.
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Sugar express
The last day of April found Dann Marine’s East Coast arriving from Florida with the Sugar Express barge on the wire. The barge was loaded with a cargo of domestic raw crystals headed for the refinery in Yonkers. Coming soon to a table near you.
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Late goslings
I always like to record the first goslings I see every spring on the North River. April 30 is later than I have seen them begin to appear in the past and this is the only family I’ve seen so far—perhaps the harsh winter or the bird flu took a toll or the windy spring…
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Cleanup
DonJon tug Paul Andrew, with nameboards removed, ferried a scow loaded with debris cleared from the area around the 30th Street Heliport to a pier in Port Newark on Tuesday, part of the ongoing Gateway Project work.
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More bulk
The Panama-flagged bulk ship Amis Wisdom VI passed up the North River early Tuesday, bound for the Port of Coeymans. The ship was arriving from ports in the Mediterranean with unknown cargo, though more salt is a possibility.
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Fuel goes up, cement comes down
Cement passed fuel on the North River early Monday. Coral Coast had a cement transporter barge carrying product from the Ravenna, NY plant to a distribution terminal on College Point on Flushing Bay. Coral passed the B. Franklin Reinauer RTC 81 ATB loaded with an oil product cargo and heading for Albany (or perhaps Newburgh)…
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Standing by
DonJon tugs were standing by at the DSNY’s Pier 99 transfer station on Friday evening. In addition to the company’s regular working moving waste paper scows from here to the paper mill on the Arthur Kill, the company was also busy maneuvering barges at a worksite removing debris from the 30th Street Heliport as part…
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Coast to Coast
Ruby Coast ran light up the North River on Friday afternoon, returning from servicing on the KvK to rejoin a sugar barge left docked in Yonkers. Sapphire Coast followed a bit later to help sail the barge off the dock at the plant and then returned light to the harbor, passing Lackawanna terminal on the…
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Getting salty
A lot of salt has been moving up the North River this month, headed for the Port of Coeymans to restore municipal supplies depleted during the harsh winter. Some has come on bulk ships heading upriver, and some has come by barge, lightered off a series of bulk ships that have arrived from Egypt and…
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Bloomsbury on the Hudson
The tanker CL Virginia Wolf came up the North River Tuesday, arriving from Dominican Republic and heading for the Global Terminal in Albany. Fuel cargos from the Caribbean have not been typical lately, though perhaps the product was loaded at earlier port calls in Northern Europe. At nearly 50,000 dead-weight tons and 600 feet in…
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Captain D lends a hand
Captain D, a 2,400 HP Norfolk Towing tug which I don’t think we’ve seen before on the North River, came by Wednesday morning running light returning from a trip up to the Yonkers sugar refinery. I believe they were helping a barge dock at the plant. The barge had likely been waiting at anchor for…
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Last call for salt
On Friday, Carver’s Mackenzie Rose passed up the North River headed for Port of Coeymans. In tow were two hoppers loaded with what I think was probably salt lightered off a bulk ship that was in the Upper Bay and had arrived from Egypt. A bit later, the 650-foot bulk ship Port Nagasaki came by,…
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Mooring season
A crew from Miller’s Launch came up the North River early Thursday with mooring balls to be installed for seasonal use at the Parks Department’s Dyckman Street Marina. With the 79th Street Boat Basin out of service indefinitely, Dyckman Street Marina is the only recreational access point on the New York City side of the…
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Keeping score
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection does weekly water quality sampling along the city’s 500+ miles of waterways. On Wednesday the H.S.V. Piping Plover, the newer of the DEP’s two harbor survey vessels with on-board laboratories (the other is the HSV Osprey), came up the North River to inspect. In the background, Plover was passing…
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Paying the tariff
Balsa 91, a compact 350-foot Panama-flagged bulk ship, arrived on the North River Wednesday with a cargo of raw sugar from Dominican Republic heading for the refinery in Yonkers. With the bulker having left DR after April 5, this may be the first or one of the first foreign cargos to arrive on the river…
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Crystal clear
Crystal Cutler ran light up the North River Wednesday morning. She was paying a short visit to Marilyn George at anchor with her barge off Edgewater amid heavy winds, perhaps exchanging crew or delivering supplies. Crystal is the smallest of Poling-Cutler’s tugs with 1,500 HP vs. 4,200 for Marilyn and doesn’t really do Hudson River…
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