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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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Cormorants are back
Double-crested cormorants have been fishing off the end of Pier i this week. These birds return to the North River every spring after wintering down south and feast on fish coming up the river to spawn.
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Passing Lackawanna
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 84 ATB passed Hoboken’s Lackawanna terminal in light rain on Thursday afternoon. The unit was now underway but the crew would have just witnessed a tragic helicopter accident or the immediate aftermath of the crash a bit south of here and had been holding position for over an hour mid-river near…
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Helicopter Crash
A helicopter has crashed on the North River this afternoon, with the aircraft falling into the water near the Jersey City shoreline by the Holland Tunnel vents. The Coast Guard confirmed that all occupants were killed, including one pilot and five passengers. The AP reports the FDNY said the call came in at 3:17 p.m.…
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Getting ready for summer cruising
Seasonal dredging is underway again at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal to maintain the listed quay depth of 36 feet (or deeper). DonJon’s Delaware Bay clamshell dredge and tug Casey Ann were between North River Piers 86 and 88 on Wednesday afternoon.
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New Kid in Town
Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship Norwegian Aqua made its inaugural departure from North River Pier 88 on Wednesday, heading for Florida after crossing the Atlantic in March. Her christening ceremony will be held in Miami on Sunday but she will be based in NYC this autumn for cruises to Bermuda. The ever-multiplying towers of Journal…
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Commuting
Janet D, a 1320 HP tug belonging to Construction and Marine Equipment of Elizabeth, has been making trips up to the Yonkers sugar plant from her base on the Arthur Kill with a deck barge, presumably for some work happening up there.
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Nostalgia
A Metro North P32AC pulled a “MaxiBomb” consist (7 Bombardier passenger cars) through Riverdale on the Hudson Division in Sunday morning fog. The engine wears a heritage wrap commemorating the days when Conrail ran commuter service here between 1976 and 1982. The blue and yellow New York State colors which once adorned Conrail’s old FL9…
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Arriving from down south
Thomas Dann arrived on the North River from offshore on Saturday with the deck barge CBC Savanah on the wire. Thomas had come up the coast from Charleston and was heading for the Port of Coeymans, perhaps to pick up some project cargo there.
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