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Summer jobs
Coast Guard ice breaking tug Sturgeon Bay came up the North River from her Bayonne base on Thursday, the first time I have seen either her or her sister Penobscot Bay since ice season ended in March. The 140-foot cutter traveled past the GW Bridge and spent some time off Riverdale before returning home where…
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Quick round trip
Kirby’s Mount St. Elias / DBL 82 has been a regular on Hudson River routes over the past year. On Tuesday evening just before sunset, the unit came up the North River passing Jersey City and Hoboken with a NY Harbor products cargo en route to the Global Terminal south of Newburgh, NY. By sunrise…
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Moving material
Carver Marine’s Mister Jim was Coeymans-bound on the North River on Sunday with the CMT Y NOT 7 deck barge loaded with stone material handling equipment. Jim reached the upstate port the next day and by Tuesday morning is back at the Carver base on the Kill van Kull again.
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Patrol boats patrol
The Sandy Hook patrol boat, 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Bonito, was cruising New York’s waterways over a rainy Memorial Day weekend. On Saturday, she traveled up the East River as far as Hunts Point before coming back and cruising up the North River as far as the Upper West Side. Dawn on Memorial Day finds…
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Fly over
Friday’s commissioning ceremony for the new Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter Vincent Danz at Pier 86 brought a helicopter flyover to the North River. Choppers from the NYPD and New York and New Jersey State Police flew over in formation followed by a pair of Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphins flying up from their base near…
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Where’s the fire?
Tractor tug Laura K Moran returned to New York Harbor Thursday evening after assisting a bulk ship off the dock at the dry wall factory upriver in Buchanan, NY, a job we more often see handled by Moran’s older harbor tugs like the 1982 vintage Doris Moran who was also on hand to assist but…
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Welcome to a new cutter
The Coast Guard’s newest Fast Response Cutter, the Vincent Danz, arrived on North River Pier 86 by the Intrepid Museum on Wednesday ahead of her commissioning ceremony on Friday. The cutter is named for an NYPD officer and Coast Guard reservist who died in the September 11 World Trade Center attack. The Danz was met…
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Turning into the tide
The B. Franklin Reinauer/ RTC 81 ATB (a 4,000 HP tug built in 2012 paired with an 86,000 barrel barge) spent the early hours of Tuesday morning anchored on the North River off West New York. By 8:30 am she had pulled up her hook, pivoted into the flood tide and headed for the Upper…
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Back and forth
Dann Marine tug Coral Coast came down the North River Saturday morning with a cement barge from the plant in Ravenna, NY, passing the Port Imperial ferry terminal in Weehawken. Coral was on the way to the cement distribution terminal in Flushing Bay in Queens. After spending about 24 hours unloading there, she headed back…
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Holding the fort
A large FDNY fireboat came up the North River Saturday afternoon, passing the sailboats moored at Pier 40 and Jersey City. At first glance, this appeared to be the North River fireboat, Three Forty Three, returning to her base at Pier 53 near Gansevoort Street. But closer inspection reveals this to be Firefighter II, the…
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Private contractor
The veteran tug Liz Vinik, 64 years old and 3,000 HP, headed up the North River Thursday morning with A&S Transportation sludge barge Maria. The barge would be loading treated residual solid waste at the North River sewage plant and ferrying it to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for dewatering there. The city normally…
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Cooperation at the dam
Work continues at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam site off Pier 66 on the North River, with funding for the rail tunnel project restored by court order earlier this year. Tug work is spread across a range of locally active towing firms and Thursday morning found Haugland Group towboat Emma Rose maneuvering a crane barge while…
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Donjon Standby
Wednesday evening found DonJon Marine’s dredging team standing by with the tug Casey Ann and dredge Delaware Bay seemingly spudded down just outside the pier head line off North River Pier 86. Maintenance work at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal appears to perhaps be wrapping up or taking a pause. Further north, DonJon colleagues on Brian…
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Getting takeout
Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann, 53 years old and 2,250 HP, ran light up the North River early Wednesday morning. The Captain was heading for the Feeney shipyard in Kingston where they were likely collecting a barge. Monday morning finds her starting her week at the Vane Brothers dock at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal…
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Passing through at sunset
The bulk ship Sound Pearl, Bahamas-flagged and 615 feet in length, came down the North River at sundown Saturday evening, heading for anchorage in the Upper Bay after discharging a cargo at the Port of Coeymans. She had arrived there from Iskenderun, Turkey and I don’t know her cargo but a guess would be that…
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Dean of the fleet
The Dace Reinauer/RTC 62 ATB passed the remanent pilings of North River Pier 58 and the campus of Hoboken’s Stevens Institute en route to Albany with a New York Harbor products cargo on Friday. Dace is the dean of the Reinauer fleet, built in 1968 and the company’s oldest tug in service, though it has…
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