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A flag and frosting for MLK Jr.
The George Washington Bridge had the Stars and Stripes flying from the west tower in commemoration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday with the surrounding Palisades perfectly frosted.
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Building supply
Haugland Group tug Lily Anne came down the North River early Saturday just ahead of the first round of weekend snow. Lily was bringing what looked like several loaded stone hoppers down from Haugland’s Tompkins Cove materials facility on Haverstraw Bay to the area of the aggregate pier on the end of 25th Street in…
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Denali stops by
Kirby’s Denali/DBL 104 ATB, a 5,000 HP tug paired with a 106,000 barrel barge, anchored on the North River off Guttenberg overnight on Thursday on the way back from a products delivery in Newburgh. By mid-morning Friday, she was on her way again, heading for the harbor. We haven’t seen Denali very often on the…
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Jayhawk passing through
A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter flew up the North River at 500 feet on the way from Elizabeth City North Carolina to Cape Cod Airbase in Falmouth, Mass on Monday. The Jayhawk made a right over Westchester County and continued up the Sound to its destination. Falmouth is the closest base to NY Harbor…
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Port security
A Coast Guard security team in a pair of 45-foot response boats with machine guns mounted provided an escort for the cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway as she dropped lines and departed from North River Pier 88 just before sundown on Monday. They accompanied Breakaway down to the Narrows and then returned to the Staten Island…
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Fueling Long Island
Monday morning finds Vane Brothers’ Jacksonville anchored on the North River with its barge. Jacksonville, along with the similar Charleston, is one of two Vane ATB 4,200 HP units paired with 50,000 barrel barges based out of New York Harbor alongside numerous conventional tug/barge combinations. A third larger ATB, the Wachapreague, was up here over…
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Working the dam
Brinn Courtney, a Stasinos 1,800 HP tug built in 1966, was on the North River this past week maneuvering barges at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam off Pier 66, more formally known as the Hudson River Ground Stabilization Project. The floor of the river is being reinforced with concrete slurry at this point so that tunnel…
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Staff meeting
The Janice Ann Reinauer / RTC 103 was Albany-bound on the North River with a New York Harbor products cargo Thursday afternoon. They passed the Haggerty Girls / RTC 107 which had anchored off Guttenberg for a few hours on the way back from a delivery in Newburgh. The barges are the same size (108,000…
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Cement to Cementon
The bulk ship Artax, 583 feet long and Portugal flagged, came up the North River Monday morning with a cargo of Turkish cement. Artax had first called on Providence, RI to partly unload and was now heading for Cementon in the Town of Catskill NY where an import terminal sits on the site of a…
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Just visiting
The 90-year old research vessel R/V Robert Gray is visiting New York City and tied up at North River Pier 25 for the winter. The 125-foot Gray began life in 1936 as an Army Corps of Engineers survey ship, served as an Army tug in the Aleutians in World War II and later was transferred…
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Another black hull
The morning after the Coast Guard’s Penobscot Bay passed up the North River heading for ice breaking duty upriver, another black-hulled cutter came through. The buoy tender Katherine Walker, Keeper of the Harbor, headed north, perhaps to join ice breaking operations or to restore navigational marks knocked off station by ice flows, or both (or…
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Ready to break the ice
Ice has not reached the North River in New York City yet this year, but further north on the Hudson some icebreaking operations have already begun. On Monday, Penobscot Bay, one of two 140–foot ice breakers based in Bayonne was heading upriver, still wearing her Christmas wreath below the wheelhouse and holly strung along the…
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Up with the sun
Reinauer’s Kristy Ann ATB, an 8-year old 4,400 HP tug paired with the 86,000 barrel 347-foot RTC 80 barge, was northbound on the North River Sunday morning, passing the Lincoln Tunnel vents with a New York Harbor products cargo bound for Albany. After anchoring overnight off Hyde Park, the unit continued on her way at…
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Pushing rock
New York State Marine Highway’s 1977 vintage 1,200 HP tug Nathan G brought a set of hoppers loaded with stone down the North River on Saturday, passing the Bull Ferry condos in Guttenberg NJ. They were headed for the Bay Ridge flats where hoppers can be left at moorings and interchanged for onward delivery. As…
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Sunset cruise
The Kirby Cape Hatteras / DBL 81 ATB left anchorage north of the GWB at sundown on Friday and headed for the Upper Bay where I believe she is currently alongside the oil products tanker Ipanema Street which arrived from Spain overnight, perhaps lightering a cargo(?). This is the first time I have photographed Hatteras…
North River Notes 