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Paper chase
Trito Navigator was inbound on the North River Thursday evening, heading for the Port of Albany. The small 8,137 deadweight ton bulk ship was arriving from Vallvik, Sweden with a cargo of wood pulp for paper mills up north.
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Entering canal service
The brand new New York State Canal Corp tug Thomas X Grasso arrived on the North River last week from her birthplace at Blount Boatworks in Rhode Island. According to Tugster’s Will Van Dorp, this is the first new build tug to enter service on the canals since the 1930s. Thomas wears New York State’s…
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Pick up
The Antigua flagged heavy lift ship BBC Eagle came up the North River Friday morning, passing the Lincoln Tunnel vents and heading for the Port of Albany. I believe they will load some heavy GE equipment for export overseas.
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Farewell to Florida?
A small Air Force jet flew a series of loops up the Hudson to Tappen Zee and back to the Battery while en route from Clarksburg WV to Stewart Airport in Newburgh on Monday. I believe this is a T-1a training jet based in Pensacola, though I read that these jets are no longer going…
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Blue crab blues
Blue crabs live in the mud at the bottom of the North River. Fisherpeople on Pier i bring them up using traps baited with raw chicken, as was the case with this one caught last week. NYS DEC’s minimum size for a keeper is 4.5 inches and this one was thrown back. The NYS Dept…
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Have that removed
Coast Guard Cutter Katherine Walker, the Keeper of NY Harbor, came down the North River Thursday, returning to her Bayonne base with Hudson River lighted buoys 3, 11, and 13 on deck. A Coast Guard notice says the three buoys, one of which normally marks the west side of the main channel off Riverdale and…
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Coming and going
Activity continues in stops and starts at the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration project. On Monday, Jessica Francis, a small 25-foot tug came down from Verplanck to remove a small spud barge. Three days later, the much bigger Toula C arrived with the Hughes 280 barge loaded with a crane and other equipment. The construction…
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A little more sugar
Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast had the dry bulk barge Montville on the wire heading for sea Tuesday evening after discharging sugar at the Yonkers refinery. This cargo appears to have come up from the Gulf coast rather than Florida and the tow was heading back there now. Dann Ocean’s Captain Dann ran light up to…
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Special delivery
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland came down the North River Monday morning with da cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry near Poughkeepsie loaded on one of the company’s barges. Daily stone shipments from Clinton Point are usually brought by Buchanan Marine to moorings off Jersey City, but George brought this shipment straight through…
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Apres le deluge
The North River was mirror flat in light northeast wind Tuesday morning and still flowing to sea just after low tide after Monday night’s massive thunderstorms and flooding. Alexandros P, a 656-foot Liberia-flagged bulk ship, came through heading for the Port of Coeymans. Alexandros originated in Garrucha, Spain, which makes gypsum a likely cargo, perhaps…
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Delivery or pickup
The cargo ship Bertha A. Desgagnes passed to the west of the Gateway coffer dam and to the east of Steven’s Institute of Technology Tuesday evening, heading for sea after calling in Albany. Bertha was likely delivering a project cargo or picking up some large cargo up there in Albany for export. As of Sunday…
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Back in fashion
Harbour Fashion, a compact 475-foot 17,000 deadweight ton products tanker came up the North River Wednesday afternoon, arriving from Montreal and heading for the Buckeye terminal in Albany. We have seen this vessel on this route moving between Canada and Albany before and she may be collecting ethanol for export back to Canada or else…
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Spreading the work
Work on the Gateway project coffer dam off Pier 66 gets spread out across a range of local towing companies. On Monday evening, Carver’s Erin Elizabeth was on site making up to a barge. The next morning, one of project manager Weeks Marine’s own tugs was there along with Henry Marine’s Henry Girls. In the…
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Peeling back layers
Work is well underway now on the restoration of the old New York Central 69th Street transfer bridge. Workers have built a scaffolding and removed the non-historic sheet metal exterior and netting leaving the original iron work exposed. Down below two weeks ago, a fisherman who had been trespassing on the spud barges tried in…
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