Tag: ATB
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Big Barney Stops By
Moran’s Barney Turecamo/Georgia ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with a 425-foot 118,000 barrel barge, is not often on the North River, but the unit paid a short visit on Thursday, traveling up river as far as 72nd Street before making a tight turn and heading back to the harbor. As of Saturday morning she…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Working Christmas
The Susan Rose/RCM 252 ATB was on the North River a few days before Christmas, heading for anchorage off Yonkers with the barge looking light after calling at a terminal in Port Morris on the Bronx East River shoreline. Susan was underway on Christmas morning, heading for Providence, RI where she is set to arrive…
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The big guy is back
The big Christian Reinauer/RTC 145 ATB was back on the North River Wednesday, the first time we’ve seen her here in several years. With a 7,200 HP tug and a 477-foot 150,000 barrel barge, this is one of Reinauer’s biggest units, with the barge even a bit larger than Nicole Leigh’s which we see more…
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Supplying Connecticut
Sunrise on the North River Wednesday found a pair of Reinauer’s modern ATB units at anchor after returning overnight from delivering New York Harbor fuel or heating oil cargos to terminals in Connecticut ports. Janice Ann/RTC 103, a 4,400 HP 2020 vintage tug paired with a 413 foot/108,000 barrel barge, was anchored off West New…
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Mount St Elias passing by
Kirby’s Mount St Elias ATB came down the North River Saturday morning, returning from a products delivery up in Newburgh and heading for the Upper Bay. By Sunday morning, the unit was at a pier in Carteret on the Arthur Kill, probably loading a new cargo.
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Back in service
The Jordan Rose/RCM 250 ATB was northbound on the North River with a New York Harbor cargo early Thursday. This is the first time I have seen the unit since a dispute between the owners and management companies knocked the Rose Cay fleet out of action this summer, though Jordan has made at least one…
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Just visiting
The Ruth M. Reinauer/RTC 102 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 413-foot barge, came up the North River on Tuesday from the Upper Bay and dropped anchor off Guttenberg. While there, FDNY Marine 1’s small boat and a Coast Guard 45-foot response boat passed by heading to check something out upriver and then…
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Old with mods
The Stephen Reinauer tug paired with the 347’ RTC 80 tank barge spent some time anchored on the North River over the weekend. The 2900 HP tug was built back in 1970 but was substantially updated by Reinauer about 20 years ago to convert her to an ATB tug. The raised pilot house is new,…
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A Room with a View
The big Barbara Carol Ann Moran ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with a 468-foot tank barge, has been anchored off Yonkers for the past week or so after returning from a trip to the Gulf with a products cargo for Albany earlier in the month. On Sunday morning the crew had a good view…
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