Tag: bulkers
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Cooling down
Temperatures dropped sharply Tuesday evening and by Wednesday morning we were back to the 60s with skies increasingly cloudy as we headed into storms coming Wednesday night. The Jennifer Turecamo pulled up her hook Wednesday morning, dropped into the notch on her tanker barge Tennessee, and left the North River after an unusually long stay…
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Maiden voyage of the Knot Refined
Thursday began cool and rainy but ended hot and rather steamy. There was a lot of interesting traffic on the river for the first time in a while. Most notable was the arrival of Dann Marine’s Ruby Coast pushing American Sugar Refining’s (ASR) brand new 450-foot long barge cleverly named “Knot Refined”. The Knot was…
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Then and now
Watching Margaret Moran assist the small Polar cruise ship Silver Cloud leave Pier 88 Tuesday evening reminded me of a photo I took in the mid-1980s of that same tug assisting the old QE2 leaving the same pier. I have posted this picture before in Back to the 80s but this is a good excuse…
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Another windy Wednesday
Brisk northwest winds kept recreational activity to a minimum on Wednesday, but there was a fair amount of commercial traffic. The cargo ship BBC Rushmore came up the river early, arriving from Newfoundland, Canada and heading for the Port of Albany. Over at the Boat Basin, a work boat from the Miller’s Launch was busy…
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Back to the river
Clearing skies and warmer temperatures saw activity on the river continue to pick up. The knot of tugs anchored in the river broke up, with only Stephen Reinauer remaining. What looked to me like a juvenile bald eagle passed over Pier i in the early hours, being harassed by a crow. The eagle was followed…
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Spring at last?
Thursday ended with heavy rain, fog and lightening, but skies cleared Friday and temperatures rose. There was a lot of activity on the river, both commercial and recreational and I was able to get on the river myself for the first time in months, though not with much time for photography. I was happy to…
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What goes up must come down
Snow, sleet and fog kept river traffic low on Wednesday. The bulker Nordic Skagen, which passed us Monday heading up to the Port of Coeymans, came through again on the way out of town, periodically blasting its horn in low visability. There was no obvious change in draft between arrival and departure, though presumably she…
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Bulking up
Sunday morning brought rain, warm temperatures and the first bulker we have seen on the river for a while, with the Nordic Skagen coming through heading for the Port of Coeymans, perhaps picking up scrap metal up there. Mister Jim was also heading back to Coeymans with a group of gondola barges lashed together. A…
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