Tag: Coeymans
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Drill Baby Drill
Wednesday brought sunny skies but temperatures only in the 40s and persistently brisk winds. For most of the morning, a quartet of Coast Guard 29’ response boats was conducting drills in the river. Two of the boats had their machine guns mounted and manned in the bow. The Dean Reinauer headed up the river for…
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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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