Tag: ice
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Ready to the break the ice
It’s still a bit early in the season for serious ice, but one of the Coast Guard’s two big Bayonne-based icebreakers, the Sturgeon Bay, was heading north on the North River on Thursday. Sturgeon Bay continued upriver to Kingston where she arrived by sundown. As usual, the 37-year old vessel was putting out a lot…
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Returning to the front
Coast Guard Cutter Hawser was heading back to ice breaking operations up north after some time at her Bayonne base. Both Hawser and the other 65-foot harbor tug based in Bayonne have been busy keeping the channel and terminal piers clear of ice for barges this winter, along with the larger 140-foot ice breakers. Albany…
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Ice protection
The ice breaking dolphins protecting the North River water treatment plant were working as designed Friday as Vane Brothers tug Fort Schuyler headed north with the loaded DS-53 barge en route to a pier by a power plant north of Newburgh.
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A visit from the Cutter Oak
Two days after our local coastal buoy tender Katherine Walker travelled north of the GWB to attend to some errant buoys, the much larger 225-foot seagoing tender Oak passed through heading upriver. Oak is based in Newport RI and is the “Maine Responder,” spending most of her time along the rocky shores of that state.…
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Below the cliffs, amidst the ice
The Vane Brothers tug Philadelphia and barge DS 601 have spent the past few days anchored amid the ice flows on the North River. In the photo, they are sitting below the cliffs of the Bergen Hill in North Bergen on Wednesday.
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Moving through ice
NY State Marine Highway’s Nathan G moved up the North River through ice flows with a hopper barge Wednesday. This week has seen the most significant ice accumulation on the lower Hudson in years.
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Ready for winter weather
Coast Guard icebreaking tug Penobscot Bay headed up the North River Saturday, making prodigious amounts of smoke as usual. The cutter was heading upriver ahead of winter weather coming in this week and, after stopping for some time in Haverstraw Bay, was continuing north under the Newburgh Beacon Bridge by Monday morning.
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Saturday Jan 20–Waiting for ice
Cold temperatures lingered into the weekend, but ice has not yet reached the North River. Traffic Saturday was light.
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Freezing spray
Temperatures troughed just after sunrise Saturday in the low single digits across the New York City area, but climbed steadily through the rest of the weekend as winds abated. The cluster of tug/barge combinations on the North River began to break up as conditions improved and visitors went back to work. By Sunday evening, Kristy…
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Welcome to ice season
Coast Guard Sector-New York’s official ice season began Monday, requiring vessels to check in with the Coast Guard VTS before heading north of the Bridge. It is still too early, of course, to see actual ice on the River, but there was some snow north and west of the city Monday morning after Sunday’s drenching…
North River Notes 