Tag: Poling-Cutler
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Working holiday
Kristin Poling, Poling and Cutler’s 5,000 HP tug, spent some pre-Thanksgiving days at a familiar North River anchorage off Guttenberg, NJ with the 80,000 BBL capacity tank barge Eva Leigh Cutler. On the holiday itself, this unit was on the move, leaving New Haven before noon after unloading a New York Harbor cargo and heading…
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Road trip for the Saint
North River regular Saint Emilion had her A87 barge on the wire, heading out of the harbor for a trip offshore Thursday morning. The Saint travelled down to a terminal in Baltimore and then returned, reaching anchorage off Yonkers early Monday morning where she remained through sunrise Monday.
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Winter supplies
Lindsaylou, a 620-foot Marshall Islands flagged bulk ship, came up the North River at midday Friday, overtaking the the Poling & Cutler tug Marilyn George Rensselaer-bound with the loaded Edwin A Poling oil products barge. Lindsaylou was arriving from Egypt and heading for the Port of Coeymans and a salt cargo seems most likely.
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Back from New Haven
Kristin Poling returned from a run up to New Haven with the Eva Leigh Cutler barge on Tuesday afternoon and took anchorage in the relatively sheltered North River off Guttenberg overnight. Gale warnings went into effect Tuesday evening, with gusts above 30 knots observed at Robbin’s Reef in the Upper Bay.
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Reunited
Poling & Cutler’s Marilyn George was paired with the familiar green and white Edwin A Poling barge last week after several trips up the North River with the substitute blue and white barge Number Five earlier this fall. The unit had a products cargo heading for Albany as she passed under the bridge. This morning…
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Hello Number Five
UPDATE: I’m told the barge is borrowed while one P&C’s other barges is out of service, not a permanent addition to the fleet despite the name. Poling & Cutler’s Marylin George and her blue and white painted tanker barge “Number Five”, first seen heading upriver a few days ago, spent a few hours anchored off…
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Horse of a different color
Poling & Cutler’s Marilyn George came up the North River Thursday morning with an unfamiliar oil products barge. Rather than one of the company’s four familiar green and white painted tankers, Marilyn was pushing a blue and white painted barge Number Five which I’ve not seen before on the North River. The trip was otherwise…
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North River to South River
The Saint Emilion tug came down the North River Saturday morning with her A87 barge on the wire. Usually, when we see tugs towing astern on this section of the estuary they are arriving from or heading for open water and that was the case here. The Saint headed out through the Narrows and down…
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The Two Towers
We have seen a lot of Polling & Cutler’s Evelyn Cutler on the North River this summer. The 52-year-old 3,800 HP tug, one of five in the P&C fleet, passed Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters Thursday evening with the Noelle Cutler barge loaded up with a fuel cargo for delivery in Rensselaer. Saturday morning…
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A green and white Thursday
Three of the five tugs that currently wear the distinctive Poling & Cutler green and white livery passed up the North River on Thursday pushing three of the company’s four barges. In the morning, Evelyn Cutler, 3,800 HP, passed by returning from a delivery in Albany with the Noelle Cutler barge. In the afternoon, Kimberly…
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Green on green
Poling & Cutler’s Kristin Poling was anchored on the North River with the Eva Leigh Cutler barge on Saturday evening after a run up to Boston during the week. P&C colleagues aboard Evelyn Cutler passed by with the barge Noelle Cutler returning to the harbor from a products delivery to a terminal in Rensselaer.
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Round trip
Poling & Cutler’s 4,200 HP Marilyn George came down the North River late Thursday morning with the light tank barge Edwin A. Poling, heading for the Kills. By early Friday, they were Albany-bound again, cutting through the fog having loaded new cargo overnight at, I believe, Bayway.
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Monday greens
Marilyn George, Poling & Cutler’s 4,200 HP tug returned from Rensselaer with the 304-foot Edwin A Poling products barge early Monday and anchored off West New York.
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Crystal clear
Crystal Cutler ran light up the North River Wednesday morning. She was paying a short visit to Marilyn George at anchor with her barge off Edgewater amid heavy winds, perhaps exchanging crew or delivering supplies. Crystal is the smallest of Poling-Cutler’s tugs with 1,500 HP vs. 4,200 for Marilyn and doesn’t really do Hudson River…
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Passing by
Poling-Cutler tug Marilyn George spent some time anchored on the North River last week with the barge Edwin A. Poling. On Sunday they were passed by colleagues on Kimberly Poling returning to the harbor with barge Noelle Cutler.
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Two-way traffic
The Poling-Cutler line had cargo moving both directions on the North River last Monday (March 3). Evelyn Cutler was northbound for Albany with the loaded Noelle Cutler barge, and Kimberly Poling was southbound with Edward A. Poling with what appeared to be a rare cargo loaded in Newburgh heading for the harbor.
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Long cold winter
The long cold winter has meant lots of demand for heating oil up north and the Hudson River has been busy with tank barge traffic. On Friday morning, the Saint Emilion tug/ A87 tank barge pair operated by Poling-Cutler were heading for Rensselaer and Hawsepiper/ Flaco were en route to Buckeye Newburgh with pool product…
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Work in progress
Running lights were still visible as Poling-Cutler’s Marilyn George came down the North River early Thursday, returning from Albany with the Eva Leigh Cutler barge. In the photo, they are passing new residential construction underway in Weehawken.
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Time on the river
Poling-Cutler’s Kristin Poling spent some time this week anchored off West New York with the barge Eva Leigh Cutler. Seen in the photo early Thursday with the Galaxy Apartments of Guttenberg in the background.
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Moving fuel to the cold north
Less than 24 hours after returning from up North, Kimberly Poling was Albany-bound again with a fuel cargo on tank barge Noelle Cutler loaded in Carteret overnight. In the photo she is passing the Bulls Ferry condos and the West New York sewage treatment plant, with JFK Boulevard visible on top of the cliffs.
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