Tag: tugs
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Back in service
Buchanan Marine’s Buchanan12 is back on the North River over the past week after a notable absence. The 3,000 HP towboat is normally a daily presence on the river, bringing hoppers loaded with crushed dolomite stone down from the Tilcon Clinton Point quarry just south of Poughkeepsie to moorings off Jersey City and then returning…
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Back for more?
Out-of-town tug Mr. Goldie came up the North River just after sundown on Monday evening, having spent a few days in New York Harbor upon arriving from the Gulf last week. The 2,700 HP tug owned by Marquette Transportation of Jefferson, Louisiana brought the CBC 4508 deck barge equipped with a bracket for securing some…
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Lights, camera, action
Stasinos Marine’s James Charles, a 2,000 HP tug built in 1970 and not to be confused with the company’s Charles James tug, was at North River Pier 94 Wednesday pulling the crane barge that has been there for over a year. The Sunset Studios sound stages and production facilities constructed on the pier opened in…
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Back to work at the Transfer Bridge
Jessica Frances, a small 600-HP twin screw tug based in Verplanck, picked up a crane barge at the North River Harlem piers and delivered it to the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration worksite. Frances single-handedly backed the big barge alongside the structure and then ran around to push her into place. Tuesday brought cold rain…
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Velkomst
Norwegian tall ship Sorlandet arrived at North River Pier 86 on Thursday morning. Margaret Moran was on hand to assist, but with the river ebbing and ice having mostly cleared out, the 98-year-old sailing vessel was able to sidle up to the pier with no help, leaving Margret standing by to retrieve the docking pilot.…
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Between snow falls
The sun came out Tuesday, finding a gap between Monday’s blizzard and Wednesday’s aftershock dusting of snow. Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G took advantage of the window to bring a crane barge down the North River loaded with what looked like fendering for piles. They were heading for the Seastreak dock in Highlands,…
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Back to work!
Thomas Dann and the deck barge CBC Savannah came down the North River on a slow bell Saturday, running on their regular route ferrying offshore wind components for the Sunrise Wind project assembled at the Port of Coeymans to their staging area in Rhode Island. Work on the project has resumed after a February 2…
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Pushing paper
The city sanitation department has been prioritizing snow removal and garbage collection but on Thursday DSNY was catching up on recycling, with a line of trucks waiting to discharge paper at the Pier 99 transfer station. Workers winched a loaded scow out of the shed, covering the bags of waste paper with netting as the…
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Keeping the steam up
The Liz Vinik, a 3,000 HP Vinik Marine tug built in 1962 for Esso, was brought in to break up the ice around Con Ed’s North River Pier 98 fuel dock on Monday. Deckhands tied the tug’s bow up to the pier and the tug pivoted back and forth, churning up the ice with her…
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Interstate commerce
Returning to New York City from warmer climes finds the harbor beset by the heaviest icing conditions seen in decades and new ways of operating on the North River already becoming routine. NY Waterway has contracted with Stasinos Marine to help keep their trans-Hudson routes operating and Sunday morning finds the 71-year-old tug Joanne Marie,…
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