Tag: tugs
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Holiday blues
DonJon’s Thomas D. Witte was standing by on the south side of the DSNY Pier 99 transfer station, about a week before Christmas. The end of Con Ed’s Pier 98 fuel dock is visible on the right.
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Just visiting
Vane tug Cape Fear tied up alongside the dilapidated North River Pier 92 on a quiet Thursday at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal this past week. Pier 92 was taken out of service for structural reasons several years ago, but the cruise terminal is set to release a 30-year master plan next year and indications are…
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Heading back to the harbor
Metropolitan Marine’s Pegasus came down the North River Wednesday morning. She was returning from assisting with docking a barge at the Yonkers sugar plant.
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A dean of the fleet
Liz Vinik came up the North River early Tuesday without a tow, heading for Newburgh. This is the first time I’ve seen this tug, which was built in Oyster Bay in 1962, making her one of the oldest tugs working in NY Harbor. According to tugboatinformation.com, her original name was Esso Maryland. On this trip,…
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Wind against tide
A 20-knot southwest wind was blowing straight up the North River on Thursday morning, creating some chop as it ran against the ebb tide. Cape Canaveral / DBL 101 left anchorage and headed for the Upper Bay.
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Extra help
Dann Ocean’s Thomas Dann has joined the DonJon Yonkers dredging work Friday morning, ferrying mud scows to the dump site off Highlands NJ.
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Stone beats scrap
Erin Elizabeth with a stone cargo overtook their Carver colleagues aboard Mister Jim pushing scrap on the North River en route to the harbor on Friday afternoon.
North River Notes 