Tag: tugs
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Working weekend
A new floating drydock constructed at the Feeney Shipyard in Kingston NY was brought down the North River Saturday evening by Stasinos Marine and delivered to its owners, Hughes Marine, at their base in Erie Basin. According to Hughes, this is possibly the first new drydock installed in Brooklyn in over 100 years. My nighttime…
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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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Waiting for paper
Paul Andrew was standing by with a waste paper scow at DSNY’s Pier 99 transfer station on Tuesday morning. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a recycling mill on Staten Island along the Arthur Kill.
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Joined at the hip
Patrice McAllister had RCM 262 on the hip as she left anchorage and headed for the Upper Bay on a sunny Friday morning this week.
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Just stopping by
Among the familiar ATBs and tug/barge pairs getting out of the wind in the North River anchorages was one not seen in a while. Dann’s Calusa coast seems to normally work out of Baltimore but was anchored off Edgewater this week with a tank barge, possibly having ducked in on the way back from a…
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Visitor from New Bedford (Updated)
The tug Sitka, appropriately named for a very cold Wednesday morning, came up the North River just after sunrise. Running light, the out of town visitor was arriving from her home port of New Bedford and signaling Kingston, so probably heading for the Feeney Shipyard there and perhaps collecting a barge being worked on. The…
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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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