New river traffic in my back yard
Feb 18, 2015 16:36:48 #
Tharco Winter
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At the Newburgh - Beacon Bridge
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At Beacon NY headed for Al Jubal Saudi Arabia
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Feb 18, 2015 17:00:24 #
mwoods222 wrote:
Tharco Winter
Wow, that ice is getting thick. Does it ever get to where they can't pass?
Feb 18, 2015 17:18:11 #
Since the river is so wide its not thick but a lots of pack ice from up river. I have seen Tugs W/ Barges get iced in when at a tank farm offloading. There are 3 USCG ice cutters / buoy tenders which keep things going. Ships just plow through a channel west of center. You can see the USCG ice cutters on my webpage and can also see the channel in my winter pictures. but when you get to West Point Landing 17 miles south where the river is 1/4 or less wide there can be a problem
Feb 19, 2015 19:34:49 #
Damn Woody, that looks cold!!! On occasion we still have ice on river barges when they arrive in the New Orleans area. Now being retired don't know if they had any this year or not but would guess they had.
Don
Don
Feb 21, 2015 10:45:28 #
Well Don it happened yesterday. When I woke I looked on my Marine traffic and saw 5 vessels ancered in a strange place down on the Hudson at West Point Landing 4 tugs and on general bulk carrier. Since I know that area quite well and realize that the river is very narrow there I guessed they got iced in. When i got to the paper there it was. USCG ice cutters form Staten Island were called in. Now I don't know if the bulk carrier got stuck or if the tugs wherein the way
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