Day 40- Shady Harbor Marina, New Baltimore, NY to Troy City Marina, Troy, NY
Super easy 18 mile day from New Baltimore to Troy, NY.
The weather is beautiful, the campers are out enjoying.
The tall posts on the barge are called spuds.
All the dredging barges have these to anchor themselves into place.
Oooh! This is the first time I've ever seen the pointy ends of a spud! I always assumed they were just a cut off end. The spuds live in a tube made into the barge. The crane can lift them up or drop them. When dropped, they poke into the seabed and the barge can go up and down with the tide.
The blue thing is a "Travelift", a machine used to haul boats in and out of the water. This boat is typically lifted by one with a capacity of 15-30 Tons. This one is rated at 130 Tons!!
They are building bridge sections here.
A barge full of scrap metal. There is a scrap metal recycler here. The white things in the upper right corner appear to be grinding stations (we think).
Concrete haulers.
These guys are another one of the nominations for best paint job.
The darker one is a railroad bridge.
These snow geese were flying north with us.
This the Castleton Boat Club on the Hudson River, located in Castleton-on-Hudson. The redundancy is so clever, it needed repeating. Up river from here, there are bridges on the canals that sailboats cannot pass with the sticks up. Castleton Boat Club offer the use of their gin-pole, the crane-looking thing at a 45 degree angle. For a modest fee, you can raise or lower your rig yourself, with the help of a few volunteers. The boat on the left already has the rig down. A few miles back to the South was Hop-O-Nose marina, which performs this service for a fee.
Apparently, the Snow Goose startled these snow geese.
Another power plant.
Tugs, home for the holiday weekend.
Obviously there's big business in scrap metal. We've seen several barges loaded with it.
We saw these tugs a few times in the last few days.
Now we know where those tugs were going. Bringing fuel to Albany.
A massive concrete plant. We have no idea why the curved, sloping sides. Maybe the local kids can sled down them in the winter. Winter starts three days after Labor Day, here.
Port of Albany sheds.
Saw this large U-Haul building and thought,
"oh look, a fake U-Haul truck on top."
Clever.
The USS Slater, a Destroyer Escort that actually survived WW II, a museum here. It has a "dazzle" paint job for camouflage purposes. Those aren't shadows.
"Of course I returned the rental truck. I just can't remember where I parked it!"
I guess it wasn't a fake one!
The State University of New York, SUNY Plaza.
The skyline of Albany.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The smoke-filled rooms of the New York State Capital
(the red peaked castle looking building).
This bridge is how the AMTRAK trains get across the river to Albany. Trains run on both sides of the river. Passenger trains on the East side, Freight on the West side.
Looks like someone forgot to brush and floss!
These four women are a crew team picking up the shell (boat).
They have it out of the water.
They have it flipped over.
They have it above their heads.
The ladies have had enough for one day!
The Empire State Plaza behind the Capitol.
Can you even guess how these logs got on top of the bridge fender?
Near Albany, a large ice jam occurred along Interstate 787 in 1976, and the river froze in 1994, 1996, and 2004. Ice jam problems near Albany and further south were reduced when the river was dredged and deepened for shipping in the 1930s.
Located on the Hudson River, Starbuck Island is the Capital Region's newest waterfront luxury apartment community in Troy & Green Island NY.
Venti on the left, Grande on the right.
The Green Island Bridge at Troy, NY.
Interesting story about this bridge in linked article. A fire is involved.
I don't think this will be in the Memorial Day Parade tomorrow.
Feeling safe at this dock.
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Big bucks id scrap steel and iron. Most likely bound for a Nucor Steel Plant nearby. They melt it all down to make new steel. Being a curious duck and somewhat lazy is there any tides that are impacting you or just the river water levels? Inquiring ducks want to know. You are showing us the building and facilities of the hay day of the canal - Thank You Deb and I flying near you tomorrow Buffalo to Niagra on the Lake. Hope todays WX not to severe Bob the Duck (BTD)
ReplyDeleteHere's what I know about the tides: I don't know about the tides. The cute little tide and current graphics on my chart are whimsical fantasies of some cartographical sadist. The morning of this post, everything said slack water was at 0800. At 0615 my personal current meter indicated that slack had come and gone by at least an hour and it was tricky getting off the dock. We were also told that there was a 6 foot tidal range, but I couldn't verify it. Up here in Troy, all of the current is going South. I can see the lock and dam from the marina, but it still goes up and down.
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