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Jun 2, 20118 min read

Tugboat How-To: Towing Alongside 101

Towing alongside is considered to be a bread-and-butter skill for anyone operating a towing vessel. To the novice deckhand or bargeman,...

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May 23, 20115 min read

Emergency Towing: What Do You Do? – Part I

Okay, so you’re underway at sea in crappy weather on you’re fancy new ATB (or not-so-new ATB) and the worst has happened: the pins have...

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May 14, 20113 min read

They’re Back!!!

Yes, it’s that time of year again! With Memorial Day weekend rapidly approaching the weather is warming up and the recreational boaters...

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Dec 4, 20102 min read

Parallel Parking: Doing the Texas Two-Step on Crew-Change Day.

With a tropical depression threatening the Eastern Gulf, we all had to head quickly west for Texas….. It was to be a Galveston...

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May 26, 20102 min read

Gate Length: Shortening Up For A Ride Through The Hell Gate

VHF-FM Ch. 13: “Penn No.4 approaching Hunt’s Point towing a light one,….. …..westbound for the Gate.” This is what we refer to as having...

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May 22, 20106 min read

Towing Assembly Inspections: When Do You Pull The Pin?

Wear and tear, and corrosion, they get everything eventually. That is why the regulations require equipment inspections, especially of...

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May 16, 20104 min read

Perception, Reality & Mooring Lines: The Not-So-Ordinary Practice Of Good Seamanship

Perception and reality: they’re not necessarily the same thing. Perception’s in the eye, and mind, of the beholder. Reality is whatever...

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Apr 30, 20103 min read

Photo Essay: Getting On The Wire

Location: the back deck of the Patapsco, drifting along with the Double Skin 55, in the Artificial Island Anchorage at the lower end of...

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Mar 28, 20105 min read

New Life For Old Spectra – Part I: Hanging Tires On A Tractor Tug

Most of us never cease to be amazed by the increasing strength and decreasing size of modern synthetic lines. What used to require a...

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Feb 24, 20102 min read

Jammin’!

“Ooh, yeah! All right! We’re jammin’, I wanna jam it wid you. We’re jammin’, jammin’, and I hope you like jammin’, too.” – Bob Marley...

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Feb 11, 20105 min read

Lots Of Eggs, One Basket: Loran-C Signal Shut Down

U.S. Coast Guard Loran Station Attu, AK by JanKocian Loran-C is officially history: at 1500 EST this past Monday the U.S. Coast Guard...

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Dec 17, 20092 min read

Old School Plotting & Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner – Part V

I’ll just call this one Navigation Odds-n-Ends, as it’s basically a grab-bag of stuff I missed the first time through or couldn’t find a...

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Nov 11, 20092 min read

Old-School Plotting & Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner – Part IV

Having already reviewed the “old” old-school stuff, it’s time to move on to some of the more modern versions of old-school. While...

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Nov 4, 20091 min read

Old-School Plotting & Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner – Part III

How about chart weights and magnifiers? I always hate it when some thoughtless, inconsiderate idiot decides to come in the windward-side...

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Oct 22, 20093 min read

Old-School Plotting & Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner – Part II

Not as old school as brass dividers and parallel rules, rolling parallel plotters have still been around for my entire seagoing career...

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Oct 14, 20093 min read

Old-School Plotting & Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner – Part I

This post begins a series that will periodically focus on older, or just plain old, practices, technologies and equipment that still have...

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Aug 8, 20091 min read

Slippery When Wet (Or Dry): Lubed Wire Lasts Longer

As part of our company-required maintenance procedure for our tow wire we are supplied with and apply PreLube 19 preservative lubricant...

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Apr 14, 20093 min read

Towing: He Gets It

Some people get it and some people don’t. Most don’t. And that’s one of the perennial problems for tug drivers: we are governed largely...

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Apr 12, 20091 min read

Tide And Current

Tide And Current is the name of writer Alan Haig-Brown’s fine blog that I just discovered while doing some intensive research for a...

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Dec 19, 20084 min read

Lack Of ECDIS Training Leads To Grounding.

Here we go again…..from a North Sea sand bar off England’s east coast: the U.K.’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch has released its...

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