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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,...
Jun 2, 20118 min read
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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...
May 23, 20115 min read
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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...
May 14, 20113 min read
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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...
Dec 4, 20102 min read
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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...
May 26, 20102 min read
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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...
May 22, 20106 min read
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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...
May 16, 20104 min read
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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...
Apr 30, 20103 min read
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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...
Mar 28, 20105 min read
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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...
Feb 24, 20102 min read
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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...
Feb 11, 20105 min read
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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...
Dec 17, 20092 min read
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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...
Nov 11, 20092 min read
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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...
Nov 4, 20091 min read
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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...
Oct 22, 20093 min read
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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...
Oct 14, 20093 min read
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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...
Aug 8, 20091 min read
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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...
Apr 14, 20093 min read
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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...
Apr 12, 20091 min read
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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...
Dec 19, 20084 min read
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