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, 2011
- 5 min
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, 2011
- 3 min
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, 2010
- 2 min
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, 2010
- 2 min
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, 2010
- 6 min
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, 2010
- 4 min
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, 2010
- 3 min
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, 2010
- 5 min
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, 2010
- 2 min
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, 2010
- 5 min
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, 2009
- 2 min
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, 2009
- 2 min
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, 2009
- 1 min
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, 2009
- 3 min
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, 2009
- 3 min
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, 2009
- 1 min
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, 2009
- 3 min
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, 2009
- 1 min
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, 2008
- 4 min
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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