I presume that USCG could do it this way than?:
Only strong and fit Ch.Eng. need apply!!
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ombugge
#182
tugsailor
#183
Hilarious photo! It would have been even better with a dog team pulling the tug!
Cook Inlet Tug & Barge’s STELLAR WIND is one of the ASD tugs that Carl Anderson had built in 1993 by Tri-Star Marine in Seattle to dock ships in Anchorage. She is powered by a pair of Cat 3512s.
Five years ago Anderson sold Cook Inlet Tug & Barge to Foss. Saltchuk owns Foss, TOTE, and Delta Western. Cook Inlet Tug & Barge docks the TOTE ships in Anchorage and tows the Delta Western fuel barges.
It’s interesting to notice that the USCG has a large office in Anchorage, but no vessels.
Tupsis
#184
Helsinki shipyard floated out an Arctic tanker capable of breaking six-feet ice…
…and floated it back in again bow-first.
ombugge
#186
Upgrading in preparation for an upswing in Offshore activity is ongoing. Older vessels (<15 years) are getting new equipment installed to meet the requirements of the present and near future:
https://www.osjonline.com/news/view,repair-and-conversion-upgrades-breathe-new-life-into-old-vessels_56424.htm
Chief_Seadog
#188
Viktor Lenac is a repair shipyard which is not the same thing as one that does new buildings. I spent time there 1990/91 and thought they did good steel work.
ombugge
#189
Some shipyards do only repairs, others only new building, many do both, but they are all shipyards.
Chief_Seadog
#190
Agreed they are all shipyards but the mentality between a newbuild yard and one that does repairs is completely different.
ombugge
#191
Yes no argument about that.
I expected comments being on US Navy ship doing major overhauls and upgrades at a foreign yard. Or does the restriction only apply to US merchant ships??
Chief_Seadog
#192
Croatia is a NATO member so with that in mind having a US Navy ship undergoing repairs there would not be unusual.