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Campbell Maritime specializes in ship & barge assist, escort services & the movement of project cargo in Puget Sound & the greater Seattle markets.
The tug RubyVIII, her captain, and crew are ready to move you and your ship or barge. In addition to our towing and ship assist services, we have a variety of small to medium sized spud and ramp barges available for rent or long term lease.
Call us today for scheduling, barge rentals or project brainstorming! We are available 24 hours by phone at 206.794.0232 or 206.794.0447 during business hours.
Additional marine services are provided in conjunction with and through Northern Marine Salvage, please visit their website for more information.
7/3/2009-Unreliable
Last night I promised to finish my anchor setting story this morning, but as you probably noticed I didn't actually get around to it. I meant to, it's just that these days we're so busy that I seem to always have about fifteen other things piled up.
Better late than never they say. So the Horse needed a hand setting it's anchors yesterday, and we were called in to help. It's theoretically possible got the Horse to set it's own anchors, but in practice it's a huge pain in the butt. It's a lot easier if you have a tug haul them out to the appropriate occasions and then drop them.
What we'll normally do is back up to the horse, right near the fairlead for whichever anchor we're going for. We put a line through the bottom of the anchor and then take a turn on out tow bitts. Then all we have to do is drive over to the designated spot and slip the line, at which point the anchor drops to the bottom and we move on to the next one. Prior to the advent of all the fancy GPS gear and chartplotters we had to do stuff like this on the radar, which was quite a bit more difficult. With all the fancy gear we have these days it's more like playing a video game.
Anyhow, I think I'll head for bed. We're not expecting any work tomorrow, as most of the town seems to have the day off. You never know though, maybe something will come up. Okay, talk to you later on, Brian
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