I’m guessing, Mary Whalen once looked maroon, but now it’s Moran‘s trademark color.
Notice the greenish-black hull and the yellow slip-proof platform at the bow around the H-bitt and the staple at the stem,
maroon steel warmed up by brightwork like a yacht,
crew energy maintained in a world class galley,
wire neatly laid on winch for ocean towing,
one of two huge EMD engines in this immaculate engine room (consider each of the treads on the companionway one foot above the previous),
Turecamo Boys heads to the next job. Turecamo Boys recent high-profile jobs include helping tow White Sea back into Ambrose Channel (here, go to p. 15) and logging more hours than any other assist vessel in 9/11 evacuation. The Moran towing story goes back at least to Michael Moran, an erstwhile mule driver along the Erie Canal who bought half interest in a harbor tug in 1860. Moran achievements include sending the first vessel into Havana harbor after the Spanish-American War.
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September 8, 2007 at 10:13 am
deuce
That is a great link to “Brightwork”. It is a new word for me. I have always admired the beautiful antique mahogany small boats.
I laughed about the description of waterman running away at the mention of brightwork, because of the intensive care involved!
I did some cooking in a small space, and you learn ‘how to’. Is there a Galley Cookbook, of sorts…recipes that work for a crew? Like A Firehouse Cookbook?
June 10, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Hugh Ware
A great cookbook for tuggers is Vivian Cruise’s “Ocean Plaits and Grizzle Baits: A Cooking Course”. It has all o needs to know on how to order food, store, cook up a mea that will placate an irritable and hungry skipper just coming off watch,and all this while probably saving the tug owner big bucks. Viv complied the bones of this book while teaching deckhands from companies such as Island Tug & barge and Seaspan up there in British Columbia.
Highly recommended!
Contact her at vivandnick@shaw.ca for details and prices. Upon request, she will autograph your copy and even explain the book’s title.