The verticality of the approaching tug suggests a lighthouse, especially with the railing around the “lantern” glass atop,
but it’s yet another shot of Huron Service. Vitals: 98x34x17 and built (design #1) in 1981.
The following fotos all come compliments of Harold. The red-hulled vessel below is . . . Eric Candies, the vessel recently transformed into Huron Service.
Here’s a link for the Otto Candies‘ company.
Similarly, the Hornbeck Liberty Service below (117x37x16 built in 1983) was in a former life . . .
Mac Tide 63 ex Jaramac 63 shown below
and again, in a dramatic oil platform setting, below. Stack insignia above is for Tidewater.
Amazing what steel fabrication and a new color scheme can do! I wonder if the feel changes as radically as the appearance. Is the center of gravity changed at all significantly?
Again, thanks to Harold for all but the top two fotos.
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November 28, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Bryan Hammond
Greetings,
I currently work aboard the Liberty Service and the Chief Engineer aboard, ironically, worked aboard the boat in 1984 for a year. Much to his chagrin as be approached his new billet, in a new job after working on various other tugs since he realized something was familiar about the Liberty. Once aboard he signed in and asked the captain if by chance the boat was the Mac Tide 63 in a former life. I frequently see him pacing around with his coffee at watch change and I ask what’s on his mind; “thirty years ago, man, never thought I’d be here in thirty years.” Oddly small this industry can seem at times.