Mr. Connor has been in the area for a few weeks now, but here’s the first good set I’ve gotten.
The logo on the stack is unmistakeable, Marquette Transportation Company Offshore, one of three companies under the Marquette banner. Click here for previous Marquette boats on tugster.
She might be working in dredge support.
Holden Marine Towing is also working in dredge support.
Based on the livery, I thought I’d never seen Bayou Babe before.
But a little digging showed that I’d seen her in 2009 as a Weeks boat, Virginia. Equipment changes hands; Bayou Babe now operates under Holden Marine, but before she was Virginia, she was Misener Marine’s Bayou Babe, built as such in 1979.
All photos this month by Will Van Dorp.
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December 9, 2018 at 12:16 pm
Christopher Roehrig
Will
Not the same boat as the Virginia.
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December 9, 2018 at 12:52 pm
George Schneider
You’re just checking to see who’s paying attention, aren’t you?
BAYOU BABE of Misener went on to become WAUWINET for Great Point Marine Towing of Nantucket MA, and is now VIRGINIA of Weeks Marine.
BAYOU BRAVE was possibly her replacement in the Misener fleet, being formerly C. N. SLAUGHTER and originally MISS ANN RENE.
December 9, 2018 at 1:04 pm
tugster
I stand corrected. Nice face-saving! I thought it looked different, but I should have injected more doubt. Thanks all.
December 9, 2018 at 6:14 pm
Robert Mattsson
Whatever you are drinking, I want some. You call it out as the Bayou Babe but your photo shows it as Bayou Brave.
December 9, 2018 at 9:15 pm
tugster
I must be losing the ability to read. I see that name on the bow clear as day. Time for new glasses, or maybe new eye/brain connections. I made this error once before: a tanker called Ice Base . . . I wrote it up as Ice Babe. Sheesh, and this one I can’t even blame on auto corrects. Babe . . . on my mind.