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So I enjoyed writing about Margaret Moran pinning Sex (ok, aka Seoul Express) to the bulkhead this weekend, and it led me here . . . to the pins that are invisible while in use . . . (hmmm this too could lead into risque territory… oh I love spring time.) Anyhow, Davis Sea (launched 1982) has
pins although I don’t know how long back she was pinned.
So does Norwegian Sea (launched 1976)
although Maryland just beyond her does not, as evidenced by the push cables.
Scott Turecamo‘s (launched 1998) come from a different manufacturer, the same one that Craig Eric Reinauer‘s come
from although Craig Eric (launched 1979) has a service ladder
I wonder when someone would use that fixed ladder.
Of course, other pin designs exist also such as this
on Penn Maritime’s Julie (launched 1998).
All these pins have nothing, though, to do with how Margaret was pinning Sex to the bulkhead.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Another three-letter abbreviation serving as title? It must indicate how I think this time of year: short words, like elementary school, like basic things.
In slightly warmer weather, she asked me how Morton did it. Morton being Morton S. Bouchard Jr. here the “T”, nose tucked into a shallow notch on this fuel B. Being in a smart-aleck mood, I said, “Just as we do.” Her harumph signaled that my attempt at wit had failed. “It,” she clarified, meant “push the barge upstream without it snapping the cables and yawing off in its own direction.”
So, putting aside my attitude, I enlist Penn Maritime tug Julie, southbound here in Arthur Kill under goose escort, to help me demonstrate how Mort might do it.
One of a pair, this starboard hardware inside a “ring” plate is not a vestigial wheel. Neither decorative nor defensive, it’s a coupler. This link shows how it works.
Davis Sea has a similar coupler,
as do Nicole Leigh Reinauer
and Jane A. Bouchard. And as they do it, so might Morton.
All photos, WVD.
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