Quote: "...as you don't mind looking at a few log booms."
Ah - more grist for the mill :-)!
I LOVE log booms! They can do all kindsa nice things for you. Just as long as you know you place, and don't get in the face of the
commercial boys.
Maybe we should warn visitors brave enuff to make nighttime passages in these waters that booms under way at night may be marked with nothing more that a coupla old-fashioned oil-fueled storm lanterns. Very, very difficult to see. And getting between a tug and her tow is as bad as getting between a bear sow and her cub :-)!
Sort of connected to this thread: A Texan "pusher" tug shoving a barge fulla petroleum up to
Alaska just made a mess of Seaforth
Passage. Ran up on a reef and holed herself. In newsreel clips it looks like the barge went over the reef and cleared it, but the
draft of the pusher was deep enuff to ground her. The tug was licensed by Transport
Canada to proceed without pilot, and she had, I gather, done the trip many times. So much for mod cons. Not disparaging
electronics by any means, but in the waters up there NOTHING beats local knowledge and THOROUGH seamanship!
TrentePieds