Saturday, June 22, 2013

More ships than pilots and the Evans Mckeil is back for a bit......

Its either feast or famine some days here in the Strait. Ship movements have been curtailed due to not enough pilots but things will pick upthru the early hours of the 23rd.First in the lineup was the tug Atlantic Fir  with its tow the Atlantic Shark which some local wags refer to as the "Green Monster" were at the north pilot station at 0530h where APA pilot cat. Rick Hanlon  docked it in Mulgrave with the assistance of the Point Valiant. Afterwards Capt. Joey
Myalls took his tug to the Port Hawkesbury Wharf .
Shortly after 0800h APA pilot Capt. Scott MacDonald boarded the yacht Lady M II at the north and took it thru Canso Lock and on to St.Peters where after a suitable interval it was taken to baddeck by APA pilot Capt. M. Langdon.

APA pilot Capt. Evan MacDonald brought the crude oil tanker Asian Spirit in to the Nustar outside dock assisted by the 3 Svitzer tugs based in Point Tupper.
Still at the inside berth is the Azov Sea which is tentativly scheduled to take a pilot at 0730h on the 23rd.
The Rt. Hon. Paul E. Martin finished taking on cargo at the Martin Marietta Quarry dock was was supposed to depart for Tampa Fla. with 66,425 tons of aggregate at 1930h but the pilot shortage has pushed its departure time back to 0300h on the 23rd.
The tug Evan Mckeil with the barge Labrador Spirit is supposed to move up from Mulgrave to load gravel with new Captain R.J.(Ron ) Lejeune.

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