Texas pilots go bigger, bolder with Metal Shark newbuild

摘要

On a late January run out to the containership Bomar Resolute, anchored near the Freeport, Texas, sea buoy, the recently delivered Brazos Pilot was bucking a 6-to-8-foot sea. A strong north wind had extended the effects of a thermal grip across the Mason-Dixon Line to the Gulf of Mexico. Jack Stanley, the operator of the 64-foot newbuild, said that in the past local mariners would have relied on the 36-year-old Freeport Pilot in similar sea conditions. "But it would have been a lot slower," he said.