BC company's tugs, barges prove to be vital for remote coastal loggers

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The alarm on the travel lift sounded and the operator lowered the 70 tons of heavily built tugboat back into the water, adjusted the straps and tried again. This time there was no alarm but the lift was at the hoist's maximum allowable. The stern cleared the water to reveal a pair of props in nozzles. Bela Love, who together with her husband owns Storm Away Towing Ltd., looked on from a nearby float and explained, "I pulled a boom chain into the starboard nozzle and bent that prop. We'll get it off into the shop so that we should be back in the water this afternoon."