A new bird heads north to Southeast Alaska for Olympic Tug & Barge

摘要

In late November 2012 the crew of Kestrel was preparing their brand new tug for its maiden voyage to Alaska. Olympic Tug & Barge, a division of Harley Marine Services, had taken delivery of the 94-foot, 3,000-hp ocean-towing tug on Oct. 5. Olympic had sent a four-man delivery crew to Halimar Shipyard in Morgan City, La., where they had gone aboard and shepherded the boat across the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal and up the West Coast to Seattle. Now the boat sat at the dock at Olympic's Seattle base of operations on Elliott Bay. On board the crew was putting on the finishing touches - cleaning, maintenance and checking out systems. The following day, they would cast off and head north for a rendezvous in Ketchikan with the tug's partner, PM 230, a 220-foot-long, 28,000-barrel barge owned by Petro Marine Services, based in Seward, Alaska.