Maintenance payments should be enough to pay the bills

摘要

I was the second mate on a 5,000-hp tug in Long Beach, Calif. It was late one January night at the end of a trip towing a 450-foot gasoline barge from the Gulf of Mexico. We'd just broken tow, and all we had to do was bring in a few tug lines used to tie up to die barge and then shift the boat to a nearby berth for the night.