The Cleveland pulled us away from the dock and we headed south with the Waterford keeping us straight in the channel. This was our quickest trip to date. The tugs stopped us right off the dock, and slipped us in within four feet of last years position. Lines went over and were doubled, the securing wire ropes went across and were clamped in place, the shore-tie made up to the generator and powered up. Within two hours we were all secure.
Practice does make perfect.
Once again the Canal Corps guys handled difficult conditions and made it look easy. One extraordinary circumstance occurred during the trip. As were coming down river, who should we see coming up river but two of Bart Brake's Empire Marine tugs heading north. We're going up to pick up Kevin's restaurant barge and take it down River for the winter. We had mentioned to Guy Falkenheimer that we were moving on the morning of the 30th.