Patent ID: 8671867

Claim:
A sectional barge assembly disposed within a body of water for supporting construction equipment, said barge assembly comprising: a first barge having a body of a rectilinear configuration with two substantially vertical side walls and two substantially vertical end walls, a top support platform having a top surface, a bottom support platform having a bottom surface, a first vertical dimension defined between said top and bottom surfaces of said first barge, and at least one of said side walls and said end walls including an upper flange and a lower flange, said flanges vertically spaced from one another; a second barge having a body of a rectilinear configuration with two substantially vertical side walls and two substantially vertical end walls, a top support platform having a top surface, a bottom support platform having a bottom surface, a second vertical dimension defined between said top and bottom surfaces of said second barge, said second vertical dimension less than said first vertical dimension, and at least one of said side walls and said end walls including an upper flange and a lower flange, said flanges vertically spaced from one another; said first and second barges connected to one another with a pair of said upper and lower flanges of said first barge disposed in an overlapping relationship with a respective pair of said upper and lower flanges of said second barge and a plurality of pins extending through aligned openings in said flanges, said top surfaces of said first and second barges substantially horizontally aligned and said bottom surfaces of said first and second barges vertically spaced from one another by a distance of at least 1 inch.