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Tug School:

In this class, they picked up the barge off a mooring across the cove from the school and made up in the notch. One objective was to get the feel of pushing on the river - tide only allowed passage up to Bucksport, but the current was pretty significant, and the turn basin up there gave a sense of the challenges a river can offer.

Capt Bob |10:21 EST |Comments (0)

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