BEYOND THE HORIZON
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
BEYOND THE HORIZON 1 December 2023 INLAND WATERWAYS Yet again, Congress, in the most recent budgetary Kick-the-can-down-the-road, set up a future battle on defining exactly what is the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) that neither party nor the Supreme Court has been able to explain in years. Nebulous words such as “by” or “near”…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
1 November 2023 #18 MERCHANT FLEET The Maritime Administration (MARAD) is responsible for all American waterborne transportation including ports, infrastructure, shipping, security, safety, vessel operations, and environment. This significant element of the Department of Transportation is currently headed by a Chief Administrator, Ann Phillips, a retired Navy RADM who spent 31 years in the Navy as…
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15 October 2023 # 17 HISTORY A brief overview of the Peloponnesian War evidences the incredible need for naval warfare and the brilliance of naval tactics of the 5th century BC. The Athenians, obviously one of the centers of culture, ingenuity, and economics, built the versatile trireme, a rowboat with three rising banks of 170 oarsmen…
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1 September 2023 #15 INLAND WATERWAYS Blakely BoatWorks in Mobile, Alabama, is building a new Tier 4 Z-drive tugboat for Crescent Towing. Tier 4 engines are the preeminent environmentally safe motors for non-road machinery that meet all the current EPA standards, and hopefully, future regulations. The Z-drive, like a bow thruster, is a propulsion unit capable…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
1 September 2023 #15 INLAND WATERWAYS Blakely BoatWorks in Mobile, Alabama, is building a new Tier 4 Z-drive tugboat for Crescent Towing. Tier 4 engines are the preeminent environmentally safe motors for non-road machinery that meet all the current EPA standards, and hopefully, future regulations. The Z-drive, like a bow thruster, is a propulsion unit capable…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
1 September 2023 #15 INLAND WATERWAYS Blakely BoatWorks in Mobile, Alabama, is building a new Tier 4 Z-drive tugboat for Crescent Towing. Tier 4 engines are the preeminent environmentally safe motors for non-road machinery that meet all the current EPA standards, and hopefully, future regulations. Like a bow thruster, the Z-drive is a propulsion unit capable…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
#13 1 August 2023 MEA CULPA I apologize to many of my loyal readers who suddenly could not get my blog. Due to a technical error (read that: I messed up), the rantings and ravings were unavailable on many browsers. Exactly how this happened is a good question, but I think it is solved. Thanks…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
15 July 2023. #12 GRAY FLEET Huntington Ingles turned the new destroyer, JACK H LUCAS (DDG-125), over to the Navy after she completed her trials in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the first of the new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that comes with the newest edition of the Aegis Combat systems that include an AN-SPY…
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1-July-2023 #11 ENVIRONMENT In an interesting tidbit of environmental news, during one of the myriad round-the-world sailing races, a boat teamed up with scientists testing water samples all over the globe, especially the Southern Seas around Antarctica. Sadly, each and every test tube of water showed microplastics. As mentioned in an earlier blog, Minnesota issued a…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
SPECIAL EDITION July 2023 #10 Due to an extraordinary amount of news, I decided to add a Middle of the Month blog. Another will be posted 1 July 2023. CONTEST A few months ago, I held a contest for a book; but in the fashion of the World’s Worst Sailor, I forgot to mention the…