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		<title>Snap Back Kills Again: Review Your Procedures &amp; Equipment And Maybe Save A Life.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an accident report from the U.K.&#8217;s MAIB that deserves to be read and disseminated widely. On the evening of August 7, 2007 the ferry Dublin Viking was alongside the dock at berth #52 in Dublin, Ireland while the crew was preparing to sail on the overnight run to Liverpool. Wind and tidal conditions were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2591&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old-School Plotting &amp; Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner &#8211; Part IV</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having already reviewed the &#8220;old&#8221; old-school stuff, it&#8217;s time to move on to some of the more modern versions of old-school. While certainly not new, years ago Weems &#38; Plath did a great update of the basic divider with their 7&#8243; aluminum Ultralights. What separates them from all the others is that the adjustment wheel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2391&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Of The Week &#8211; 11/9/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Hard over and sweeping the surface smooth: underway with another load from the Northville platform into the glow of a Long Island Sound sunset&#8230;..
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		<title>Old-School Plotting &amp; Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner &#8211; Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about chart weights and magnifiers? I always hate it when some thoughtless, inconsiderate idiot decides to come in the windward-side door to the pilothouse (especially when it&#8217;s me!), sending papers scattering all over the deck. I generally try to keep them firmly affixed to clip boards but they seem to multiply like the proverbial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2384&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Of The Week &#8211; 11/2/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Westbound at Execution Rocks, approaching the East River and Gotham, with another load of black oil for the tank farms of Con Hook&#8230;..
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		<title>Sleep Apnea &amp; The Professional Mariner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep Apnea &#38; the Professional Mariner
by Capt. Doug Pine
As a professional mariner you are, I&#8217;m sure, quite familiar with the sounds of snoring coming from the cabins aboard the vessels upon which you serve. Unfortunately, at times, we must share a cabin with a snoring shipmate. I remember a time over ten years ago when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2470&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Of The Week &#8211; 10/26/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Eastbound at the Old St. Georges Bridge with a light one alongside, riding a fair current through the C&#38;D Canal, and enjoying the last of the fine weather while summer waves goodbye&#8230;&#8230;
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		<title>GPS Down For The Count? Bust Out The Charts And The Eyeballs, Navigator! And, While You&#8217;re At It, Try To Get Some Sleep Too&#8230;..If You Can</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GPS brownout? Holy deteriorating critical infrastructure, Batman! News flash, fellow mariners, perhaps those amazin&#8217; satellites in the sky aren&#8217;t quite as infallible as we would like (desperately want) to believe. Maybe our slavish worship at the alter of GPS/LORAN/DECCA/OUIJIBOARDS/WHATEVER is a bit misplaced. Maybe we&#8217;ll all have to bloody well fend for ourselves (as many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2464&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old-School Plotting &amp; Navigation Tools For The Discriminating Mariner &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://towmasters.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/old-school-plotting-navigation-tools-for-the-discriminating-mariner-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not as old school as brass dividers and parallel rules, rolling parallel plotters have still been around for my entire seagoing career and are worth consideration. Weems &#38; Plath offer four versions and the first two are included only as a comparison to the latter three, which are truly commercial-grade navigation instruments.
The 3.5&#8243; x 12.5&#8243; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2376&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photos Of The Week &#8211; 10/19/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conventional Tugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penn Maritime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penn No. 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Alario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Shipbuilding Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tugboats]]></category>

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Meet Penn Maritime&#8217;s Penn No. 6, a very rugged-looking boat that clearly exudes the no-nonsense attitude of a big, powerful seagoing tug. It positively reeks of old-school.

No, it&#8217;s not just another pretty face. This is the place where, when pushing, kinetic force is transferred from one hull to another, all 5,700 hp of it. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=towmasters.wordpress.com&blog=4708689&post=2453&subd=towmasters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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