Location: New York, NY Course: Anchored Speed: N/A
Weather: Partly Cloudy Wind: SW 10 kts Seas: Calm
Two days were spent looking across the harbor at the Statue of Liberty as we waited for our fuel barge and then spent nine hours transferring fuel aboard once the barge did arrive. The engineers organized into teams that cycled on and off to manage the onload, performing the tasks of tank soundings, reports, and logbook records in a most professional manner. Our deck students prepared for the final leg of our voyage, entering in our voyage plan from NY to Searsport, then Castine.
Photos & Captions provided by 4/C T. White and 4/C Wheeler:
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- The independent “sounder” boarded this morning to help with the bunkering operation. This is a third-party who verifies our tank levels and confirms that the barge delivers the amount requested.
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- 2/C French and 2/C Wallace calculating how long the bunkering process should take.
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- 2/C Wallace double checks his sounding tables to prepare to measure the amount of fuel in tanks as we take on HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil) and DFM (Diesel Fuel Marine).
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- After a long waited arrival our bunkering barge arrived this morning at 1100.
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- The hose is lifted this way to prevent kinks in the line for maximum flow.
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