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February 2007

Dead Men Tapping

Dead Men Tapping is the true story about a commercial fishing boat that gets run over by a tug & barge off of Cape Ann, Mass, and the subsequent lawsuit against the Coast Guard for negligence in botching the rescue. One of the main characters in the book is Mike Goodridge of TowBoat/US Newburyport. The [...]

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February 5, 2007 Read the full article →

The MARB policy in writing

The MARB policy is in fact a small part of the Search & Rescue policy, which is contained in a document called “U. S. COAST GUARD ADDENDUM TO THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE SUPPLEMENT (NSS)”. Below is a link to a PDF of the entire document. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opr/manuals/cgadd/CGADD_wCH1.pdf Chapter 4, section 1 contains the [...]

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February 3, 2007 Read the full article →

Derelict boats create income opportunity

There has been a rash of stories like this in the press lately: Macon Telegraph 01/29/2007 Derelict boats vexing coast and I think towers should be harvesting the contact information of names and agencies that are getting the funding. Why not send them a letter of introduction, along with some pictures of your equipment and [...]

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February 1, 2007 Read the full article →

Sea Tow Announces foray into Insurance

Sea\Tow International made an interesting announcement today that they were partnering with AIG insurance to create an insurance program exclusively for SeaTow members.http://www.seainsure.com/pressroom/press%20releases/SeaInsureAnnouncement.pdf According to the press release, one must be a SeaTow member to bind coverage, but anyone can get a quote. It looks like Sea\Tow has designed a group discount program for all [...]

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February 1, 2007 Read the full article →

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