Subscribe to RSS FeedSo last night, I hosted Captain Skip Strong at our Newport, RI office. There's not many folks who can hold an audience for nearly an hour and half, but he did so with ease. I suspect it's a good sea story delivered by a great storyteller that did the trick. Many thanks to those that joined us and for those that didn't or couldn't, keep a look out for my announcement of the Spring speaker who brings an equally compelling narrative of high seas adventure.
So Skip's tale is about the salvage of NASA's $50 Million dollar liquid fuel cell back in the mid-nineties. He was the captain of a single-skin tanker that came to the aid of a tug towing a barge on which the fuel cell was loaded. Navigating in shallow water off the Atlantic coast of Florida, Skip and his crew managed to hook up and tow the tug and barge. Parted lines, twenty-foot seas and the unavailability of outside assistance makes it pretty easy to envision the harrowing scenario. At any rate, he wrote a book about the event called "In Peril" and it's the kind of read that'll keep you up far past your bedtime.
I'll get back to scribbling some more entries shortly, but Skip and his book were worth a mention.
Underway and making way.
--- JKF
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