On waterways around the country - in Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey - deadline-driven shipyards and scrappy salvage operations build, repair and rescue boats ranging from 8-million dollar super tugs to commercial fishing vessels. It's a high stakes business because time in the yard means boat owners are spending big money and not making any. Using ingenuity and craft, shipwrights do whatever it takes to get boats back on the water and back in business. At Portland's Diversified Marine, the crew builds a sixty-five ton tractor tug from the ground up. But they're two weeks behind, and project manager, Chris Waters, pushes the limits to get it back...
On waterways around the country - in Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey - deadline-driven shipyards and scrappy salvage operations build, repair and rescue boats ranging from 8-million dollar super tugs to commercial fishing vessels. It's a high stakes business because time in the yard means boat owners are spending big money and not making any. Using ingenuity and craft, shipwrights do whatever it takes to get boats back on the water and back in business. The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing and work vessels is fraught with danger. At Superior Marine in southern Alaska a welding accident sets a vessel ablaze. The flames...
The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing and work vessels is fraught with stress. At Superior Marine in southern Alaska an unexpected fishing tender ship upgrade causes a cascade of mishaps that push Don Sorric to the boiling point. No one escapes Don's wrath, and a new hire's first day becomes his last. At Diversified Marine, new homeowner Chris Waters is torn between the demands of his family and his high-pressure job. The young project manager can't be in two places at one time, so neither family nor his demanding boss, Kurt Redd, get his full attention. And at Yank Marine, General Manager, Mike Tilsner, restores an...
The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing and work vessels is fraught with stress. At Superior Marine in southern Alaska, the Josie J, a salmon purse seine vessel, is having a fish-hold remodel. This multi-stepped process has Yard owner, Don Sorric, on tenterhooks when the greenhorns tackle the basic body work with too much gusto. Diversified Marine's major build, the Lela Franco, has her Rolls Royce engines in place and is impatiently waiting on her cutting edge Z-Drive Shafts to be installed. The key people for the job are either overworked or on vacation. As the time ticks away, schedules fall apart and commitments hang...
The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing boats, work vessels and passenger ships is fraught with stress. Yank Marine in Tuckahoe, New Jersey is in a race to get the party/deep sea fishing boat, Miss Barnegat Light, overboard to start her very lucrative season. The major problem is that this boat has deep corrosion pitting the hull. A repair of this seriousness will require a Coast Guard inspection to allow the boat back on the water. At Diversified Marine, the Lela Franco tugboat must have the electrical wiring run throughout the Pilothouse. Time is of the essence and to get the work done faster - bets are made. Project...
The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing boats, work vessels and passenger ships is fraught with stress. Shamrock Salvage and Towing in Ocean City, New Jersey, work to lift a sinking houseboat while the occupants, a man and his two dogs, look on in hopes that their home can be saved. Diversified Marine in Portland, Oregon, has two boat launches to oversee - one on the Willamette River and the other on the mighty Columbia. At Superior Marine, in Wrangell, Alaska, greenhorn, Curtis Schlotzhauer, has a complicated plumbing job that can make or break his career. His boss and yard owner, Don Sorric, is not tolerant of shoddy...
The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing boats, work vessels and passenger ships is fraught with stress. Yank Marine in Tuckahoe, New Jersey has Codzilla in for a new paint job. This streamline, scream machine is John Yank, the 3rd's, mastermind and he makes millions building them. Across the country at Diversified Marine in Portland, Oregon, the Lela Franco's welding is cut short when 6,000 gallons of fuel has to be uploaded. But as fast as the fuel is pumped onboard it flows out a leaking hatch. Back in New Jersey at Shamrock Salvage and Towing in Ocean City, it is a very busy day for recreational boaters. These weekend...
The job of building and maintaining the nation's fleet of fishing boats, work vessels and passenger ships is fraught with stress. Yank Marine in Tuckahoe, New Jersey, has a new client with a hard working tugboat that patrols the New York Harbor breaking up ice in the winter and moving heavy equipment in the warmer seasons. The Reliable has rust eating through the hull, so Project Manager, Mike Tilsner's must come up with a fix that is durable but quick and not terribly expensive. Across the country at Diversified Marine in Portland, Oregon, one of the Lela Franco's generators is not cranking so the engines won't start with the Sea Trials less...
