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F
ew, if any boaters have taken their boat out in the dead of winter!
For some necessity requires just that, moving a boat to a ship in New York
Harbor so it can be delivered to Formosa.
Captain Rob Lewis is just the person that can do this and is called, on many
occasions, to do the impossible. In this case anyone else would have said,
“impossible!”
The stories that Rob has to tell are always interesting, never dull and
sometimes, like this one unbelievable.
Captain Rob Lewis received a telephone call from Haverstraw Marina on
January 26th, 2017 that there was a cabin cruiser at their marina that had to
be moved to meet a ship in New York Harbor at a very specific time, yet to be
determined. The cruiser was being shipped to Formosa. Further information
was that a crane barge would hoist the boat onto the ship. The crane barge
would only be next to the ship at a specific time and that he had to be there
on time.
Captain Rob has been doing this kind of work for many years, especially in
NewYork Harbor, however usually the boat is delivered on a trailer with all the
resulting tangle of snafus that happen when you are delivering to a major New
York Harbor dock.
With the information in hand, Rob being cautious, as he has gotten to be
in middle age, decided to take another captain with him. He called Captain
by
John H. Vargo, Publisher
Captain Rob Lewis.
A Hudson River Boat
Trip to Remember
Getting ready to put
the straps under and
around the boat prior
to lifting it on board.
Sebastian Fazzino (Fuzzy is short for
Fazzino). They, having the kind of
experience that both delivery captains
have, decided that going over to
Haverstraw Marina and inspecting the
boat before they got the call to deliver it
was imperative.
Getting ready to put the straps under
and around the boat prior to lifting it on
board.
They got the key for the boat from the
Haverstraw Marina office and went out
to the boat. Sure enough upon starting
up the engines, it turned out that that
the starboard engine had an alarm going
off when the engine was revved up. Rob
called the Haverstraw office and they
in=turn alerted the service department
that the boat needed to be looked
at. The mechanic came to the boat,
inspected the engines and then called
Captain Rob and said, “The valve for the
water cooling system is frozen half open,
and the engine is not getting enough
cooling when the engine is throttled up!”
Captain Rob said thank you and to
the other captain, “ok, I will just run the
engine down on the port engine!”
Boat Delivery….
In February