摘要: |
The last time Southern Illinois Transfer (SITCO) put a new boat into service, the Sparta, Ill., company had to wait for the Kaskaskia River to fall so that the boat could clear the bridges there. This time, Kurt Johnson, co-owner of SITCO, took no chances. He built the mv. Patricia A with a retractable pilothouse. Constructed by Barbour JB Shipyard, a vessel builder at Mile 18 on the Kaskaskia that is coincidentally owned by [ohnson and his partners, the new boat's pilothouse lowers to 19 feet; when fully raised, it has an eye level of 30 feet. Other than that, it is identical to a towboat the shipyard completed just prior, the mv. Karl E. Johnson. |