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CapnMac82

 

 

EdGrune

Getting her loose of the bollards which hold her in place will be an interesting evolution.

 

 

Especially given the unique way she's on display.

She's on blocks alongside the Mississippi River.  As the river ebbs through the summer and into winter, she goes "dry."  Come the Spring flows of the river, she goes "wet."

It's my understanding they allowed for floods along the river in the mooring/mounting.

So, the tricky part abotu getting her to a dry dock would be in having to wait for full river flow, to float her off her keel blocks.  Yet not have this being under unpredictable water conditions.  I imagine they'd want for more than one River Pilot for the tugs.  But, it would only be a short tow down to the yards on NOLA.

 

 

The Kidd was floated out of the cradles yesterday and is enroute down-river to a shipyard in Houma, LA for a maintenance period.  

If they need spring high-water to get off and back onto the cradles, don't look at a museum tour for a while (the Mississippi has been beset by low summer flows).  

EdGrune

, don't look at a museum tour for a while

I want to remember that they were expecting 6-8 months' of yard tiime.

Your point does make me wonder if they can use camels to hoist her back up.  There's not a lot of bank-side room for that sort of thing.

A bit of a "season" of maintenance, what with New Jersey, The Sullivans, and now, Kidd, all getting either yard or maintenance time right now.