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Drew Arenth PAYING THEIR RESPECTS TO AN AGING WARRIOR Spectators lined the shore of the Brownsville Ship Channel on Jan. 17 as the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, under tow by the Corbin Foss, neared the end of a 16,000-mile journey from Puget Sound to International Shipbreaking, Ltd, a Texas scrap yard where it will be dismantled. The tow began on August 8 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where the venerable ship had been mothballed since 2003. Drew Arenth, project manager, said he was “humbled by the professionalism and dedication of the tug crews that performed impeccably More than any 12 months in the recent history of our com- through numerous storms throughout the voyage.” Along the way, the Corbin and Constellation made several fuel stops and passed through the Strait of Magellan. a holiday greeting: pany, 2006 was a year in which Foss Maritime moved forward strategically in all areas of our business. FOSS LEASESStrategic SPACE Moves in 2006Foss has leased approximately seasonally in the Puget Sound, many 50 acres at a marine terminal at the now-vacant Terminal 5. The We believe that new courses charted in our harbor services, Align Us with This Mission:in West Seattle for staging, loading lease is for two years with two one-year AT PORT OF SEATTLE marine transportation/logistics and shipyard lines of business, Provide Customers withand Services outfitting marine assets for options, and the arrangement is while not without risk, will further the growth and success of TO STAGE ASSETS FOR Shell’s exploratory drilling in considered temporary, as the port’s that are Without Equal the company for decades to come. Continued inside ARCTIC DRILLING the Arctic. long-term plan is to modernize About 24 support vessels and the terminal for container a drilling rig will be moored (Continued on page 4)

always readyready Our Steady Growth in Oil and Gas Sector By Gary Faber Senior Vice President, Marine Transportation The ability of our its staff to negotiate a lease Supporting Arctic Exploration Foss and the Port of Seattle have reached company to operate in with Foss for the rental of an agreement under which the company will the world’s harshest about 50 acres at the now- lease about 50 acres of terminal space, mainly environments is well known. vacant Terminal 5 on Elliott to moor and support vessels that will be used And as the oil-and-gas Bay. Foss will use the space for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic. industry increases its focus for staging, loading and Cover on Arctic and sub-Arctic outfitting marine assets for The Bay Area’s Horticulture Hobbyist regions of the world, we are exploratory drilling Deckhand Eric Weintraub is volunteering his well positioned to step in Gary Faber in the Arctic. time to turn the Foss regional headquarters, and use our expertise Since early last year, two in a decidedly industrial area of Richmond, to provide logistics, staging and Foss crews totaling about 20 people Calif., into something of a waterfront garden. other services. have been manning the barge Arctic Page 6 Over the last several years, we have Challenger, which houses an elaborate A Day in the Life experienced steady growth in this oil containment system that would Tow Bitts was aboard the Wedell Foss recently sector, and the growth continues. be deployed in the event of a as it and a sister tug, the Henry Foss, Foss currently is working on a well blowout. assisted the TOTE cargo ship Midnight Sun number of projects — under way, Meanwhile, Foss continues the into the Port of Tacoma. Pages 8-9 starting soon, or in the advanced ocean tug construction program at its planning stages — for major players shipyard in Rainier, Ore. In fact, the Helping Keep History Alive in the petroleum industry. first assignment for the Michele Foss, The expert shipwrights and other craftsmen at We will return to Sakhalin Island the first of three Arctic Class tugs Foss Shipyard performed some much needed off the east coast of Russia next year, being built at the yard, will be on the maintenance this winter on the historic yacht performing the first of two annual Point Thomson project this summer. Odyssey, built in 1938 for a member of the Vanderbilt family and now a Sea Scout sealifts to deliver modules from Korea The new tug will be joined by a new training vessel. for the second phase of a refining and 360-foot deck barge, the Foss 3612, Pages 10-11 production complex. Foss staged designed specifically for Arctic service similar sealifts for the first-phase of and delivered to the company Meet the Tarabochias the development in 2003, 2005 last October. John and son Jesse Tarabochia work together on the crane crew at the Foss Seattle and 2006. Fortunately for us, our customers shipyard. Says the father, “You need young During the upcoming ice-free are taking the long look when it blood to learn the ropes and carry on the season, Foss will conduct its second comes to their exploration and safe working habits.” sealift of modules to an oil exploration development projects. One company Pages 14-15 and development project at Point estimates, for example, that it will be Thomson in the Alaskan Arctic, about about 12 years before it begins actual Sister Company Profile Northern Air Maintenance, based in 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay. This deliveries resulting from its upcoming Anchorage, was established 10 years ago sealift, from Korea, is a follow-up to exploratory efforts. and now has 100 employees who perform a 2013 project, when we delivered Between now and then, we maintenance and ground-handling services cargo to the Point Thomson site from will be ready with the equipment, on Boeing 737 aircraft that carry oil field Anacortes, Wash. personnel and skills to serve our workers to the North Slope. Pages 16-17 And just last month, Port of Seattle customers working in the harsh commissioners gave the green light to conditions in or near the Arctic.

To submit articles for Tow Bitts, please contact Bruce Sherman, editor, [email protected]. The Tow Bitts graphic designer is Barbara Hoberecht. Tow Bitts is published six times a year by Foss Maritime for employees, customers and friends. Changes to the Tow Bitts mailing list should be referred to Colleen Liman, (206) 281-3988 or [email protected].

2 • Foss Tow Bitts • ALWAYS READY • March, 2015 BELLINGHAM RESCUE The enhanced tractor tug Garth Foss helped rescue a containership at the Port Our Steady Growth in Oil and Gas Sector of Bellingham in early December, after gusts of up to 67 miles an hour snapped its bowlines and a cleat on the pier. The ship, the Horizon Fairbanks, swung perpendicular to the pier, its bow caught in sediment on the edge of the shipping channel, but was not damaged. The 600-foot-long Horizon Fairbanks has been laid up at the terminal since 2007.

PUGET SOUND AREA SHIPYARDS SIGN PACT WITH OSHA THAT AIMS TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY OF CRAFTSMEN

A trade association representing enforcement and compliance agency, Foss Shipyard and other ship repair but over the last few years has taken a and construction yards on Puget more collaborative approach. Sound has renewed an alliance with “We have a great amount of knowl- the federal Occupational Safety and edge in what we do in our industry Health Administration (OSHA) that and OSHA has knowledge of the aims to promote worker safety. regulations,” Rainsberger said. “At the Foss Director of Health and Safety end of the day, when we put our heads Al Rainsberger, who is president of the together on how these regulations are Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association interpreted, we hope to be compliant (PSSA), and OSHA Bellevue (Wash.) and have our people working safely.” office Director David Baker signed the Baker noted that shipyard safety agreement Dec. 9 at Foss headquarters campaigns that originated with the in Seattle. local alliance, covering confined spaces Foss Director of Safety and Health Al Rainsberger, Rainsberger said the alliance was and fall protection, are now being right, and OSHA Bellevue (Wash.) office Director originally formed in 2007 as “a collab- taken to the east coast. David Baker after they signed a pact between the oration between PSSA and OSHA to “The alliance has been so successful federal agency and area shipyards. promote safe working conditions, best that both parties have chosen to extend practices, and to help safety managers it for another two years,” he said. training and education programs and keep up with safety-oriented techno- Under the two-year alliance improve communication. logical advances.” agreement, PSSA and OSHA agree Rainsberger said OSHA has similar Until recently, Rainsberger said, to share information on safety and agreements with other industry groups OSHA was perceived as an health, develop and implement around the country.

March, 2015 • ALWAYS SAFE • Foss Tow Bitts • 3 Foss is leasing about 50 acres of Terminal 5, which the port eventually hopes to develop into a state-of-the-art container terminal. Don Wilson, Port of Seattle Downtown Seattle is in the background. Foss is Leasing Terminal Space to Support Shell (Continued from the cover) shipping operations. Linda Styrk said the port staff had precious resource that it is,” Lockwood In addition to using the terminal in been “prospecting for a long time” said in urging the commission to support of Shell, Foss also is hoping to for temporary users of Terminal 5, support the proposal. participate in logistics support for “and this is the only current, tangible, Peter Phillips, publisher of the construction of various natural gas substantial prospect we have.” Fishermen’s News and a longtime activ- plant projects. Foss would stage, load The arrangement with Foss was ist in the maritime business and assemble equipment for the considered by the commission at community, called environmental plants at the terminal. a public meeting, where the Foss concerns about the proposal “well “We feel Terminal 5 is a perfect proposal drew broad support from intentioned but misguided.” candidate because of our short-term business and labor leaders but was “Foss is among the most requirements, its deep water, and our opposed by environmental groups responsible marine carriers in the ability to work around the port’s against Arctic petroleum development. nation,” he said. “They are a recog- modernization project,” Foss President John Lockwood, president of the nized leader in safety innovation and and CEO Paul Stevens told port Seattle Marine Business Coalition, environmental responsibility. In fact commissioners recently before they called Foss “an industry leader in and the port recognized them for environ- cleared the way for the lease. around this community.” mental responsibility with an award He said both of the projects, if they “They have proven to be a in 2009. If you don’t lease space to go forward, would bring hundreds of responsible steward of the environ- responsible operators, we’re going to jobs and would provide a good source ment, and their industrial processes be stuck with irresponsible operators.” of revenue for the port. show that they care about our Port Seaport Managing Director maritime environment and the

4 • Foss Tow Bitts • ALWAYS READY • March, 2015 SAFETY CORNER | Prevention is Better than Cure

By Al Rainsberger need to prepare the same way. We complete Director of Health and Safety Football players also use their the job and do playbooks to prepare so all are in a Shipmate Plus The football season has now sync. We have the Safety Management observation to ended, and hopefully your team was System and Standard Operating identify what prepared with proper planning and Procedures that are our “playbooks.” we successfully was successful. There are very similar All workplaces can have hazards accomplished traits between sports and what we all and risks which may result at some and to point out do to prepare ourselves to complete stage in serious accidents or which potential areas of the task at hand successfully and have may be a continual but imperceptible at risk behavior. zero incidents, be it on our tugs health burden for employees. By doing this we are actually already and barges, in the shipyard or the We must plan by starting each planning and will be prepared for the office setting. task with a Job Safety Analysis. next time that task is going to be done. Pro athletes flex and stretch before We accomplish the task utilizing Prevention is better than cure. every game and practice. We as the training we have received and professional mariners and mechanics our experience.

LUCY AT SUNRISE The line boat Lucy Foss was at work as the sun came up recently at El Segundo Moorings in southern California in this photo taken from the Chevron tanker Castor Voyager by Chevron Mooring Master Tom Osborne. The 65-foot Lucy was launched in 2009 at Foss Rainier Shipyard in Oregon and was built specifically to handle mooring lines for tankers at the offshore terminal in Santa Monica Bay.

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Eric Weintraub waters a couple of the shrubs he has planted at Foss San Francisco Bay headquarters. Jim Peschel Deckhand Doubles as Gardener at Richmond HQ; Horticulture Hobbyist Beautifies Drab Landscape

When Deckhand Eric Weintraub at palm trees than pot holes.” was a young man and thought he is off-watch and his tug is tied up at While palms are not among the might end up in forestry or something the Foss home dock on San Francisco species he has planted, there are many similar before becoming a mariner. Bay, he pursues his favorite pastime: others, almost entirely indigenous to “We’re all tied together on this gardening. the area. Among them are sage and planet, from the smallest thing to the Weintraub, an 18-year Foss coffee berry as well as cypress and oak largest thing,” he said. “We need each mariner currently assigned to the trees. The plantings are spread along other, the plants, people and animals.” tug Point Fermin, figures he spends waterfront riprap, around the parking Bay Area Regional Operations a couple of days every two weeks lot and along a small creek that runs Manager Bob Gregory said he watering, planting and bringing a through the area. appreciated the deckhand’s work, both touch of beauty to the Foss property Weintraub, who volunteers his time ashore and afloat. in a decidedly industrial area of and pays for almost all of the plantings “It is nice to see Eric bringing a Richmond, Calif. himself, says he purchased 90 percent little beauty to this industrial area. “The main thing that draws me is of the plants and trees at the nearby It shows nature and industry can the beauty of it, the plants and the Watershed Nursery, which specializes co-exist,” Gregory said. “It is also clear flowers,” Weintraub said of his love of in indigenous plants. when you see him out there that it gardening and horticulture, his hobby The 61-year-old was drawn to brings him joy to be doing it.” for the last 10 years. “We’d rather look horticulture and gardening when he

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WHEEL WIPING Casey Cheslak, a Foss Seattle Shipyard mechanic, cleans up the starboard propeller of the tug Polar Ranger to check for cracks. The 126-foot, 4,900 horsepower tug is owned by Dunlap Towing of LaConner, Wash., and was in drydock for routine maintenance.

MICHELE FOSS NEARING COMPLETION Crews installed the main engine silencers on the Michele Foss recently at Foss Rainier Shipyard, where the new Arctic Class tug is nearing completion. The Michele is the first of three tugs in its class being built at the yard and its first assignment will be an oil field sealift this summer from Korea to the Alaskan Arctic.

March, 2015 • ALWAYS SAFE • Foss Tow Bitts • 7 A DAY IN THE LIFE

A Day in the Life:

Bringing a TOTE Ship into the Port of Tacoma

The Midnight Sun passes Browns Point in Tacoma, about to make a left turn into Commencement Bay and the Port of Tacoma.

he Foss Tractor Plus tugs Wedell Foss and Henry Foss regularly assist the roll-on, roll-off ships Midnight Sun T and North Star into and out of the Tacoma terminal of their operator, Foss sister company TOTE. The Orca Class ships are 839 feet long and have a carrying capacity of 600 40-foot trailers and 220 autos. Tow Bitts boarded the Wedell Foss on Feb. 5 to record the Midnight Sun’s arrival from Anchorage.

The Arthur Foss, under the command of Capt. Kris Sek, awaits the ship, ready to begin the assist into the TOTE Terminal with the Wedell Foss.

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The short trip into the harbor begins. Note Mount Rainier just above and to the left of the Henry’s mast.

At left, Capt. Pete Roney of the Wedell Foss applies power to his tug to push the ship into its berth.

With the Midnight Sun safely home, the Henry, led by the Wedell, heads back to the home dock in Tacoma.

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TRANSFORMING THE ODYSSEY Historic Yacht Undergoes Surgery at Foss Shipyard; ‘Awesome Craftsmen’ to be Rewarded with a Cruise

Foss Shipyard in Seattle aimed to “Our shipwrights had a fair amount Demaree also noted that putting the deliver value to the Sea Scouts while of work to do down there, but they’re yacht in drydock, as opposed to performing quality work during a used to that kind of work,” Hie said. lifting it with slings as other yards month-long project this winter on an “It’s always in the hardest-to-reach might have done, was a “much historic 90-foot yawl originally built places and it requires a high degree gentler” way to get the work done. for a member of the Vanderbilt family. of skill.” The yacht was built for Mrs. The yacht Odyssey, designed by He explained that the yard worked Barbara McKee Henry, granddaughter famed naval architect Olin Stephens closely with owners, the Tacoma-based of Cornelius Vanderbilt II. The and built in 1938 at the Henry Nevins Pacific Harbors Council of the Sea family enjoyed many cruises on the Yard in New York, came into Foss Scouts, to ensure that they received boat, including trips to Cuba and to Shipyard for routine maintenance, good value in the work, funded by the Galapagos Islands. including painting and brightwork. grants and donations. The Navy acquired the yacht in 1942 “But as is often the case with many “We were very strategic in how we and renamed it the USS Saluda, using older boats, especially custom boats walked them through how they were it for a variety of purposes, including like this one, we found some damage spending their money to make sure sonar and oceanographic work. The that needed to be repaired to make the they got a good bang for their buck, Sea Scout group acquired the Odyssey boat seaworthy,” said Jon Hie, shipyard which we do with all our customers,” in 1978 and uses it as a training vessel. director of operations. Hie said. “This job tracked well with what It turned out, he said, that John Demaree, chairman of the Foss does for the maritime industry,” foundation for the boat’s 90-foot tall Sea Scout committee overseeing the Hie said. “It’s used for training young mainmast needed to be rebuilt, a job project, called the Foss craftsmen who men and women learning to be a part complicated by the fact that the mast worked on the boat “awesome” and of the ocean, and we hope we will see is steel, and the bracing at its base is said the scouts would take them for a some of them become a part of the wood. Normally, a weaker material thank-you cruise in May. Foss family in the future.” (wood) would not be used to brace a “Foss has been taking very good stronger material (steel). care of the Sea Scouts,” he said.

The 90-foot Yawl Odyssey, in drydock at Foss Shipyard.

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Above, Foss Shipyard Painter Jody Zuncs works with a roller on the transom of the Odyssey. Below, The Odyssey, operated as a training vessel by the Sea Scouts since 1978, is under sail on Puget Sound.

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FIREBOAT PROGRESS Shipfitter Juan Meza, at right, makes sparks as he smooths down a weld on the double-bottom of a second new fireboat under construction at Foss Shipyard for the Port of Long Beach. Below left, Shipwright Lee Derifield, foreground, guides a 2,800-pound muffler, while rigger Nate Williams positions a second sawhorse under the piece, hanging from a crane at Foss Shipyard. Operating the yard crane for the lift was rigger Matt Dawley. In the photo at the bottom of the page, Pipefitter Myron Wilson works on one of the stacks that will be installed on the vessel. In mid-January, the first of the 108-foot, state-of- the-art boats was nearing completion, dockside at the yard.

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VOITH DRIVE REBUILD The enhanced tractor tug Garth Foss spent six weeks in drydock at the Foss Seattle Shipyard recently while its starboard Voith propulsion unit underwent a periodic rebuild. In the photo below, the unit’s vertical blades were ready for maintenance work at the yard’s outside machine shop. The 137-foot Garth packs 8,000 horsepower and is used primarily for tanker escort and assist work on northern Puget Sound.

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Tonya Todd John Tarabochia, left, and son Jesse, with the Foss 300 floating crane behind them.

Tarabochias Team up on Foss Shipyard Crane Crew

By Hilary Reeves here. So did my dad for a little while before he retired. He worked in the ohn Tarabochia came to Seattle Carpenter Shop.” in 1962. “I was born in Croatia in Tarabochia lives in West Seattle. 1960. My parents, older brother His son, Jesse, lives in nearby Arbor J Heights and recently joined his father and I left for New York, then went to Seattle following my aunt and uncle.” at Foss. He joined Foss in the mid-1980s, “I had part-time jobs after high but said the Tarabochia family has a school,” Jesse said. “I worked at a long history of working on the water. catering company — that was my first “My parents worked our island job. In high school, I was trying to farm and my dad was in the Navy. think of what I wanted to do. I went I went straight into the work,” he said. to South Seattle Community College Young Jesse Tarabochia was no stranger to the “The family has been involved in the for a bit for firefighting. But I couldn’t Foss 300 derrick. Here, at age 5, he peers out the marine fishing industry for 100 years. juggle a job and school. So I stopped window of the operator station. We’ve fished the Columbia River, in school and got a different job. I tried Astoria, on Bainbridge Island, San to get on here right after high school.” Juan Island, and in Alaska. The Crane Crew, the elder “My dad has been in the shipyards Tarabochia said, is a challenging since the 1960s when he worked for assignment. “Our crew is a small crew Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge and of three, with two retirees. The reason then Lockheed. I went straight into for bringing him on is that the crew is the rigging field and worked at starting to get up there in age and we Lockheed with him and then came deal with very, very, heavy, dangerous

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Tonya Todd Jesse Tarabochia, now an adult and a member of the Foss crane crew, visited the Foss 300 derrick with his dad when he was a little boy.

equipment. You need young blood to “I played Division 1 back in the Not everyone gets learn the ropes and carry on the safe early 80s. My teammates are now “ working habits. We’re all licensed, ex-Sounders.” schooled and trained.” Young Tarabochia is glad to be Jesse Tarabochia, currently an carrying on the tradition of working a chance to work apprentice, has gone through many on the water and said his father is an programs, written testing and practical excellent teacher. “Not everyone gets a testing on his way to becoming a chance to work with their father,” Jesse

with their father.” journeyman.” “I started studying with said. “Sure, there’s some times when – ­JESSE TARABOCHIA my dad,” he said. I’m moving too slow and I get an A crane operator is required to earful, but I know he’s just training have about 10 licenses: CDL, hazmat, me to do everything right, everything OSHA 10, rigging and signaling, the safe way, the best way.” various crane certifications, large and (Editor’s Note – This article and small hydro and boom truck. All the others about families at Foss Shipyard training is done professionally through are posted on the online magazine, the union training center with trainers People of Saltchuk, www.saltchuk.com/ who are retired operators. magazine.) When the father and son aren’t on the job, they enjoy watching ice hockey, football, and especially soccer with Jesse’s mother and two older sisters. “Soccer is part of the Croatian way of life,” John said.

March, 2015 • ALWAYS SAFE • Foss Tow Bitts • 15 SISTER COMPANY PROFILE:

William Smith, left, and Gary Hawn go over aircraft maintenance plans. Northern Air Maintenance Services: One Customer, One Partnership and a Success Story

By Blake Arrington Aviation operates three Boeing 737- station and on Oct. 1, 2014 was Manager, Marketing and 700 aircraft, each with 136-passenger selected to assume operations of Communications, Northern Air Cargo capacity. The airline provides 24 the ticket counter, ramp and scheduled flights weekly, transporting passenger screening. Northern Air Maintenance Services more than 20,000 employees and At the Deadhorse station, 22 (NAMS) is celebrating 10 years in contract workers every month between employees take care of more than business. NAMS is a subsidiary of Anchorage, Fairbanks and the 170,000 passengers on 16 weekly Saltchuk-owned Northern Air Cargo North Slope. flights each year. The North Slope is (NAC) and is a Federal Aviation Recently, ConocoPhillips home to some of the harshest weather Administration (FAA) certified approached NAMS to take over in the world; winter temperatures repair station located at Ted Stevens passenger screening and operations regularly dip to 40 below zero and Anchorage International Airport. at the Deadhorse station in Prudhoe wind chill factors can reach 80 below NAMS employs 100 people, and Bay, Alaska. At the time, four separate zero. On Nov. 23 the sun dropped performs maintenance and ground vendors handled different aspects below the horizon and won’t be handling services for Shared Services of operations in the same building, seen again for the next 60 days. Aviation — a joint operation of with the Transportation Safety Despite the challenging weather ConocoPhillips and BP providing Administration conducting passenger conditions, NAMS manages daily transportation to the North Slope screening. NAMS proposed a more operations confidently. for oilfield workers. Shared Services efficient model at the Deadhorse The entire NAMS team works hard

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Ted Ross uses a flashlight to inspect mechanical systems.

“Our partnership with every day with safety as its number one priority. Employees provide a high ConocoPhillips has been very level of expertise, first-rate service and continuously look for opportunities to successful for both companies. assist Shared Services Aviation in its mission of providing the safest, most We look forward to continuing cost-effective and efficient mode David Price Jr., Robert Adams and Xeng Yang of transportation. clean an aircraft interior. to provide them the “Our partnership with ConocoPhillips has been very program. It was the seventh year best possible service for successful for both companies. We running that NAMS received the look forward to continuing to provide award. The Diamond level award is many future years,” them the best possible service for the highest level of achievement in the many future years,” said David Karp, AMT program. The award recognizes – DAVID KARP NAC’s president and CEO. the airline and its eligible maintenance In 2014, NAMS was awarded technicians for a 100 percent the FAA’s Aviation Maintenance participation rate in the program. Technician (AMT) Diamond Award of Excellence for its AMT training

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PACIFIC MARINE EXPO Alex Otero, an estimator at Foss Shipyard in Seattle, met with Gretchen Funk and Paul Shafer of Vigor Industrial in late November at the shipyard’s exhibit at Pacific Marine Expo at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle. Foss was one of hundreds of exhibitors at the three-day trade show, which features all manner of marine equipment and services.

ADOPTING FAMILIES Foss Seattle employees from Finance, HR, Purchasing, Claims, Sales and Operations contributed more than 20 bags of gifts to the Salvation Army’s “Adopt a Family” program, run at Christmastime every year. A company van made two trips to the Salvation Army office in downtown Seattle to deliver the presents.

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CAPT. ROBERT PARRY LOVED PEACE AND QUIET ON OCEAN

Capt. Robert Parry, a 30-year Foss Capt. John Carlin, who was mariner who towed barges on the trained by Parry, described him as ocean and did harbor work for Foss a straightforward taskmaster with a in Southern California until his crusty sense of humor. retirement in 2001, died in April in “It was his way or the highway on Henderson, Nev., where he made his training,” said Carlin, who also played retirement home. He was 71 and golf frequently with Parry. suffered from pancreatic cancer. Parry’s widow, Meg, said, “He loved Parry was born in Youngstown, operating the boats and just being on Ohio, but his family migrated to them and towing — the peace and southern California where he was quiet of being out on the ocean.” raised. He got his start in the industry In addition to his widow, as a deckhand with Jones Tug & Barge Parry leaves a daughter, son and a in Long Beach and worked for Foss for stepdaughter. Capt. Robert Parry the last 10 years of his career.

PEOPLE NEWS

NEW EMPLOYEES Devon Magill Paul Hendriks Safety and Health Coordinator, Seattle Sr. Port Captain, Long Beach, to Travis Barrett Shipyard Regional Operations Manager, Superintendent, Seattle Shipyard Portland Terry Rubin Kelley Beld Talent Acquisition Manager, Seattle Jamie Littlejohn Office Coordinator, Seattle Shipyard Headquarters Human Resources Assistant to Billing Coordinator, Seattle Headquarters Brian Bergquist Ben Stevens Manager, IT Help Desk, General Manager, Cook Inlet Tug Mindy Osbjornsen Seattle and Honolulu & Barge Office Coordinator, Seattle Shipyard, to SAP Coordinator, Seattle Shipyard Stephen Britton Ann Wilkinson Manager, Seattle Terminal Financial Analyst III, Seattle RETIREMENTS Headquarters Cassandra Cooper Ron Bates Safety and Health Coordinator, Seattle RETURNING EMPLOYEE Sales Manager, SoCal Shipyard Justin Borland Salvador Hernandez Joseph Dayton Sr. Learning and Talent Development Leverman, San Francisco Bay Project Manager, Seattle Headquarters Specialist, Seattle Headquarters Herbert Metz Michael Dong PROMOTIONS Captain, PNW Supply Chain Director, Seattle Purchasing Shelby Bayha Spencer O’Grady Purchase Order Desk to Personnel Manager, Seattle Terminal Bronson Lyons Coordinator, Seattle Shipyard Marine Services Coordinator, Seattle Timothy Sullivan Operations Brendon Goodwin Captain, San Francisco Bay Intern to Staff Marine Engineer I, Seattle Shipyard

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A PATH THROUGH THE ICE The Stellar Wind, operated by Cook Inlet Tug & Barge (CITB), follows a path through the ice carved by a lead tug after they assisted the TOTE ship Midnight Sun at the Port of Anchorage. The ice-class Stellar Wind is 85 feet long and is rated at 3,500 horsepower. CITB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foss Maritime. Photos of Foss tugs assisting the Midnight Sun on the other end of its run, at the Port of Tacoma, appears on pages 8 and 9.