TUFF-E-NUFF

Saturday November 20, 2010 Joe Kistel and I, Larry Davis  drove up to St. Marys, Georgia to TUFF-E-NUFF, the 105 year old tug built in 1895. We spend about 5 hours on the vessel, cleaning, removing stuff, and inspectiing the engine compartment.

Here are some pictures from that day. You can see the amount of work there is and needs to get done. If you or anyone you know would like to get involved with creating an artificial reef, we would love to hear from you. Get a different perspective of what goes on to ready this vessel for her new home.

This picture shows the amount of rust and silt built up. You can just make out the bolts in the center.

In this next picture, you are looking aft, starboard side. The fluid you see is a mix of brown river water and diesel and mud and other stuff. Gewy.

In the third picture, look at the amount of crud. This is about 5 feet off the deck. The tug is stuck on a sandbar. During high tide, water entered the vessel and filled her up to the first deck. We have our work cut out for us.

This is Joe walking back from the back of the engine room. See the black foot prints? Thats about an inch or two of black, sticky, stinky decay, mud, diesel.

Here is a view facing aft, starboard side.

Here is shot just off the engine room deck.

If you are interested in following this adventure, please contact Larry Davis (contact info). If you would like to receive updates to the progress of readying TUFF-E-NUFF for placement offshore central florida, all you have to do is register with Divetalking. When ever a post on TUFF-E-NUFF is made, you’ll know about it! Follow TUFF-E-NUFF to her new destination by being there to watch and support as she goes underneath the waves to rest on the bottom in her new home.

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