CURTIN MARITIME

This job is a great example of how simple and enjoyable it can be to work with Curtin Maritime. Upon completion of a contract in San Diego, California, Traylor Pacific needed their barges demobilized and brought back to the Port of Los Angeles. Traylor put in one call to Curtin Maritime and the Sarah C was sent straight to San Diego. In two days’ time, Curtin Maritime successfully demobilized two derrick barges, two deck barges, and one anchor scow from San Diego and towed them back to Long Beach, California. The project was completed on-time, on-budget, and met all of the goals of our customer.

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Curtin Maritime prides ourselves on being a diverse company with the ability to perform any task our customers ask us to do. As an example, our maritime services extend beyond tug and barge operations to include yeach towing. We provide Ocean towing for vessels of any size, large or small. One of our recent projects was the ocean towing of the Halcyon, a 120-foot yacht hailing from Port Angles, Washington. Curtin Maritime was responsible for towing the Halcyon from its home port in Washington State to the Port of San Diego, California. Curtin Maritime used our signature innovative strategies to provide a turnkey solution to a customer with no previous experience in ocean towing for an affordable price.  Our  lump sum towing included providing rigging, emergency pumps, high bilge alarms, and the necessary U.S. Coast Guard permits for the trip, so there were no hidden costs for our customer. This is just one example of an instance where Curtin Maritime’s attention to detail and customer service makes life easy for our customers and enables the job to be completed without any negative experiences for anyone involved.

So, whether your yacht is in the Port of San Diego, Port of Long Beach, or in Port Angles, Washington, Curtin Maritime is here to make ocean towing simple, easy, accessible, and affordable. Put your mind at ease; give Curtin Maritime a call the next time you need a tow!

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Curtin Maritime has provided ocean towing for Sea Born Targets out of Port Hueneme, California, for many years.  Whether we are towing the MST target ship or one of the Harm Barges, we have always been able to provide superior service for a lower cost to a maritime customer that has very unique needs.

If you have ocean towing work of any kind that needs to be done, Curtin Maritime is small enough to adapt to specific situations and sophisticated enough to tackle even the most demanding of tasks.

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For this job, Curtin Maritime was approached by Aqueos to assist in supporting their customer, Exxon MObile. Curtin Maritime worked side by sside with the crews from Aqueos and Fugro Survey to deploy and retrieve a deepwater anchor system in twelve hundred feet of water at Platform Heritage.

The project went off without a hitch and was successfully completed to our customer’s satisfaction. It was also a prime example of the efficiency of Curtin Maritime: we were given short notice to mobilize our assets and perform the task, and were able to do so, and do it well, because of the excellent quality of our crew and our equipment.

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Curtin Maritime prides ourselves on the ability to be flexible for our customers, and this job with Brittan Industries is a great example of that.

Brittan Industries requested Curtin Maritime to provide ocean towing services to support Brittan during their contract to dredge the Army Corps docks in Sausalito, California. Curtin Maritime relocated our Long Beach-based tugboat, Sarah C, to Sausalito in order to provide around the clock support to our customer. While there, CMC was responsible for towing a 300 yard scow to and from the Alcatraz dump site, dumping approximately eleven scows a day without any delay or incidents during the entirety of the job.

With heavy recreational boat traffic and a very narrow channel surrounding the job site, the environment was not always conducive to progress and efficiency, but Curtin Maritime was able to push through and perform with the level of integrity and excellence our company is known for.

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When Pacific Tugboat Services secured a contract for a large scale job with the U.S. Navy in Central America, Curtin Maritime approached PTS to off our support.

Upon submission of our proposal, PTS decided to contract Curtin Maritime to provide the tugboat portion of the job. Curtin Maritime brought our tugboat, Sarah C, and a full crew to Central American to work with PTS personnel and vessels.

Together, PTS and Curtin Maritime were able to provide the best possible service to the Navy, and the job was completed on time without any incidents or safety issues.

The project included services such as tandem ocean-towing of two barges, mobilization of temporary moorings, fendering,and vessel support in ports in Guatemala and El Salvador. Curtin Maritime also provided demobilization of all assets from Central America back to the Port of San Diego, California. In all, the job was sixty-two days long spread across forty-five hundred miles, and was successfully performed without incident.

This job provided an example of the efficiency Curtin Maritime exudes; although PTS and Curtin Maritime compete in the same market, our competition understands that we provide incredible service at an affordable price.

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This job is a great example of the flexibility of Curtin Maritime. While CMC was underway heading north with a barge for another customer, the Dutra Group contacted Curtin Maritime to perform a mobilization of Derrick Barge No.24 from Alameda, California, back to Los Angeles, California.

While still underway, Curtin Maritime was able to come to terms, execute a contract, and issue insurance certifications for the Dutra Group in order to complete the job. Curtin Maritime arrived in Alameda to mobilize Derrick Barge No. 24 after finishing the northbound tow for our other customer, and brought Derrick Barge No.24 back for the southbound journey. Because the job was an existing voyage, Curtin Maritime had the flexibility to provide a very economical lump sum rate to Dutra.

The ability to make decisions on the spot and offer innovative planning with flexibility gives Curtin Maritime an advantage that translates to bottom-line savings for our customers.

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As a regular customer of Curtin Maritime, Al Larson Boat Shop can testify to the innovation, integrity, and efficiency that Curtin Maritime offers.

For this job specifically, Al Larson Boat Shop called Curtin Maritime on short notice to have a small U.S. Navy barge towed from Puget Sound, Washington to Los Angeles, California. Al Larson required that Curtin Maritime get underway on the twenty-four hundred mile round trip within twelve hours of their call. Curtin Maritime crewed, stored, and fueled the vessels and was able to get underway with time to spare.

Curtin Maritime can offer the flexibility that larger companies cannot, but can still perform at the highest level.

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Curtin Maritime was contracted to support AIS construction in their contract to dredge Morro Bay. Our vessels were there from start to finish, including during the ocean towing of the cutter head suction dredge La Encina and dipper dredge Myrtle for mobilization and demobilization, as well as for the ocean dumping of dredge spoils.

Morro Bay presents some very difficult conditions for towing and dredging. The currents rip through Morro Bay and the bar channel at over four knots. The Morro Bay bar channel is treacherous and unpredictable, at best. Additionally, the water depth and channel widths are minimal.

Curtin Maritime dumped over four hundred barges in just under three months for a total of 818 bar crossings in November, December, January, and February of an El Nino winter. With our Rapp Hydema winch, featuring rend and recover and open stance fairlead to accommodate a full shot of 2″ surge chain to one and a half inch Plasma Bridles, Curtin Maritime could continue to tow across the bar in unfavorable conditions and maintain the shortest make and break times for the fastest turnarounds possible.

This is a prime example of Curtin Maritime providing the very best equipment and crew for a job whose location and environment requires the highest level of performance and reliability.

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