the remaining portion on the deck nance of the fuel oil vent mechanisms and install the new section of prefab- by cutting and rejoining the pipes with ricated pipe. Hot work was avoided Victaulic plain-end couplings. This by completing the on-board connec- allows personnel to remove the vent tions with the Style 99 couplings, and for servicing by simply loosening two all work was completed dockside. bolts and removing the coupling from “I saved myself several thousand the joint. Reinstallation is as quick as dollars on a marine chemist, several the initial installation. “It makes our thousand dollars on cleaning the job effortless,” said Parrotta, adding tanks, and the aggravation of waiting that he has completed this work on several years until the next drydock,” two of the three tugboats based in Parotta said, adding, “If you add all Baltimore, and is recommending it to these costs, I would have been, con- other McAllister port engineers.servatively, $15,000 in the hole—all that, just to weld a little hole. When Proven Performance = you’re doing all this, the boat is not Economy of Scaleavailable for work. By doing it the way The Victaulic Style 99 Plain End we did, it was a fraction of the cost Roust-A-Bout Coupling has proven and it took us three hours to do it, advantageous for McAllister Towing compared to probably a week.” & Transportation in multiple ways, Parrotta adds that the fuel oil vent from reducing time out of service, to mechanisms are notoriously dif