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I\u2019ve lived near Pensacola, Fl since I early retired and fled the traffic in my native north Atlanta metro. Though the local traffic seems to be building rapidly due to intense and rapid development, even the worst traffic here is almost laughable compared to the 24\/7 nightmare of Atlanta.<\/p>\n

One aspect of Pensacola in that it is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and has an excellent deepwater harbor. It\u2019s deep enough that, up until the early 90\u2019s, aircraft carriers were commonly based out of NAS Pensacola. The civilian Port of Pensacola has a marine refit and repair facility that attracts a fair amount of business repairing and refitting highly specialized vessels that support the many hundreds of oil and gas platforms throughout the Gulf. We see some seriously weird vessels that are tied up for as much as a year while they are being reworked.<\/p>\n

The vessels are extremely specialized, some are pipe line layers, some heavy lift with huge cranes used to build or remove oil platforms, some made for carrying pipeline materials, some are supply boats, some are floating hotels. There was one boat owned by Jeff Bezos which had all superstructure was cut off and removed in preparation for landing spacecraft on its deck. I call these vessels boats but not as diminutive, some of them a huge, 800 or more feet in length.<\/p>\n

I shot most of the boats in port but on occasion I would be off shore in my 24\u2019 fishing boat and see one on the way in.<\/p>\n

Another ship that I\u2019ll later do a post on is the sailing vessel Juan Sebastian De Alcino. Pensacola has a strong Spanish heritage and was ceded to the US by the Spanish in 1822. The JS De Elcano is owned and operated by the Spanish equivalent of the US Naval Academy and is used as a training ship for the midshipmen. Each summer,\u00a0 the largest sailing ship currently in operation in the world goes on a world cruise, hitting ports on the way. It stops in Pensacola for a couple of days once ever 3-4 years. I spent a few hours climbing around on it a few years ago. That will be a future post.<\/p>\n

Below, I\u2019ll post a few pictures of some Gulf work boats.<\/p>\n

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