Sause's refurbished deep-hull tug can handle the Pacific

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"She is lively but she has a slow-motion roll. She feels like a racehorse sliding through the ocean," said Capt. Scott Jacobsen of the tug Black Hawk. "The new tugs push through the ocean but this boat has a fine entry and a fine exit." Jacobsen had just towed the empty 80,000-barrel 374-by-76-by-29.5-foot double-hulled tank barge Commencement Bay from San Francisco Bay to Vancouver, British Columbia, for dry-docking. The 122-by-34-foot Black Hawk had been recommissioned into the Sause Bros.' fleet a month earlier in mid-September. Built in 1968 at Halter Marine on the Gulf of Mexico to a design by L.R. Glosten and Associates, the tug had two well-known all the piping and put in new machinery."