Big barge, murky morn

The huge barge that brought the deckhouse for the new "stealth" destroyer headed downriver for Mississippi this morning into a gloomy incoming tide. Positioning the deckhouse on the ship was a job so remarkable that it required three cranes and a newspaper story. Construction continues, and of course so does employment at BIW, a good thing for our area.
Who knows what would happen if the navy contracts ended or even slowed significantly? Although they give it lip service, BIW doesn't really seem interested in branching out to new kinds of construction. When we first came to Arrowsic, they were building some container ships, but then China did that much more cheaply. Maybe with China's emergence things will change back.