Shipyard Tour 1/18
So last Friday Nick gave Isa, Juliette, and I a tour of the yard. I got the photos that he took approved for publication on this blog: The NASSCO shipyard is totally different from any yard I've seen before. That's a large part of what I'm really enjoying about this winter work: despite the fact that this is my sixth internship, the work that I am doing and the things I've gotten to see have been completely different from anything I've done before. Even compared to last year, where I was in a large repair yard. The yard is way bigger than anything I've worked in before, and there's a large variety of ships. Not only that, but of the variety of ships, all of them are huge projects. Last year BAE had a few things going on at once, but it was mostly one or two destroyers at a time (and only one in drydock) and several small projects, such as yacht repairs that lasted for a couple of weeks or a few months. NASSCO has repairs and new-builds that ...