CRUISE	DATES	LOCATION
MOBY-L285	26-Sep-2019 - 28-Sep-2019	Lanai
Description: MOBY-L285: 26-28 Sep-2019 MOBY and Mooring Replacement Cruise: Thur 26-Sep-2019 HST: 8am HST: Arrived at the site working on M267 recovery. 8:47am HST - divers in the water at the MOBY bouy. Recover drogue, remove AFTs & bag collectors, tow M267 to Lanai & anchor North of Kaumalapau Harbour. 2 PM (HST) - M267 arrived at Lanai overnight Mooring site. In the after Noon on Thursday the Kaumalapau Crane was used to get M268 into water, then M268 was towed & by 5 pm (HST) anchor N-of-harbour. TH & MF @ dock w/ MSI James, prep new Mooring buoy on flat rack. Then the new Mooring was moved from rack to water using the Kaumalapau Crane. The the new Mooring buoy was towed N-o-harbour and anchored by 5:15 pm, anchor boat for night (w/ MO buoy tethered to boat). Fri 27-Sep-2019 HST: Friday was the mooring swap day. 3am HST: depart anchorage, tow new MO buoy to MOBY site ~6am release new MO buoy to float near old mooring. 8:45 AM recovering old mooring. 10 am finished recovering the old mooring. Starting deployment of the new one. 12:45pm HST - New mooring deployed . We’er heading into anchor for the evening. 4:17pm HST - New mooring installed Towing old mooring back to Lanai. Sat 28-Sep-2019 HST: Saturday: 6am HST - at Kaumalapau harbour w/ old Mooring buoy under tow. Crane old MO buoy from H2O to flat rack, mooring gear from deck to dock. TH & MF and MSI James & stay at dock to load/secure buoy to flat rack. boat returns to anchorage & tow M267 back to harbour. In Kaumalapau Harbour Crane MOBY267 from water to boat deck. 1:13pm HST - Crane work done. Towing M268 to the mooring. 1:46pm HST - Old mooring and moby268 is on the dock and MOBY268 is under tow to MOBY site. Attach M268 to new mooring. Deploy drogue. Install AFTs. Install bird spikes. Remove cover from CTD salinometer @ Mooring buoy. 7:25pm HST - All done and heading back to Oahu. 10pm HST M/V Kahi at P35 dock.
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