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Winter doesn't stop bay work

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 02/19/10

No matter how cold it gets, how gusty the wind blows, how icy the water becomes, water-based businesses have to keep plugging through winter months on the Chesapeake Bay.

Pamela Wood - The Capital Capt. Jeff Lill of the M/V John C. Widener juggles cell phone and radio calls while on an icebreaking mission Wednesday in the Annapolis area. Lill said this is the latest into the winter that the icebreaker has worked in years. Usually, the ice thins out and melts by Valentine’s Day, he said.
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If the workload of the M/V John C. Widener is any indication, there's plenty of business to be done on local waterways.

The state-owned icebreaker is busy busting free watermen, towboats and marinas from winter's icy grip. The Widener has gotten so busy that its sister vessel, A.V. Sandusky, was scheduled to cross the bay to help break ice on the Western Shore's rivers.

"It has been constant," said Jeff Lill, captain of...

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