Kindly Old Dr. K’s Hydrosphere

I recently helped out some colleagues doing inspections of some dam structures.  My young engineers didn’t have a boat to get out to the riser, so they came to Kindly Old Dr. K for some help.  The Superstar may not be known as a workboat, but that’s what I had on my car, so it was pressed into service.  It turns out that playboats make fine platforms for dam inspections.  Standing up in the cockpit to get onto the ladder is dicier than a johnboat, but, hey, I had a budget and a schedule to meet.  Of course, practicing my double pump hardly slowed me down at all.  Sometimes I can’t believe I get paid for this stuff.

Photos are by Troy Biggs, PE.