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...Ann Boutwell...
...estimated $150 million. Each boat carries a skeleton crew that is responsible for upkeep and for starting the engines once a day to prevent ice buildups on the propeller and the hull. "We're just baby sitting a boat," says Leo Hallinan, 40, a deckhand aboard the Ann Blessey. "If the TV ever went out, they'd have to carry us off in ambulances and straitjackets...
...sign that sums up " their plight: WELCOME - BOREDOM CITY - POP. 16. Says Doug ("Pee-wee") Flannery, 24, a deckhand on the White Knight: "You just watch the second hand go around." To keep busy, the crew of the Hawkeye has adopted four mallard hens; the men aboard the Ann Blessey cast for carp using hot dogs and cheddar cheese. One deckhand reportedly persuaded the pilot of the White Knight to steer a ragged course around the ice floes in pursuit of real or imagined silver foxes...
Most days are whiled away staring at TV, smoking cigarettes, drinking countless cups of coffee and dredging up new stories to recycle. "You start running out of lies to tell," says Bob Wills, a three-decade river veteran and captain of the Ann Blessey. To pass the frozen hours. Wills and his two-man crew enjoy a friendly game of poker, with a nickel limit on raises. Over on the White Dawn, gambling is not allowed. Nevertheless, the crew has worn out three decks of cards playing no-stakes spades. Deckhand Tommy Kelly, 36, from rural Sugar Tree, Tenn., feels...
...barge companies try to rotate personnel every 30 days, but some men have been afloat since the vessels got stuck. Money is one reason: Scott Knapp, engineer of the Ann Blessey, makes $110 a day to run the tow's engines for an hour. Wills' $210 a day comes painlessly as well: he spends about two hours monitoring the radio and "wheel-washing"-wagging the boat's tail to keep the craft from becoming frozen in place like the barges...