I guess "park" isn't nautical enough. What we watched, while at Mitchell Park Marina in Greenport, was a crew from Coastal Marine Construction dock a 100 ft. spud barge attached to a small tug.
It seems that one of the piers needed some extra pilings added and that's what they were doing. They don't drive the pilings in but use a water jet to sink them into the seabed. Quite a thing to watch.
At about 4:00 PM each day, they move the barge from the work area to the inside of one of the marina's piers. It stays there until the next work day, at which time they take it out to the work area and begin with another piling.
The tug is only about 30 ft. long and from what we could see, had just one engine in a "Z-Drive" setup. It was strapped to the barge so the barge and the tub moved as one giant vessel.
Pros like this do it without any drama; every person seems to know what to do.
Hope you find it interesting.
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