It doesn’t take a long conversation with TowBoatUS Beach Haven Capt. Rick Ellenberg to understand how much he loves what he does and perhaps, more significantly, how important doing it correctly and with honor is to him.
“You have a problem; I am going to try and fix it. And I am going to try not to hurt someone’s boat (further),” he said on a recent Saturday morning. “I am just one of the guys.”
He’s certainly one of the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay’s go-to guys. So much so that Sector Delaware Bay personnel nominated Ellenberg for a TowBoatUS…
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