punt” which the plaintiff used to guide sheet pilings to construct a flood wall qualified as a vessel. The work punt was a floating iron platform measuring sixteen feet long and four feet wide with a tank in the middle and at each end for buoyancy. The parties stipulated that the work punt was “used solely as a small platform from which to break the cement and guide the sheet pilings” while men on the shore lowered the sheet pilings into position. Id. at 826. The plaintiff paddled short distances to get the work punt into position. At the time of his injury, the plaintiff was standing with one foot on the work punt and one foot on a brace connecting two pilings. Id. at 826. Synthesizing the line of cases in our Circuit that developed in the wake of Cook, the court stated that [a 90) (<HOLDING>); Ducrepont v. Baton Rouge Marine Enters.,
holding that plaintiff was otherwise qualified for position where he had worked for defendant employer for approximately twentyeight years holding the same holding that two barges fastened together moored to bank of river and used to weld pipeline together were not vessels holding that barge moored to the shore and used as a stationary work platform to clean other barges was not a vessel holding that floating barge moored to shore remaining in same place for approximately seven years and used as work platform to clean and strip cargo and gas from barges was not a vessel