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I retired several years from being a NY Harbor tugboat captain. I also had a 7 knot pleasure tug ( Crosby Tug) and as much as possible timed the tides and currents. Weather entering N.Y. Harbor Narrows , going North up the Hudson River, transiting the East River, heading up the Delaware River...

Depending on where you are in New York Harbor catch the Slack Water First Of the Flood at the Battery East River. Don't be a Deep Draft sail boat and don't hog the middle of the channel at the He'll Gate. The big tug barges go through the gate the same time. After passing X Rocks during the...

On slow single screw boats you can put rudder cheeks of both sides of the rudder. It is about 15 degrees . On a tug a owner consult with a N/A and he will tell you the proper size. When I ran the TEXACO Sky Chief it had that and we called it a Barn Door Rudder. Should you do that do not put the...

Yes, The boat was built for me in 1982 by Yank Boat Works of Tuckerhoe.NJ. My friend Walter who worked at Lehman was able to get me the engine, keel cooler, prop, 2 inch shaft, at Lehman cost. Yanks Boat Eorks did the steel work. The original mast came off a USCG 30 footer that I ran boat...

My 26 foot workboat with a Warner 73, 3-1 Red, 26-14 inch 4 blade.

Prop Years ago I built a workboat. My friend worked for Ford Lehman and we put a Ford Lehman 120 with a Warner 73 3-1. I put a 26 x 14 inch. Later the boat was repowered with a John Deere 6 cyl.