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You are asking a good question. Most tug and barge has a emergency line behind the last barge on a Hawser. The reason is if the tow breaks the runs around the stern of the last tow and pick up a floating pickup line. These are usually about 100 to 150 feet in length. This line is tied to...

Is it better running a pleasure boat aground or a tow boat towing a oil barge running aground and causing a possible oil spill? What is the draft of your boat? What was the depth of the water just outside of the Gulf ICW channel? What is the charted channel width? How was the total length of the...

A tug could push its tow, tow along side, or a stern on a Hawser. A Hawser can be either rope or steel cable. A Hawser can be as long as 1/4 mile A stern or more. The Hawser mesument under the water is called canatary. The tugs mast will show two white when pushing, alongside , or under 200...

YEP, Did you like the set up?

If I were building a new vessel I would build a boat with two engines but one shaft. You can run or both engines. I know a small tug that has that set up.

The USCG 44 MLB s had lead bar in the bilge.

1_ What is the length, builder, Date of construction ? 2- Has the yard hauled your boat in the past? 3- Were you there when your boat was hauled and blocked? I had a small tug that towed small barges and pleasure boats . Once while towing a 36 foot FG sail boat the owner tried to sue me...

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.......You did the right thing to covert to lever steering. Every commercial tug except one I ran going back to the late 1970 s had lever steering . That one tug went from wheel to level steering. Once again you were right.

Turn off your auto steering and learn to steer by hand in a following SEA. You will get used to the following rythem of the sea. Work with the sea rather then fighting it. Steering a large CG 327 cutter, large Ocean tugs, or my own boat it is all the same. If the wife complained about the vessel...

With only 5.5 foot draft and a 17 foot beam the 82's were rough riding but a very seaworthy vessel. I remember them serving in Viet Nam. They had a 3/16 " steel hull and a aluminum deck house. A friend of mine serves on the replacement 87 footers and they are also rough riding. He is A BM 1...

Most ship captained turn over the ship to the pilot at the sea Bouy. Most tugboat captains and mates do it all be the ocean or harbor/rivers. Many tug/barge units are over 500 feet long. A Coast Guard/Navy are not necessarily a good boat handlers but rather in a 20 to 30 year career might only...

The CG I joined in 1968 is not the CG I retired from in 1995. 1968 to 1972 CG regular. 1972 to 1995 CG Reserve. 1973 to 2001 ran N.Y. Harbor tugs. My employer was great and kept me on salary while doing CG Reserve time minus CG pay.

The CG has 4 52 foot motor life boats there. Years ago I was on The Victory out of Newport. They have twin GM 6_71 engines with twin 36 inch props.

MGC? AH Healy? Bug Eye? Had a 1956 M.G.A. and 1959 M.G.A. . 1962 Sprint. All cost me lots in repairs. After the British JUNK I get a VW Bug.

USCG Cats Spent 4 years regular CG and another 22 years in the CG Reserves. At USCG Station New York we had 2 41 footers with Cummins 903 and 5 32 footers with Cat NA. The Cat ran very well with many of the coxswain beat the Heck out of the engines. Later the station got 2 38 footers and had...

$20 K. That's about right. First you have to hire a crane barge and then pay at least 2 licensed men who can operate it. It is not cheap to disposal of the junked vesel. Here it cost around $800 to $1000 dispose a 20 to 25 feet fiberglass boat. And that is not salvage but rather just cutting the...

I had a problem with my RV gen. The Cummins folks told me that at $185.00 a hour it should take 7 hours labor plus parts. I told them to check out the fuel pump. Guess what? They charged me 1 hour labor and parts for a total cost of $305.00. If you know a little about engines they can't cheat...

I can remember when in the mid 60 s the sea scout unit I belong to was paying seven cents per gallon for diesel. We picked it in New York Harbor where the tugs got fuel. The scout vessel was a 65 foot Army T Boat.

Alfred E Newman for President on the Mad@ Liberal party? Oh course for we can still remember those days.

No, the Ford Lehman 135 6 cly is a up dated Ford Lehman 120 6 cyl engine. Both have the same CID. The Ford Lehman 90 4 cyl is the same as the Ford Lehman 80 4 cyl. I owned the 80,90, and the 120 hp ford Lehmans. Ford Lehman also had a Ford Lehman 150 hp turbo but then again the 150 turbo is the...

This little tug was purchased by Massachusetts Marine as a training tool. I owned it from 1984 to 2000 when the school obtained it. The tug has a small 90 Ford Lehman diesel with a Paragon 1.97-1 gear. The tug has a 22 x 16 inch prop. The school tows a 38 foot barge as the schools training. The...

Yes, that is true. Bob worked at Ford Lehman in Linden NJ. There was also a former Lehman employee who sold Ford parts but I am not sure is he is still business. That business is in North Jersey. As a note. Probably half of the employees at Ford Lehman, Linden NJ were former sea scouts.

The Ford Lehman was a very good engine. The Super Lehman 135 is the same as a Lehman. 120 and the Super Lehman 90 is the same a Lehman 80. The only problem with those Lehmans is getting parts as they went out of business many years ago. I had a Crosby tug with a 80 that needed work. I re powered...