Good ear! Years ago a friend built a 100' long 2 deck paddle wheel boat, for tourism on Utah's Green River, and it was powered by dual Detroit 3-53's. Quite efficient, (the paddlewheel) as it turned out his cruising fuel consumption was something like 1.5 GPH per engine.
It looked rough the way it landed on the propeller shrouds. Are they made of steel? Fat chance of the corrosion inhibitor surviving that abrasion you would reckon. I wonder were they deformed from the impact as well?
I worked for Janoush when he was a big wheel at Mississippi Marine Towboat Corp. In Greenville Mississippi in 1980. He scraped some steel from my eye with a credit card in his office
what a beautifully restored push/towBoat I'd be a proud owner tell you what. bet she's got more than just a lil horsepower under the hood this lil monster money acheiver definitely is gonna help some of the biggest ships make port safely hauling and pushing unpowered barges too
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Nothing quite like a new vessel launch! Seen a few during my years as Pilot and Captain on our inland Rivers. This vessel reminds me very much of a vessel originally named Wanda B owned and operated by Consol Coal. I rode her for 11 years!
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This vessel looks so very purposeful, purely designed to fulfil it's function. Needless aesthetics need not apply, this is all business, and it looks good for it, too!
The vessel is used to push flat bottom cargo barges on the Inland river waterways of the US. The flat bottom and straight shaft design allow for maximum forward push with little consideration for waves or other changes in water level.
The boat was launched into Lake Ferguson in Greenville, MS. It is an oxbow lake off the Mississippi river and it has very little current. There were three towboats standing by to "catch' the boat after launch. Very little risk of a collision.
Inland river tow boats don't have to contend with waves or large storms. They have been shallow draft flatbottom boats since the days of the paddle wheelers.
@@tomthompson7400 That's been known to happen. There's video of a boat in St Louis almost capsized from hamburgering an attempt to land on the upstream end of a barge fleet.
Ha ha that was like watching a boat yard in Africa. Even the propellor shrouds hot on the way in. Eyeshadow America has become so far behind the rest of the world.
Check out the clipper ships designed by Donald McKay, and the liner S.S. United States designed by William Gibbs. FYI, an inland rivers towboat is a boat, not a ship.
@@michaelhansen1232 No, read again what I posted. The American-built clippers and ocean liners were beautiful ships. As for the towboat, it's a boat. That's what it's called. Been at sea much? Ever study American naval operations in WWII?
@@wrightflyer7855 ever study Danish naval history...????? your "nation" aint even 250 year old. and OOOPS. where do you US come from.... Europe...?????????????????????
@@michaelhansen1232 I haven't read Danish naval history or the history of any Nordic seafarers in many years because I'm interested in such a wide variety of subjects that I just pick one when the fancy strikes. Life is truly too short to experience it uninformed. Yes, my nation is comparatively young to be so full of itself, to believe that Americans are somehow better than everyone else, which borders on the narcissistic. My own ancestors were English, Welsh, German, Scots and Irish... and I lived in Europe and Asia for three years each. So no, I wasn't born with a Big Mac in my mouth.
I worked for Janoush when he was a big wheel at Mississippi Marine Towboat Corp. In Greenville Mississippi in 1980. He scraped some steel from my eye with a credit card in his office
