A synopsis of many commenters ... great video ... educational content ... great crew / teamwork etc. Tim thanks for showcasing your part of the maritime industry. Well done!
My favorite Uncle who was in the US Coast Guard during WWll had great story about how he was assigned to a large Army Tug and made a voyage from San Francisco Bay to Manila Bay towing very large concrete barge. I like your video very much!
Thanks for the great video ! Grew up fishing with my Dad in the Sandy Hook Bay and all the areas you passed thru! Weakfish , Fluke, and monster Bluefish, and fall Stripers , made me homesick in a good way !
Hey Tim, just got back from a week in Jacksonville. Our hotel was on the beach and I always have my binoculars to watch the marine activities. All sorts of fun. It's also interesting to follow along on the shipping location sites to get a little more info on the various vessels. Thanks, always interesting 😊
Now this is a side of boating the average lan lover never sees!! Watching the sea state and barge wires and going from pull to push. Very interesting. Bringing the fuel barge alongside the car transport and the cruise ship was cool. Steady as she goes. My mistake when boating was always going too fast. Steady as she goes.... Thanks for sharing and keep it up, captain!
I know these guys. Believe me, there us nothing in those heads worth protecting.... 😂 😂 😂 Just kidding. Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. CUOTO
@TimBatSea so, at the end here, when you're pulled in tight to the barge, that's the position you're in when you're taking a bunker barge to another ship that needs refueling? Took me a while to work out (from watching a couple videos only) that you weren't in some kind of fuel ship - do you have a second higher bridge on your tug - the view at 29:33 is pretty obstructed vs other videos you've made?
Thank you for watching. I see you figured it out. In that video we were not fueling a ship but taking ethanol (I think) from Philadelphia to Baltimore, but the bridge had been hit. So we brought it here. CUOTO
Hi Tim, just found your channel a couple of days ago. I think it’s fantastic we get to see your work and the water with tankers and all the interesting things that make our world go round. But I’ve always wondered why the big ships need to be pulled through the waters anyway. Can’t they navigate through the channel under their own power? Or is it because the channels are too complicated for a sea captain to do properly? Just curious.
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. I believe you are referring to two separate things. Barges being towed by Tugboats and ships being assisted when berthing or in confined areas. The barge thing is about manning. If the barge were able to propel itself it would be a ship and need a licensed crew in the wheelhouse and engine room. Barges don't need any of those people. Ships are designed to move efficiently at sea. Not in port. So they need help from assist tugs to get into a berth and out of one too. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea Thanks for answering. Had to look up definition of a barge so that helped. but. . . . . CUOTO got me. Can't find a meaning. Anyway, like your channel so far as it's truly interesting work that you do.
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. We have only had chart plotters for the second half of my career. And yes, the barges are manned. CUOTO
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel Rusty. I have a few videos about the crew quarters on a barge. Let me know if you can't find them. CUOTO
WOW! This is great. I'm new to your channel and have the dumbest question ever. Was someone actually on the barge as it was being towed and if so, is that the norm? I watched a vid of another fellow who was on a tug heading to Cuba. I was under the impression that the barge had no humans on it. Sorry to be so dumb here LOL.
Thank you for watching Lisa and welcome to the channel. Not a dumb question at all. The guy with the video going to Cuba was not towing "Red Flag" or dangerous cargo. Most of our barges are crewed and have 2 and sometimes 3 people living on them. This is for a few reasons. 1) For safety 2)We often drop one barge and pick up another. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea Thank you so much for the reply. This is so interesting to me. I live in a resort town in north western PA and we have a large natural lake. I'm familiar with some boats but not all and I LOVE tugs!! Thanks for bringing us along.
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel Ricky. Yes. With one exception. We don't let them ride the barge around Cape Hatteras during hurricane season. CUOTO
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. That is because we have sea state limitations in push gear. But we can tow in almost everything. CUOTO
@TimBatSea thank you, I took up SCUBA about 30 years ago only to find out I get seasick, never been able to work on ships so I know very little about what you guys do, but I find it very interesting. Very good video, thank you for answering my question.
Aah,the old into the chop,following swell,changing tide,don't let the barge hit the bouys, shorten the wire dance. Tim,the Fred Astaire of barge handling.
@@TimBatSea I guess I didn't think I should have looked first. Your video just happened to pop up on my feed and me being from land locked North Dakota my whole life it never occurred to me that anyone lived on a barge😂
Once heard a call on channel 16...boat called seat, said he was around and needed a tow. Seatow asked for a position and he answered 'off sandy hook, just past the nude beach'.
The best mayday I ever heard was this chick was overdoing at a setnet sight. Coast guard was trying to get information and the setnet owner said on ch 16 we were shooting speed balls. This was the late 80’s early 90’s
Years ago I used to go fishing on the Miss Take 2 out of the Highlands Jimmy Morenz was the captain we would round Sandy Hook and head south towards seabright all the old timers would be on the starboard rail with binoculars Captain Morenz would announce it on the horn “Coming up on the nude beach “
@@eddieweigel9490, Reading your comment brought back many good memories. I was friends with Jimmy. After he stopped running the boat, he was working with another friend Pete Wagner on the Hyper Stryper. He was a great dude, RIP Jimmy.
😂😂😂😂 Thank you very much for watching and welcome to the channel Joseph. (I only heard about the nude beach today from other comments). But the laugh was at my Dad joke. (Think of the Sandy Hook Institute of Technology's acronym) CUOTO
Spent a lot of time out on Chesapeake Bay and when I saw tows like this I always wondered how y'all accomplished all that needed to be done in such an operation , thanks for showing me , what a work of art ! My hat is off to Captain and Crew !
Thank you very much for watching. Guilty as charged, but I have a job to do before thinking about making videos. I try to do tye best I can and hope to improve over time. CUOTO
I really enjoy your videos, TimBatSea. I have always seen tugs on the water but took their function for granted. I'm learning alot from watching these. Thank you for sharing.
Fascinating channel Captain Tim! I enjoy the way you explain things/the processes. Very interesting and informative! Thank you, so glad I found your channel. Be safe out there ⚓️🌊
Awesome vid. I live on the Hudson and have often watched the tugs go from pull to push. I have always thought it was because of the tidal/current shifts on the river. I'm also 95 percent sure we communicated some years ago while I was rounding North Brother Island on my bound for Hell Gate on my rag tag sailboat, while you were bound for LIS. You were on VHF advising the commercial vessel behind you of my existence and you thought I knew what I was doing. I was holding the most possible north, and then westerly course around the bend. Man I need to upgrade my radar - incredible image. Regards from SV Voyager - we always scan 13
Crazy… no hard hats 😮. We would not have been able to post this. No one wearing their gear on deck. We’ve actually had customers send the pictures or videos to our office… asking why we weren’t wearing gear that it was unsafe. Really!. All they were doing was fishing and holding a fish. Wearing their life jacket but no hard hats. No work was being done.
Watching this, makes me wonder how it was back in the40s. My grandpa Morningstar was a fire tender in the boiler room if the Minneapolis when she took torpedoes in the night battle of Tossafaronga She was towed to a large lagoon and saved. Then towed to I believe Pearl. Fitted with a temp bow as the old one was blown off. Just amazing
"Old Pro" Dude 2 gives "Greeny" Dude 1 a lift across the channel on his tug: Dude 1: So, how about some small talk, I went to M.I.T., what about you? Dude 2: S.H.I.T. Dude 1: what's wrong? Dude 2: Nothing, I went to Sandy Hook Institute of Technology... Dude 1: oh, lol... so uh, what's your T.P.? ^^ Dude 2: T.P., you mean Tow Power, I think you know you mean T.C. ... I see what you did there, hey, you're a good swimmer, right? >< Dude 1 ... Shit. Dude 2: Yep. Ok, horrible joke, but I tried! :P
Hi Tim. Love your content buddy keep at it. But I have to recommend something that will really help your channel. Buy yoyourself a " Mic Muff" . It's a fuzzy ball that goes over your microphone to keep the wind from blasting out the recorded audio. Maybe get yourself a quality chest microphone/audio set. I believe it will take your channel to another level. Maybe some camera investment. Just my humble opinion. ✊
Thank you very much for watching and welcome to the channel Charles. I really couldn't say. i have heard people talk about LNG bunkering, but have never seen or done it. CUOTO
I enjoy your videos and knowledge. I love to say my family dad pap was tug captains. But my family comes from a long lube of trucking sencev1870 my pap my dad 34 to 83 and mex. I always wanted to be tug captain.
Who do you work for my room mate is a 3rd mate for rienour I also work for his company back home boom deployment salvage oil spill clean up. I did my first tow with his father a few years ago and I'm hooked. We have a 41 utb ex cg boat we do towing and pilots and crew changes up here. Love watching your videos tho. Keep them coming brother be safe out there
Thank you for watching. I appreciate that. So we only have one rule here. We try very hard to not directly name tugs companies or customers as it gets me in trouble with my employer. CUOTO
Tim, enjoy the channel! You may have answered this elsewhere, but I'm new... Can you comment or do a piece on why you tow vs push in the open? Is it just not possible except in port? Thx!
nicely done ,many yrs ago off s.portland me .tug was doing from tow to push got cable in wheel got run over by barge captain was killed, it wasn't pretty
So many things could wrong and you only have to be wrong once. Keeping up with the traffic, the tide, the wind and the wave movements as well as keeping in the channel. Most of us never have to worry about bad consequences if we make a mistake. Good job.
You don’t do those moves in the main channel of a major port. You stay in safe water and out of the way while doing the evolutions. Being aware of the disposition of the tow and traffic are paramount. Getting off the wire is extremely hazardous and not to be taken lightly. Professional boat men do it with the fewest moves possible in a very specific order of operations. We go on and off the wire all times of day and many types of weather. Well practiced team work is what makes for success. These fellows know their work. I have done the way this crew does it many times. I prefer pulling the pennant up shorter and putting a stopper on it. The slacking the wire . Keeping the shackle down near the deck. Remove the shackle , then loose the stopper . Much more control. This system has tension in three directions at once . I have seen the pin jam too many times. My bonafides 26years towing off shore.
Great video facinating to me. Would hate to do that with light barge and high winds. Do you have something similar to chain counter on wire orbis is just all visual?
Thank you for watching. We visually check wraps and layers of wire. Another words, I might say to my mate when handing over the watch, "we've got a couple wraps more than 4 lays out". CUOTO
@@Rangersfan381 it depends. As the layers get smaller with each one you put out because the diameter of the winch drum gets smaller. But around 200 to 250 feet is a good estimate.
I really enjoy the videos, which you make very understandable to landlubbers. A couple of questions: What are the distances in feet, yards or whatever that the barge is behind the tug when at sea, in the channel, etc? When you take in a layer on the winch, how much does the barge-tug distance change?
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. How much wire we put changes with a bunch of different things. Sea state, water depth, lite or loaded barge and sea room. We usually tow offshore with about 5 layers out or about 1200 to 1500 feet of wire out. CUOTO
I don’t want to drink I want to job. Are used a first mate for Morgan and crooks out on the West Coast. I’m disabled and broke and can’t figure a job to work but I can do this stuff once in a while while I rest in between . Yeah I know it’s wishful thinking, of a disabled first mate
How do you secure the tow wire from going sideways if there is a difficult sea state,or the objekt you tow is not behind you? Especially when helping ships moore to or go out from dockings . What i understand tow boats has flipped over because of this . I see 3 caps in the stern deck, are deese mayby the answer of the question, you pusch does poles up and the cabel is run under the pipe bow and inbewen these poles and out sturnvise? Also are the covers on the exhaust pipes for fire fighting purposes ?
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. Usually the barge wants to stay behind you when you are pulling on it. There are some boats that have " towing pins" but we don't have them. What you are seeing are the access ports to remove the rudders. CUOTO
Very good striper and fluke fishing in the Ambrose channel & light house the Scotland bouy marks a great shoal a old steamer the Scotland had a collision and sank there many many years ago
I was wondering, is there any type of strain reading in the control room or is it strictly a visual by watching the wire? I find this very interesting and enjoy the videos. Thank you.
Great video Tim, a great educational one too. I like it when you describe exactly why and what you are doing. If you were towing on the wire, full ahead, has the winch got enough power to shorten the tow even with the tug pulling with all its got?
Thank you for watching William. Yes. We call those "pigeon holes" and there are usually two sets of them on either side of the barge as well (bow and stern). CUOTO
Sorry for typos in my other comment. It wont let me edit it. I will have a look but is there a vid tour or info on how many crew and the mechanics of your vessel. Im not familiar with how tugs actualy work. Down the rabbit hole i go.
16:00 hahahhaa - love that shitty joke (groan). I can almost beat that... in my workplace we once had a job with a title of Data Intelligence Manager (within) IT. Sadly... that's a hand-on-heart true story!
