If I were young again, I would very much so consider this industry. In my 76 years of life, you are the gold star of kindness, instruction along with an outstanding ability of explanation. I’ve watch for 2 or more years your attention to detail is exquisite. Having driven airplanes for many years, I see the similarities.

"That's a weak ass horn, Tim" I was cracking up on that for a while.

Long video? When a guy gets mesmerized he doesn't notice the time passing. You make it look easy. 👍

I watched the whole video, and liked it, thanks Captain Tim.

Enjoyed this one, nice quiet port for you to push your barges around.

I’m not at all an experienced seaman so my comments really don’t mean much, but the skill of Tim in the pilot house and the skill of the chief and deck hand to me, is impressive. I’m fascinated. I love to watch how you maneuver the vessel and into position with such accuracy. I think I’m adding to my bucket list the chance to spend a day on a tug just watching. I’ll even cook and make coffee for the crew.

You know what’s really cool? I follow other channels that post harbor & canal traffic in Europe. These two ships were both in Europe not that long ago, and now they’re moored up next to each other & you’re bunkering one of them! So cool!

Here in eastern Oklahoma, I enjoy watching and listening to the push tugs with vast amounts of barges and I’m always amazed how they balance the load going up against current, but more amazed how they stay in track going down river.

Tim you are so smart lots of laughts

Great vid., especially your part explaining what you're doing with the tug to get the barge to do what you want.

Thank you for another Great video. Cheers

This one's a real smorgasbord, something educational for everyone ! Always a pleasure Capt.

Sitting here drinking morning coffee, watching your channel, noticed the ships name is TRITON. Maryland pilots give coffee cups away, with paintings of ships calling the port. Cup this morning from 2019 is TRITON, same ship as your Utube. That’s some coincidence !

Thank you for another great video.

Nice job and nice description of the operations, “taking up the slack” is a common expression here in Australia

Great video 😎 would love to see some dual camera views of bridge window and the "sticks"

Tell the dude that said the “Weak assed Horn” statement, that he’s 100% and sounds like a damn good hand. He’s on point. Good hand. Better buy him a beer Cap’n😉. Much love and be careful Tim and the to the crew as well!🤙🤙

i like long videos and great job

With all those left and right twists, Tim must be like John Travolta on the dance floor.

Looking like you've got some great weather. Hope everything goes as planned for you n the guys. Definitely stay safe out there.

Makes me miss the Ocean going tug I was on.

Moving the tug from barge to barge could have been an interesting little timelapse.

OK Tim a "nickname" for your vessel ... "little toot". LOL Another excellent video Capt'n ... stay safe. CUOTO

@4:20 - Just dawned on me - in the upper right third of the screen, you can just see and aircraft coming in view screaming ahead for a takeoff. Shortly after, the engines start backing and cavitating. Wonderful cinematography; even if quite by accident.

Good Show Tim.....

Morning all from Arizona USA

@7:00 - I imagine that the more experienced deckhands would probably interpret your questions for what they are and, perhaps in their mind are thinking "Dude knows that shite already - must be a test - or the old man is slipping." 😂

Be interesting to see them actually making the connection to the ship, and how the fuel transfer process works.

Tim now you know the hull of the sail boat is sound barrier coating is a very good choice not cheap and considering the distance you go

Great job snd video...CUOTO..

Thanks!

👍✅ Lots going on in this video, tks Tim for taking us along for the entire process.👏

Watching you maneuver them big ole barges so well inspires me when I have to maneuver my houseboat! Unless the wind is blowing hard!! lol, Thanks Captain!

Man, that was like dancing with a hippo! Great video Time! Thanks for sharing your morning with us!

Thanks for the very cool videos!

enjoyed the video thank you Tim

Nicely done Tim, as always! I guess it's not the done thing to call the ship and get the officer of the watch to rouse the engineers as you are coming alongside?

I wish we had a Prediction Line in life

Any time you go over 15 kts or so on a Destroyer it felt & sounded like the fantail was going to fall off, especially during a full power run😂 But all that time I never knew it was cavitation 🤷🏻‍♂️

Take it easy, don't go to fast.

Always very interesting Tim, thank you!👌🏻😃 I'm curious about one thing (and I have thought about it in other videos too): You always seem very "humble and modest" approaching this ships - you try to figure out yourself where the connections are and you wait for the deckhands to appear and so on. So I just wonder; is there a certain "trade custom" that prevents you from calling them on the VHF and say "hey, now we are here, are your deckhands ready? And where are your connections?" and so on.. of course in a polite way😊

30:32 Clockwise is the same down under. Unless you're caught-up in a really big drain siphon....

Your going to gain speed

Great descriptions. Really enjoyed watching all the actions and the inside information of the industry.

Hey Tim, that was me calling. Wanted to talk to you about the extended warrantee on your barge...

Nice morning manoeuvre video. Glad to see you are accommodating us "over the pond'ers" by saying anti-clockwise. Now if we could only get ye to start pronouncing buoys as boys as opposed to boooeeeys, we'd be getting somewhere. 😄

Have you ever done a tour of a barge. I would be interested in seeing the lives of the tanker men on board a barge, living quarters etc…

Newark Delaware? Always enjoyable videos Tim.

Thanks Tim

Nice one, thanks for sharing!

Mistake not sound barrier lol

I really liked this one! Thanks

It would be great to see containers ships being loaded or unloaded as you transverse the port. You would think these ports would be in operation 24/7. We took a couple helicopters down to Baltimore to be loaded on a RORO back in 1980's, very interesting.

suspence is why were here thanks Tim good video

Nice video 😊

Reporting to my first Tug out of Philly in the am! Super excited! Looking forward to crossing paths one day! Stay well, sir!

I am surprised that there isn't a standard marking on the hull for where the bunkering connection is.

I like the rumble when your pouring on the coal. Lots of finesse with varying doses of brute force applied from time to time. The running explanation is good too. Cavitation has been known to bore pin holes clear through wet (removable) cylinder liners into the piston side of the cylinder liner in diesel engines such as my old small cam Cummins had. It takes many hundreds of thousands of miles to see the effect. Chemical additives in the coolant can reduce the effect as well as keeping air out of the cooling system but it's still going to happen to a lesser degree. Tiny bubbles collapsing direct a jet of water inward towards the cylinder liner or the screw on your tug and like a cutting water jet remove a tiny amount of metal each time a bubble collapses. Over time the blades of your screws probably get eroded and rough from cavitation and cylinder liners get pin holes clear through them. Is Anacostia your assigned tug? If not 1200 more ponies than Kings Point has still make the job easier. From an old drivers point of view, one can never have too much horsepower.

thought my phone was ringing. got me looking for it

Hi Tim, another great video, thanks a lot. I was thinking, you decided to do that big left twist to turnaround before landing on that ship. Would it also have been possible to just sail out into the river some more (coming left a little) and then just turn clockwise conventionally using rudder and keep both engines ahead? Perhaps that would use less fuel as you wouldn't have to run the engines so hard?

Great one Tim! CUOTO!

Well done Capt, just one thing I would like to ask, as a Captain of 40 plus years pushing barges, was it not possible just to back to barge back from the dock, AND before I get comments saying what's he talking about, some tugs do this ok some don't and not knowing Tim's vessels I don't know how it handles astern. Well done anyway you did really well. Thanks again for a great video

I enjoyed it, thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Awsome video. Great work

Good morning Capt. starting your morning pointed right in front of KEWR Newark airport's high power surveillance Radar antenna. CUOTO 👍✌

Thanks Cap

Hey Tim, I thought this would be the video to see you make up your tug to a barge... have you shown that before? Pretty new to following along with you and really enjoying anticipating your engine and wheel movements 🫡😁😁

Capt it’s air bubbles in the water going from high pressure to low pressure. Cavitation is air bubbles imploding on the wheel.

oh wow a breckfast show!!! i like it. be safe tim crew. happy 4th!!!!

Tim you jogger the memory box again 2000 to 2004 I worked on the construction of the Taiwan High Speed Rail, Evergreen were a major partner of that company, our annual leave to UK and three Asian flights were on Eva Air. Our seats were in Premium Economy but we often got upgrades and with Air Miles even more often. I had cabin crew living on the same condo estate and I'd give them a lift home and invite them to parties. The job was great and the free time also. Thanks for post take care.

Very good video Tim!

I would like see the bigger picture out side sorta like Marked Twained. I watched your videos for about two Months before I knew you were a tug boat, I thought you were some sort of Fuel boat.

Haha!!! The horn comment

Hi captain Tim! I have driven past Newark airport many times but I never knew it was so close to the water. This one was a bit trickier than others. CUOTO

Tim I had no idea about the I s o and there pay scale

Awesome job Capt. Have a great 4th 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Just as its getting good ! DONE?

Tim is the sail boat in connectect

Lol, obviously they’ve never hauled a wet line or 1 1/2” -2” line.

Good job captain 👍🇺🇸🇨🇱✌️cuoto

Whaaaaatttt?!??! 🧐🧐🧐🧐 An hour long Tbatsea?????? Ok!!! Let me get comfortable!! Thanks buds! Happy 4th of july in a couple days for you folks! Cuoto ✌️

Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸 Captain Tim ! CUOTO

Wow, look at the older Zim Atantic...nice fresh paint job (rare these days).

Hi Tim, great vid as always, thank you. Just wondering, why not just back all the way down? Is it strain in on the push gear not being pull gear? Thanks so much.

That tower on the bow of the fuel barge looked like sparked?

Hopefully it don’t get stuck 🙄 cyoto

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Is crazy to me fuel locations are not painted on the side of the ship.

I don't know where it comes from but, for some reason, I love that intro music. Makes me feel like a 7 year old watching the Mod Squad...

Why didn;t you back all of the way down o the container ship instead of making 2 turns?

CUOTO!

I think being on the bow during a turn around looks like fun! I am curious as to what I refer to as a fender for my boat but you call them a Panama something or other. Would you please let me know the origin or slang reasoning for referring to them as Panama? I always enjoy your videos, long or short it doesn't matter to me. Keep em coming!!

I have had the same problem as you, availability of line handlers. And for you, location of the manifold or the intake coupling. Why not a call to the ship on vhf , to give a heads-up and approx eta.

Like to learn! So clutch is basically motor engaged at idle !

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Do the crews ever find root burn across the wheel hubs from cavitation?

I drove by the port in Wilmington and could see the mouth of the Christina. There were about 6 tugs and a lot of booms out. What was happening?

Like that game where you need to shift small blocks around a square to make a picture!. This comment is after only watching less that a minute.

You make a stressful job seem calm. Are Tug captains union on the east coast ?

Tim, maybe I missed it, why did you turn the barge around to unload. Seams to you could unload on either side.