Thanks. You helped me get a little bit closer to the job you do and the dangers you face.

Great video with commentary, very educational.

Excellent work, thank you for your sharing information.

It looks so easy when you see an expert doing it ! :-)

Fascinating, thank you for sharing this video with us. Seeing it up close like that is amazing.

It's actually a really simple thing for the ships deck crew to pass the messenger through the centre fairlead, bring it back on board, take it down the side of the ship and send it to the tug from one of the shoulders rather than drop it down onto the bulbous bow. Glad I never saw anything as stupid as this when I was a deck officer.

That was amazing. Thank you very much!!!

Great video. Looks like you have a forward tractor or possibly a Voith. I prefer sitting off the shoulder rather than right ahead for safety reasons. The interaction is constant and takes some working against but if it all goes wrong then you can slide up the side and bail out.. Nice to see you have 2 crew on deck so i take it you have a 4 man crew possibly ? We operate tugs with 3 man crew and in the uk they are trying hard to get us to work with 2 man crew believe it or not.. Crazy antics.

Thanks for providing a ride along on a ship assist. Awesome video! John

great job and video 🇦🇺

That was awesome THANK YOU

Great Vid

Boston MA USA-we use Center lead forward, aft and sometimes an additional tug on the bow.

Nile video and Vera useful for tie beginners. Tnx a lot for KZfaq Times and efforts.

Enjoyed it and took me to a place I will never go. Great job and liked the talking and all. Tks

Excellent footage; clear and concise. Thank you...

One of most fun jobs I ever had was operating a ship docking tug on San Francisco Bay. It sure holds one's attention! -Veteran '66-68

Awesome vid!

cool drone vid too

Very good video to show how difficult is that manoeuvre!!! Many thanks!!!

Great video, informative and professional！

We do this every day!

incredible absolutely incredible! thanks for sharing

Guys, he's really working his tug.

An excellent Tug Master detailing options on his approach & commencing undertaking tow & correct that a weighted heaving line from the ships crew a preferred option... fair prevailing conditions .. consider night maneuvers in less than favorable conditions ..

Awesome video. It looks very challenging piloting a tug, much more than I ever thought. I'd love to know how to do it.

Damn good job capt

Thanks for this video

The tug read "Port Adelaide" but is operating out of Port Kembla. Does it operate in both ports? They are quire some distance apart and I wonder whether a tug would normally make such a sea voyage.

Nice film , but all over the world the same problem with the trhowingline !! "Pilot , I want a line with a waight or Monkeyfist " !!

Beautiful maneuvering job, guys! Any idea of the monetary ($) costs involved?

When the tug, which seemed to be a pretty good size, got up next to that big ship to get the line, I could not help but wonder what type of rope it would take to actually help steer the ocean liner. The momentum of that massive hunk of iron would be incredible, even at slow speeds. They can have that job.

Nice videography, sir. Not sure I appreciated the unnecessary lead out. Also, what was the cargo? Fresh air?

6:24 Of course the tow-line needs to feed through a certain spot on the ship, but it would have been a trivial effort for the ship's personnel to use a pole to direct the drop-line to a better spot on the side of the ship, away from the "t-bone zone." Just ignorance, or apathy. Are they trying to "make you earn your wages?" Jerks putting your vessel in unnecessary danger.

Excellent movie!

Would have been nice to actually see the turn at the entrance from the air.

With all the technology it comes down to one tug a crew and a rope.......

It appears to me that after they cut him loose at the end he continued to lead the way for quite some time. Was that just for safety reasons until they were more clear from shore?

AnthonyFrancisHoy can't resist this, but "Ahoy from Baltimore!!" good show, sir. I managed to procrastinate away the years of daydreams of working on a tugboat in chesapeake bay, where i've lived most of my 59 years. never the landlubber; i've always had the sea legs :) between this particular task in action, your narrative, and excellent video quality, it's close enough to real thing for now. i've got no insignificant amount of respect for just the hands-on experience it takes to predict (and never complacently) what tens of thousands of tons of ship can suddenly do when the invisible wind takes the wheels. there's comments here by other operator/captains that appear to minimize the tasks underway in this video. whip the wind up several knots, bring on the swells, and some chop on top, then let's hear the bravado. you did say, after all, "...I let the ship come to me..... and I find this way easiest for me". I guess with enough twisting you can make that sound like overstating the difficulty. this video would be an excellent segment in a training package. just curious..... do y'all down in australia secure any comments or even thoughts of how nice the weather is before even casting off from port? half-goofin' on your comment about the calm seas as you're heading for rendezvous :) thanks for the generous and intriguing footage....... i'll never not gaze upon the ports of baltimore's tugs without imagining the incredible power and finesse it takes to manage the motion of something the size of a neighborhood.

i want file name music , thank you !

What could possibly go wrong?

What a loudmouth that tugmaster is. I was a tugmaster for thirty years in CapeTown on Voith tugs. The centre lead forward is a routine manouevre done daily here. Winds often exceed thirty knots and swells about 3m. Container ships regularly enter at 9 knots. I Never allow a ship to "pick me up"as is done in this video. You have no idea of the speed of the ship this way. Safe way is to run parallel with him , judge his speed and then come up to the focsle. The only thing working really hard in this video is the tugmasters mouth!!

Wow nice work! On a side note, saw the copper stack in the background, was very sad to see it demolished today. :(

I see this all day in the US i always wanted to try this im captain of a tugboat that pushed 2 oil barges

This is a calm day.

What's wrong with that ship ,can the not afford a weighted line ? I can only assume the Captain has crew communication problems . Thanks for the video.

Does anyone know how much the tug company charges. Is it by the hour or is it a flat rate.

Tugs just push and pull the ship into position, the ship is moving under its own power, the tug is not towing, its just holding tenson, same as the one at the rear. I think all tugs stay in position until docked and tied.

Can’t why after the tow he wants to stay in front of ship

Hi Anthony, I enjoyed watching this. Is it possible to get the email of the tugmaster? I would like some more background on towage and to ask about the potential of UAVs as aerial intelligence for operational oversight.

if the Panamian flagged ship has problems, they can contact the country of Panama for help:) The ship is likely very elderly.

Jaren dit werk gedaan,maar wij praten tijdens het werk ( minimaal). De manoeuvre moet eigenlijk vanzelf gaan,zie hier veel twijfel. 😮

I personally never heard nor seen anything like this💔💔💔

Nice job on the mooring Cap. Seeya'ron

When a lead tug is towing .. and conditions is Flat Calm ... No wind and it's at night .. What causes the Tug to capsize ????

Looks like the ship is empty going into port and still empty when leaving.

A dangerous enough job without unthinking or untrained crew on the other vessel.

I find stem jobs on inbound ships to be unnecessary and not worth the risk to crew and vessel.

Thanks for taking the time to provide an educational documentary on CLF, I would like to further my knowledge in towage, which is quiet hard to get a foot in the door without ASD experiance... How would I get myself onboard for some observations ?

the in bound vessel should have proper equipment!

What's with the stupidly dramatic music for what is an everyday manoeuvre.

I love tugboats! I love Australians! What could be better?

You have never properly been taught how do do something until you have been told how to do it by an Australian. This is bog standard stuff in the rest of the world where you actually have to work for your money. Nice sharp picture, so their camera work is fine.

why cant the blokes on the ship through a weighted line.thats looks so dangerous if you lost the motors.

Now with a single screw!

Captain Cranky!

in Argentina bow to bow

I am tug muster..Can I am get email join work to this company...??

What song is this?

I don’t understand some of the comments the guys just explaining what he’s doing.

pull up alongside..so there Im not even a tugmaster.

Very melodramatic. I know nothing except being in front of a ship seems stupid without towing. Why stay in front near the end?.

Tugboatus maximus

do the ships pay for the tuges into port

Big Cahone's or crazy?

if i were to loose a engine ??? would mean your mechanic not worth a damn

A guy can do just as good of a job well forward with a Z-Drive tug. And a lot safer for the tug.

The damn thing is empty, floats like a feather on water.

This guy needs to stop crying. Try that shit at 10 knots with a bulb two feet under the water. Just another day in LA/LB.

Don't Australians make it all sound like hard work! This is standard manoeuvre done every day in ports all over the world and at much higher speeds in worse conditions too without all the fuss this guy makes! The time when it was at is most dangerous is on a single screw tug towing off the hook with slow engine controls! In modern day this is far more complex when operating bow to bow with an ASD as opposed to a Z-Tech, ATD or Voith towing over the stern.

I’ve seen a sign on a crappa door that said. This isn’t Sydney harbour so don’t come here for a tug. Haha 😂 John from the Gong. Nsw Australia 🇦🇺 good video

Looks like bauxite docks. Everything is redddddd.

I was used all of the WORLD💔💔💔

need 250000 SWL rope to jack propeller bar

Why not use a clearly safer and more effective Voith Water Tractor for this job...?!

I know nothing about tugs but I could figure out he is a just making it seem hard LOL

This was hair raising; I was getting dizzy watching it. Tip of the hat to the amazing skipper and crew doing the impossible.

See how much out of the tub before the tub blows😅😂💀💀😀😃😃😆😆😇😄😄😁🤗😆😄💀💀

Ha,ha

I can see you need to understand mechanics including so many different variables seems easy but I've worked on water before but just don't small canoes and stuff and that's hard enough for me I couldn't imagine doing this job I got to take chill pill every minute

From the moment you start talking, you're defending yourself and why THEY are wrong and after that you are going on and on on what could have gone wrong. Bad habbit, that wining.

if you know what you are doing the title is incorrect,

Vf

That ship is very empty.

crikey....

Its really not the that big of a deal.

what a load of rubbish !! skipper is a novice in my book

unessery show off

Weird flex, but okay?

j must be the most lubbrrly seafarers anywhere the Australians if you don't know what that word means look it up