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.

"That's a weak ass horn Tim." I lol'ed

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

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!

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

i like long videos and great job

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

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

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

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

Thank you for another Great video. Cheers

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.

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!🤙🤙

Watching from the uk fascinating trucks ,trains ,planes ,barges ,ships wow

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"

@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.

Great video

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

@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.

Morning all from Arizona USA

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

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.

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

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 🤷🏻‍♂️

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 !

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!

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?

Good Show Tim.....

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😊

Thank you for another great video.

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

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…

Hey Tim, Yet another one of your Pilot fans, with a bizarro question. I hang on your every word and understand you had a Sea Ray prior to SV Paquita. Was it freshwater cooled with heat exchanger? Like the Tugs? Or was it acceptable to do saltwater cooling on your Sea Ray? These are the things that keep me up at night….unless I’m flying😁 Chris

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

suspence is why were here thanks Tim good video

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

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

Your going to gain speed

Newark Delaware? Always enjoyable videos Tim.

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

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

I really liked this one! Thanks

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

Thanks for the very cool videos!

Nice one, thanks for sharing!

Mistake not sound barrier lol

enjoyed the video thank you Tim

Another reason that fuel is less expensive in the US is that the federal taxes are lower.

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

Great job snd video...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 ✌️

Thanks Tim

Makes me miss the Ocean going tug I was on.

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!

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.

Thanks!

I wish we had a Prediction Line in life

I enjoyed it, thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Very good video Tim!

Awsome video. Great work

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. 😄

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

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 🫡😁😁

Thanks Cap

thought my phone was ringing. got me looking for it

Just as its getting good ! DONE?

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

Good job captain 👍🇺🇸🇨🇱✌️cuoto

"yokie" "yokie-hama" haha Inventing slang for slang terms, he is.

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.

Nice video 😊

Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸 Captain Tim ! CUOTO

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...

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

Tim you are so smart lots of laughts

Tim is the sail boat in connectect

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.

tim did you get to take the big evergreen ship out for a spin. good video tim nova scotia is watching your vids keep up the good work. on second thought don't take the evergreen out for a spin.

Given the relatively short distance travelled... and spinning around each end... do you ever just back the tug and barge up the harbour channel? I know it's "push gear" but you seem to be able to back off the dock quite well to begin with... just curious as to why not just keep backing up? EDIT: So I typed that question in... then I engaged my brain and thought to myself about why. I now think it's due to lack of maneuverability and control? Is that right? Have I answered my question?

Hi Tim . Please explain how the lines are attached to the barge . I'm a complete novice . Does the ship pull the lines tight or do you pull yourself onto the ship ? Rgds Stefan.

Hopefully it don’t get stuck 🙄 cyoto

Take it easy, don't go to fast.

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

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.

Another great vlog.thanks tim.

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

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

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!!