Friend, you are showing me things I would never see on my own. I'm grateful! Peace!

Thank you for this video showing free diving in Cuba. I know how much easier and enjoyable it is to free dive without a camera, so thank you for sharing.

That grilled fish looked delicious

I don’t pray much but when I do I always say a little special bit asking for those away from their family to feel a warm sense of comfort when they lay down to sleep. I hope the homesickness stays at bay. Keep the videos up good sir.

I did that work for years...you brought back some good memories. Thanks for the video brother

Awesome Video, Been a Long time Since I Saw Guantanamo Cuba. Last time was 1981 serving on USS Independence. Thanks for bringing Supplies to Military on the Rock.

A lot of people think it’s a vacation man lol! Until they get on a boat lol I run one up in New Orleans area and I have done the 14-7 and absolutely the worst is being away from family!, but now I’m at a go home every night gig lol but wouldn’t trade my last 30 years for anything this industry has provided a very good life for. My family ,,,all my kids were born and raised to adults around boats!

I worked for an ambulance for 18 years doing 24and48 hour shifts same type of thing !!!crazy snow an ice one min. Calls all backed up then quite love you videos and yours and Crystal tone is very soothing !

As a young Navy Seabee I was stationed at GTMO in 1980-1982. This video brought back some great memories of scuba diving there. More than a few beach parties at Windmill Beach.

Nice scene swap in the into. That was awesome!

Yes, I can confirm from my time in the Navy life at sea isn't always a pleasure cruise! When the sea kicks up and gets real nautical, the fun just begins!! Love the pictures of Gitmo, brings back memories. Thanks for sharing your adventures

Thanks for bringing us along it’s so cool to see new places when you can’t visit them yourself God Bless

What a fun,interesting, and beautiful vlog. Thank you for showing us all that. That storm looked crazy scary to me.

So interesting, thanks for taking us along... really enjoy the cooking scenes.

Awesome video brother. Thanks for sharing this.👍👍👍

You all eating good. Nothing better than fresh fish. Great episode thanks.

Thanks for taking the time to make this video, I enjoyed the glimpse into your life.

My grandfather retired from Moran. It really is tough being on a tug. Hats off to you guys.

Glad you put that in there that it just looks like a pleasure cruise due to editing, i hate when i tell people i longline for a living and theyre like,i wish i could go fishing every day,i try to explain its one of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in the world but they dont get it

Love seeing your trips. This is something the average person doesn’t think about.

Yea I got to say I was in the USN and I know chipping and painting is an endless process because as soon as you get it done like the ships I was on you basically have to start all over 🇺🇸

The rewards bat at the end of a long working day is the best !

Awesome video guys. I was stationed at Gitmo in 1974 for six months as a Marine tank commander.

Another great video, thanks for sharing it with us.

I love that you call the 3 or 4 inch cable "wire." When I hear wire, that is not what comes to mind!!! 🤣 Love the tug vids!

appreciate you letting me tag along. I for one seriously enjoy it! I got to believe that not many people get to see that mountain range from the view you get. You keep making them, I will keep watching them.

Really did enjoy this video, the clarity of your snorkel dive was awsome, and your Mahi made me very very hungry!! Glad to see that Atleast sometimes you get a little R&R.GREAT VID TUG.KEEP UM COMING, TIGHT LINES AS WELL BROTHER!

A day in your life! Pretty dang cool! The snorkeling there looks awesome!

Great looking dinner and great video.

Thank you for your service ! Gitmo is a very special piece of real estate and your job is vital to it’s smooth operation . With the move that China has apparently made recently that outpost will be even more important. Watching you and Gabe helps a land locked Tennesseean survive til the next opportunity to get to the salt . Thanks

We need more tug videos! Keep em coming PLEASE!!! 😊

I love your tug boat videos. Keep up the awesome work!!!!!!

Nice video, sir. Thank you for the tour. The thumbnail for this video is awesome - you are a thumbnail God.

Love seeing what you do for a living. It’s fascinating.

Always a pleasure to watch your video. You guys are doing a great job on the tugboat and also creating such awsome entertainment with your family for us. You bring the wide ocean right to the high mountains of Switzerland ;-). Thank you for sharing and best wishes form Switzerland

your channel has become my new favorite youtube channel. keep it up.

Ian I loved these tug boat videos. It brings back memories of the days in GCS. I always loved getting on the boat with Lathan and the men and hear the stories of the seas when they would come back from Texas or Africa. I know how hard y'all work and I thank you for all you do in being a part of keeping the goods we need moving. Crystal must be a great wife to take care of everything while you are working. I look forward ,as you do I'm sure, to the day that all you do is make GREAT videos for us to enjoy. God Bless my friend. Sammy

Just to add, I was in the Coast Guard onboard the Spencer. Your videos remind me of the great times I had at sea and mooring into Gitmo.

I know this life! It’s not a job or a career it’s a lifestyle! I’m a landlubber now but two yr ago I was in the wheelhouse sailing near costal w a dump scow on the wire! I miss the boat, the watch, and the food but not the living outta bag and my children! One day I’ll return but not till my lil one is older.

your cooking recipe reminds me of the food channel I wanted to start called "AVERAGE JOES COOKING SHOW" where guys like this would through something together and share it with the rest of us. who needs those fancy cooking shows. this is REAL FOOD.

Love the videos sir!!!! Thank you

Thank man it is tuff to be away from the one's you love best wishes for you and your family

Thank you for sharing your life with us! Many of us are homebound and can't do a fraction of what we get to watch you do, so you don't worry about the makeup of your video....lol. I also realize your time at sea is a lot of work and responsibility and not all glamour. I respect you for all you put out there on your videos and toward your family. Keep up the good work and don't let us down!

That is awesome to see the process I see the boats leave out the port in Jacksonville everyday. Thanks for another awesome video.

Yea Boy love these Tug Videos!

Thanks for a little insight to your job

Enjoyed it. Keep them coming.

Can’t count how many 28 day hitches I did in the running offshore supply boats in Louisiana and Texas. Worked from Venice LA. to Corpus Christi Texas. Loved my years all 20 plus years of it. Retired now. If you can get into the offshore oil industry don’t hesitate. Biggest drawback being gone from home missing holidays and time with your family. The money is great! Safe travels sir!

I remember requesting tug boat videos a while back and you responded letting me know they were in the pipeline. Love watching these, keep 'em comin!

Nice work mate, enjoy the videos and seeing some of the life over there

Just found the channel. Love the trips on the water.

I work tugs in Hawaii and California, Mexico and you name it. I’ve been a merchant marine for 45 years and yes, it’s moments of pleasure and hours of terror.

Hats off to the people who make their living on the water, you all have my admiration and appreciation for what you do

Very cool video man. Enjoyed it. Thanks for what y'all do to keep things moving.

Love your videos

Great video Tug Boat

Awesome video tug thank you for bringing me along I was watching from South Carolina. Those storms out there on the ocean are much different than the ones we see here on the mainland. You're out there in the middle of the ocean and you can't just drive over to shelter you have to make do inside that tugboat I look forward to more videos with the family y'all catching them blue crab and maybe even some shrimp later this year

Thanks I'll be watching 😊

Great video.

I loved that video fing awesome nice job

That was such a cool transition for the intro! Very nice. Great video.

Great video!

That sunrise to lightening transition was great. Surprised the heck out of me!

Another great video. Cuba is a paradise. I’m coming through the mouth of lake George on the way to Salt Run. Happy 4th!

Another great video. Really enjoy your channel

Loved the frejolies negros recipe. On one of your tugboat episodes i would like to see those big old engines and their specs.

Awesome video as always bud.

Really enjoyed this video!

Good video, enjoyed it.

Sailor man! Wife and I both retired squids. We were in mayport naval base rving on the water last month for couple weeks. She asked if any of the tugs coming in and out were one you on! Nice grub!

Great footage. Bring me one of those 64 Chevy Impala's back from Cuba

Seeing the nautical weather I am reminded of my Navy days in the 80's and 90's. Saw some very crazy stuff out there. Thanks for bringing us along man. God bless ya'. Never got to Gitmo. One of my buddies did. He told me some crazy stories about shark attack victims body parts washing up on the beach.

Thanks for the video! Fish looked great!

Just found your channel..... I love everything doing with the Sea. You run a great boat with a great crew. Keep up the great work. I will work to catch up with all you have posted so far.

like a working vaycay. thanks for the ride along 👍

My grandpa was the cook on a tugboat back in the 60's The co was in Paducah KY. Those beans and rice plus fish looked A+ thanks i enjoyed the video.

Great video brother 🤙

Awesome vid, the boat life is not what the camera shows. It's tough being a hand and even tougher being a capt, bad weather or good weather you are out there with nowhere to go other than where you are supposed to end up at. Though the views are better than any corner office desk job, there is a shelf life to those who ride the big water, it ain't no pleasure cruise like you said. Great vid, reef dive was amazing and fish looked great. Keep up the good work and keep firing um up cap.

My father had the same job except he towed a converted WWII LST to and from San Juan Perto Rico. A week down and a week back. New cars & CONEXes full of appliances going down and almost exclusively rum coming back. I'd drive up from St Augustine and pick him up at the dock in Jacksonville. It was his last ocean going job in a career that spanned almost 40 years...

been out of the Navy for 11 years makes me want to pack up and move to FL and hop on a boat! thanks for Video!!

Awesome! Thanks for the content

Great video Tug! I can’t imagine what it’s like to be out on the water in ‘hurricane’ conditions. You guys are awesomely crazy or crazily awesome. Lol. I totally respect the work you do as someone has to do it and it’s not me. Be real. Thank you! The views you get to see from the ocean are simply amazing. I’ve seen them in the pacific off British Columbia and in Atlantic Canada, where I live many times. The raw beauty from the ocean is majestic. Your bbq and beans looks so delicious. Keep them coming. Thanks for sharing!!!

Thank you for taking me on the boat. love it! Want more!

Im here from Blue Gabe. It’s so interesting and original. 28 days on. 28 days off. Wow.

I served on a USN ocean going tug (ATF) in 1970 - we did quite a few rescues and we had a 10" steel cable for the tows. Most people thought we towed the distressed ship, but actually we towed the cable.

I'm 2 weeks into the Mediterranean diet and feeling fantastic. That meal would fit perfectly into my recipes. Unfortunately, I have no way to get fresh Mahi here in Wisconsin. Sigh. I'm going to try this one out using whatever larger freshwater fish I can manage to catch. Bass, walleye, pike, hell even a drum would work I'm guessing. Love your videos sir.

Say do not be shy to show the down and dirt part of tug boat work part of that life. Thank you for the video. Take care and smooth sailing. 👍👀

That fish dinner looks amazing

I sailed with Transatlantic when they had that run. It was a good run when the weather cooperated. I definitely miss Gitmo.

"It's on the barge" If you get in at ferry landing beach check the grass flat, then follow the cliff face towards the mouth of the bay, there are a lot of coral heads a few yards out. 6-10 ft of water but lots of spiny. If you go to windmill again once you come off that reef edge keep going. You will find a big spot reef. Big blacks, and decent hogs. Happy hunting!

Reminds me of my time at sea. I enjoy every aspect of your life at sea.

Im sitting at home recovering from Pneumonia in Buffalo NY enjoying your channel. So far, I love it. That mahi looks delicious.

I worked on towboats & tugboats 35 years of my life. Ms river, giww, ms sound, and many other places Wish I could go back

Great looking meal brother!

Also, If you get a small boat and go west across the channel into the mangrove bombing range, huge snook, snapper and tarpon. Many years ago we made a triple barge tow from Tampa to Gitmo. It was a complete McDonalds restaurant, foundation up. We did loose a lot of masonry sand due to weather.

This is perhaps one of the coolest videos I have seen in awhile (and I watch a shit ton of videos). God bless you. Praying for your safety!

Great video loved it …. I’m in Mount Dora area near Apopka and fish all over the state my whole life and yet FLA weather never ceases to amaze me !!! 😂

Your video brought back memories. I was a Certified Merchant Seaman out of New Orleans, LA. I started with Herbert ( Cajun is pronounced..." A bear ) Shipping. They had multiple types of vessels. I was on a sea going tug when a storm hit. We were on toe with a jacket for a drilling platform. The waves were forcing us backwards. We heard on the radio that a new Aqua Marine supply ship broke in half. When a wave came between us and a ship near by you could see them. Hurricane / tropical storm is no joke. Some viewer's don't know what a wire is...cable. They don't realize it cut a man in half when it swings across the bull-works & pin them. I'm sure you have some stories to tell 😮

That meal was screaming for an ice cold beer with lime.

Viewing your video from northern Nevada, mid Jan. This video was soothing to the soul. I appreciate the humble and entertaining video.