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Charles W.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Yeah, I mean, not to undersell tugboats. They are dealing with things that are floating in water, which helps. But these are big, massive things floating in water. Like you could get in a lake, my friend, and you could pull a rope attached to a pontoon boat. What? And you could pull that thing around a little bit. You could swim that thing around a little bit because it's floating in water.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

What universe do you live in? That may be where you max out. You are the tugboat of the lake, Josh, if you can do that to a pontoon boat, because these tugboats are little compared to these huge barges that are floating around. Is that making any sense at all?

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

What universe do you live in? That may be where you max out. You are the tugboat of the lake, Josh, if you can do that to a pontoon boat, because these tugboats are little compared to these huge barges that are floating around. Is that making any sense at all?

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

What universe do you live in? That may be where you max out. You are the tugboat of the lake, Josh, if you can do that to a pontoon boat, because these tugboats are little compared to these huge barges that are floating around. Is that making any sense at all?

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That's up to you.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That's up to you.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That's up to you.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That'd be better swimming with two arms.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That'd be better swimming with two arms.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That'd be better swimming with two arms.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

We should tell them what bollard pull is, too, because that's the other big sort of measurement when it comes to tugging and pushing. A bollard, first of all, is that big sort of chunky thing on a dock that you'll tie a boat to, the big daddies. And bollard pull is the total amount of towing force generated by a tugboat. And they measure that in kilonewtons.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

We should tell them what bollard pull is, too, because that's the other big sort of measurement when it comes to tugging and pushing. A bollard, first of all, is that big sort of chunky thing on a dock that you'll tie a boat to, the big daddies. And bollard pull is the total amount of towing force generated by a tugboat. And they measure that in kilonewtons.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

We should tell them what bollard pull is, too, because that's the other big sort of measurement when it comes to tugging and pushing. A bollard, first of all, is that big sort of chunky thing on a dock that you'll tie a boat to, the big daddies. And bollard pull is the total amount of towing force generated by a tugboat. And they measure that in kilonewtons.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

I think they're very attractive boats. You can tell a tugboat because it has, you know, they're built to tug and push. So they have a very wide beam, which is the widest point of the boat. They sit very low in the water, which is called a deep draft. And, you know, they're little short, stubby, wide guys that sit really low. I think they're adorable and cool looking. They're very, very stable.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

I think they're very attractive boats. You can tell a tugboat because it has, you know, they're built to tug and push. So they have a very wide beam, which is the widest point of the boat. They sit very low in the water, which is called a deep draft. And, you know, they're little short, stubby, wide guys that sit really low. I think they're adorable and cool looking. They're very, very stable.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

I think they're very attractive boats. You can tell a tugboat because it has, you know, they're built to tug and push. So they have a very wide beam, which is the widest point of the boat. They sit very low in the water, which is called a deep draft. And, you know, they're little short, stubby, wide guys that sit really low. I think they're adorable and cool looking. They're very, very stable.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

They're not tippy at all when, you know, they're bumping against other things. They're pushing other things. And so they have to be just super stable and also love that they have beards. That front bumper or a bow fender, they call it a beard in that lingo. And I think that's pretty great.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

They're not tippy at all when, you know, they're bumping against other things. They're pushing other things. And so they have to be just super stable and also love that they have beards. That front bumper or a bow fender, they call it a beard in that lingo. And I think that's pretty great.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

They're not tippy at all when, you know, they're bumping against other things. They're pushing other things. And so they have to be just super stable and also love that they have beards. That front bumper or a bow fender, they call it a beard in that lingo. And I think that's pretty great.

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Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Yeah, I think those are additional. I think the front always has a built-in beard.