Charles W.
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131 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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But it can turn 360 degrees, so it's not a fixed propeller and a rudder for steering, and it's not even a non-fixed propeller that can move left and right. It's a propeller that can spin in any direction, which means you've got one of those little joystick controllers as a tugboat pilot, and you can inch that thing in the most minute little ways with just a flick of the stick.
Pretty cool.
I bet.
Uh, we did mention a lot. I mean, we've talked a lot about moving boats around. That's obviously what you think of when you think of a tugboat. Um, but they do a bunch of other stuff too. Um, salvage operations, uh, SNR, uh, or SAR or search and rescue ops that we've talked a lot about on the show.
Uh, if there's ever a, you know, if there's a busy canal that's blocked or something, uh, or a ship that is gone offline, say that, uh,
Was it in – did we do one on the Suez Canal or just the – No, I looked.
Which canal did we do the episode on?
Oh, we did something on canals, right?
That seems very familiar to me.
Yeah, we did Panama Canal.
And Love Canal.
All right, what else? Firefighting tugboats, of course.
I bet it's FIFI.
Well, I don't know, Captain. I don't have my sea legs, but Fifi is at least a cutesy name. Fifi is nothing.
Icebreakers. And I don't mean that office parties either.
Yeah. He goes up to and says, if you could invite anyone from history to dinner, who would it be?
It's the worst.
All right. I'm going to look that up and tell you what I think before the end of the episode. Okay, good. Line handling, too, like these tow ropes, if they're like, hey, we need to get this tow rope out to that ship. You don't just throw it on a guy's shoulder. Like these ropes, like those anchors are the most massive ropes you've ever seen in your life.
And so there's Thomas saying, just throw it on, guys. I got it. I'll take it out there.
Yeah. You've also got engineers who, you know, they take care of those engines. They take care of all the getting things online, mechanical systems, electrical systems. You have your mate, your second in command and secondary pilot. And then you got that captain, the primary pilot that's running that ship.
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