Charles W.
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131 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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If you work in, let's just pick out New York City because people think about tugboats a lot there in New York Harbor. Do they? Yeah. Yeah, everyone does. Okay.
They work two-week shifts, two weeks on, two weeks off. You live on that boat full-time. And then on those days that you work, you work two six-hour shifts, six hours working, six hours off, six hours working, six hours off. And I'm sure Thomas would verify that this is tough, hard work.
Would you have them work 12 hours straight and then 12 hours off?
Yeah, it's whack, but I think it's one of those things with shift work, like you get used to sleeping all day and working at night. Those people probably get used to sleeping in two, four-hour sets.
Yeah, but then they're at home for two weeks straight.
Can you get back to work?
Oh yeah, for sure. There are push boats. These are pretty fun. A push tug. That's a tow boat that has a squared off front at the bow and these padded beams called push knees. And you basically push those knees against the stern and you even lash it together sometimes and you're just pushing something around. Yeah.
Well, it does sort of lend itself to the question of like, why don't these huge barges have a little secondary azimuth propeller system that can be deployed?
Well, maybe so. And the other thing that I also regret not investigating now is how the finances of this work. Is it a tugboat company that just says, all right, we're going to contract with this barge company for a certain set of time?
And we'll just handle all your tugging and pushing needs basically in this harbor?
Surely it's an all-inclusive thing, though. And it's not just like... Oh, you need to get over there? 500 bucks. Right. You know?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah. That sounds like a new episode of The Wire, too.
Okay.
If you want to pick up your spirits, my friend, go to New York City and take a ride on the W.O. Decker because that's one of the fun things you can do in New York. I have not done it yet, but I'm going to make a point to go to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York where you can actually take a ride on the classic and beautiful W.O. Decker tugboat.
I'm going to do it.
I got nothing. I just love these pictures. There's something about a tugboat. I like the way they look. Yeah. Got those tires hanging off of them, and there's something about the utilitarian aspect, and especially that W.O. Decker with that big old nose on the front. I don't even know what that is. That's the beard, right? Yeah, but it's not a beard that I've ever seen.
It really looks like a beard.
Yeah. Actually, some of these beers are very beardy, so I get it.
That's right. And it also conjures beetle beard.
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