# Article: Bollard Pull Calculations

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/article-bollard-pull-calculations/43473>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [March 24, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/article-bollard-pull-calculations/43473 "2017-03-24T06:11:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![thenavalarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@thenavalarch](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/thenavalarch)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/article-bollard-pull-calculations/43473/1 "2017-03-24T06:11:51Z")

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A useful article on Bollard Pull Calculation. Hope it is of use to readers:

> **[Bollard Pull Calculations - an Introduction (Part I) - thenavalarch](https://thenavalarch.com/bollard-pull-calculations-introduction/)**
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> Bollard Pull calculation is one of the most frequent calculations performed in marine towing operations. Towing operations involve the pulling of a vessel (it can be a barge, ship or an offshore structure) using another vessel (usually a tug).