Only good for attaching the goof ball to the end of the insurance wire
Well my post wasn’t very clear.
Mean to say what are the chances at any given time a tug is towing a barge off-shore in winter with a rope hawser? I’d guess under 1%.
What are the chances that a C.G. spokesman would use a coastie term for a tow hawser rather than the more correct term? I’d guess better than 50% chance they’d get it wrong.
I have never seen a yellow three-strand used to tow anything but a human or a water toy. That stuff is horrible and even the heat of the sun will meld a coil together on a hot day after enough time.
I have seen SOME kind of 4 inch hawser that floats, I found it all over a little island near Oahu once and I have seen it in the Bahamas too.
The percentage goes way up if the tug has no tow machine or tow wire… Could also have had a soft line on a drum of the winch if it had one. Does the tug have a winch. Is it operational. What kind of operator owns this tug.
One thing we do know is that they were not towing using polypropylene.
Photos not sure how old show a towing machine on the aft deck. Your not going to get much softline on a spool. Not 1000 feet I speculate
I’ve seen a couple of hundred feet of softline for ship assist work but nothing approaching the number given
It’s all speculation. Hope the uscg or someone takes some photos when they arrive.
If they tug is in poor condition maybe they were towing on the dog
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AIS shows the disabled tug, Legacy, sitting at Boat World Marina in Leesburg, NJ.
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My friend for those like myself without east coast local knowledge
It would be nice if you could put together a recap
The rescue vessels belong to who?
Where do you think they are bound?
Do i understand that the distressed tug is now in New Jersey? Or is the ais sitting on someone’s desk?
It would be appreciated
Thanks
Bruce
I don’t have any information on the particulars of that tug. But by the rule “When you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras” it most likely had tow winch and was using wire. Just as a matter of probabilities
Both the Coast Guard and the Navy use the term “towline” to refer to both rope and wire hawser.
Here’s from the Navy Towing Manual:
The navy do use soft line still on the Navajo class tugs massive Sampson braid threaded through a traction winch
Otherwise the use of soft line for towing is foreign to me
Charles James is Stasinos Towing, Shannon Dann is Dann Ocean towing.
It looks like they took the tug up the Maurice River in NJ, when I last looked the Legacy’s AIS was pinging at a boat yard there.
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Many thanks for that. Those of us without local knowledge appreciate it
Bruce