[QUOTE=yacht_sailor;117433]Do you all not get “all hands on deck” calls at random times, or is that a sailing only thing?
I pretty much confine it to one rum and coke at sunset offshore.[/QUOTE]
We don’t get all hands on tugs often like its part of a normal thing, but you never know when crisis will hit. With only a few of us off watch at any time there’s not much to work with. Only time I have drank on a tug is when foreign at a dock laid up for emergency repairs (mexico/panama etc), or when the boss brought down a few 30-packs and pizzas for us to keep entertained with for the long weekend while waiting on z-drive parts from overseas. As an out of town boat it kind of worked. Been lucky enough to get annihilated on the back deck at the NY tugboat races before too!
As a matter of policy at almost any legitimate company these days they will say 0%, aka zero tolerance at ANY time aboard, and no alcohol/drugs allowed on-board. Been given a random piss test/breathalyzer on crewchange day and been a little nervous from the previous night; never doing that again.