[QUOTE=injunear;31546]I’m amazed how the towing industry went from “self-clensing” to “check the box in 30 days”. Of the 39 years I’ve gone to sea, (not counting commercial fishing as a child) I spent 25 years in the towing and salvage industry. In that time, I’ve seen many captains and mates have their a$$es handed to them on the tow line. Lack of seamanship and towing skills dosen’t discriminate between between ltd, unlimited, hawsepipers and academy grads.[/QUOTE]
**IMHO…the “accelerated attitude of poof your a tugboater” will eventually rise up and “bite the industry in the ass”…should begin to happen any minute now!!