Tug work... not for the faint hearted

[Firefly625]

all part of a days work...but is it just me, or does this look quite fun ?!

 

[Scubadoo]

Fun until the tug engine fails!

 

[andy59]

It does look like fun , wonder if skipper on big ship has a video monitor to see what's going on .

 

[Groot T]

Looks like one big nope to me!

 

[colingr]

A slight aside but that looks very top heavy. And doesn't seem to have the bulb at the bow that most big ships do?

 

[U4]

No life jackets!

 

[Bandit]

Years ago about 1981 I was working in Le Havre and a tug got it wrong with the ship it was working with and the tug was sunk in the harbour, I believe killing the crew.

 

[JSYmartini]

I did a bit at Fawley, it is good fun but what they're doing is just plain stoopid!

 

[Firefly625]

I did a bit at Fawley, it is good fun but what they're doing is just plain stoopid!

I think its the Spanish way......!:ambivalence:

 

[rosssavage]

Be interesting if the tug engine hiccups at the wrong moment!!

 

[itchenseadog]

In the late eighties I had to do some promotional photography work for ABP Southampton. I was driving a Shadow 26 and had to be photographed with the QE2 in the background as she came up the Solent. The photographer was on one of the Harbour Patrol launches and insisted I got closer and closer to the QE2 until I was practicaly under the flare of her bow. At 26 knots, scarey wasn't the word. All I could think of was "please dont let the engines fail me now". There were a few brown underpants moments but thankfully both ABP and Cunard got the shots they wanted.

 

[lisilou]

Where are the props on that tug?

 

[colingr]

Where are the props on that tug?

In the water

 

[lisilou]

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