How a Tugboat Tows Ships 1000 Times Bigger - Z-Drive Tugboat
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Let's see how a tugboat works, and how its design gives it a strong towing capability.
0:00 About a tugboat
1:00 Z drive design
2:32 Clutch
3:20 Movements
4:20 Components
7:04 Towing operation
8:19 Rope Safety
Music license - Soundstripe
Empyreal Glow - Chemical Chains
Thanks to Captain Drew Kerlee from Tacoma for the topic suggestion! 
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Thank you for narrating these videos yourself instead of using AI which everyone seems to be doing these days.
AI voice is a good test, but over all I realized that we all need to feel human, so from now on, I always do a few rounds of rehearsal before recording with my own voice even though it's not perfect.
@@3DLivingStudio You’re doing just fine. Your English is very good and easy to understand. Nice work!
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I really agree and support you
Which ai is he using, it nearly impossible to notice
@@3DLivingStudioI really like the personal endearing human quality of your voice. We’re all imperfect speakers and I appreciate that more and more with AI trying to robotize us.
“Personal burden” had me in stitches. Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching! And yes, never taken a restroom for granted
Me, too. Then again, some tugs are used only in the harbour, so only in a "personal burden emergency" would they be far from a toilet.
Reminds me of the late Duke of Edinburgh, as he was getting older, who said "never miss the chance to go to the toilet"
My man has mastered English. 😂
It’s over. This man right here Won *The English Language*
*”Personal Burden got a new sub”*
Been in the harbor tug industry for 24 years now. Our towing Hawser, is a thicker heavier line used for towing something larger than an average sized ship. We rarely use it these days as the strength of your regular working line on the bow and stern winches are able to handle increased loads. Great video! Very accurate with most of the information!
Thanks for watching! And it's good to hear from someone who has hands-on experience like you 👏
Hawser line? What is the typical diameter of the line and what is the strength versus a normal line? I’m sure the cost is hugely higher than the regular lines.
@@robertschultz6922TIMM ropes in Europe is much more affordable than the US branded articles.
I'm a big enthusiast of ships and maritime affairs. Please make more videos using your fantastic animation skills, on topics such as types of boats and ships, port and marine operations, maritime history, navy, etc. Thank you! ❤
Thanks for some suggestions, still many more topics to explore.
Nice too see others having a merry time watching tugboat shafts.
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The info about the water-displacement hull was new to me! Thanks😊
yeah thas a misiinformatioon
This channel deserves to have millions of subscribers.
I love the tour of tugboats videos. They're so much bigger on the inside than one might imagine. Like a TARDIS!
Clear and concise explanation with fantastic graphics. keep up the good work. Thanks.
Much appreciated!
Excellent presentation! Thank you!
Beautifully explained. I got chills when you explained about z drive designs.
Excellent video! Clear animation that matches the clear narration and almost no music. Very well balanced and informative.
Great video! I worked on tugboats, but a long time ago, when I was young. Then my life was spent on huge container ships. Now I am 60 years old and I dream of returning to tugboats again. In the story about tugs, I would also add that tugs, including port tugs, are equipped with a fire extinguishing system that is capable of extinguishing fires on large ships. I once saw such a fire in the roadstead of the port of Busan.
That was something I noticed as well. I have never seen even the smallest tugboat to not have at least one monitor (thats what the usually but not necessarily remote operated movable water nozzles for firefighting are called).
Also I would have wished to see an explanation about another very common propulsion system with tug boats, the Voith-Schneider Propeller that allows the same rate of propulsion in every direction and can smoothly change direction immediately. It looks like rudders on a spinning plate, where the angle of attack for the propeller blades can be shifted in relation to the position on the circular plate (somewhat like the pitch on a helicopter rotor). Although while a VSP is more effective and can react quicker to changes in steering direction, modern Azimuth thrusters (in combination with Kort nozzles) are simply a lot cheaper to build.
By the way, in larger applications you may find Diesel electric propulsion instead of a z-drive, where the Diesel engines run a generator and the Pods house an electric motor. But I guess that will mostly be found from a certain size. It sure is how Azipods on modern Cruiseships are build, but those are way bigger.
Oh and one Minor flaw on the rendering of the containers on board the ship, both MSC and Evergreen, and I don´t know who else would sure prefer their containers to be not stored upside down ;) The lettering on the containers is upside down.
Tugs have always fascinated me, thanks for providing a glimpse into how they work so efficiently for their size. Keep up the great work, the narration was brilliant.
Thank you for the detailed explanation
Very clear and informative. Thank you!
working of the boat (Main) plus scenarios and even some nuances. Nice presentation. excellent
Outstanding animations and explanations - muchos gracias!
Excellent demonstration 👍🏻
Knowledge that really adds insight. Thank you for the video sir. 🙏
Thanks for great presentation, simple and understandable
fascinating. learnt a lot. thank you
Excellent content, animation, and explanation!
Thanks for supporting
Thank you. Learnt something new today
Excellent video. Thanks!
Great explanation, thanks.
Excellent informative, thank you
Amazing please keep making these!!
learnt something new today. Thank you
Thank you for this very informative video
Great video! Packed with knowledge and the graphics were perfect.
I wish there could be more vids like this on RUclips, informative and interesting to watch, thanks for taking time make this, subscribed.
Very nice video. Thanks
I love this video. I learnt something new and very excited all throughout the video. Keep up the good job man♥️
Thank you! Will do!
Learned a lot of new things from your video 🙌
This is fabulous. Thank you for such good visuals and explaination.I have been riveted to the Dali story since the bridge disaster ( May 2024) and have been in awe of the tugboats and even the vessels with the cranes... how they maneuver so easily. Now I know how. But I would guess that 90 percent is the talent of the pilot.
Great illustration
So much knowledge thank you
Very well done 👍
Very informative 👏🏽👍🏽
Great video! Keep it up.
Great video.
This is a very impressive and important boat.
The agility and power of the boat is insane.
I was supprised at how much power a boat like that can have, I knew they were powerful but having 20k HP is something else hahaha
Now this is a million dallar question I have been asking myself all my life :) thanks so much for this great video
I am glad it helps
Great video and explanation! Thank you for doing your own voiceover too.
This is 10 times better than my neighbor explaining to me how kayak works.
Great content superbly well , done
Nice vid
very impressive Everything was really well thought out. You did amazing graphics. This channel's graphics are very easy to understand.
😮 well presented
Informative!
Thank u sir..lot of information and help my study..
Thank you!!! 👍👍👍
That was an awesome video.
Fantastic animation. Please make more videos
The background music was simply superb
you deserve every view and sub you get man.
awesome video.
Thank you for supporting
Tug boats are like ants. Small but can carry hefty load that much heavier than them
Thanks Very Much
Learned a lot. Not sure why but I now know it
Great thank you ❤
Great work. I already subscribed. 😊
Interesting, thank 👍
Good explanation. You could also have mentioned why the hawser winches are positioned so far forward on the aft deck as their exact position is fundamental as to how the tug operates and steers. 👍
I grew up in Superior WI and lived near the water front, tug boat power It was very amazing to see...
outstanding
love the youtube canal at 4:04 😊
Your video is very nice
RUclips 'canal' got me! Great video
I had always wondered hw powerful are these tugboats and this very nicely explained animated cleared all the doubts.
God bless u bro🙏May this Channel keep growing and get millions of subscribers.
Love frm a tiny dot in the Pacific Ocean. (Fiji Islands)❤.
Glad it was helpful!
I subscribed to your channel because of this video.
Great explanation. I am really interested to understand the mechanism of Static Centre Steering Wheel used by Citroen C4 and now the Bugatti Tourbillon. Please make a video regarding that.
Good job bro ❤❤❤Love you from India.
This was very insightful. I've always wondered how these ant boats can pull ships bigger than their size.
❤❤❤ nice
nice animations
Very interesting video thanks for making it. Also 4:12 😂 "RUclips cannal"
Thank you for using your voice!
Thank you....
3:50 imagine seeing a boat casually drifting near the harbor lol
That's interesting 😊
Who is watching this at 1am?
2:22AM, India.
That was educational. Thanks 👍🏽
Very nice video, thank you, however I think the red arms you depicted are fire hydrant arms... Usually the cranes are painted yellow. Thanks
Very educational video. Thank you for the awesome graphics that made it easier to understand the concepts. How did you make these animations? Must have taken you a lot of time and effort.
Glad you liked it! I self studied to make this, it took like about 3 years for me because I'm slow in this aspect.
Now i want to be a captain of a tugboat,thanks....
Was working on a port as water surveyor, and evertime this guys passing us, i always pray that powerfull wave didn't sink our rented fisherman's boat😂
What a truly well made video, with good balance of information for each aspect of the main subject.
FUN FACT: smaller tugboats has only a propeller and a rudder that steers the boat and larger tugboats doesn't have a rudder, the larger tugboat has only a propeller that can steer like a rudder, a rudder is a steering mechanisms of the ship or a boat. The modern tugboat we called is the Z-drive tugboats.
I feel like "personal burden" could a literal translation and I rather like it. The phrase implies it is something everyone must do and cannot avoid. "Unload their personal burden" seems similar to "relieve themselves".
"personal burden" is such a classy way to say ca-ca
Now i know thankyou
Working on Tugboat shafts must be so freeing for the sea men.
Oh wow are they actually that maneuverable? It looks like one of my friggets* in star sector strafing a larger ship.
OMG yes the snapback zone! I have irrational fears of them like quicksands
I really think rudderless thrusters are impressive. You can get all the power and direction while facing a current or against it or at an angle
nice rescue from youtube canal.. :)
the "RUclips Canal" looks weirdly familiar to this other one...
Hopefully my terrible sense of humor is somewhat entertaining 😅
@3DLivingStudio I enjoyed!
This looks like a job for the Thompson Coupling
In a living comparison, tugboat almost like a few ants working together to carrying 50 times bigger and heavier than it such as centipedes, scorpion,spider and praying mantis.
that inline 6 crankshaft gave me a little shock
Man you have to make a vid about oil rigs... About there construction, drilling, etc.
Check my channel, there is a video about oilrig. But I think, in future, I should make a better and more complete version