I have nothing but admiration for tug boat captains and crew. I worked in shipbuilding for the Royal Navy in Glasgow for 26 years and done a fair amount of ship movements in and out of dry dock. To think that these tug boats are moving multi million £ vessels in confined spaces with little movements at a time is unbelievable, and the pressure on the captains to do this must be immense. Most of these movements were done at night to avoid loss of time in production, making the job even harder. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
I Loved your narration and your "College Professor" way of demonstrating all the step by steps of how bunker boats tow and push barges in Cape Cod Canal! Thank you!!
Hello Tim. I am struck by your humility, as you go about explaining your profession by means of video and commentary. Thank you for this interesting and instructional video. It's a pleasure to listen to you.
On our route, Quonset to Oak Bluffs, we listen to Canal Control all day. Their patience with civilian traffic usually reaches its lowest ebb by September each season. Great video, as always.
Excellent! It felt like an astronaut on ISS doing an EVA being narrated by ground control. It really is quite an operation. As many times as I've been to Cape Cod, I've never seen the canal from this angle. Thanks Tim!
Thanks my friend. My name is Kevin MacDonald and I am 55 years old and my back yard was Literally the cape cod canal in sagamore,right next to sandwich.Mass. I have some of the best stories in the world from me and my friends down the canal from 1966 to 2021.There used to be so many fish in the canal. 60 lbs Cod fish,40 lbs Blue fish and of course 40 to 60 lb Striped bass.We used to fill up two of the regular size garbage cans with lobster,s within 3 hrs using a 2 dollar thing of frozen Squid we bought at the bait store and just a fishing line and a long net with pole in the early 70,s to 1980. I had some of the best memories of my life down the canal.It's one of the most beautiful places in the summer.Thank you very much Captain for sharing this. If you have any questions for me I'd be more than happy to answer them. Take care. Kevin MacDonald.
Thank you for watching Kevin. You are a lucky man. Growing up on the canal must have really been something back then. Please consider subscribing. I try to post new content every Tuesday. CUOTO
Tim, Maritime is one of many subjects that I like to watch and your channel is very good. How ever that you want to film it is up to you. I will continue to watch as I learn something new every time. Thank you.
Hi Captain Tim, Most people don't realize all that goes into running a tug/barge unit and you really show and described it so very well. I would love to see one of you going through the C&D canal, especially while making the East end entrance. Life on tugs must be really tuff these days with restrictions on getting off and just where and when to have crew changes.
Thank you for watching William. I shot us going east bound through the C & D a few days ago, but it was late and it started to rain. But I think I may post it next week as an extra under the title "Slow TV". I have to do another run to Philadelphia from Norfolk, do cross your fingers. I may get good light and shooting conditions to do a proper video.
Capt. Tim , Thank you for video. I was born and raised on Cape Cod and still live here at 48 yrs old I remember going over Sagamore bridge every Sunday with my parents to visit gramma in Plymouth. I always looked for the tug boats and barges. Also at 19 yrs old went off shore lobstering one time with my dad ,he worked on TWO DUKES lobster boat. It was the worst 10 days of my life because the weather was really windy, we went out of Sandwich Marina through the Cape Cod Canal , I subscribed and will be back soon. Thank you
As for me I really like this format with your comments explaining everything as you go, I really learn a lot I didn’t know. I’ve been a land lover most my life but I do have some salt water in my veins, my great grandfather worked on a whale ship around 1896 and I would sit and listen to him as long as he would tell all his story’s and sing all the old sailors songs when he would visit. He was a fascinating man! CUOTO
Thank you Tim for a great commentary and video. I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts and remember watching tugs at work on the Mount Hope bay to Brayton Power Plant and up the Taunton river to Shell Oil.
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I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. The C&D canal is used quite heavily for ro-ro ships making multiple ports, such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, and up around Staten Island/port Newark/Bayonne etc. Only been across it twice, but it’s almost identical to the one featured here. Some nasty weather due in over the next 72 hours, stay safe!
Well I find it all intriguing with music with out music, fast ,slow, comment, no comment.. I don't care it is all fascinating.. Thanks Tim this is a real gas for me.. I love the water and boating and if I had to do it all over I might just be a boat captain like yourself.. I was always a pirate fan and a lover of treasurer island as a kid.. Carry on my brother.. y'all are doin a great job!
Glad I found your channel. My Uncle was a tug boat captain, He ran New York to New Orleans thru the Mighty Mississippi. Always Loved Tug Boats. Great Job
I think you do an excellent job explaining the operations. From someone who worked on offshore platforms in design and construction for over 20 years. I did not realize how much I did not know about your world....
Great video. You are really coming along with this project. I think this is the best one you have done. Good subject matter, good weather and a spectacular trip.
That was awesome. Lots of great commentary to explain what was going on. And then some fast forward at the appropriate times. Just right. Thanks for doing this. Be interesting to see a rough day on Buzzard Bay now that we have seen it on a nice day.
Thanks for explaining the yellow and white canal side lighting...makes perfect sense. I lived on the Cape for a while and never noticed that. Great education on towing, too!
Thank you for watching Jim. One of the Army Corp guys commented that all the lights have been changed out to LEDs a couple years ago but the turns have slightly different Amber color now.
Great video! I lived on the canal many years! Had a radio,listen to”21” cap....knew about movement on the canal but never realized what work a tug does! I’m sorry I found this video tonight! Merry Christmas!
Great video Capt. Tim. Loved the transition from Buzzards Bay to the Cape Cod Canal. Did a great job showing how involve the hitch transitions can be. Keep up the great work. CUOTO
I had friends that used to own a guesthouse in Ptown. I drove there several times and used both the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges. It's cool to see them from this perspective.
You make it look so easy. We know it is far from “easy”. It is, rather, very demanding. Nonetheless, you make it sound easy. Your voice is better than most professional broadcasters of any discipline. Even more importantly, I applaud you for your obvious appreciation of our beautiful planet earth. Your comments about safety from the extra not required line to the need for us to wash our hands during the pandemic are evidence of intelligence and common sense. Combining those two characteristics defines wisdom.
I work for the Corps at the Canal Field Office. All bank lighting was converted to LEDs several years ago. Most lights are white, but switch to yellow on the south bank at the s-turn between the highway bridges, so operators can discern the turn at night.
Thank you so much for watching and for the good info. I've been stuck bunkering in NYC so long, I had to take a pilot with me. (and it was daylight both ways this time). I really appreciate you chiming in and the work you do!
Thank you Lisa! Please consider subscribing if you haven't already. (My female subscribers are up to %4.2 from %3.4, but I hope to build a more diverse subscriber base in the future) lol. Anyway, thank you very much for watching!
I find this very interesting, and I prefer the narration over the music. I grew up on Narragansett Bay and remember watching the tugboats working. Now I get to learn what was actually going on. Thanks for posting these videos!
@@TimBatSea I have sailed Buzzards Bay many times as a preteen and teen with my friend Ricky and family, first in a Cal 25 and later they traded up to a Catalina 30. Anyway, once, when I wasn't there, in fog, they accidentally sailed between a tug and barge and the cable took off their rudder, in the 30 I think. This would have been around 1980. They sailed out of Wings Cove off Piney Point in summer and Woods Hole when not summer. The captain father was often a bit tipsy leaving Ricky and I to sail home sometimes, even at around 11. Early experience.
I've sailed from Quincy through Buzzard's Bay to the Keys. If you do not get the tides right, you will be going backwards LoL. Thanks for the great videos.
Tim, great way to show the videos. A little briefing and hitting the charts first, and then some narrative on the presentation. Learn more each time I watch. Was a pleasure cruiser before in the Bridgeport and PJ area.
Great video. I haven't been thru the canal since the early 70's when I was in the Coast Guard going from New Bedford to Ptown to sit on SAR standby for a week at a time. Thanks.
Thank you for watching Bob. And please consider subscribing if you haven't already. I appreciate your kind words although my exwife would probably not agree with you. Lol (she hated listening to anything I said)
Your explanations are really good. Even someone who has never sailed could understand what you mean. I sailed on the Elba, Cambria, and the Donner, many years ago.
Thanks for the video 👍👍👍 I've been through that canal twice but it was always at night and in the winter so I didn't see much and for the short time we were fish out of Fall River we never saw weather that nice
Hi Tim, I went down to the water to see you go by. the boat was not lit up as much as some of the tugs I have seen go by at night. It was nice to finally see your boat.
@@TimBatSea Your Boat went by Fish Island from about 9:00 pm to 9:30 pm. An oil tanker was ahead of you can remember the name right now but it was headed to River head oil terminal in Long Island NY.( the times are close not spot-on) the crude oil tanker is the RYMAN
This was perhaps the best video to date. I loved the blend of technical content along with the action shots and the narrative. I started out with paper charts, so I love it when you pull one out to prep us for the virtual journey you're going to take us through. I was hoping you'd put something up today, thanks!
I like to have a paper chart handy for an overall view, as my fingers are used to 14lb hammers rather than a touch screen. So the electronic is for close views, paper for which pub to head for. I do the same in a car, paper maps are great for quick reference when you come up onto a diversion or other delay, rather that flicking through a GPS. Just found an old chart of the Suez Canal, pre widening and the bypass cut. I worked on a road tunnel constructed back in the 70s between the Bitter lakes and the town of Suez. So the chart goes up in the DEN to keep memories alive..
Really enjoyed this video. I've shot many a bird photo on the Canal... particularly at the Herring Run. I always thank you folks pushing the barges... there's a nice wake as you pass me, and the birds all turn right into the camera! Many thanks for the photo ops! BTW, I live out at the other tip, near the Race! Growing up as kids, we had a game of counting the ships on each side of the Sagamore bridge, when crossing. My kids, now in college, still count the boats... bonus for whoever can spot a Big Barge!
Tim you were down in my neck of the woods. Weymouth Ma. Have done a lot of boating through the canal. It has its good and bad days. That day was picture perfect!!! Keep up the great videos and stay safe!!!!
Nice reinforcement of the Tug Configuration video. Really enjoy the practical insights offered by all your videos. I believe some are scalable to smaller recreation boating.
My family has a house on Barnstable harbor. I know this area like the back of my hand. I've got to say that's the quickest ride I've ever had through the canal.
@@TimBatSea it's probably better at the speed you used. Crawling through the Cape cod Canal would get boring after a few minutes. Anyway, great video, Thanks!
Another fantastic video. I use one computer screen for your video and the second for the chart of the area. Fun traveling with you and the crew. Happy Easter! Stay safe.
Great video of the process of towing, going to pushing, then Back again to towing on the Other side of the Cape Cod canal 😳👍. The rock barges I use to push we never tied off to Anything and Just one person per boat, the operator. But like I said before it was a private lake the Rock Quarry owned in Miami. We pushed the loaded barges from the Draglines way out back up to the Clamshell up front loading the crusher, then the Empty barges back to the draglines again, it was about a 25 minute trip with the loaded barges up to the crusher they drew so much water when loaded and stuck up 10-12 feet out of the water when unloaded. Oh what fun that was, right up until they shutdown just before Christmas 🎄 of 1974 😱😭 That had been in operation for 27 years... my friend Tom White went on with Belchor Towing in the port of Miami.
Excellent job Capt. Tim. I have lived on Cape Cod for 8 years now with a nice view to the Bay. We see the tugs and barges going by all the time and you have answered so many questions in just this one video for me that I have been wondering for years now. I also sail on the Bay all summer and have great respect for ships of all sizes, but especially the tugs & barges. A long time ago (15 years or so) I was in a windsurfing race on Buzzards Bay. We were crossing the bay in a hazy fog at high speed (always windy on the bay) and myself and two other racers could hear the sound of a motor, suddenly it appeared and was a tug, we were passing behind it and so we kept going, only to realize after passing it was towing a barge. We must have sailed right over that tow cable! We had no idea at the moment when it was happening. We were really lucky.
Thank you for watching Mark. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already. Your story is one that sends chills up and down my spine. I wish I could say that I have never heard or seen that before, but unfortunately it happens much more than it should. I am so glad things worked out for you on that day, although the guy behind the wheel probably lost a year or two of his life. Thank you again for sharing. Stay safe and healthy.
This was fun and informative, Tim! My mom lived in Falmouth from 1988 until she passed away in 2014 and I lived there for the last two years of her life taking care of her. It's a wonderful place to live and I miss it in many ways (mostly my mom, though) and I now live in Virginia. I have a lot of memories that your video jogged awake, so thanks for that. As always, your videos are full of interesting things that a landlubber like me just doesn't know. All best!
Thank you for watching and please consider subscribing if you haven't already. It makes me so happy that you are reminded of your time with your mother while watching my videos. Take care and be safe.
Good Morning Capt. Came across your Channel from listening to you on Scott Dodgson's Podcast "offshore Explorer" love the Maritime content. Cant stop watching. Thanks again.
Hi enjoyed your Canal video. I had been transitting the canal since the 70s. I keep my 40 ft sportfish in a harbor on the Cape and fished 2 or 3 times a year off Cuttyhunk and Block.Island. I had to give it up a few years ago so it was good to see your trip up the bay and through the canal. i have seen it calm and I have seen it nasty came up the bay one afternoon 70 out of the south west
Love the deck color. With our company it's red, and always makes me feel like the deck is holding more heat. That color scheme just relaxes me, and looks flawless! (up close maybe imperfections, but you keep a clean boat Capt. Tim!)
Hi Tim, I live next to Mass Maritime, saw you go by but didn’t know it was you until i saw this video post. Keep up the good work. Your videos are awesome!
TimBatSea check out my own you tube videos, i have 2 old ones posted that will show how close i really am to the canal. Give a toot on the horns next time you go by. 👍
Thanks for another informative vid, the voice over is great as you don't have to deal with wind or other noise. The swap went great but I bet there are times when wind and tide don't play ball, that's when the skill comes right in. Well done keeping us entertained during the Vietnam lock down. My boat was comfortable at around 7-8 knots 2,200 rpm. Max hull speed 12 knots so used the tides when ever possible to save fuel, they would be around 4 -5 knot flow. Coming down the River Medway UK would be on a receding tide, get round the Montgomery wreck a sunken ammunition ship from WWII with ammo still on board and speed up the Thames on slack water. Then catch the incoming tide to push me up the River Thames through London to the Tide lock at Teddington. Then we only had to deal with the power of the river flow.
So cool to see. I’m making this trip the other way, picking my new Hatteras 45 up from Boston Harbor and heading down to the Potomac river in VA next week. Taking this canal, long island sound thru the city, ocean around NJ and up the delaware to the C&D to the bay down to the potomac. This will be my longest trip by water yet, so its great to see pieces of it on video!
Thank you for watching and please consider subscribing if you haven't already. Congratulations! You should have a trip to tell your grandkids about. But all kidding aside, please please bring not a couple, but many extra fuel filters!!!!! Very important and they don't go bad. You don't know how long the fuel has been in there and once you been running all day and the tanks get low, they slush around and churn up all the stuff in the bottoms. Be safe and let us know how the trip went.
@@TimBatSea Great advice! The previous owner filled the 650 gallon tanks yesterday at Harbor fuels for us, and has a case of primary and 4 secondary spares onboard in addition to spare wheels, raw water impellers, and anything else that commonly fails. I feel pretty good about this trip, he ran her a lot! Will certainly let you know how it goes!!
@@car2069 That's great. You want a boat that has been running alot as apposed to sitting all winter. Keep a radio on 13 and keep her under 10 it's going through the canal. (21 will tell at you if you don't). Best if luck and enjoy your new ride!
You picked the most perfect day to go through Buzzards Bay, has not happened to much this past fall, winter and so far this early spring. Speaking as a native from New Beige.
Thank you for watching. Yes indeed! I couldn't believe it! So 10 years ago for about ten years before that, when you would sit in your car on your way to or from Fair Haven, stuck in traffic at the bridge, you may have seen me pushing 5200 tons of sand out from the sand dock.
I know you said "it takes a few hours to get through the canal, to where you're going." But I'd love to watch the full length. Im a fan, of the longer the better, showing all the intricate stuff.
Thank you for watching. So just today I posted a 55 minute video and I have at least one 360 full length video of us going through the Canal as well. CUOTO
Great video! My Nephew is a mate on a tug..I think a ATB? He attended Texas A&M merchant marines.. He does 3 weeks on 3 weeks off from texas up the east coast and into intercoastal waterways.. He has a great life,
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I have nothing but admiration for tug boat captains and crew. I worked in shipbuilding for the Royal Navy in Glasgow for 26 years and done a fair amount of ship movements in and out of dry dock. To think that these tug boats are moving multi million £ vessels in confined spaces with little movements at a time is unbelievable, and the pressure on the captains to do this must be immense. Most of these movements were done at night to avoid loss of time in production, making the job even harder. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
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I Loved your narration and your "College Professor" way of demonstrating all the step by steps of how bunker boats tow and push barges in Cape Cod Canal! Thank you!!
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Hello Tim. I am struck by your humility, as you go about explaining your profession by means of video and commentary. Thank you for this interesting and instructional video. It's a pleasure to listen to you.
Thank you for watching and for your kind words. I really appreciate them!
🎉I enjoy your commentary immensely. One reason I watch your video over other videos.🎉
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On our route, Quonset to Oak Bluffs, we listen to Canal Control all day. Their patience with civilian traffic usually reaches its lowest ebb by September each season. Great video, as always.
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Excellent! It felt like an astronaut on ISS doing an EVA being narrated by ground control. It really is quite an operation. As many times as I've been to Cape Cod, I've never seen the canal from this angle. Thanks Tim!
Oh cool. I'm glad you liked it!
Thanks my friend. My name is Kevin MacDonald and I am 55 years old and my back yard was Literally the cape cod canal in sagamore,right next to sandwich.Mass. I have some of the best stories in the world from me and my friends down the canal from 1966 to 2021.There used to be so many fish in the canal. 60 lbs Cod fish,40 lbs Blue fish and of course 40 to 60 lb Striped bass.We used to fill up two of the regular size garbage cans with lobster,s within 3 hrs using a 2 dollar thing of frozen Squid we
bought at the bait store and just a fishing line and a long net with pole in the early 70,s to 1980. I had some of the best memories of my life down the canal.It's one of the most beautiful places in the summer.Thank you very much Captain for sharing this. If you have any questions for me I'd be more than happy to answer them. Take care. Kevin MacDonald.
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Tim, Maritime is one of many subjects that I like to watch and your channel is very good. How ever that you want to film it is up to you. I will continue to watch as I learn something new every time. Thank you.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. CUOTO
Thank you Captain. I enjoy the commentary. It’s always entertaining and educational. I appreciate the scenery too.
Thank you very much for watching Ken. I really appreciate it. Remember that I try to post new content every Tuesday.
@Captain TimBat,
An excellent video. Excellent videography and very clear narration. You seem to have a great passion for your profession. Thank you.
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Congrats TBS, you pronounced Quincy correctly. I was born in Quincy and spent a number of years there as a youth, the 50's and 60's. Loved it.
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Make yourself happy Tim. You can't please everyone. Thanks for the video.
Hahaha. You are correct! Thank you for watching.
Hi Captain Tim, Most people don't realize all that goes into running a tug/barge unit and you really show and described it so very well. I would love to see one of you going through the C&D canal, especially while making the East end entrance. Life on tugs must be really tuff these days with restrictions on getting off and just where and when to have crew changes.
Thank you for watching William. I shot us going east bound through the C & D a few days ago, but it was late and it started to rain. But I think I may post it next week as an extra under the title "Slow TV". I have to do another run to Philadelphia from Norfolk, do cross your fingers. I may get good light and shooting conditions to do a proper video.
as a guest on board I'd love to sit on the bow or stern and enjoy the sun and the views with a fishing rod in my hands ;)
Thank you so much for watching.
Man!
I loved this!
Thank you!
You just showed me how a Texas bar and donut works!
You Rock!
Thank you again for watching. CUOTO
Capt. Tim , Thank you for video. I was born and raised on Cape Cod and still live here at 48 yrs old I remember going over Sagamore bridge every Sunday with my parents to visit gramma in Plymouth. I always looked for the tug boats and barges. Also at 19 yrs old went off shore lobstering one time with my dad ,he worked on TWO DUKES lobster boat. It was the worst 10 days of my life because the weather was really windy, we went out of Sandwich Marina through the Cape Cod Canal , I subscribed and will be back soon. Thank you
Thank you Jason for watching and subscribing. I try to post a new video ever Tuesday. Bonus posts for covid quarantined people.
Longshoreman from port of Cleveland, thank you very kindly Sir❤
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As for me I really like this format with your comments explaining everything as you go, I really learn a lot I didn’t know. I’ve been a land lover most my life but I do have some salt water in my veins, my great grandfather worked on a whale ship around 1896 and I would sit and listen to him as long as he would tell all his story’s and sing all the old sailors songs when he would visit. He was a fascinating man! CUOTO
Thank you for watching Michael. Wow. That was when ships were made of wood and men were made of Iron!!!CUOTO
Thank you Tim for a great commentary and video. I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts and remember watching tugs at work on the Mount Hope bay to Brayton Power Plant and up the Taunton river to Shell Oil.
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Great video, brought back many memories- funny story: once, making the same trip, canal control held us up as there was a whale transiting the canal
Oh yes! That does happen. Thank you for watching. CUOTO
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. The C&D canal is used quite heavily for ro-ro ships making multiple ports, such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, and up around Staten Island/port Newark/Bayonne etc. Only been across it twice, but it’s almost identical to the one featured here. Some nasty weather due in over the next 72 hours, stay safe!
Thank you for watching. Oh yes. Things are starting to get a bit sporty.
Well I find it all intriguing with music with out music, fast ,slow, comment, no comment.. I don't care it is all fascinating.. Thanks Tim this is a real gas for me.. I love the water and boating and if I had to do it all over I might just be a boat captain like yourself.. I was always a pirate fan and a lover of treasurer island as a kid.. Carry on my brother.. y'all are doin a great job!
Thank you very very much!!!! Those are the comments I make videos hoping to get! Cheers and I'll CUOTO
Tim..thanks spent summer of 1975 conducting hyrographic surveys in Buz. BAYwith NOAA coastal survey ship PEIRCE..lots good memories..thanks CAPT. JOE 17:52
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel Captain Joe. CUOTO
Glad I found your channel. My Uncle was a tug boat captain, He ran New York to New Orleans thru the Mighty Mississippi. Always Loved Tug Boats. Great Job
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Great viewing with my morning cup of tea here in England. Thanks Tim
Thank you so much for watching!
I think you do an excellent job explaining the operations. From someone who worked on offshore platforms in design and construction for over 20 years. I did not realize how much I did not know about your world....
Thank you James.
Love the canal. Camped fished there in the 50s. East end sandwich. When life was simpler.
Thank you very much for watching Robert. Life still can be found to be a bit simpler there. CUOTO
Great video. You are really coming along with this project. I think this is the best one you have done. Good subject matter, good weather and a spectacular trip.
Thank you for watching John.
That was awesome. Lots of great commentary to explain what was going on. And then some fast forward at the appropriate times. Just right. Thanks for doing this. Be interesting to see a rough day on Buzzard Bay now that we have seen it on a nice day.
Thank you very much!
I really enjoy your videos. As a former merchant sailor I appreciate your commentary as well as speeding up the video 😀. Dave
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Love it! Thanks for showing the process of switching from pull to push.
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Thanks for explaining the yellow and white canal side lighting...makes perfect sense. I lived on the Cape for a while and never noticed that. Great education on towing, too!
Thank you for watching Jim. One of the Army Corp guys commented that all the lights have been changed out to LEDs a couple years ago but the turns have slightly different Amber color now.
Great video! I lived on the canal many years! Had a radio,listen to”21” cap....knew about movement on the canal but never realized what work a tug does! I’m sorry I found this video tonight! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Peter and thank you for watching. Next week's video will be in Buzzards Bay and the week after that, 21 CCC. CUOTO
Great video Capt. Tim. Loved the transition from Buzzards Bay to the Cape Cod Canal. Did a great job showing how involve the hitch transitions can be. Keep up the great work. CUOTO
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I had friends that used to own a guesthouse in Ptown. I drove there several times and used both the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges. It's cool to see them from this perspective.
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You make it look so easy. We know it is far from “easy”. It is, rather, very demanding. Nonetheless, you make it sound easy. Your voice is better than most professional broadcasters of any discipline. Even more importantly, I applaud you for your obvious appreciation of our beautiful planet earth. Your comments about safety from the extra not required line to the need for us to wash our hands during the pandemic are evidence of intelligence and common sense. Combining those two characteristics defines wisdom.
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I work for the Corps at the Canal Field Office. All bank lighting was converted to LEDs several years ago. Most lights are white, but switch to yellow on the south bank at the s-turn between the highway bridges, so operators can discern the turn at night.
Thank you so much for watching and for the good info. I've been stuck bunkering in NYC so long, I had to take a pilot with me. (and it was daylight both ways this time). I really appreciate you chiming in and the work you do!
thats so cool you can add to the story.
Hey! Another familiar face!
@@elendil004 hope you are well shipmate!
Super video. Great to see how the transition from one method to the other is done. I had not seen that before. Thanks.
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I have to admit, I've become addicted to your channel! Really cool stuff, and neat seeing the water views of areas I travel often for work.
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Great video and brought back some memories. I made many trips through the canal on the EASTERN SUN.
Thank you for watching William. The old Eastern Sun tore up the north east in it's day. Stay safe my brother.
Thank you for another great video Tim.. Love the commentary and keep up the time lapse: love those distances too :)
Thank you for watching Mike. I really appreciate it!
Hi Tim thanks for the commentary. Love seeing how it all works. Always liked tugs great stuff. Take care of yourselves.
Thank you Lisa! Please consider subscribing if you haven't already. (My female subscribers are up to %4.2 from %3.4, but I hope to build a more diverse subscriber base in the future) lol. Anyway, thank you very much for watching!
loved it, you make it your way, it's your story you are telling.
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I find this very interesting, and I prefer the narration over the music. I grew up on Narragansett Bay and remember watching the tugboats working. Now I get to learn what was actually going on. Thanks for posting these videos!
Thank you for watching!
@@TimBatSea I have sailed Buzzards Bay many times as a preteen and teen with my friend Ricky and family, first in a Cal 25 and later they traded up to a Catalina 30. Anyway, once, when I wasn't there, in fog, they accidentally sailed between a tug and barge and the cable took off their rudder, in the 30 I think. This would have been around 1980. They sailed out of Wings Cove off Piney Point in summer and Woods Hole when not summer.
The captain father was often a bit tipsy leaving Ricky and I to sail home sometimes, even at around 11. Early experience.
@@alan6832 I'd say you are extremely lucky to be alive Alan. CUOTO
I've sailed from Quincy through Buzzard's Bay to the Keys. If you do not get the tides right, you will be going backwards LoL. Thanks for the great videos.
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Once again, that was terrifically educational.
Thank you Bryan for watching.
Tim, great way to show the videos. A little briefing and hitting the charts first, and then some narrative on the presentation. Learn more each time I watch. Was a pleasure cruiser before in the Bridgeport and PJ area.
Thank you very much for watching Jim!
I grew up vacationing on Cape Cod. I remember being so excited to see and go over the Bourne or Sagamore Bridges. Brings back good memories.
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Great video. I haven't been thru the canal since the early 70's when I was in the Coast Guard going from New Bedford to Ptown to sit on SAR standby for a week at a time. Thanks.
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Great videos! Thanks! Gotta weigh-in. I like the chart review and I like the narration. You have a easy voice to listen to. Hope you keep doing these.
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Another great episode Sir.
Thks for sharing with all of us and best regards from Spain.
Gracias mi hermano! Soy aquí, pero mi corazón es en España!
Your explanations are really good. Even someone who has never sailed could understand what you mean. I sailed on the Elba, Cambria, and the Donner, many years ago.
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Great job Tim it is great to see how what Tug life is like.
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Thanks for the video 👍👍👍
I've been through that canal twice but it was always at night and in the winter so I didn't see much and for the short time we were fish out of Fall River we never saw weather that nice
Thank you very much for watching Josh.
Hi Tim, I went down to the water to see you go by. the boat was not lit up as much as some of the tugs I have seen go by at night. It was nice to finally see your boat.
Thank you for watching David. That was in the afternoon right?
@@TimBatSea Your Boat went by Fish Island from about 9:00 pm to 9:30 pm. An oil tanker was ahead of you can remember the name right now but it was headed to River head oil terminal in Long Island NY.( the times are close not spot-on) the crude oil tanker is the RYMAN
@@davidcoggshall5822 yes David. That's sounds correct. I talked to the pilot and he went through the race ahead of me.
Another enjoyable video and a beautiful day, as well. I prefer your narrative to the music, unless that music is the rumble of a big diesel or two.
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love this business. your the man cap.
Thank you very much!
Loved it! These processes are so much more complicated than I might have thought. Thanks so much for showing them to us.
Thank you so much for watching!
This was perhaps the best video to date. I loved the blend of technical content along with the action shots and the narrative. I started out with paper charts, so I love it when you pull one out to prep us for the virtual journey you're going to take us through. I was hoping you'd put something up today, thanks!
Thank you so much for watching!
I like to have a paper chart handy for an overall view, as my fingers are used to 14lb hammers rather than a touch screen. So the electronic is for close views, paper for which pub to head for.
I do the same in a car, paper maps are great for quick reference when you come up onto a diversion or other delay, rather that flicking through a GPS.
Just found an old chart of the Suez Canal, pre widening and the bypass cut.
I worked on a road tunnel constructed back in the 70s between the Bitter lakes and the town of Suez. So the chart goes up in the DEN to keep memories alive..
Really enjoyed this video. I've shot many a bird photo on the Canal... particularly at the Herring Run.
I always thank you folks pushing the barges... there's a nice wake as you pass me, and the birds all turn right into the camera! Many thanks for the photo ops!
BTW, I live out at the other tip, near the Race!
Growing up as kids, we had a game of counting the ships on each side of the Sagamore bridge, when crossing. My kids, now in college, still count the boats... bonus for whoever can spot a Big Barge!
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@@TimBatSea Already did!
Tim you were down in my neck of the woods. Weymouth Ma. Have done a lot of boating through the canal. It has its good and bad days. That day was picture perfect!!! Keep up the great videos and stay safe!!!!
Thank you for watching! Stay safe and I'll see you on the one.
Bravo! Well Done! Clear, concise technical explanation. the Old Coastie.
Thank you for watching and for your service John.
Another great video Tim.
Thank you very much Tim!
Thanks for taking us along. As a retired pilot I find what you do on the water is fascinating. Be safe.
Thank you for watching Danny.
Great videos - really like the narration-
You make it look very easy - when in fact the potential for injury/damage is real.
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I have been curious about the process to drop the wire and move to push gear. Thanks for sharing. Great composition as well. Stay safe
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Nice reinforcement of the Tug Configuration video. Really enjoy the practical insights offered by all your videos. I believe some are scalable to smaller recreation boating.
Thank you for watching. Yes. Most definitely.
My family has a house on Barnstable harbor. I know this area like the back of my hand. I've got to say that's the quickest ride I've ever had through the canal.
Thank you for watching and please consider subscribing. It was such a nice day. I wish I shit the entire run through in real-time.
@@TimBatSea it's probably better at the speed you used. Crawling through the Cape cod Canal would get boring after a few minutes. Anyway, great video, Thanks!
Thanks for another great informative ride on your boat!
Thank you David. Tuesday's video should contain a shout-out to you and what you do and have done! Thank you so much!
Another Incredible video. Don't change what your doing. Stay safe
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"Wicked". Good to hear that again. 👍😎👍
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Another fantastic video. I use one computer screen for your video and the second for the chart of the area. Fun traveling with you and the crew. Happy Easter! Stay safe.
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One of the best channels on RUclips!
Thank you very very much Martin!
wow that 25 minutes felt like 5. Great video! Super informative.
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Great video Tim, really enjoyed the explanation.
Thank you very much Chad.
Great video of the process of towing, going to pushing, then Back again to towing on the
Other side of the Cape Cod canal 😳👍. The rock barges I use to push we never tied off to Anything and Just one person per boat, the operator. But like I said before it was a private lake the Rock Quarry owned in Miami. We pushed the loaded barges from the Draglines way out back up to the Clamshell up front loading the crusher, then the Empty barges back to the draglines again, it was about a 25 minute trip with the loaded barges up to the crusher they drew so much water when loaded and stuck up 10-12 feet out of the water when unloaded. Oh what fun that was, right up until they shutdown just before Christmas 🎄 of 1974 😱😭
That had been in operation for 27 years... my friend Tom White went on with Belchor Towing in the port of Miami.
Thank for that Rob! I love hearing about stuff like that.
Another wonderful video master 'o the seas!
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Excellent job Capt. Tim. I have lived on Cape Cod for 8 years now with a nice view to the Bay. We see the tugs and barges going by all the time and you have answered so many questions in just this one video for me that I have been wondering for years now. I also sail on the Bay all summer and have great respect for ships of all sizes, but especially the tugs & barges. A long time ago (15 years or so) I was in a windsurfing race on Buzzards Bay. We were crossing the bay in a hazy fog at high speed (always windy on the bay) and myself and two other racers could hear the sound of a motor, suddenly it appeared and was a tug, we were passing behind it and so we kept going, only to realize after passing it was towing a barge. We must have sailed right over that tow cable! We had no idea at the moment when it was happening. We were really lucky.
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This was fun and informative, Tim! My mom lived in Falmouth from 1988 until she passed away in 2014 and I lived there for the last two years of her life taking care of her. It's a wonderful place to live and I miss it in many ways (mostly my mom, though) and I now live in Virginia. I have a lot of memories that your video jogged awake, so thanks for that. As always, your videos are full of interesting things that a landlubber like me just doesn't know. All best!
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Thanks, Capt. Tim. I enjoyed the ride. That's the calmest water that I've ever seen in that area. It gave you a chance to enjoy the ride too.
Thank you for watching Charley. Yes, it was really something!
Good Morning Capt. Came across your Channel from listening to you on Scott Dodgson's Podcast "offshore Explorer" love the Maritime content. Cant stop watching. Thanks again.
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Always have had a love for tugs. A family friend use to own tug company in North Carolina ( I think Moran is there now). Whenever I would visit I
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Hi enjoyed your Canal video. I had been transitting the canal since the 70s. I keep my 40 ft sportfish in a harbor on the Cape and fished 2 or 3 times a year off Cuttyhunk and Block.Island. I had to give it up a few years ago so it was good to see your trip up the bay and through the canal. i have seen it calm and I have seen it nasty came up the bay one afternoon 70 out of the south west
Thank you for watching Stephen. Yes. Buzzard's Bay can give you a beating.
Love the deck color. With our company it's red, and always makes me feel like the deck is holding more heat. That color scheme just relaxes me, and looks flawless! (up close maybe imperfections, but you keep a clean boat Capt. Tim!)
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Best youtuber in the world...great videooo
Thank you Brother
Hi Tim, I live next to Mass Maritime, saw you go by but didn’t know it was you until i saw this video post. Keep up the good work. Your videos are awesome!
Thank you for watching. That would have been cool. I'll look for you on the next trip.
TimBatSea check out my own you tube videos, i have 2 old ones posted that will show how close i really am to the canal. Give a toot on the horns next time you go by. 👍
Watched one of your videos, you are close.
Thanks for another informative vid, the voice over is great as you don't have to deal with wind or other noise. The swap went great but I bet there are times when wind and tide don't play ball, that's when the skill comes right in. Well done keeping us entertained during the Vietnam lock down.
My boat was comfortable at around 7-8 knots 2,200 rpm. Max hull speed 12 knots so used the tides when ever possible to save fuel, they would be around 4 -5 knot flow. Coming down the River Medway UK would be on a receding tide, get round the Montgomery wreck a sunken ammunition ship from WWII with ammo still on board and speed up the Thames on slack water. Then catch the incoming tide to push me up the River Thames through London to the Tide lock at Teddington. Then we only had to deal with the power of the river flow.
Thank you as always. I hope some day to sail on the River Thames as well.
Thanks for posting these videos! Kudos.
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So cool to see. I’m making this trip the other way, picking my new Hatteras 45 up from Boston Harbor and heading down to the Potomac river in VA next week. Taking this canal, long island sound thru the city, ocean around NJ and up the delaware to the C&D to the bay down to the potomac. This will be my longest trip by water yet, so its great to see pieces of it on video!
Thank you for watching and please consider subscribing if you haven't already. Congratulations! You should have a trip to tell your grandkids about. But all kidding aside, please please bring not a couple, but many extra fuel filters!!!!! Very important and they don't go bad. You don't know how long the fuel has been in there and once you been running all day and the tanks get low, they slush around and churn up all the stuff in the bottoms. Be safe and let us know how the trip went.
@@TimBatSea Great advice! The previous owner filled the 650 gallon tanks yesterday at Harbor fuels for us, and has a case of primary and 4 secondary spares onboard in addition to spare wheels, raw water impellers, and anything else that commonly fails. I feel pretty good about this trip, he ran her a lot! Will certainly let you know how it goes!!
@@car2069 That's great. You want a boat that has been running alot as apposed to sitting all winter. Keep a radio on 13 and keep her under 10 it's going through the canal. (21 will tell at you if you don't). Best if luck and enjoy your new ride!
TimBatSea thanks for the advice! Made it to VA without a single hiccup! No clogged filters, no clogged toilets, no issues whatsoever! Cya out there!
@@car2069 Great news! Now just keep a radio on 13 an eye out the window! Be safe and enjoy the new ride!
You did a great job on the commentary and editing of the video. Thank you, Tim, for another informative and entertaining video.
Thank you so much!
You picked the most perfect day to go through Buzzards Bay, has not happened to much this past fall, winter and so far this early spring. Speaking as a native from New Beige.
Dan
Thanks Tim. Good stuff. How do you determine how much wire to pay out?
Thank you for watching. Yes indeed! I couldn't believe it! So 10 years ago for about ten years before that, when you would sit in your car on your way to or from Fair Haven, stuck in traffic at the bridge, you may have seen me pushing 5200 tons of sand out from the sand dock.
Another fun video. Nice driving there mate:)
Thank you for watching. Danny is coming along very well.
Very nice! Thanks Tim!
Thank you for watching Robert.
Well done! Educational and fun! 👏
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Very instructional. Be safe. Thank You.
Thank you very much for watching.
I know you said "it takes a few hours to get through the canal, to where you're going." But I'd love to watch the full length.
Im a fan, of the longer the better, showing all the intricate stuff.
Thank you for watching. So just today I posted a 55 minute video and I have at least one 360 full length video of us going through the Canal as well. CUOTO
Kort nozzle screw props 💕
Hey Ana. No we are an open where boat.
Great video! My Nephew is a mate on a tug..I think a ATB? He attended Texas A&M merchant marines..
He does 3 weeks on 3 weeks off from texas up the east coast and into intercoastal waterways..
He has a great life,
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Very good.... Enjoyed it very much.
Thank you Mike.
Fascinating! 👍🏻
Thank you Darren