Capt. Ernie Mathis got upset with another boat captain down in a canal in LA below Baton Rouge one night in a bend when said captain blinded him with a xeon light. Ernie was so mad he turned all the deck lights on plus his own xeon and carbon arc lights and even went out the port side door of the wheelhouse with a flash light yelling at him when we passed if that was enough light for him.
On my only night passage through the C&D Canal there were lights on both shores so I never even dreamt of using a spotlight. I agree with you, preserve your night vision and leave the spotlight off except in the rare occasions when it is really needed.
I remember from my submarine days that the officer of the deck would wear red goggles or glasses in order to stay night adapted. There were times when the entire control room was rigged for red, but it made all the functions we were performing that much harder. Interestingly, our sonar suite was rigged for blue! Thanks for the video treat!
Night vision........often passenger vessels have a lounge forward , above the bridge. Curtains are always used at night to prevent the foredeck being illuminated so that the night vision of those on watch is not affected. I really dislike led headlights on cars coming towards me when driving; they ruin my night vision for the road just beyond dipped headlights.
We had a sail away one evening on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton and the Special Boat Service came up From Poole and practiced coming up alongside in the dark. It was better entertainment than the onboard show that evening.
You're right about bright lights at night. I have a 1940's search light on my boat that I've used maybe twice in 32 years. Both times when I was searching for a voice out in the black water. I could hear him/her but couldn't see them. Otherwise, it's ambient light, for your night vision will go to caca. Sometimes the lights of the markers are as a light show, like the Lynn Canal. Good stuff Tim!
Thanks for the "bonus" shot. Reminded me of many night runs into first time locations. "Southwest pass" on the Mississippi. A mismash of land and navigation lights. Once in Lake Huron on a sailboat couldn't locate a flashing red on my paper chart. The nearest one with the same characteristics was way off course...I was looking at a flashing red traffic light on shore😮😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I've had that happen to me as well. The Hudson River at night with all of it's bends and turns, then you see a red flashing light that should not be there. It turns out to be a train on the West side pulled over for an incoming train. 😂 Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Tim, that was quite sporty. Difficult enough during the day landing on a sketchy dock, add darkness, and that high beam headlight action and you’ve got: “ let’s see how hard we can make this” scenario. Never ruffled a barnacle. CUOTO
Tim ... Thanks for the "bonus edition"! Question ... "when calling distances" (accurately) is this a skill developed over time by the crews or are different "range finders" ever used? Stay safe ... CUOTO / CUOT2 (Keith)
Thank you for watching George. It is a skill that varies often. We try to teach in terms of known units. For example. (I had a 16 foot Center Console boat and I could just fit it in there now). We also stress the importance of giving smaller numbers if estimating. (I would rather hear that there is 15 feet of clearance when in fact there is 20, as opposed to 20 feet when there really is only 15). CUOTO
As I listen to you trying to answer questions/remarks before they HiT you, I kinda chuckle here.... lol, I don't claim to know anything and might ask ya a lot of dumb questions or share my own understandings but at the end of the day you're getting paid to do a job that's tough. From my "Armchair Warrior" position I've got so much to spout off about but I just say, Thanks for sharing your life w/ all us dummies. This is how I learn about the world I live in. Thanks, be safe & GB ALL
Thank you for watching Richard. Not really sure what you are arguing. Perhaps you are saying that the guy with the bright light is unaware that he is blinding the rest of us. CUOTO
Great to have an extra Tim B. Thank you I know what you mean about night vision as I live deep in the countryside so night vision and an extra" sense" of movement is really useful.
Speaking of bright lights when i used to drive semi there would always be someone who would have all their lights on while you were trying back in at night. You guys be safe out there.
Much respect, I make sure to travel only in daylight... which for our kind of cruising so far has always been possible.... well there was once when we ran out of fuel due to a faulty carb... I have, however seen a boat with bright lights running at 20knots or more down the middle of a lake we were on..... glad we were pulled up to the shore (no tide). I don't know how they saw anything lights or no.
Thank you, Tim! We have a dude on the Great Barrier Reef operating a liveaboard dive boat always steaming with his searchlight on and not having the radio on 16.. So irritating!.
Thank you for watching. Some people are so eager to show you how little they know or how unaware they are that there are more people in the world than just themselves. CUOTO
Thanks for the Friday clip Capt. Where we slip there is this guy that will come into the marina late at night with this extremely bright lighting set up doing some sort of night fishing, I mean he has a row of of these LED light bars stacked about ten high, looks like the alliins are landing, wakes everyone up. I have gone up and turned on our flood/search light and put it right in his eyes giving him a taste of it back. CUOTN James
Thank you very much for watching John. Good question, but I think it comes down to why we are out there. Some people (in beautiful Nordhavns) are there for fun, or pleasure. We are there for work and everything comes down to money. So I would think that Tugboat companies realize that there is very expensive tech out there that might help in some situations, but it might be more cost effective to hire people that can work without the new gadgets and only complain about things (like me 😂). In this particular situation, I am not convinced IR or thermal imaging cameras would have helped without a dedicated operator. I have to have my eyes watching outside. If I start to look at a thermal imaging camera display, my eyes will once again lose their night vision. But it would be a fun toy to play with. CUOTO
Great video! I see Haddad's Movie set trucks in the neighborhood at all hours - movie and TV business in NYC has been a thing... Turns out the craft services (food) people can be very nice! Thank you for sharing Cap! CUOTO ~__/)__*
Capt Tim, are you a fan in closing one eye at night when encountering a bright light? Doing that can preserve night vision in one eye, at least it seems so...any professional advice on that? Am I wasting my time doing that?
Not for me to say what you do in your time. But for me? No way. I'm all alone up there in the upper house and I need all the eyes I can get. You learn to not look at the lights and it helps. Thank you for watching. CUOTO
I see a lot of FV switching over to low light / night vision navigating cameras for operating and avoiding hazards at night. Do you have any experience with them / what are your thoughts? I assume you wouldn’t use it often on the tug since you’re operating in channels and not avoiding pots and debris as much but it seems like a step in the right direction for maintaining night vision for everyone.
Thank you for watching. I always seem to get into trouble answering this question; 😂. So here is the thing, I'm just one person up in the upper house trying to maintain SA (situational awareness) and night vision while trying to keep 5 to 12k tons of steel and oil in control. I would love to play with the latest toys, but I could not go from looking at a thermal imager to looking out the window and back again. I think if I had a person that was looking at it for me, calling out distances, that would work. But at the end of the day, sport boats play, tugs work. And companies are looking for the cheapest way to get the job done to be the most competitive. So yeah. IR and Thermal Imaging is great, and one day might get in the upper house on a Tugboat. Just probably not today. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea thanks for the reply. That makes sense and is kind of what I thought you’d say. It probably doesn’t make a lot of sense for Paquita either since you’re mostly in open waters.
I don't like spot lights. You can only see where the light is. I don't even own a spot light to run the marsh in around Hopedale and Delacroix Island in southeast Louisiana. When I m working at night as a truck driver I hate the idiots with the L.E.D. light bars on the highway. Technically illegal because they are not D.O.T. approved.
VERY difficult to get ones bearings on this video. You say "See the Ship there" I say "There's a ship there?" But very true words on being blinded by stray lights. Worse with an unshielded welder at night.
I prefer driving at night except for the idiots running their bright or misaligned headlights. I turn down the brightness of my devices (GPS, E-Log and PrePass) and dim my gauges which are red. All to help my night vision. And then there's the construction zones or warning signs with lights so bright that you cannot see the road beyond their lights. Or intersections where they put up a street light to illuminate the intersection - and again, you cannot see the road past the intersection.
👍✅Oh yea, headlights on a boat are a great idea Tim🤣We have enough stress with night movements without having some idiot totally blinding us for the 10-15 minutes it takes to get your night vision back.
Clearly making a movie supersedes any safety or security issues caused by blinding the bridge during a night ships movement in a narrow anchorage. Maybe next time: position the lights so that they aim inland from the canal, or dim the lights when maritime operations are being conducted in the vicinity.
Unfortunately for you the person that allowed filming & bright lights on a working pier wasn’t to bright. Remember struggling to read the magenta markings on a chart at night under red light 😁
Godzilla is a Japanese monster. It came from the nuclear bombing of Japan. And if you think it hasn't ravaged Japan, then you haven't seen many Godzilla movies.
@@stargazer7644 lets keep our shirts on… My comment wasnt a expose’ of all the Godzilla movies that have been made, which number roughly 35, starting in 1954. Again, I will say, How come Godzilla never goes to China? The Chinese people deserve to be represented. Its not fair to let Godzilla be only a Japanese and American pet. The latest film has Godzilla nesting in a Rome amphitheater. When is everyone gonna let China and North Korea have some of the action. Haha
@@frankcherry3810 I think you'll find a bit of a correlation between Godzilla being in America in the American movies, and in Japan in the Japanese movies. Perhaps if the Chinese make a movie Godzilla will be in China.
The worst is Baltimore harbor on 4th of July. Every year the numbers increase with the no boat boaters running spot lights. They come out in bunches and strings. It's a real shit show. Fortunately it's just the one day a year in mass with the occasional one ass the norm.. Trump 2024💯🇺🇸
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Capt. Ernie Mathis got upset with another boat captain down in a canal in LA below Baton Rouge one night in a bend when said captain blinded him with a xeon light. Ernie was so mad he turned all the deck lights on plus his own xeon and carbon arc lights and even went out the port side door of the wheelhouse with a flash light yelling at him when we passed if that was enough light for him.
Thank you for watching John. CUOTO
love that you called out the light :). we need that night vision in the dark :)
Thank you for watching Mark. CUOTO
On my only night passage through the C&D Canal there were lights on both shores so I never even dreamt of using a spotlight. I agree with you, preserve your night vision and leave the spotlight off except in the rare occasions when it is really needed.
Thank you very much for watching and welcome to the channel. CUOTO
I remember from my submarine days that the officer of the deck would wear red goggles or glasses in order to stay night adapted. There were times when the entire control room was rigged for red, but it made all the functions we were performing that much harder. Interestingly, our sonar suite was rigged for blue! Thanks for the video treat!
Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Night vision........often passenger vessels have a lounge forward , above the bridge. Curtains are always used at night to prevent the foredeck being illuminated so that the night vision of those on watch is not affected. I really dislike led headlights on cars coming towards me when driving; they ruin my night vision for the road just beyond dipped headlights.
Yes Sir! I agree with you 💯 Norm! Thank you very much for supporting the channels. CUOTO
We had a sail away one evening on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton and the Special Boat Service came up From Poole and practiced coming up alongside in the dark. It was better entertainment than the onboard show that evening.
Thank you for watching. I bet it was. CUOTO
A lot of these guys on their private boats have no clue what night vision even is.
😂😂😂 True. Thank you for watching. CUOTO
Nice little bonus video!
Thank you for watching. CUOTO
You're right about bright lights at night. I have a 1940's search light on my boat that I've used maybe twice in 32 years. Both times when I was searching for a voice out in the black water. I could hear him/her but couldn't see them. Otherwise, it's ambient light, for your night vision will go to caca. Sometimes the lights of the markers are as a light show, like the Lynn Canal. Good stuff Tim!
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel. Yes sir. Good to have, and better to save. CUOTO
Thanks, Tim. Nice one!
Thank you very much for watching Jim. CUOTO
Thanks for the "bonus" shot. Reminded me of many night runs into first time locations. "Southwest pass" on the Mississippi. A mismash of land and navigation lights. Once in Lake Huron on a sailboat couldn't locate a flashing red on my paper chart. The nearest one with the same characteristics was way off course...I was looking at a flashing red traffic light on shore😮😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I've had that happen to me as well. The Hudson River at night with all of it's bends and turns, then you see a red flashing light that should not be there. It turns out to be a train on the West side pulled over for an incoming train. 😂 Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Tim, that was quite sporty. Difficult enough during the day landing on a sketchy dock, add darkness, and that high beam headlight action and you’ve got: “ let’s see how hard we can make this” scenario. Never ruffled a barnacle. CUOTO
😂😂😂😂 Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
In the dark this pier suddenly becomes a very familiar filming location 😂
😂😂😂 It sure does. Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Thanks for the bonus video. A good one.
Thank you for watching Ralph. CUOTO
Great job maneuvering the barge and crew working working as one, at night. Be safe
Thank you very much for watching Elizabeth. CUOTO
Nice job Tim. thanks for the bonus.
Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K!! Fun Video… and as always… #CUOTO and the Chief on Two😂
😂😂😂 Thank you very much for watching and supporting the channels Ian. CUOTO
5:15 - Tiny recreational boats like a bass boat shouldn't be running around at times when it's dark enough to need extra lights.
Thank you for watching. CUOTO
Thank you for the special video, it looks very dark to start with and those huge floodlights must have made it difficult!
Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Tim ... Thanks for the "bonus edition"! Question ... "when calling distances" (accurately) is this a skill developed over time by the crews or are different "range finders" ever used?
Stay safe ... CUOTO / CUOT2 (Keith)
Thank you for watching George. It is a skill that varies often. We try to teach in terms of known units. For example. (I had a 16 foot Center Console boat and I could just fit it in there now). We also stress the importance of giving smaller numbers if estimating. (I would rather hear that there is 15 feet of clearance when in fact there is 20, as opposed to 20 feet when there really is only 15). CUOTO
Thanks Tim
Thank you for watching Christopher. CUOTO
As I listen to you trying to answer questions/remarks before they HiT you, I kinda chuckle here.... lol, I don't claim to know anything
and might ask ya a lot of dumb questions or share my own understandings but at the end of the day you're getting paid to do a job
that's tough. From my "Armchair Warrior" position I've got so much to spout off about but I just say, Thanks for sharing your life w/
all us dummies. This is how I learn about the world I live in. Thanks, be safe & GB ALL
Thank you very much for watching. You can't be too dumb if you understand your position. 😂 Bravo Zulu to you Sir! CUOTO
And a happy, "BZ" too you as well Sir..... positions are ever-changing & attitude directs it like a "sail". peace & GB ALL
Light off water reflects away from the source, not back to the source 🙂
Thank you for watching Richard. Not really sure what you are arguing. Perhaps you are saying that the guy with the bright light is unaware that he is blinding the rest of us. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea That's the reality :-(
Tim you are so right on I often hear the same argument about night vision then I have red lights in my instrument
Thank you for watching Ed. CUOTO
Great to have an extra Tim B. Thank you
I know what you mean about night vision as I live deep in the countryside so night vision and an extra" sense" of movement is really useful.
Thank you for watching. Oh yes. Watch out for the Chupacabra! CUOTO
Speaking of bright lights when i used to drive semi there would always be someone who would have all their lights on while you were trying back in at night. You guys be safe out there.
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel Max. CUOTO
Much respect, I make sure to travel only in daylight... which for our kind of cruising so far has always been possible.... well there was once when we ran out of fuel due to a faulty carb... I have, however seen a boat with bright lights running at 20knots or more down the middle of a lake we were on..... glad we were pulled up to the shore (no tide). I don't know how they saw anything lights or no.
Thank you very much for watching. It's a good idea to never go faster than twice the distance you can see or stop in fog, rain, snow or dark. CUOTO
interesting video thank you Tim
Thank you for watching James. CUOTO
TY Capt.
Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Thanks for the Friday bonus.... have a great weekend.
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching! CUOTO
Thank you Mr. Tim ! Always enjoy the videos you put together ~
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. CUOTO
I find judging distances at night to be very difficult. Not my favorite time to run but Dense fog is for sure my least favorite time to run by far...
Thank you for watching Mark. CUOTO
Thank you, Tim! We have a dude on the Great Barrier Reef operating a liveaboard dive boat always steaming with his searchlight on and not having the radio on 16.. So irritating!.
Thank you for watching. Some people are so eager to show you how little they know or how unaware they are that there are more people in the world than just themselves. CUOTO
My peeve is the sport fishers that have the big LED bars facing aft as they fly by. Should have giving the film crew a salute with the air horn.
Thank you very much for watching Bob. CUOTO
Hi Captain Tim!
Gee, that's really nice of the other tug to lend a hand with grabbing your lines.
CUOTO
Thank you for supporting the channels Mellissa. It's good to have friends. CUOTO
Thanks for the Friday clip Capt. Where we slip there is this guy that will come into the marina late at night with this extremely bright lighting set up doing some sort of night fishing, I mean he has a row of of these LED light bars stacked about ten high, looks like the alliins are landing, wakes everyone up. I have gone up and turned on our flood/search light and put it right in his eyes giving him a taste of it back. CUOTN James
Thank you for watching James. CUOTO
Does your loaner tug have EMD engines? It almost sounds that way in the background of this video.
Negative. Most EMDs are 2 stroke diesels. This boat has CAT3512 4 stroke motors. Thank you for watching Matthew. CUOTO
How is Daulton doing ? He was always quite a character. 👍👍😁😁
Oh, he's still a, "character". 😂 Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Would be interested to know the name of the vessel on your starboard side. Looked to be of some vintage
Thank you for watching. I believe (if I am spelling it correctly) it is the Loujaine. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea Thanks Tim. Built in 1966 by IHI for Norwegian owners. Seems to be a storage hulk now
Brother hopefully you have a cameo in that movie 🎉.
Word up! .... Ooops. Wrong Cameo. 😂 Thank you for watching Sput! CUOTO
How about thermal cameras? I noticed on some Nordhaven and sail boat channels they have thermals installed now.
Thank you very much for watching John. Good question, but I think it comes down to why we are out there. Some people (in beautiful Nordhavns) are there for fun, or pleasure. We are there for work and everything comes down to money. So I would think that Tugboat companies realize that there is very expensive tech out there that might help in some situations, but it might be more cost effective to hire people that can work without the new gadgets and only complain about things (like me 😂). In this particular situation, I am not convinced IR or thermal imaging cameras would have helped without a dedicated operator. I have to have my eyes watching outside. If I start to look at a thermal imaging camera display, my eyes will once again lose their night vision. But it would be a fun toy to play with. CUOTO
Great video! I see Haddad's Movie set trucks in the neighborhood at all hours - movie and TV business in NYC has been a thing... Turns out the craft services (food) people can be very nice! Thank you for sharing Cap! CUOTO ~__/)__*
Thank you for supporting the channels! Oh yes. Something is always happening there. 😂 CUOTO
Ok you brought it up the boat headlights Tim and here’s another, BLUE lights on recreational boats. Which are illegal. 🤔
Thank you for watching. I don't know of anywhere in a CFR regulating blue lights on a recreational boat. CUOTO
Capt Tim, are you a fan in closing one eye at night when encountering a bright light? Doing that can preserve night vision in one eye, at least it seems so...any professional advice on that? Am I wasting my time doing that?
Not for me to say what you do in your time. But for me? No way. I'm all alone up there in the upper house and I need all the eyes I can get. You learn to not look at the lights and it helps. Thank you for watching. CUOTO
I see a lot of FV switching over to low light / night vision navigating cameras for operating and avoiding hazards at night. Do you have any experience with them / what are your thoughts? I assume you wouldn’t use it often on the tug since you’re operating in channels and not avoiding pots and debris as much but it seems like a step in the right direction for maintaining night vision for everyone.
Thank you for watching. I always seem to get into trouble answering this question; 😂. So here is the thing, I'm just one person up in the upper house trying to maintain SA (situational awareness) and night vision while trying to keep 5 to 12k tons of steel and oil in control. I would love to play with the latest toys, but I could not go from looking at a thermal imager to looking out the window and back again. I think if I had a person that was looking at it for me, calling out distances, that would work. But at the end of the day, sport boats play, tugs work. And companies are looking for the cheapest way to get the job done to be the most competitive. So yeah. IR and Thermal Imaging is great, and one day might get in the upper house on a Tugboat. Just probably not today. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea thanks for the reply. That makes sense and is kind of what I thought you’d say. It probably doesn’t make a lot of sense for Paquita either since you’re mostly in open waters.
CUOTO.
@@smsears6743 oh, but you know I would have some fun with it in the anchorages at night. 😂
@@TimBatSea I have no idea what you’re talking about. 😅😅😅
Thx for the vid.
Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
I don't like spot lights. You can only see where the light is. I don't even own a spot light to run the marsh in around Hopedale and Delacroix Island in southeast Louisiana. When I m working at night as a truck driver I hate the idiots with the L.E.D. light bars on the highway. Technically illegal because they are not D.O.T. approved.
Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel Mike. CUOTO
VERY difficult to get ones bearings on this video. You say "See the Ship there" I say "There's a ship there?" But very true words on being blinded by stray lights. Worse with an unshielded welder at night.
Thank you for watching. CUOTO
I prefer driving at night except for the idiots running their bright or misaligned headlights. I turn down the brightness of my devices (GPS, E-Log and PrePass) and dim my gauges which are red. All to help my night vision. And then there's the construction zones or warning signs with lights so bright that you cannot see the road beyond their lights. Or intersections where they put up a street light to illuminate the intersection - and again, you cannot see the road past the intersection.
Thank you for watching. CUOTO
Who is that on the starboard side?
That's a cement storage ship. CUOTO
Kind of looked like an old liberty ship
@@frankcherry3810 it does look like one, but it's not.
Good videos
Thank you for watching Chucky. CUOTO
👍✅Oh yea, headlights on a boat are a great idea Tim🤣We have enough stress with night movements without having some idiot totally blinding us for the 10-15 minutes it takes to get your night vision back.
💯! Right? Thank you for watching. CUOTO
Good job been there done that
Thank you for watching Woody. CUOTO
Super cool 😎
Thank you for watching. CUOTO
Did they knew the film was filmed. 😊
Thank you very much for watching Monk. CUOTO
Clearly making a movie supersedes any safety or security issues caused by blinding the bridge during a night ships movement in a narrow anchorage. Maybe next time: position the lights so that they aim inland from the canal, or dim the lights when maritime operations are being conducted in the vicinity.
😂😂😂😂 I Wish! I don't think they care at all about us. Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
Interesting stuff ! Thank you for another great video. CUOTO
Thank you for watching Steven. CUOTO
You should be in the movies too..CUOTO
😂😂😂😂 Thank you very much for watching James. CUOTO
Unfortunately for you the person that allowed filming & bright lights on a working pier wasn’t to bright. Remember struggling to read the magenta markings on a chart at night under red light 😁
Thank you for watching John. CUOTO
wow
Thank you very much for watching. CUOTO
should have been polite and shut down the lights till you were finished I would have G
😂😂😂 Thank you very much for watching Garth. Polite is not something Brooklyn is known for. CUOTO
Have you ever wondered if the reason weird things keep happening is because your there? ⚓
😂😂😂😂 I think you meant "you're there". Thank you for watching. CUOTO
👍✌CUOTO
Thank you for watching Gregory. CUOTO
How many Godzilla movies have been made of New York being destroyed?
Never one of China…
Godzilla is a Japanese monster. It came from the nuclear bombing of Japan. And if you think it hasn't ravaged Japan, then you haven't seen many Godzilla movies.
Thank you for watching Frank. The commenter below makes some good points. CUOTO
@@stargazer7644 lets keep our shirts on… My comment wasnt a expose’ of all the Godzilla movies that have been made, which number roughly 35, starting in 1954.
Again, I will say, How come Godzilla never goes to China? The Chinese people deserve to be represented. Its not fair to let Godzilla be only a Japanese and American pet.
The latest film has Godzilla nesting in a Rome amphitheater. When is everyone gonna let China and North Korea have some of the action.
Haha
@@frankcherry3810 I think you'll find a bit of a correlation between Godzilla being in America in the American movies, and in Japan in the Japanese movies. Perhaps if the Chinese make a movie Godzilla will be in China.
CUOTO!
Thank you for watching Lester. CUOTO
The worst is Baltimore harbor on 4th of July. Every year the numbers increase with the no boat boaters running spot lights. They come out in bunches and strings. It's a real shit show. Fortunately it's just the one day a year in mass with the occasional one ass the norm..
Trump 2024💯🇺🇸
Thank you for watching. CUOTO