Thank you so much Harry! Welcome to the Crew! Can you take a pic of you wearing your sweatshirt and holding your coffee cup and email it to me at timbatsea@gmail.com so I can use it in a future video?
Thank you very much David. I really appreciate it! I just spent the day with my father and it is getting scary how we become our parents as we age, LOL Cheers!
Tim I have to say that only subscribing to your channel for a couple of weeks and trying to catch up on your videos and after seeing this one and the comradely that you have with a couple of others, where you’ve had other captains on, I think it would be a pleasure to work and learn with you. You’re both great and seem like you’ve developed a good friendship with him and others. I’ve always been on the water for most of my life, working on barges up & down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers during the summer mouths in my teen years (yes, back then you had to know someone to get hooked up), now at 70, I still love anything to do with water and thank you for sharing these great videos. Ron
Thank you very much Ron. I appreciate that very much! Funny side updated note: Chris (in the video) is now my port captain! We are all given an opportunity to be nice each day to everyone we see. Sometimes that person you were nice to becomes your friend. And sometimes the friend becomes your boss. Life is beautiful that way. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea Thanks for the update and you’re right about that, I’m sure the friendship will continue, you both have great personalities which is why you’ve clicked from the beginning. (Hopefully your boss will give you good duties, LOL, wink wink)
Hey Tim, in 1974, me and three friends from high school took classes at the NYMMA in Da Bronx as erstwhile Sea Scouts so that we could spend a summer on the USCG Cutter Tamaroa! Our "classes" were mostly listening to the tall tales and sea stories by our instructor, and old salt named "Earl" who was about 350 years old (lol). We loved the guy and he didn't care that we were a bunch of hippies, either. We spent a month or so on the Tam and it was a hoot, but none of us went on to become Coasties, although one of us did become a designer of ships (he was the brother of a classmate of mine, actually). Love your vids and glad that I subscribe.
Thank you very much for watching and for Subscribing! I really appreciate it. Very cool story and what a great way to spend your summers? Cheers and welcome aboard the channel.
Thank you for watching Ron. I love having other guys involved in the discussions. Please consider Subscribing if you haven't already. I try to post new content every Tuesday.
Captain Tim, love these videos and getting a glimpse into your world. As a ferry boat captain in the harbor I have enjoyed seeing what the harbor looks like from your perspective!
Great vid! When Chris was a brand new mate fresh out of school he took me for a quick spin around the SS United States on his tug. I was still unsure about working in brown water at the time, and he and his crew made me feel happy about my decision.
Enjoyed this segment and many others. I'm. a 1979 Mass. Maritime grad. Sailed as a 3A/E on the Great Lakes after graduation and then came ashore to work in the nuclear power industry. Retired recently from an energy company based in Virginia but enjoying reminiscing by watching your channel. Thanks - great job!
The Brotherhood of heavyweights. Few people have a chance to handle massive power and weight. We have a lot in common. The ship’s captain and the railroad engineer. I as a retired locomotive engineer really respect what you do. I really enjoy your videos. I think you might like some information about a freight train. Today each locomotive weighs about 200 tons. That’s one locomotive. Each locomotive used on main track trains are making 4400 horse power. A loaded car at 130 tons each. Trains can have up to 9 locomotives and be 8,500 feet long. This means A train can be going up hill and down hill at the same time. Each car has 12 inches of loose slack between each car. Some cars have cushion draw bars with more more travel. It’s a big rubber band. It has a air line running the length. Pump air in it releases the brakes take air out it sets the brakes. Air takes a while to set and release. This means you can have the brakes released on one half the train and setup on the other. Combine that with how the train is loaded and where those loads are on the hill plus the slack plus how the brakes are set you can very easily rip the train apart. I started back in the early 70s and it was really just a big tractor pulling cars. We didn’t have computers and speedometers mostly didn’t work. Plus we had cabooses a mile and a half behind me. I would love to tell you more but would be here all week. I would love to hear your stories I bet you have some great ones.. thanks Philip
Your experience in the Mississippi river brought to mind the only time I was truly terrified. I was training as a captain on a 162 ft crew boat the time. It was night when we entered the river. I was put on the helm. We approached Southwest pass. Cargo ships, dredges and miscellaneous other craft were transitting. All the ship nav lights, flashing nav lights and lights ashore were more than my brain could process. I gritted my teeth, hoped for the best and prayed for the rest. It was a successful transit.
Interesting conversation and nice meeting Chris. What you say about training is pretty much the standard today. I think it is the insurance companies that dictate most of the rules today. They don't want companies hiring people, that don't know what they are doing, because of the increased risk, they are forced to underwrite. Oh, I so much love retirement and not having to answer to the alarm clock. YEA!
Thanks for another informative video Capt. I love listening to guests who are just genuine and know how to live the moment regardless of their occupation, just so happens your channel involves boats. Can you bring in a Pilot boat capt. to share some stories? I think that would be a good episode.
I like very much that you bring "real people" into the mix. I don't care if its tugboats or bricklayers, people make it happen. You affect more than you know. Thanks for the reality. Really (lol).
Thank you Lew. I needed to hear that. I wanted to sit down with other people outside the Tugboat world, but did not know how it would be received. Thank you again.
Captain Tim, these videos are invaluable to high school students trying to decide on a profession. I don't think that there's very much similar material available from any source!
Great job Tim.Growing up and living my whole life here in R.I.and watching ships and tugs transiting Narragansett Bay, your channel gives us a glimpse into an industry that seems so mysterious in ways. You would only see the vessels coming and going but not knowing where they were coming from, or where they were headed to. And to wonder what it’s like to live the life. A couple of friends of mine have been and are still in the industry and I love talking to them about it. The water has always been part of my and can’t imagine living away from it. Especially in this time of COVID-19, our boats and the water give us a tremendous escape from the realities of the virus. What better place to be than on your boat sometimes miles away from any other human. Although, even on the Bay these days that is getting harder to do, but certainly much farther away from people than the landlubbers can manage! Love your channel! Keep the vids coming guy!
Great video, thanks. I wish there would have been something like this back in the day when I was always telling high school friends about careers on the water.
Thank you very much for watching John, and please participate in the discussion. I need more professional Mariners chiming in. And thank you for Subscribing!
Good video, I think not only your part of the industry but the overall trades industry has become a better work environment in general, In the early 70's I went to South Texas to work in the oil fields, you worked hard , played harder and if you didn't fit in you were out of there ,,, the way we worked then would never be tolerated in todays world, was it bad ?.no ..but it was hard and unregulated for the most part. I also wouldn't trade that part of my life for anything , but sort of glad my grandkids have a safer and better workplace and opportunities.
Kudos to you Capt. Tim and Capt. Chris for bringing us along for another great video! Keep up the excellent content, it really gives me something to look forward to on Tuesday mornings! Fair winds and following seas, sir ~__/)__*
Great talk with Chris, that was good. Funny all the things that are in common between Heavy equipment, Flying, Boating as far as Traveling to jobs, days off, and all of the “Requirements & Certifying” that one has to get first now, Not the I know Uncle Barthalume too...Way..!! 😎👍✅
Another interesting video Tim, its good to hear from diffrent industry people. It amazes me that you see the same calm polite people the world over. Just goes to show Maritime people are the best people! Also just wondering how many Australian viewers do you have?
Thank you very much for watching and for the kind words. So I just looked and in the past 28 days, %2.7 of my viewers were from Australia. So that should translate to about 6210 people. Almost enough for me to come visit!
Great, interesting video there Tim, loved seeing the two of you interact. Certainly learning alot about life afloat over your side of the Pond. Thank you for bringing this to us all. Keep safe, keep afloat and keep posting.
Hey TimB. Im at the Naval Academy on my last year. Im a OIC on the grey boats (YP's) and Ive actually seen Elk River on the water. If you are ever around Annapolis let me know and Ill give you a tour!
Captain Chris seems very knowledgeable and astute. Is he thinking about starting a vlog channel? I'm not thinking about jumping ship, maybe a different prospective.
In my navy days I was stationed in Bremerton, Washington on Puget Sound, the tugs would pull two flat barges on the wire, with stacked shipping containers loaded, do they pull multiple barges like that in the North East? I'm originally from Connecticut and I don't think I've ever seen it there... C U Next Tuesday, Tim!!!
Thank you for watching Casey. Yes, there are container barges here. One company take massive three story container/trailer barges to Puerto Rico. I'll try to get some video of them soon.
Thank you for watching. Funny you should ask. My best friend is a pilot and loved by the entire fleet, but he is reluctant to come on camera. But my old mate left me to become a pilot and has been one for awhile now and says he will do an interview with me! So hang in there. (The covid thing has slowed many plans down)
@@TimBatSea hey captain B. someone talked about usmma.. an class mate of mine from high school down here in new orleans went there way way way back in the mid 70s... he went on to become a ship pilot on the mississippi river between pilot town louisiana and new orleans.. which is a long route.. takes up to 8 to 10 hrs to do...small bit of info for ya.... we have 3 different kinds of pilots down here for ships. we have the bar pilots they take the ships from about 3 to 5 miles out in the gulf up to pilot town or around venice louisiana.. then they change pilots and a pilot from new orleans take over... they take it from venice up to new orleans then if it goes farther then a baton rouge pilot takes over and pilots the ship from new orleans up to baton rouge or any place inbetween...
@@highlanderthegreat Cool. Yes those are state pilots that do foreign flagged ships. We use federal pilots (Louisiana federal pilots) for our trips to Baton Rouge.
@@TimBatSea never new there were 2 kind of pilots .. federal and state.....i do know that the state guys make beaucoup $$$$$ $$$$$$..and i mean BEAUCOUP MONEY
@@highlanderthegreat I read that somewhere, I think on the river, the state pilots were demanding $700,000 a year. I love the federal pilots. Many are old tugboat buys and just like one of the crew.
Another very interesting video Captain Tim. There is no other channel, as far as I know, that gives such a variety of material. I use Marinetraffic.com frequently to check on vessels approaching/departing the Tyne, so I am increasing my geography of NY and NJ. Seeing Elk River yesterday made me realise how large Staten Island is. You were heading towards the Hudson but is the section of water west and north of Staten island just known as The Kills or has it got a river name? All the best from the UK.
Thank you for watching Norm. We try not to name Tugs or companies directly on here to keep the big bosses (who allow me to film this content) happy. The waterway west of Staten Island is part of the Kills and is known as the Arthur Kills.
Captain Tim, miss types T.S. Golden Bear (3rd Training Ship) . Ex Oceanographic Research Ship (aka Spy Ship). Some of the CMA students make the transition into Tug & Pilots into SF Bay. Those jobs are very hard to get.
Thank you for watching and for the offer. My first thought is if wonder if there is a demand for subtitles in French? Would they help you and if so would you watch them? If those are both yes, I would love an intro from you and I would start making French subtitles.
@@TimBatSea Hi Tim for myself i do not need the subtitle , i work 40% of my day in english , mais j'apprécie beaucoup les vidéos que tu fais et la gentillesse que tu es ça fait du bien de te voir parlé des belles choses que tu présente ,tu es un bon vivant et je suis très toucher de te connaître ,MERCI Beaucoup!
I apologise for any negative attitude in Europe these days Tim, there is an anti-Anglo sentiment running through Europe at the moment, even in the UK. All the youngsters hate any English speaking countries; pretty crazy. I'm sure they'll get over it when they grow up a bit.
Cal Maritime , Has the “Golden Bear” ( II). They students go on a Cruz in a Sumer Time. Not sure now. The Golden Bear Cruz, up and the Pacific Coast & Into the Pacific.
I did a 3 week cruise on my friend boat MV Chico built for Sir Malcomb Campbell as his Scottish travel boat. His other boats were called Bluebird. We sailed out of St Katharine Dock next to Tower Bridge down Thames on the outgoing tide, across the English channel to Oostende spent the night there. Then next morning up the coast and into the Dutch canal system. The purpose of the Visit was to attend Sail Amsterdam, where ship from all over the world and boats of every class and type sail into the port of Amsterdam at once. You can nearly walk across from shore to shore stepping from one to the other. Among that armarda was the Indonesian sail training vessel, the cadets manning the spars and doing a routine to the music of the ships band. What a spectacle. I just love to sit at a bar and chat with someone about there life, it's a great way to study history. Chris and Tim thanks for letting me sit in on your the chat.
So I have 10 days experience driving a kayak, can I drive a tug boat? LOL. Actually I'm a 100 ton master which as we all know amounts to absolutely nothing.
Excellent & informative video! Thanx-A-Lot!
Thank you for watching!
Tim, thanks again. I look forward to your videos each week. You are a great ambassador to your industry.
Thank you very very much Bill! I really appreciate it!
Captain I got my sweatshirt and coffee cup this week, thanks so much I'm proud to wear your colors 🇺🇸
Thank you so much Harry! Welcome to the Crew! Can you take a pic of you wearing your sweatshirt and holding your coffee cup and email it to me at timbatsea@gmail.com so I can use it in a future video?
Super great guy Tim. Thanks for having him on.
Thank you very much Jim. Chris is awesome!
Tim, You Did It Again... Another Great Video... Thank You, and Thanks also to Cpt. Murphy...
Thank you very much Butch! It's comments like yours that make me love puting out content!
Tim great video - Quote of the week “ I’m turning into my father every day” classic, love your work Kind Regards Australia
Thank you very much David. I really appreciate it! I just spent the day with my father and it is getting scary how we become our parents as we age, LOL Cheers!
Tim I have to say that only subscribing to your channel for a couple of weeks and trying to catch up on your videos and after seeing this one and the comradely that you have with a couple of others, where you’ve had other captains on, I think it would be a pleasure to work and learn with you. You’re both great and seem like you’ve developed a good friendship with him and others.
I’ve always been on the water for most of my life, working on barges up & down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers during the summer mouths in my teen years (yes, back then you had to know someone to get hooked up), now at 70, I still love anything to do with water and thank you for sharing these great videos. Ron
Thank you very much Ron. I appreciate that very much! Funny side updated note: Chris (in the video) is now my port captain! We are all given an opportunity to be nice each day to everyone we see. Sometimes that person you were nice to becomes your friend. And sometimes the friend becomes your boss. Life is beautiful that way. CUOTO
@@TimBatSea Thanks for the update and you’re right about that, I’m sure the friendship will continue, you both have great personalities which is why you’ve clicked from the beginning. (Hopefully your boss will give you good duties, LOL, wink wink)
@@ronaldjoyce7374 me too!
Chris thanks for sharing your experience. - Regards
Thank you for Watching Dave!
Thank you, Captain Chris!!!
Thank you very much!
Great Interview Tim! thanks for sharing! And thanks to Chris!
Thank you Rick!
Another great video, I did 10 years in Coast Guard Auxiliary Division 1 Fire Island Station
Thank you for watching Brian.
Hey Tim, in 1974, me and three friends from high school took classes at the NYMMA in Da Bronx as erstwhile Sea Scouts so that we could spend a summer on the USCG Cutter Tamaroa! Our "classes" were mostly listening to the tall tales and sea stories by our instructor, and old salt named "Earl" who was about 350 years old (lol). We loved the guy and he didn't care that we were a bunch of hippies, either. We spent a month or so on the Tam and it was a hoot, but none of us went on to become Coasties, although one of us did become a designer of ships (he was the brother of a classmate of mine, actually). Love your vids and glad that I subscribe.
Thank you very much for watching and for Subscribing! I really appreciate it. Very cool story and what a great way to spend your summers? Cheers and welcome aboard the channel.
super cool video ...love the idea of chating with other people ....super cool how they tell the stories ...thank you
Thank you for watching Adam.
Great interview Tim. Keep up the good work!
Thank You for Watching Edward!
interesting video thank you tim
Thank you for watching James. CUOTO
Enjoyed seeing a fellow SUNY Maritime graduate doing well. I was class of 85.
Thank you for watching Ron. I love having other guys involved in the discussions. Please consider Subscribing if you haven't already. I try to post new content every Tuesday.
Thank you
Thank you Ron.
So good, just real people talking about what they do and how they got there. Thanks Tim and Chris.
Thank you very much Niall.
Very informative & interesting Tim.
Thank you so much Roger!
Captain Tim, love these videos and getting a glimpse into your world. As a ferry boat captain in the harbor I have enjoyed seeing what the harbor looks like from your perspective!
Thank you for watching Ruben! Be careful out there and I'll see you on the One.
Great vid! When Chris was a brand new mate fresh out of school he took me for a quick spin around the SS United States on his tug. I was still unsure about working in brown water at the time, and he and his crew made me feel happy about my decision.
Thank you Paul, and what a cool story?
Excellent video.
Thank you Jack
Great interview!!
Thank you very much Wayne.
More good info and" real life" stories. It's great to meet your fellow shipmates.
Thank you for watching Bob. CUOTO
Enjoyed this segment and many others. I'm. a 1979 Mass. Maritime grad. Sailed as a 3A/E on the Great Lakes after graduation and then came ashore to work in the nuclear power industry. Retired recently from an energy company based in Virginia but enjoying reminiscing by watching your channel. Thanks - great job!
Thank you very much for watching Marc. That makes me so happy to hear!
The Brotherhood of heavyweights. Few people have a chance to handle massive power and weight. We have a lot in common. The ship’s captain and the railroad engineer. I as a retired locomotive engineer really respect what you do. I really enjoy your videos. I think you might like some information about a freight train. Today each locomotive weighs about 200 tons. That’s one locomotive. Each locomotive used on main track trains are making 4400 horse power. A loaded car at 130 tons each. Trains can have up to 9 locomotives and be 8,500 feet long. This means A train can be going up hill and down hill at the same time. Each car has 12 inches of loose slack between each car. Some cars have cushion draw bars with more more travel. It’s a big rubber band. It has a air line running the length. Pump air in it releases the brakes take air out it sets the brakes. Air takes a while to set and release. This means you can have the brakes released on one half the train and setup on the other. Combine that with how the train is loaded and where those loads are on the hill plus the slack plus how the brakes are set you can very easily rip the train apart. I started back in the early 70s and it was really just a big tractor pulling cars. We didn’t have computers and speedometers mostly didn’t work. Plus we had cabooses a mile and a half behind me. I would love to tell you more but would be here all week. I would love to hear your stories I bet you have some great ones.. thanks Philip
Wow! Very cool Philip! Thank you. I was talking to a train guy on our zoom meeting tonight. You guys are fellow brothers in tonnage!
Your experience in the Mississippi river brought to mind the only time I was truly terrified. I was training as a captain on a 162 ft crew boat the time. It was night when we entered the river. I was put on the helm. We approached Southwest pass. Cargo ships, dredges and miscellaneous other craft were transitting. All the ship nav lights, flashing nav lights and lights ashore were more than my brain could process. I gritted my teeth, hoped for the best and prayed for the rest. It was a successful transit.
Hahahah. Thank you for watching and sharing your story!
Thank you guy's, this was really great. Much blessing to your 2yr old Chris, and thank you Tim as always. Stay safe. bee well.
Thank you very much Gregory!
Thanks for another great vid. Be safe.
Thank you for watching Robert?
I wonder how Chris would have liked doing his cadet cruises on the CGB Eagle vs the TS Empire State?
Thanks for another great video, be safe.
Thank you for watching. I am hoping he sees this and answers you.
Interesting conversation and nice meeting Chris. What you say about training is pretty much the standard today. I think it is the insurance companies that dictate most of the rules today. They don't want companies hiring people, that don't know what they are doing, because of the increased risk, they are forced to underwrite. Oh, I so much love retirement and not having to answer to the alarm clock. YEA!
Lol. Good for you Richard! Thank you very much for watching!
Thank You for this interview. Very interesting.
Thank you for watching James
Thanks for another informative video Capt. I love listening to guests who are just genuine and know how to live the moment regardless of their occupation, just so happens your channel involves boats. Can you bring in a Pilot boat capt. to share some stories? I think that would be a good episode.
Thank you very much. That's a great idea. I'll see what I can do. Thank you again!
Superb, down to earth interview, Capt Tim. I wish that you’d been around with all this info when I was making my career choices 50 years ago.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!
I like very much that you bring "real people" into the mix. I don't care if its tugboats or bricklayers, people make it happen. You affect more than you know. Thanks for the reality. Really (lol).
Thank you Lew. I needed to hear that. I wanted to sit down with other people outside the Tugboat world, but did not know how it would be received. Thank you again.
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Captain Tim, these videos are invaluable to high school students trying to decide on a profession. I don't think that there's very much similar material available from any source!
Thank you very much for watching and for the kind words. It would be wonderful if we could help some kids out along the way.
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Great job Tim.Growing up and living my whole life here in R.I.and watching ships and tugs transiting Narragansett Bay, your channel gives us a glimpse into an industry that seems so mysterious in ways. You would only see the vessels coming and going but not knowing where they were coming from, or where they were headed to. And to wonder what it’s like to live the life. A couple of friends of mine have been and are still in the industry and I love talking to them about it. The water has always been part of my and can’t imagine living away from it. Especially in this time of COVID-19, our boats and the water give us a tremendous escape from the realities of the virus. What better place to be than on your boat sometimes miles away from any other human. Although, even on the Bay these days that is getting harder to do, but certainly much farther away from people than the landlubbers can manage! Love your channel! Keep the vids coming guy!
Thank you so much for that! Very cool. I am happy that a fellow Rhode Islander is watching!
Great video, thanks. I wish there would have been something like this back in the day when I was always telling high school friends about careers on the water.
Thank you for watching and for the kind words!
That was an interesting conversation, well worth the time. Thx.
Thank you for watching Tommy!
Nicely done as always!
Thank you very much Ian
Great interview and another nice captain!
Thank you for watching Ray!
Great video! Subscribed. I’m the opposite from NY and went to Mass Maritime, now working for MSC. Awesome content keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for watching John, and please participate in the discussion. I need more professional Mariners chiming in. And thank you for Subscribing!
Good video, I think not only your part of the industry but the overall trades industry has become a better work environment in general, In the early 70's I went to South Texas to work in the oil fields, you worked hard , played harder and if you didn't fit in you were out of there ,,, the way we worked then would never be tolerated in todays world, was it bad ?.no ..but it was hard and unregulated for the most part. I also wouldn't trade that part of my life for anything , but sort of glad my grandkids have a safer and better workplace and opportunities.
Well said James. CUOTO
Kudos to you Capt. Tim and Capt. Chris for bringing us along for another great video! Keep up the excellent content, it really gives me something to look forward to on Tuesday mornings! Fair winds and following seas, sir ~__/)__*
Thank you very much!!!
Nice guy...
Chris is the best! Thank you for watching David. CUOTO
Great talk with Chris, that was good. Funny all the things that are in common between Heavy equipment, Flying, Boating as far as Traveling to jobs, days off, and all of the “Requirements & Certifying” that one has to get first now, Not the I know Uncle Barthalume too...Way..!! 😎👍✅
Thank you very much for watching Rob!
Good video 👍👍
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Great interview Murf! and of course Tim😁
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The USMMA is probably one of the best kept secrets when it comes to the service academies. And the campus at Kings Point is beautiful.
Thank you for watching James
Another interesting video Tim, its good to hear from diffrent industry people. It amazes me that you see the same calm polite people the world over. Just goes to show Maritime people are the best people! Also just wondering how many Australian viewers do you have?
Thank you very much for watching and for the kind words. So I just looked and in the past 28 days, %2.7 of my viewers were from Australia. So that should translate to about 6210 people. Almost enough for me to come visit!
@@TimBatSea You would be very welcome Downunder
@@douglasscott3541 on my way!
Good afternoon Tim, Thank you for another interesting insight to your profession!! By one of your work colleagues .Take care and stay safe 👍😎🇬🇧
Good morning/afternoon Wayne. Thank you very much?
Good morning capt hope all is well see you on the 2. 🇺🇸🏴☠️
Good morning Denton. Everything is good here. I hope the same is for you as well.
Great, interesting video there Tim, loved seeing the two of you interact. Certainly learning alot about life afloat over your side of the Pond. Thank you for bringing this to us all.
Keep safe, keep afloat and keep posting.
Thank you very much Ricky! I appreciate it more than you know.
Hey TimB. Im at the Naval Academy on my last year. Im a OIC on the grey boats (YP's) and Ive actually seen Elk River on the water. If you are ever around Annapolis let me know and Ill give you a tour!
Hey Alex, that would be great!!! Thank you very much!
Captain Chris seems very knowledgeable and astute. Is he thinking about starting a vlog channel? I'm not thinking about jumping ship, maybe a different prospective.
Thank you for watching Dennis. I am not aware of it, but maybe. I'd watch it if he did.
In my navy days I was stationed in Bremerton, Washington on Puget Sound, the tugs would pull two flat barges on the wire, with stacked shipping containers loaded, do they pull multiple barges like that in the North East? I'm originally from Connecticut and I don't think I've ever seen it there... C U Next Tuesday, Tim!!!
Thank you for watching Casey. Yes, there are container barges here. One company take massive three story container/trailer barges to Puerto Rico. I'll try to get some video of them soon.
@@TimBatSea do they pull them two at a time also?
Interesting as always. You have certainly dispelled any stereotypes that may have been left over from a few generations ago. Thanks
Thank you David for watching!!
i work for martin energy services and right now my fuel flat is servicing the Chincoteague which is one of y'alls ATB that is in Port Arthur, TX
Thank you for watching Troy. Say hi to the boys for me!
hey captain tim... great vid... how abut interviewing a ship pilot and what they had to do to become a ship pilot and how they became one....
Thank you for watching. Funny you should ask. My best friend is a pilot and loved by the entire fleet, but he is reluctant to come on camera. But my old mate left me to become a pilot and has been one for awhile now and says he will do an interview with me! So hang in there. (The covid thing has slowed many plans down)
@@TimBatSea hey captain B. someone talked about usmma.. an class mate of mine from high school down here in new orleans went there way way way back in the mid 70s... he went on to become a ship pilot on the mississippi river between pilot town louisiana and new orleans.. which is a long route.. takes up to 8 to 10 hrs to do...small bit of info for ya.... we have 3 different kinds of pilots down here for ships. we have the bar pilots they take the ships from about 3 to 5 miles out in the gulf up to pilot town or around venice louisiana.. then they change pilots and a pilot from new orleans take over... they take it from venice up to new orleans then if it goes farther then a baton rouge pilot takes over and pilots the ship from new orleans up to baton rouge or any place inbetween...
@@highlanderthegreat Cool. Yes those are state pilots that do foreign flagged ships. We use federal pilots (Louisiana federal pilots) for our trips to Baton Rouge.
@@TimBatSea never new there were 2 kind of pilots .. federal and state.....i do know that the state guys make beaucoup $$$$$ $$$$$$..and i mean BEAUCOUP MONEY
@@highlanderthegreat I read that somewhere, I think on the river, the state pilots were demanding $700,000 a year. I love the federal pilots. Many are old tugboat buys and just like one of the crew.
Got it!
Thank you for watching Norm.
Top of the mornin to ya captn
Good Morning Cody! I fell asleep last night before switching today's video on.
Another very interesting video Captain Tim. There is no other channel, as far as I know, that gives such a variety of material. I use Marinetraffic.com frequently to check on vessels approaching/departing the Tyne, so I am increasing my geography of NY and NJ. Seeing Elk River yesterday made me realise how large Staten Island is. You were heading towards the Hudson but is the section of water west and north of Staten island just known as The Kills or has it got a river name? All the best from the UK.
Thank you for watching Norm. We try not to name Tugs or companies directly on here to keep the big bosses (who allow me to film this content) happy. The waterway west of Staten Island is part of the Kills and is known as the Arthur Kills.
Captain Tim, miss types T.S. Golden Bear (3rd Training Ship) . Ex Oceanographic Research Ship (aka Spy Ship). Some of the CMA students make the transition into Tug & Pilots into SF Bay. Those jobs are very hard to get.
Ed. You do know that my mate is a Cal Maritime Graduate and did an in-depth interview with me?
TimBatSea Yes I saw the interview. You are likely dealing with a very smart mate.
@@edshelden7590 I am indeed
Tim if you want an intro in french canadian i am up for it
Thank you for watching and for the offer. My first thought is if wonder if there is a demand for subtitles in French? Would they help you and if so would you watch them? If those are both yes, I would love an intro from you and I would start making French subtitles.
@@TimBatSea Hi Tim for myself i do not need the subtitle , i work 40% of my day in english , mais j'apprécie beaucoup les vidéos que tu fais et la gentillesse que tu es ça fait du bien de te voir parlé des belles choses que tu présente ,tu es un bon vivant et je suis très toucher de te connaître ,MERCI Beaucoup!
Great video Tim!!!! I sent you an email.
Thank you very much. Did you receive the broken cup? I wrote you back if that was you.
Yessir. Just replied.
I apologise for any negative attitude in Europe these days Tim, there is an anti-Anglo sentiment running through Europe at the moment, even in the UK.
All the youngsters hate any English speaking countries; pretty crazy.
I'm sure they'll get over it when they grow up a bit.
Thank you for watching Philip. Yes, it's sad but maybe earned. I love that at least we in this community are one!
Cal Maritime , Has the “Golden Bear” ( II). They students go on a Cruz in a Sumer Time. Not sure now. The Golden Bear Cruz, up and the Pacific
Coast & Into the Pacific.
Thank you for watching Ed.
I did a 3 week cruise on my friend boat MV Chico built for Sir Malcomb Campbell as his Scottish travel boat. His other boats were called Bluebird.
We sailed out of St Katharine Dock next to Tower Bridge down Thames on the outgoing tide, across the English channel to Oostende spent the night there. Then next morning up the coast and into the Dutch canal system. The purpose of the Visit was to attend Sail Amsterdam, where ship from all over the world and boats of every class and type sail into the port of Amsterdam at once. You can nearly walk across from shore to shore stepping from one to the other. Among that armarda was the Indonesian sail training vessel, the cadets manning the spars and doing a routine to the music of the ships band. What a spectacle.
I just love to sit at a bar and chat with someone about there life, it's a great way to study history. Chris and Tim thanks for letting me sit in on your the chat.
@@TheByard I'll find you one day. Well at least I have been trying to find you. I go to every bar I find! Lol Thank you very much for watching
Tim, I cannot understand what your gmail address is on this video , it is not posted on your site or is that on purpose?
Thank you for watching Matt. It is timbatsea@gmail.com
@@TimBatSea Tim, check your gmail, I sent you a message with the subject Hi.
@@combatmedic1980 Wow!! I'm so jealous!
So I have 10 days experience driving a kayak, can I drive a tug boat? LOL. Actually I'm a 100 ton master which as we all know amounts to absolutely nothing.
Thank you for watching and it's a great start! Much more than most have when getting into the industry.
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Thank you for watching. Are you saying you too grew up in Massachusetts? CUOTO
11:00 ish. It's pretty easy to tell who is on the RIGHT side of things nowadays. Honest hard working tax paying citizens are being taken advantage of.
Thank you for watching Steven.
so it's murphy's law now is it? Sorry Tim.. way to many commercials'
LOL. Oh yes, Murphy's law! LOL
no masks? no social distancing ?
Both of us had been social distancing and in quarantine for three weeks, so I thought we were good. LOL