Tugs Today: Modern Vessels and Towing Techniques

By M.J. Gaston

Book Overview

This work is a survey of vessels and techniques employed in world shipping and covers ship and tanker handling, harbour and coastal duties, oil rig supply vessels, ice breaking, emergency response... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852605219
• ISBN13: 9781852605216
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Patrick Stephens
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

You don't have to be an enthusiast to enjoy this book

This book caught my eye in a Vancouver boat store, and I'm glad that I bought it. Tugs are part of the unseen infrastructure that brings us food and cars--we don't take them for granted so much as ignore them completely. This is unfortunate, because tugboats are a fascinatingly complex subject. They are built-to-order, specialized for open water, harbor and river service. They push, they pull, and they put out fires. This book assumes no knowledge of the subject, making concepts such as towing and thrust propulsion mechanisms accessible and interesting. Well-illustrated, well-written, and engrossing, I recommend this book for those who enjoy boats of any kind, or are merely curious about how things work.

THE Definitive Tug Book

Jack Gaston is probably the mostly widely published tug writer and is one of the best tug photographers in the world. This book is the most complete survey of tugboating ever written, lacking only some tugboat history, which appears in his earlier "Tugs and Towing." If you want to know about tugs and tugboating, get this book. And I don't say this merely because I'm honored to call Jack a friend.

A "MUST HAVE" FOR SHIPLOVERS AND THE OCCASIONAL PORT VISITOR

A VARY WELL WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BOOK ABOUT THE UNSUNG AND OFTEN FORGOTTEN LINK BETWEEN GENERAL SHIPPING AND THE SHORE INFRASTRUCTURE OF SHIPPING AND TRANSPORTATION. THE PHOTO'S ARE OF GOOD QUALITY AND GIVE THE OUTSIDER AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE WORKHORSES OF THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY. PLENTY OF DRAWINGS AND DIAGRAMS CLARIFY SOME ASPECTS THAT ARE HARDLY NOTICEABLE WHEN WATCHING TUGS AT WORK.