Ugly Boats?

RickB said:

It looks like it has a better hull design anyway. It's the first Duck/Coot that doesn't push a bigger bow wave than a Bayliner.

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While the Coot pushes a lot of "snow," its wake is benign and no way like a Bayliner's.

Baker said:

Marin, all it needs is some forward slanting wannabe pilothouse windows and....tuh duh....done deal. HH??? Could you oblige us that???

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Can't right now cuz I'm on the road. Of course, nothing would give me greater pleasure than doing a wannabe GB, but some things are sacred and there are lines that one should not cross. I will not transgress a GB 36. I am curious, however, and may even be in the posession of such a wannabe creation, and in the unlikely case that someone like Wiki-leaks should hack my computer and leak this boat porn to the forum, I want you all to know that it was not me who did it.

Almost there,

Alemao said:

Almost there,

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Hmmmmm, they are in need of a wooden shoe....

To Sell: A new model of GPS

I said GPS !!!
We just find this kind of GPS here in Brazil )

Hi Cees, tipical Dutch boat )

Alemao said:

To Sell: A new model of GPS

I said GPS !!!
We just find this kind of GPS here in Brazil )

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Can i order this GPS on-line, 12V or 24V? Rio?

You choose, here in Rio we have a lot of GPS's

I think I swallowed a little vomit when I saw this boat.

FlyWright said:

I think I swallowed a little vomit when I saw this boat.

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Hey, I resemble that remark. That could almost be our boat. What, you don't like giant white basketball sneakers on the water? Big floating Clorox bottles?

kthoennes said:

Hey, I resemble that remark. That could almost be our boat. What, you don't like giant white basketball sneakers on the water? Big floating Clorox bottles?

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To me, yours looks nothing like that other one. Maybe it's the canvas, the softer shape, isenglass, or color. My apologies for the perceived insult!

Now I'll probably hear from all aft cabin owners here.

I'm trying to imagine Al fishing from that boat. Proving there are boats for everyone. Just need to know what you want and what works.

Al..whachu talkin bout! That should be posted in the "Interesting Boats" thread. That baby has a stairway to go anywhere and a whole selection of hardtops. Unfortunately, no wannbe windows to really set it off.

healhustler said:

Al..whachu talkin bout! That should be posted in the "Interesting Boats" thread. That baby has a stairway to go anywhere and a whole selection of hardtops. Unfortunately, no wannbe windows to really set it off.

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shhhh.....I actually like the aft steps to the swimstep.

The first step out the stbd door is a doozy!

Black hull sides would really add some class.


I think Al is just getting to old to chase Meg around that boat.

FlyWright said:

To me, yours looks nothing like that other one. Maybe it's the canvas, the softer shape, isenglass, or color. My apologies for the perceived insult!

Now I'll probably hear from all aft cabin owners here.

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Oh, it's okay, we've embraced the giant fiberglass sneaker, we've made peace with the big white milk jug. So much white fiberglass I still need sunglasses on a cloudy day, but we love her anyway. This was Mainship's stock sales photo.

Windows look like a Silverton, maybe a 453. As FF would say, a "Roomerran". Probably a nice live-aboard.

FlyWright said:

shhhh.....I actually like the aft steps to the swimstep.

The first step out the stbd door is a doozy!

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Reminds me of the Winchester House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

The vessel I'm currently driving is definitely aesthetically challenged. It helped a bit when we decided to get away from the bloody stool color, but not much. She's ugly. Great personality, though.

Wayfarer said:

The vessel I'm currently driving is definitely aesthetically challenged. It helped a bit when we decided to get away from the bloody stool color, but not much. She's ugly. Great personality, though.

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that looks like it would be fun in a beam sea!
HOLLYWOOD

Wayfarer said:

The vessel I'm currently driving is definitely aesthetically challenged. It helped a bit when we decided to get away from the bloody stool color, but not much. She's ugly. Great personality, though.

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Why is the tower needed? I don`t see our harbor tugs with rigs like that.

hollywood8118 said:

that looks like it would be fun in a beam sea!
HOLLYWOOD

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We're almost always mated to the barge, so that helps with stability. On the rare occasion when we're light tug, she's definitely tender, haha. She's actually pretty comfortable everywhere but the pilothouse, which is like being at the end of a tuning fork. Due to the way that the tug is attached to the barge, the pilothouse tends to rattle and lurch in a fairly unpleasant way.

BruceK said:

Why is the tower needed? I don`t see our harbor tugs with rigs like that.

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They added the tree house in 2006 when they mated the tug to this particular barge. The extra height was needed to see over the unloading system on the aft end of the barge.

Dave, no lower helm for those "other times"? I hope that's an elevator shaft I see.

Wayfarer said:

The vessel I'm currently driving is definitely aesthetically challenged. It helped a bit when we decided to get away from the bloody stool color, but not much. She's ugly. Great personality, though.

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Several years ago when the discussion of homely tugboats came up I actually googled your fine vessel
And I then posted it on GCaptain as a prime example. Sorry......

Well, I guess single-handing that sucker isn't gonna happen. How many crew, Dave?

FlyWright said:

Dave, no lower helm for those "other times"? I hope that's an elevator shaft I see.

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Nope, no lower pilothouse on this one, and there's nothing but a spiral staircase in that tube. On the plus side, I've got legs like tree trunks after making that trip twice a day for the last three years.

cappy208 said:

Several years ago when the discussion of homely tugboats came up I actually googled your fine vessel
And I then posted it on GCaptain as a prime example. Sorry......

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No apologies needed! I would have done the same thing... haha. She's so ugly she could be a modern art masterpiece!

healhustler said:

Well, I guess single-handing that sucker isn't gonna happen. How many crew, Dave?

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Naa, my arms are way too short for that! Actually she's pretty handy. She's got a really cool rudder system that basically lets you walk the stern in any direction. That combined with a decent bow thruster, and she's pretty easy to drive, really. We tie her up with a deck crew of 4. We carry 13 crew in total.

FlyWright said:

Dave, no lower helm for those "other times"? I hope that's an elevator shaft I see.

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Like on my companies vessels, the companies doing these 'tug conversions' to ATB units have generally done away with the two wheelhouse idea. It saves about 250,000 bucks in less electronics, controls and steelwork.

The down side is that when running just the tug from up top is like being on the top of a long pendulum. The smallest amount of rudder is magnified hugely up that high.

I can't recall his vessels height of eye (IIRC it's around 65').

Here's a pic of my other home. My height of eye is 52' from upper house.

However during the conversion process the main (lower) wheelhouse was left intact.

They have actually turned some of our tugs' lower pilothouses into sleeping quarters, since we run a larger crew than the previous owners. I believe my height of eye is 75-80 feet. Air draft is about 90. Yours is far from ugly, though. In fact, as far as tugs go, I'd say she's actually kinda pretty. I even like your peanut butter and jelly paint scheme Did they put elevators in yours?

Did your company convert the Victory/ j Kuber? I worked on Victory in early '80's for 7 years.

I know someone already posted Steve Jobs' yacht in this thread. I don't think I ever really looked at it for more than a few seconds. It really is awful, isn't it?