This is how we tow in BC

Anyone who has been through Dodd Narrows will appreciate this.

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GFC said:

I get an "error, not found" message when I click on the link.

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Thanks Mike, I fix tit.

That's impressive.

Wowsers!

How do they stop that thing?

hmason said:

How do they stop that thing?

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They don't.
It's pulled right on through a floating sawmill and the whole whack is turned into 2x4s, spat out onto barges bound for Malaysia.

I'm pretty sure Marin has a video of it all.

Thanks, that's amazing.

Great vid HW! While looking at it via youtube I came across a video of the MV David B transiting through the Dodd Narrows. I hope you don't mind that I posted the video on your thread. Since we're all "trawler" enthusiast I thought all would appreciate seeing, and hearing, this old beauty in action. Just listen to that original three-cylinder Washington Iron Works Engine chugging along...


Antique Ironworks Marine Diesel Engine | Small Ship Cruises on M/V David B | Northwest Navigation Co.

I'm impressed!!
Some people have skills.

...and then there are the tugs taking tows through Nakwakto rapids. Even more impressive.


Jim
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Diesel Duck 492 said:

I hope you don't mind that I posted the video on your thread.

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Not at all. I was going to follow up with that and a couple others but I'll do the lazy mans log tow instead.

Hawgwash said:

Anyone who has been through Dodd Narrows will appreciate this.

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Little surprised there wasn't a second tug bringing up the rear.

I've taken a high speed run at it once.

Dodd Narrows, with it and agin it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zdTScULW0

Tough day on the water.
So current flow or something else?

Current may have instigated...but in my experience that kind of trip is from trying too sharp of turn, pulling too hard and too short of wire...a combo of all three or just one to extreme.

That's a great example of why we should monitor our radios. Tugs and tows verses pleasure boats can sure make stuff exciting..

Pulling boats of of log booms, who knew that could be a skill set.

I've never heard a tug with a log raft warn anybody when going through Dodd Narrows. Has anybody? The only radio traffic I've ever heard was from other pleasure boaters telling others to watch out.

porman said:

I've never heard a tug with a log raft warn anybody when going through Dodd Narrows. Has anybody? The only radio traffic I've ever heard was from other pleasure boaters telling others to watch out.

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Yup I would buy this statement.

For some monitoring AIS is an option.
For some of us monitoring the traffic channel for the area can really pay off.

The lack for free board on the back of that tug in the original post really catches my eye.

Sidewinder

mdhervey said:

The lack for free board on the back of that tug in the original post really catches my eye.

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Ya they start out one of these.

Porman they use a working channel, not 16. I forget what it is but they appreciate you letting them know your intentions and stay out of their way!

Vessel Traffic will likely tell you which channel.

Last summer up in BC we heard quite a few professional mariners announcing their intentions on channel 16, even at Dodd Narrows. We also did NOT hear quite a few professional mariners announcing their intentions, being a little surprised a few times by them!

Moonfish said:

Last summer up in BC we heard quite a few professional mariners announcing their intentions on channel 16, even at Dodd Narrows. We also did NOT hear quite a few professional mariners announcing their intentions, being a little surprised a few times by them!

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Yup .

ch 16 is for distress or hailing.

Go to a " working channel " .

I hear this all the time.

Can you imagine the "air waves " if every commercial boat in say the Georgia strait basin area broadcast there intentions on 16 ? Thinking local so I have no way of imagining the Hudson River. or the ICW.

From Puget sound , up the Fraser river, all over the San Juan, the gulf islands , Vancouver harbor, Howe sound. One May Day simply takes this channel this type of information away from us if say ya can not use 16. I get it that if no one moves no one gets hurt but thats not reality < grin >

Be careful with assumptions , best to simply be aware and safe , kinda prudent IMO.

OFB,
The Rat Pack from Port McNeill was on 16 calling each other, usually did switch over,
to announce each fish strike, catch, lure change etc. we quit monitoring 16 when
fishing the Kingcome Inlet area.

Years later, not really very many, the CCG shut down most of the local stations and
replaced them with repeaters. This meant that until at least the late 1990s that a mayday call would result in a channel 16 "shut down" from the Fraser River to Cape Calvert at minimum, some 300 miles.

Channel 16 no longer useful for local calls, do not monitor.

Ted

porman said:

I've never heard a tug with a log raft warn anybody when going through Dodd Narrows. Has anybody? The only radio traffic I've ever heard was from other pleasure boaters telling others to watch out.

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I have. When headed south for Dodd Narrows in 2013 we intended to get there at slack tide about 12:15 pm. There were several boats just ahead of us. We got a call on Ch 16 from a tug and log tow that said he would enter Dodd Narrows at precisely 12:15 North to South. When we got closer we could see the tug and logs, much like the picture. All the other boats were able to pass the tug and go through ahead of him. We didn't quite make it and had to follow him through at about 4 knots. He was extremely professional and did enter at precisely 12:15. There was a second tug at the back of the log tow.

Paul

Ted said:

OFB,
The Rat Pack from Port McNeill was on 16 calling each other, usually did switch over,
to announce each fish strike, catch, lure change etc. we quit monitoring 16 when
fishing the Kingcome Inlet area.

Years later, not really very many, the CCG shut down most of the local stations and
replaced them with repeaters. This meant that until at least the late 1990s that a mayday call would result in a channel 16 "shut down" from the Fraser River to Cape Calvert at minimum, some 300 miles.

Channel 16 no longer useful for local calls, do not monitor.

Ted

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Yup.

CB radio , still use it today as an example. Yet 30 years later we seem to have forgotten the "rules ". CB works great for me today on the boat. Channel 9 or such for beach to boat as an example. Cheap hand set , base station etc.

Lots of work arounds instead of VHF 16 be my point.

Well,,,, we still do channell 16. Hailing only. If you want to talk a bit you will be told where to go .

Actually Ch 16 for security calls is perfectly normal...even in busy places. Not ideal but common.