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Originally Posted by Marin
I wonder if the skippers and pilots of tankers and container, bulk, and automobile ships consider their bow thrusters to be training wheels?
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Marin, I like you. You're a very logical poster on this forum. The 'training wheels' comment is what he wanted to hear..... so I gave it to him....
My thruster, in a way, gives me what twins give you. Twins would be ideal...but in my world they are not available, so on went the Stern Thruster. An important tool in the very heavy prone currents of La Conner. It also allows me to single handle my boat, something that I was unable to do before. So, really it should be called an 'aid' or a 'tool'.