Navigator wrote:
So your tug averaged 7.7 knots? It must have been really noisy.

??

Does that seem very fast to you? Do you have no experience whatever with
well tuned, well insulated power plants?

Our boat's pilot house is so noisy underway, that a whisper can be heard
& understood easily. Terrible, isn't it?


... Is there
a speed limit on the ICW?

In some places yes. No wake zones are more common.

DSK