Around 11/22/2005 9:12 AM, Gene Kearns wrote:

Newer local ferries are equipped with these:
http://www.voithturbo.de/vt_en_pua_m...spropeller.htm

The Garth Foss, along with several other of Foss' newer tugs, are so
equipped. I'd never have imagined that such a massive boat could be so
maneuverable until I saw it at work on a large container ship, simply
pirouetting (the best way I can think of to describe it).


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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows