Every part of that tugboat is made by a company with a lot of paper pushers. As long as your job isn’t denying insurance claims that should get paid, you’re just as valid a part of the system
Awesome stuff, man. My dad used to operate a 75 foot Vietnam era landing craft, tug & barge. From the age of 11, I could dock her by myself. Watching this brought back some good memories from the old days. I’m a pilot now, airplanes, but my heart still yearns for the sea. Godspeed and calm seas to you. -Dallas
I always like seeing sped up footage of big ships being docked and seeing the little boats zip around it like worker ants but I never thought the view would be this sick from inside! 👌
That was a great video, you showed some muscle here. Thanks for the ride, very interesting as always. Hope to se some more videos when you are behind the boat like this. I like how you handle your tug.
Subscribed today from Cornwall UK so pleased your channel showed up in my feed. Looking forward to catching up on your other videos as well as your new content.
ive always seen Tug boats doing there thing when working on bridges like the Deleware Memorial Bridge. To see footage from the inside is amazing. Awesome setup on the controls looks fun. Great work! the rattling would drive me nuts though haha.
@@tugboatwilly843 haha it is deff amazing. stay safe and keep doing an amazing job. I sub'd! as well as showed some friends as its an awesome channel to watch!
Wow what a cool insight! Hi Willy, from Port Timaru, New Zealand. About to watch all your videos, I am a tug deckhand aspiring tugmaster. Keep it coming bro 🤙
Awesome office! Check out those vibrations, that's a lot of weight being directed, a lot of horsepower being used. I'm guessing that's about 90% throttle, or more.
Cool video. Never ran a z drive boat. Like to see one with some narration. Curious about load on the winch, engine speed and the direction of the z drives during all that.
Loved the shot of the other tug, it looked like it took a fair bit of power to maneuver that big ship, the cavitation really shakes the shit out of the tug doesnt it. If you can can you leave the door open on the next one, loed to have heard with the door open on this one.. thanks for the video
Really cool. Always wondered what it looked like in those tugboats. My house has a great water view and I watch the container ships and tugboats go in and out of the Port of Tacoma. May I suggest that if you're going to talk to the camera, getting a lapel mic? Or maybe narrating during editing? Hard to understand you when you're talking.
Hey now! They can happen but not as often as you think. We change that line out a good bit. Also with this type of line it doesn’t really snap back just kind of falls. Maybe like 5 feet of snap. Thanks for watching 🫡
I am from China and I am a high school geography teacher. I was shocked when I saw your video and learned what needs to be done when a ship enters the port.
Seeing him right up on the back of the ship for a bit gives me the chills thinking about the huge ass propeller that’s probably right underneath him lol
From what I understand, they guide these giant container ships to the dock. The container ships are too massive to make fine turns and movements, so the tugboats push/pull them into place.
Please please please give all of your crew markers that they can make a mark where they are seeing vibrations in the hall and the structure itself when they see those things vibrating then someone can come in later on and weld those noisemakers out completely. You have a great craft it appears, but there’s a couple of things that are loose? WOW??
Hey now! The pilots you see in my videos are docking pilots. Pretty much anything you need a tug for they get on the ship. The other pilots get on outside and bring the ship into the harbor
The video is spectacular but it would have so much more sense if it was somehow annotated so that absolute laymen like me knew what was happening. I am writing this at the 23:20 mark where I am guessing the two tugboats just stopped assisting the Charleston Express in making a turn to the right (pardon me, starboard). Of course I might be totally wrong.
I’ll do better. He just finished making the turn and was done with them. They went on to the next ship and he went to the dock with 3 tugs. Thanks for watching 🫡
If you could narrate just a bit, on what you are doing, would be great for me. Former deckhand on a small 100-footer cargo/crew out of New Iberia LA, wish I had tried your profession afterwards, looks a lot more sane, as well as challenging. Much better scenery you have. Good luck, your future looks bright and long.
I’ll definitely narrate more. Some videos I got up with me wearing the mic I get more into what I’m doing if you want to check them out? Thanks for watching 🫡
Just wondering if it is POV or me not understanding what's going on. As you go around "Bergen Point", it looks like you and the ship and the tug on the starboard stern are working at cross purposes. Your line seems to pulling straight back or slightly starboard, while the ship is clearly powering forward and the other tug is pushing the stern hard to port. So I guess my question is, are you actually pulling to port, or just slowing the ship down? In any case, I love watching it. Amazing to see such powerful small boats manhandling that enormous ship. Thanks for sharing.
I was pulling to port. I wasn’t way out there because we were doing like 5kts and the current was against us. When they do that it’s so they can still have good steering on the ship at a slower speed. Thanks for watching as always 🤙
My first time watching a tugboat video. That has quite the view from those windows!
Hey now! Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed 🫡
this is harbour tug, and tug boat in my country use to towing bargage and sailing a cross ocean land to land or river to river
same i never would have imagined a tugboat to have that much stuff in it
I have a boring job sitting in an office seat. I need this content to remind me on how stuff really gets done. Shoutout from Seattle WA!
Hey now! Much appreciated and thanks for watching 🫡
Appreciate yourself better
Every part of that tugboat is made by a company with a lot of paper pushers. As long as your job isn’t denying insurance claims that should get paid, you’re just as valid a part of the system
@ Ohh, I can get behind that.
This is the most amazing virtual tugboat setup I've ever seen. Everything looks so real!
Its real
😜you almost got me!
@@TisforTechit is real.
You read my mind
Real life! Thanks for watching 🤙
Your office looks amazing! I love how tugboats can maneuver in all directions... like a spaceship!
Hey now!! Thanks for watching!! It is pretty cool to see them move around like that isn’t it?? 🫡
Awesome stuff, man. My dad used to operate a 75 foot Vietnam era landing craft, tug & barge. From the age of 11, I could dock her by myself. Watching this brought back some good memories from the old days. I’m a pilot now, airplanes, but my heart still yearns for the sea. Godspeed and calm seas to you.
-Dallas
Hey now! Thank you! I appreciate you sharing your story.
Always a pleasure to watch a professional work. Nice cockpit.
Hey now! I appreciate you! Thanks for watching 🤙
That pilot knows his craft. Awesome job, there!
Yeah he does!! He’s great! Thanks for watching 🫡
This and ice breakers are zen to me! Much respect to you, your craft and talent. I wish I knew of such fantastic careers when I was a young man lol.
Hey now! Thanks for the compliment and thanks for watching 🤙 much appreciated
I thought I was clicking on some guy that put together 10 tv screens for an in-home simulator lol.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
SAME!!!
same lol
Same here I was like holly hell dude has one hell of a set up. lol Then reality hit.
Love TUGBOATS, they don't get enough love in the marina! They are the workhorses of the sea and keep bad things from happening!
Hey now! Much appreciated 🫡
I always like seeing sped up footage of big ships being docked and seeing the little boats zip around it like worker ants but I never thought the view would be this sick from inside! 👌
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
The view is absolutely amazing!
Hey now! It is!
For the first time see this beautiful view, awesome - thanks for the great clip 💝
Hey now! Glad you enjoyed it! 🫡
Your level of control is fantastic. Watching the tension come into the tow rope (hawser?) at 10:45 was subtle and lovely to see.
Hey now! I truly appreciate your kind words!! Thanks for watching 🫡
Great video, loved the rumbling of the whole boat and the turning of the big floppa! Impressive.
Hey now!! Thanks for watching 🤙
I thoroughly enjoyed this video 👍i had never before seen a tugboat in action from the inside , thanks for sharing it with us 🙏
Hey now! Glad you liked it and thanks for watching 🫡
That was a great video, you showed some muscle here. Thanks for the ride, very interesting as always. Hope to se some more videos when you are behind the boat like this. I like how you handle your tug.
Hey now! Thanks so much for the compliment!! Yeah we were doing the damn thing on that one! Honestly it was really fun 😁
Yep, my first tug video 🤭 What a cool perspective from that cockpit. You've got a great job my man. Happy New Year!
Happy new year! Thanks for riding along 🫡
I'm impressed! Very impressed!! To see a tugboat in action Captains view. A luxury tugboat 👍
Hey now! I appreciate you! Thanks for watching 🤙
@@tugboatwilly843 a good mini-series on TV, Will do good. Action and intense moments.
Subscribed today from Cornwall UK so pleased your channel showed up in my feed. Looking forward to catching up on your other videos as well as your new content.
Hey now! Thanks for tuning in!! Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching 🫡
i worked tugboats in the army for ten years, loved it and miss it.
Hey now! That’s awesome! Thanks for watching 💯🫡
the view is awesome. It like being in the cockpit of some spaceship.
It really is! Thanks for watching 🫡
Thanks for taking us along for the ride! You guys make it look easy.
Hey now! Much appreciated and thanks for watching 🫡
This has to be the sickest pilothouse ever, its like star wars with brightwork!
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
awesome, thank you. Allways watched tugs from the shore.
great to be in the action!!
Appreciated 😀😀😀😀😀
Hey now! My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🤙
21:25 was awesome. Love the center lead aft work. Awesome video man!
I think everyone that watches Capt. Willy should by one of his shirts. I did
@@jamesmaroon6161 already have one hanging in my closet.
Hey now!! Hell yeah to both of you guys!! I truly appreciate y’all!! Yes sir I love the center lead work as well!! Keep’s you on your toes 🤙
Hey Now... To the best Capt. In the Tugboat world Capt Willy. Great video as always. Take care bro
Hey Now!! Making me blush this morning!! Thank you so much for all your support!! Happy Monday my friend 🫡
Just come across your channel yesterday and haven’t stopped watching I’ve really enjoyed the content keep up the awesome work
Hey now!! Thank you watching and glad that you enjoy it 🤙
Watching this just made me want to become a tugboat captain.
Great video very interesting to watch
Hey now! Much appreciated 🫡
The science and physics behind a tugboat is amazing.
I agree! Thanks for watching 🤙
Well this was cool to watch. I had no idea all that tug boats do until now. Very chill looking job!
Not a bad gig at all. Thanks for watching 🤙
Must feel like flying a Starship lol ... Sure is a lot of vibration when you start pulling, amazing and so cool! 🙂
Hey now! It’s amazing! If I ever get a chance to fly a Star Ship I’m gonna! Thanks for watching 🫡
One wrong move could get REALLY expensive very quickly! Nice Job!😁
You're telling me! Thanks for watching! 🫡
Cool! Reminds me of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon 😊
Hey now! May the force be with you 🫡
ive always seen Tug boats doing there thing when working on bridges like the Deleware Memorial Bridge. To see footage from the inside is amazing. Awesome setup on the controls looks fun. Great work!
the rattling would drive me nuts though haha.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🤙 The sounds are the best part 😁
@@tugboatwilly843 haha it is deff amazing. stay safe and keep doing an amazing job. I sub'd! as well as showed some friends as its an awesome channel to watch!
First look at the cover of video I thought you was playing stimulate but by watching your video made me very impressive. From Vietnam with love
Hey now! Thanks for watching!
🤙 Work those wheels, it's all about cavitation, the rumble in the jungle. lol Willy and Carlos have a grand day. CUOTO
Rumble in the jungle!! Good morning my friend and thanks for always supporting!! Happy Tuesday!!
that window shake is wild from the reverse force your applying to the ship and its heavy load
unless someone's gotta tighten a screw or 2 lol
You’re right a lot of power! Also some of that noise is from the shades tho. Thanks for watching 🫡
How are you not hypnotized by a walkie-talkie swinging right in front of your face 😂
You get use to it! Thanks for watching 🫡
Nice piloting Captain.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡 I appreciate you
Lowkey gives me spaceship vibes.
Right! Thanks for watching 🫡
Wow what a cool insight!
Hi Willy, from Port Timaru, New Zealand. About to watch all your videos, I am a tug deckhand aspiring tugmaster.
Keep it coming bro 🤙
Hey now! That’s awesome! I know you can do it! Thanks for watching and I know you’ll love it 🤙
i've been tugging it for years, good luck.
Yea, that is really cool in there. Very quiet too. Big engines big sound, but not there? Joy stick steering. WOW. cool job.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🤙
What a cool monitor setup and the graphics of that simulator looks realistic!
Real life! Thanks for watching 🤙
thats a great "cockpit!" has some spaceship vibes!
Yeah it does!! Thanks for watching 🫡
That looks like a really nice boat. Wouldn't mind that office.
It’s pretty great I have to admit. Thanks for watching 🫡
Impressionnant votre travail !
Hey now! Thank you 🫡
Rhode Island onboard for a Sunday ride with Team Willy 😅😅 Injoy your 2 weeks off 😊😊😊
Hey now! Good morning Capt ☀️We get off Wednesday so 2 more to go!! Happy Monday my friend 🫡
Awesome office!
Check out those vibrations, that's a lot of weight being directed, a lot of horsepower being used.
I'm guessing that's about 90% throttle, or more.
You're right, we're running pretty hard there! Thanks for watching 🫡
Great video Captain, thanks for sharing, really hope all your family is safe after “Debby” went through Charleston!
Hey now! They are great and thanks for asking. We just got mostly water not much wind. Also thanks for watching as always 🤙
Awesome coverage
Hey now 🤙
Always wondered how this was done but never figured I would see it from Captains perspective. Like the name too "Tugboat Willy"...
Hey now! Much appreciated and thanks for watching 🫡
Stormworks 2 looking great
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
Much much love
Much love 🫡
That swinging radio would drive me batshit at first
It really doesn’t bother me. Thanks for watching 🫡
first time seeing the pov from a tug but, always wondered whats it like down there on these tugboats when i sail on those big tankers.
I really enjoy it and thanks for watching! Stay safe out there🫡
Cool video. Never ran a z drive boat. Like to see one with some narration. Curious about load on the winch, engine speed and the direction of the z drives during all that.
Hey now! Thanks for watching! I’m on the way back to the boat now and I’ll make one with more narration and talk about the winch
clicked because it legit looked like a simulator, stayed because this is fucking cool
Hey now!! Love hearing that!! Thanks for watching 💯🫡
Thank you for getting all of my amazon orders made in china to me on time brother. sick skills
Hey now!! Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it! 🫡
I definitely thought this was a simulator until buddy was walking out front lol.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
Great video. Cool. Greetings from the Netherlands 👍👍👍👍👍
Hey now! Thank you for watching and I will visit your part of the world as soon as possible!! So beautiful 🫡
Team work,great job
Team work makes the dream work! Thanks for watching 🤙
Loved the shot of the other tug, it looked like it took a fair bit of power to maneuver that big ship, the cavitation really shakes the shit out of the tug doesnt it. If you can can you leave the door open on the next one, loed to have heard with the door open on this one.. thanks for the video
Hey now! Not sure if I will be able to hear with the door open but I’ll definitely give it a try. A lot of power on that one! Thanks for watching 🤙
Really cool. Always wondered what it looked like in those tugboats. My house has a great water view and I watch the container ships and tugboats go in and out of the Port of Tacoma. May I suggest that if you're going to talk to the camera, getting a lapel mic? Or maybe narrating during editing? Hard to understand you when you're talking.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡 I’ll work on the sound.
Thanks for the video Willy! I have a question: aren't you afraid of snapbacks when that rope is upfront?
Hey now! They can happen but not as often as you think. We change that line out a good bit. Also with this type of line it doesn’t really snap back just kind of falls. Maybe like 5 feet of snap. Thanks for watching 🫡
I am from China and I am a high school geography teacher. I was shocked when I saw your video and learned what needs to be done when a ship enters the port.
Glad you found it interesting and thanks for watching! Any questions you have feel free to email me
@@tugboatwilly843thank you very much
That rumble of HP... damn.
I love that sound!
Seeing him right up on the back of the ship for a bit gives me the chills thinking about the huge ass propeller that’s probably right underneath him lol
The propeller is under the ship but it is close. Thanks for watching 🫡
Great content1. take care and be safe....
Hey now! Thank you for watching 🤙
Dont know how i got here but i like it. Have you ever tried a Line vibration damper?
I have not but thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it 🫡
12:42 Lighthouse casually swimming by 😂
😆 Thanks for watching 🤙
Cool to see what it's like to be in control of one of these things.
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
I’m a real life tug captain and I can say this simulator is AMAZING!!
Hey Capt! Real life. Thanks for watching 🫡
I saw this boat while going down the belt parkway today!
Hell yeah!! Thanks for looking out for us!
What is the purpose of this? This is my first time seeing something like this! Nice and cozy cockpit!
From what I understand, they guide these giant container ships to the dock. The container ships are too massive to make fine turns and movements, so the tugboats push/pull them into place.
Well put!! That’s pretty much what we do! Different boats do different things but that pretty much sums it up. Thanks for watching 🫡
This has to be the best job in the world !
I really do love it! Thanks for watching 🫡
Awesome! Does that other tug have a university of Michigan logo? Haha cool
That’s the logo of the other company in the harbor. They were just helping us out. We do the same for them when it’s busy. Thanks for watching 🤙
Please please please give all of your crew markers that they can make a mark where they are seeing vibrations in the hall and the structure itself when they see those things vibrating then someone can come in later on and weld those noisemakers out completely. You have a great craft it appears, but there’s a couple of things that are loose? WOW??
It’s the force and horsepower. I’ll definitely get them to do that. Mostly what you are hearing is the shades tho. Thanks for watching 🫡
Wow, this is a nice virtual setup.You have on your terrible nice view.Really nice talk, though taco.Enjoy your videos please make more
Is this norfolk virginia terminal in the front of you
NYC! Thanks for watching 💯🫡
Yo Cap'n Willy, great video! Willy, what's the difference between PILOT BOAT pilots and those that you bring ship side in the harbor?
Hey now! The pilots you see in my videos are docking pilots. Pretty much anything you need a tug for they get on the ship. The other pilots get on outside and bring the ship into the harbor
I thought this was real life star citizen
Hey now!! Thanks for watching 🫡
Fajnie się ogląda :D Praca marzeń jak dla mnie. Pozdrowienia
Hey now!! Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching !
The video is spectacular but it would have so much more sense if it was somehow annotated so that absolute laymen like me knew what was happening. I am writing this at the 23:20 mark where I am guessing the two tugboats just stopped assisting the Charleston Express in making a turn to the right (pardon me, starboard). Of course I might be totally wrong.
I’ll do better. He just finished making the turn and was done with them. They went on to the next ship and he went to the dock with 3 tugs. Thanks for watching 🫡
Ângulo de vídeo maravilhoso parabéns
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🤙
I think it world be useful to provide some info about what's going on and why you're doing certain maneuvers.
I try to make it pretty clear but I'll add some more info next time! Thanks for watching 🫡
I would just absolutely love to get behind the helm of that boat. Tugboats are just incredible fucking ships.
They really are! Thanks for watching 🫡
wow cool I always wanted to see this
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
If you could narrate just a bit, on what you are doing, would be great for me. Former deckhand on a small 100-footer cargo/crew out of New Iberia LA, wish I had tried your profession afterwards, looks a lot more sane, as well as challenging. Much better scenery you have. Good luck, your future looks bright and long.
I’ll definitely narrate more. Some videos I got up with me wearing the mic I get more into what I’m doing if you want to check them out? Thanks for watching 🫡
it's insane this whole setup is in his garage.
That’s real life! Thanks for watching 🫡
It'd be cool to have a drone operator on board to show exactly what's going on from overhead.
I’m trying to rig up a 360 camera but I can’t get it right yet. I will tho.
Yup cameras only drones not allowed to fly that close to ships
Shark shark!!! We need a bigger boat.
🤣😂🤣 Thanks for watching
This is dope.
Hey now! Much appreciated!!
How does one become a tugmaster? Seems like such an awesome and enjoyable job. Absolutely brilliant content.
Hey now! I started on the deck and worked my way up. There is a few different ways you can do it though. Thanks for watching and the compliments 🫡
U need a least 3 felonies
like a spaceship amazing
🖖
The engineer in me is really worried about those drinks being there and all those buttons and switches, not in cup holders
Hey now! It’s got a lid with a closed top. Also the boat is way more stable than you would think. Thanks for watching 🫡
LOL i thought it is a $100.000 star citizen setup for a sec, until I saw it is in the sea
It real. Thanks for watching 🫡
Que trabalho incrível
Hey now! Thanks for watching 🫡
Just wondering if it is POV or me not understanding what's going on. As you go around "Bergen Point", it looks like you and the ship and the tug on the starboard stern are working at cross purposes. Your line seems to pulling straight back or slightly starboard, while the ship is clearly powering forward and the other tug is pushing the stern hard to port. So I guess my question is, are you actually pulling to port, or just slowing the ship down? In any case, I love watching it. Amazing to see such powerful small boats manhandling that enormous ship. Thanks for sharing.
Cpl were you in the Military. I was in the U.S Marine Corps. I was a mortar man. I was in from 82-90. Just asking man
@@jamesmaroon6161 - Nope, but thanks for your service.
I was pulling to port. I wasn’t way out there because we were doing like 5kts and the current was against us. When they do that it’s so they can still have good steering on the ship at a slower speed. Thanks for watching as always 🤙
Hey now! Also thanks for your service Sir!!
@@tugboatwilly843 Thank you!
THE ONLY GUYS THAT WILL RUN IN TO YOU INTENTIONALLY
Right! Thanks for watching 🫡
13:40 I'm wearing headphones and it feels like it's in the room with me wtf
Hell yeah!! Thanks for watching 🫡