Virtual tour of a modern tugboat
 

I found this pretty cool:
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xjPzHsYVfRq

I'm actually surprised how spacious, comparatively speaking, the accommodations are on this boat. Fairly roomy double bunk staterooms for the crew, multiple bathrooms, decent sized lounge and galley, and even a laundry room with an exercise bike. Not bad for a 103-foot long harbor tug!

Here's another virtual tour of a Rotor Tug. You can only visit five locations, and can't walk through the boat, but the image quality is much better.
http://virtuele-tours.nl/tour/rotortug

Awesome, nice post.

awesome

Tug boats tend to be inherently roomy. The large engine is a concentrated mass, needing hull volume for buoyancy, and the need to be relatively wide in relation to length (to resist rolling e.g. when the tow isn't directly astern) helps too. With no need to make room for cargo, the space may as well be used - and I doubt that the luxury accommodation adds all that much to the overall price.

I can't remember where I saw it, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that tugboats were the most profitable non-specialist vessels in maritime use - the complex navigational aids etc seen in the images make a lot of sense when you realise that the vessels they are tending stack up huge harbour dues, and anything that saves time pays for itself rapidly.

Very cool! :rock:

When I was a kid, tugboats were these old dirty things that were covered in old tires.

Now their bridges look like the cockpit of a futuristic jet fighter. Go figure!

http://i68.tinypic.com/2lcphn5.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/xbwccw.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/97r2ft.jpg

I saw tugs that were dirty as you said but I had no idea they were this sophisticated. Technology finds it's way into everything. The work on a tug can be difficult enough so it's nice to know they are taking care of the crew.

Over twenty years ago a friend of mine (sadly passed away) was a skipper on a tug on the Tyne and it was nowhere as 'luxurious' as that.

Nice, thanks for posting:up: I used to work as a tankerman, and was onboard tugs a lot. Pretty cool.