Topic: Has anyone else done this? (Read 5464 times)

modelman66 · « **on:** June 04, 2009, 07:24:37 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tl0JdhWntU&feature=channel_page this link takes you to my model boat pulling me in an inflatable boat across a pond just to see if it was possible and it works and i wondered if anyone else has done this with a tug for example??with more success.(i thought i had posted this earlier)

barryfoote · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2009, 07:47:09 pm »

That is very impressive. I have seen similar done with a tug.....But that really shows the power in the model..

alan colson · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:01:56 pm »

This was done with a tug at Alfold Charity Model Boat Show last weekend. But in the past the members of the Southwater Dabblers MBC towed a narrowboat along the canal at Loxwood, I am not certain but it maybe on Utube.
Alan

andyn · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:09:26 pm »

We did this the other day with Bill's small petrol tug with our big heavy rescue boat, with me in it

dougal99 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:13:55 pm »

Quite a popular pastime with our tuggies

dougal99 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:15:00 pm »

Sorry about the duplicate picture the computer lied to me

oldiron · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:58:03 pm »

I've pulled an aluminum rowboat around containing a rather robust passenger with one of my tugs. No problem. Unfortunately I don't think anyone got a picture.

John

towboatjoe · « **Reply #7 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:08:13 pm »

Back in 1981 I built a pushboat using a trolling motor and pushed two jon boats with people in them.

modelman66 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 05, 2009, 07:26:32 am »

Thats brilliant love the photos

SteamboatPhil · « **Reply #9 on:** June 05, 2009, 10:28:12 am »

Here we go
Date: July 1932
Bedford

4 ft long semiflash steamboat with a 3/4 bore and stroke single cylinder slide valve engine.
In the rowing boat, my grandfather and grandmother, great Aunt and uncle and a fellow club member

das boot · « **Reply #10 on:** June 05, 2009, 04:33:48 pm »

Back in the day when U-117 was under construction, number one son, aged about nine then, sat in the bare hull and my old steam tug lookalike (a converted Bugsier tug) towed him and the hull on a lap of Princes Park lake in Eastbourne.

Rich

modelman66 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2009, 07:43:36 pm »

Wow shame you didnt take pictures

das boot · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2009, 08:12:41 pm »

We did...took loads of pictures. Best you ask my ex-wife where they are, she don't talk to me, hasn't done for thirty five years now.

Rich

sheerline · « **Reply #13 on:** June 07, 2009, 10:31:51 am »

U-33, someone once said there was always something positive to come out of every apparent disaster!!

jonny shoreboy · « **Reply #14 on:** June 07, 2009, 10:40:06 am »

That's cool people.

das boot · « **Reply #15 on:** June 07, 2009, 10:49:14 am »

Quote from: sheerline on June 07, 2009, 10:31:51 am

U-33, someone once said there was always something positive to come out of every apparent disaster!!

Chris...Roger Waters once said "give any one species too much rope and they'll "screw" it up...."

Rich

Martin woz ear!

ronkh · « **Reply #16 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:49:51 pm »

Martin woz ear!

Bryan Young · « **Reply #17 on:** June 09, 2009, 07:55:13 pm »

This Tommy proving the efficiency of his then new tug.

tugnut · « **Reply #18 on:** June 09, 2009, 08:01:03 pm »

THATS WHAT I CALL A TOW

Brian_C · « **Reply #19 on:** June 09, 2009, 08:22:48 pm »

heres another tow on the same lake, many years ago, bob anderson being towed by his steam tug HENDON

riggers24 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 09, 2009, 08:41:14 pm »

Bri is that you at the back of the rowing boat

portside II · « **Reply #21 on:** June 10, 2009, 12:19:12 am »

Aha found it , this was taken at the club at goole by one of the members of me in the recovery boat towed by my tug Brakengarth .
daz

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