While on passage from Honolulu to Panama with the new canal tug "Farfan"
Hi Jerry,
though I don't want to offtopic this thread from the Tuna Seiner your FARFAN arose my interest.
I hope the thread initiator bears with me.
Is the FARFAN the typical contemporary tug used in the Panama Canal?
I think
TERIBE and
ESTI must be sisters of the same tug series.
This type of tug looks above the waterline, where the arrangement of the Z-Schottel-Drives and the skeg is invisible, very much like a double ended design where you can hardly tell which is stem and which is stern.
Your GAP of which you have taken the photo indicates Robert Allen as the designers of this tug, so I gather that it must be of
this Z-Tech 6500 Class of ASD.
Are the dimensions mentioned in above link the same as those given on your GAP, because I cannot decipher the lettering when zooming in in your photo?
Since your photographed GAP shows body frames I think it should be fairly easy to create a lines plan from it which I feel a little inclined to do.
That's why I need to know the main dimensions (LOA, LPP or LWL, B, Tdwl).
Regards,
Ralph