Tugboats Illustrated
Tugboats seem to really "do it" for a lot of folks. This book is packed with photos and drawings, and traces the evolution, design, and role of tugboats, ranging from the first steam-powered tug to today's hyper-specialized offshore workboats.
If you want to learn a lot about tugboats, this is your book. The author uses photographs, lots of drawings, and diagrams to show the development of these workboats. Whether making impossible turns in small spaces, crashing through huge swells, pushing or pulling or prodding or coaxing or escorting, we come to understand not only what tugs do, but how physics and engineering allow them to do it.
by Paul Farrell
hardcover, 192 pp
large format, 12" x 10-3/4"
Description
Tugboats seem to really "do it" for a lot of folks. This book is packed with photos and drawings, and traces the evolution, design, and role of tugboats, ranging from the first steam-powered tug to today's hyper-specialized offshore workboats.
If you want to learn a lot about tugboats, this is your book. The author uses photographs, lots of drawings, and diagrams to show the development of these workboats. Whether making impossible turns in small spaces, crashing through huge swells, pushing or pulling or prodding or coaxing or escorting, we come to understand not only what tugs do, but how physics and engineering allow them to do it.
by Paul Farrell
hardcover, 192 pp
large format, 12" x 10-3/4"
