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By, from the March 2011 edition of MarineNews I asked a friend at Seattle’s Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI) if she thought someone like me could successfully complete just one maneuvering task in their tug simulator after a couple hours of training. Ten years ago I’d run a cutter aground in San Francisco Bay when my Officer Candidate class was let loose in the Coast Guard Academy’s simulator, but that was the extent of my shiphandling experience, real or virtual. As a testament to her optimism, my friend scheduled me in PMI’s Z-drive tug simulator last January under the instruction of, author of ASD Tugs: Thrust and Azimuth, Learning to Drive a Z-drive.

Since, no one was counting on me to actually pass a test, it didn’t matter how I did, I told myself. But when I walked into Jeff’s classroom, after official classes were over for the day, he commented on the performance anxiety I was obviously carrying with me. Jeff gave me a basic primer on Z-drives in his empty classroom and told me my final task for the evening would be to bring a Z-drive tug alongside a tanker moving at about seven knots in the simulated waters outside a virtual Port of Seattle. Then I would aspire to make contact with the ship without causing any damage. It all sounded very impressive and I can understand why tug handling has an almost obsessive appeal. However, as Jeff explained later on, those who are attracted to the business because of this kind of action may get a reality check when they find out that driving the boat is actually a small part of being a tug captain. His own infatuation with the business goes way back.

“The guys and gals who handle tugboats, they held their boat handling art to a high level. To use not only the horsepower in the engine room, but the horsepower in the wheelhouse I was just very smitten with that challenge and I’m still trying to figure out a way to perfect it.” The people who are attracted to the industry, he said, “want to drive the boat, everybody on there, whether it’s a deck hand, a mate or a captain. The truth of it is, now that piece of the job has really diminished.

For many reasons and many of them are good reasons.”. The challenge that attracted many people to towing is the ability to manage risk in their jobs he said. “It’s not that we’re dare devils or that we seek to be reckless. But we like to be presented with a situation, like you were, coming alongside that ship,” Jeff told me. “There’s risk involved with that.