600 HP Truckable Tug Specifications
VESSEL PARTICULARS
DIMENSIONS:
Length 25 ft 9 in
Breadth 16 ft
Depth 5 ft 6 in
HORSE POWER: 600
CONSTRUCTION
This is a typical inland push boat of all steel welded construction with raked bow, slab sides and square stern. Hull fitted with single plate flanged bulwarks 12 inches high throughout full perimeter with adequate freeing ports. The bow is fitted with port and starboard push knees, starboard push knee fitted with five stand-off ladder rungs for barge access.
Superstructure is of two-tier construction with raised pilothouse forward with single course safety rail fitted at throughout full height of pilothouse access ladder and full perimeter of aft pilothouse platform.
The hull protection is provided by a single course of 6 in. x 1 in. flat bar rub rail extending for walk/work over area above rudder tillers, jockey bar, and hydraulic steering gear.
ARRANGEMENT
Vessel hull is fitted with one transverse forward engine room watertight collision bulkhead with the remainder of hull common throughout.
1. Engine room with 650-gallon aluminum fuel tank forward of main engines on centerline.
2. Hull fitted with port and starboard underwater appurtenance stump guards and rudder shoes with rudder support gudgeon bearings.
PILOTHOUSE
The pilothouse is fitted with four windows set in rubber gaskets, providing 360 degrees visibility and 16’ eye level latch weather tight aluminum framed horizontal sliding window aft on centerline. Control console located forward on centerline, containing twin engine gauge panels with integral engine alarm panels, engine controls, joystick rudder control, navigation lighting switch/breaker panel variously mounted within operator’s view and reach.
MACHINERY
Main Propulsion Engines
Two John Deere 8.1 Liter Power Tech, inline 6-cylinder diesel engines that develop on 300-hp each @ 2200-RPM. Engines are fitted with Twin Disc MG-5091 marine reduction gears with 3:1 reduction ratio, driving 2 ½ in. Diameter stainless steel propeller shafts each fitted with a 34 in. x 30 in. 4 –blade bronze propeller. Engines are electric started and grid cooled.
Hydraulic steering service pumps are driven by the port and starboard main engines through the engine’s auxiliary gear train drive.
The main engine starting batteries are serviced by port/starboard 12-volt alternators.
The engine exhaust systems are insulated dry type steel with flexible Joint and exit above aft engine room deckhouse at port and starboard sides.
Generator
5,000 watt diesel generator
Auxiliary Equipment
Two Rule 1100-gph 12-volt bilge pumps
One 12-volt electrical distribution panel and circuit breaker on pilothouse Control console port side.
Lighting Interior and navigational lighting is a 12-volt incandescent type; marine grade wiring
Pilothouse is fitted with a double 110-volt receptacle on starboard
bulkhead
NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
One Marine electric horn
One Vessel with port, starboard, and mast head 360 degrees light towing
navigation light fixtures mounted in proper configuration atop
pilothouse
One ICOM VHF-FM marine radio
DECK FITTINGS
Two Winch Tech 5-ton manual deck winches, located at port/starboard sides of bow main deck
Two Push knees fitted off centerline toward port/starboard sides with rubber facing fender pads
Two 18” kevel fitted at port and starboard stern quarters
Two 18” kevels fitted on aft surface of port and starboard push knees
Four 10 in. x 4 in. x 1 in. lifting pad eyes fitted one each port and starboard bow and stern quarters
One 6 in. x 2 ½ x 1 in. towing D-ring fitted 6 inches below main deck on transom centerline.
