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.