Edda Fram runs back and forth, it seems, from shore (Scotland) to various oil platforms in the North Sea. Rough weather operation necessitates seats hard to fall out of.
Solomon T, once operated by Elbert Felton (shown), is a 1938 restored inside the Outer Banks fishing vessel, with seat and wheel appropriate to 1938.
MV Argyle is a ferry that operates on the Firth of Clyde.
T-ATF 172 USNS Apache has a spacious bridge.
Tug Mississippi, in service doing commercial work since 1916 (102 years!!) has a “bar stool” and a tiller. It was repowered from steam to diesel electric in 1957.
Converted Bering Sea crabber Ocearch has wide bridge. Here’s an article I did on their shark research program a year and a half ago. Follow individuals of different species of shark around the ocean in real time here.
A seat on an ATB? here’s the spacious wheelhouse of Paul T Moran.
Lake Express is a fast ferry that crosses Lake Michigan several times a day from Milwaukee to Muskegon. One of these days, I’ll cross the lake fast.
Here’s another fast ferry, Athena, sometimes serving Block Island.
Kaori is a 2004 tug operating in New Caledonia.
I’ll close out this post with the seat of power in the powerful Ocean Taiga. For an article I wrote on this St. Lawrence tug, click here.
To protect the anonymity of some folks who sent along these photos, let me just give a tip of the hat to all the photographers. Unless you send along more photos or unless I take some more, this’ll be the last in this series. Any seats out there in strange colors?
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April 7, 2018 at 9:51 pm
Fen Giddel
Reblogged this on The Nostromo Files and commented:
Will Van Dorp’s posts on his Tugster blog really help me to get a feel for what real-life tugs look like, where they work, and in this one: why the seats on the bridge are so rugged!
Follow the link over to his site for an interesting read.
Enjoy!
April 8, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Judy Balk
Enjoyed shark website-thanks. Judy⚓️
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April 11, 2018 at 3:56 pm
D. Schwartz
So does Mississippi have a steam radiator in that photo and would it still work?
April 11, 2018 at 4:54 pm
tugster
I’m ging to guess it does. It needs to, given that those tugs work all year except part of January, February, and part of March. When yr breaking ice, you want a warm wheelhouse. On tug URGER, we used the radiators.