How a Tugboat Tows Ships 1000 Times Bigger - Z-Drive Tugboat

Let's see how a tugboat works, and how its design gives it a strong towing capability.
0:00 About a tugboat
1:00 Z drive design
2:32 Clutch
3:20 Movements
4:20 Components
7:04 Towing operation
8:19 Rope Safety
Music license - Soundstripe
Empyreal Glow - Chemical Chains
Thanks to Captain Drew Kerlee from Tacoma for the topic suggestion!

[@Wordbird69]

Thank you for narrating these videos yourself instead of using AI which everyone seems to be doing these days.

[@3DLivingStudio]

AI voice is a good test, but over all I realized that we all need to feel human, so from now on, I always do a few rounds of rehearsal before recording with my own voice even though it's not perfect.

[@HolosunGodOfOdin]

@@3DLivingStudio You’re doing just fine. Your English is very good and easy to understand. Nice work!

[@bukansiapa-siapa4090]

​@@3DLivingStudio I really agree and support you

[@odifacts]

Which ai is he using, it nearly impossible to notice

[@TheScottbb1]

@@3DLivingStudioI really like the personal endearing human quality of your voice. We’re all imperfect speakers and I appreciate that more and more with AI trying to robotize us.

[@JPRacing222]

“Personal burden” had me in stitches. Thanks for the video

[@3DLivingStudio]

Thanks for watching! And yes, never taken a restroom for granted

[@brookspate-b9z]

Been in the harbor tug industry for 24 years now. Our towing Hawser, is a thicker heavier line used for towing something larger than an average sized ship. We rarely use it these days as the strength of your regular working line on the bow and stern winches are able to handle increased loads. Great video! Very accurate with most of the information!

[@3DLivingStudio]

Thanks for watching! And it's good to hear from someone who has hands-on experience like you 👏

[@robertschultz6922]

Hawser line? What is the typical diameter of the line and what is the strength versus a normal line? I’m sure the cost is hugely higher than the regular lines.

[@paddy8888]

I'm a big enthusiast of ships and maritime affairs. Please make more videos using your fantastic animation skills, on topics such as types of boats and ships, port and marine operations, maritime history, navy, etc. Thank you! ❤

[@3DLivingStudio]

Thanks for some suggestions, still many more topics to explore.

[@dualexistence]

Nice too see others having a merry time watching tugboat shafts.

[@batman_2004]

This channel deserves to have millions of subscribers.

[@Harrzack]

The info about the water-displacement hull was new to me! Thanks😊

[@mvmedved]

yeah thas a misiinformatioon

[@rkgaustin9043]

I love the tour of tugboats videos. They're so much bigger on the inside than one might imagine. Like a TARDIS!

[@chutorosan4655]

This is 10 times better than my neighbor explaining to me how kayak works.

[@tgnm9615]

Tug boats are like ants. Small but can carry hefty load that much heavier than them

[@gflo2781]

Tugs have always fascinated me, thanks for providing a glimpse into how they work so efficiently for their size. Keep up the great work, the narration was brilliant.

[@TheEddyrose1]

Clear and concise explanation with fantastic graphics. keep up the good work. Thanks.

[@3DLivingStudio]

Much appreciated!

[@futurescientist9035]

Beautifully explained. I got chills when you explained about z drive designs.

[@liamkaizermitante]

FUN FACT: smaller tugboats has only a propeller and a rudder that steers the boat and larger tugboats doesn't have a rudder, the larger tugboat has only a propeller that can steer like a rudder, a rudder is a steering mechanisms of the ship or a boat. The modern tugboat we called is the Z-drive tugboats.

[@anstef1485]

Excellent presentation! Thank you!

[@ahdoeknogh]

Excellent video! Clear animation that matches the clear narration and almost no music. Very well balanced and informative.

[@paddy8888]

Excellent content, animation, and explanation!

[@3DLivingStudio]

Thanks for supporting

[@DominicAkaeze]

Thank you for the detailed explanation

[@NeistH2o]

Amazing please keep making these!!

[@Al-Pacca]

Outstanding animations and explanations - muchos gracias!

[@stanleysarjali8108]

Thank you. Learnt something new today

[@joebarrett4353]

fascinating. learnt a lot. thank you

[@matthewshambler2644]

Great video and explanation! Thank you for doing your own voiceover too.

[@philheenan8634]

Excellent video. Thanks!

[@bukansiapa-siapa4090]

Knowledge that really adds insight. Thank you for the video sir. 🙏

[@tgnm9615]

I love this video. I learnt something new and very excited all throughout the video. Keep up the good job man♥️

[@3DLivingStudio]

Thank you! Will do!

[@macforme]

This is fabulous. Thank you for such good visuals and explaination.I have been riveted to the Dali story since the bridge disaster ( May 2024) and have been in awe of the tugboats and even the vessels with the cranes... how they maneuver so easily. Now I know how. But I would guess that 90 percent is the talent of the pilot.

[@nutshell5494]

Was working on a port as water surveyor, and evertime this guys passing us, i always pray that powerfull wave didn't sink our rented fisherman's boat😂

[@user-gw3cm1gt3n]

Great illustration

[@nugapavali5763]

So much knowledge thank you

[@SpagetteSuprise]

Great video! Keep it up.

[@henrythejeditube]

Now this is a million dallar question I have been asking myself all my life :) thanks so much for this great video

[@3DLivingStudio]

I am glad it helps

[@ldero9520]

Very well done 👍

[@Oceansta]

Fantastic animation. Please make more videos

[@bierstick]

Informative!

[@dallascowboy2221]

Very informative 👏🏽👍🏽

[@obpinkslip]

I feel like "personal burden" could a literal translation and I rather like it. The phrase implies it is something everyone must do and cannot avoid. "Unload their personal burden" seems similar to "relieve themselves".

[@tgnm9615]

3:50 imagine seeing a boat casually drifting near the harbor lol

[@detike14]

KZbin 'canal' got me! Great video

[@Phyx1u5]

you deserve every view and sub you get man. awesome video.

[@3DLivingStudio]

Thank you for supporting

[@robertclarkson6064]

Thank you!!! 👍👍👍

[@GaelJara-lf5ys]

Nice vid

[@hoanganhdao68]

Interesting, thank 👍

[@peter2uat]

love the youtube canal at 4:04 😊

[@onsokumaru4663]

This was very insightful. I've always wondered how these ant boats can pull ships bigger than their size.

[@temp4008]

Very interesting video thanks for making it. Also 4:12 😂 "KZbin cannal"

[@wormyboot]

I subscribed to your channel because of this video.

[@TheRealBlueBeanie]

Your video is very nice

[@uffybk]

Great thank you ❤

[@kerrymartineau-og7uk]

I grew up in Superior WI and lived near the water front, tug boat power It was very amazing to see...

[@boxoffisa]

Great work. I already subscribed. 😊

[@mushirahmed6838]

Good job bro ❤❤❤Love you from India.

[@alexalekos]

nice animations

[@dualexistence]

Working on Tugboat shafts must be so freeing for the sea men.

[@Pesmog]

Good explanation. You could also have mentioned why the hawser winches are positioned so far forward on the aft deck as their exact position is fundamental as to how the tug operates and steers. 👍

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❤❤❤ nice

[@crasyhorse44]

the "KZbin Canal" looks weirdly familiar to this other one...

[@3DLivingStudio]

Hopefully my terrible sense of humor is somewhat entertaining 😅

[@crasyhorse44]

@3DLivingStudio I enjoyed!

[@funnybaby27]

Thank you for using your voice!

[@ENGYONISHUSSAIN]

outstanding

[@caturlifelive]

Thank you....

[@PatrickPereira]

Very educational video. Thank you for the awesome graphics that made it easier to understand the concepts. How did you make these animations? Must have taken you a lot of time and effort.

[@3DLivingStudio]

Glad you liked it! I self studied to make this, it took like about 3 years for me because I'm slow in this aspect.

[@thestudentofficial5483]

OMG yes the snapback zone! I have irrational fears of them like quicksands

[@samsonmoses2132]

Very nice video, thank you, however I think the red arms you depicted are fire hydrant arms... Usually the cranes are painted yellow. Thanks

[@ynarfap]

Now i want to be a captain of a tugboat,thanks....

[@cinquine1]

4:03 Too soon

[@3DLivingStudio]

😅

[@ratheonhudson3311]

I really think rudderless thrusters are impressive. You can get all the power and direction while facing a current or against it or at an angle

[@texasflysuperstar]

Small pleasure boats have propellers, everything else bigger have screws that they use for forward and reverse propulsion.

[@reakajohanson996]

nice rescue from youtube canal.. :)

[@Keletho]

Is it tugboat or tuck boat?

[@ralanham76]

At 5:43 it seems like the attachment point causing the angle of propulsion is 90 degrees to the rope so obviously it's not going to move.

[@brodriguez11000]

"water displacement", makes one wonder why there's no tow-subs?

[@antiquss]

4:30 "so the captain can see all of the surroundings" not a job you want to be doing through a periscope.

[@BoskiStrengthConditioning]

That was educational. Thanks 👍🏽

[@babygorilla4233]

Oh wow are they actually that maneuverable? It looks like one of my friggets* in star sector strafing a larger ship.

[@KalimaTumbi]

Now i know thankyou

[@lucaspham5238]

If Quint had used this boat to tow the shark, he would have survived.

[@beaconblaster33]

that inline 6 crankshaft gave me a little shock

[@lazygardens]

With the publicity around tugboats and moving the ship Dali from Baltimore, this was very informative. More detail: The lines are often passed between ship and tug while they are moving. In this video there are closeups of 4 tugs, all with Z-drives, moving the Dali off the docks as a team. You can see the prop wash changing directions as the Z-drives steer kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnuWaJxnidF1l7s&ab_channel=WickleinGroup

[@dawsonpipe8314]

What about adding a fishing wheel type of device that in the event that mentioned just pressed twin switches or tripples to prevent any failure of any one switch.When such event is passed the said rope can be pulled back to the Tug.

[@phillipcamp853]

Russell Crowe and Tugger. Fightin around the world

[@johanmarcolabata5965]

Man you have to make a vid about oil rigs... About there construction, drilling, etc.

[@3DLivingStudio]

Check my channel, there is a video about oilrig. But I think, in future, I should make a better and more complete version

[@verminer7]

what is the purpose of Fin keel? Great video btw thank you

[@3DLivingStudio]

It helps to balance the boat at the center point

[@UQRXD]

I was on a tugboat we had 4 main engines and electric motors turned the shaft.

[@3DLivingStudio]

There are some new full electric tugs out there.

[@user-cm7yh8eg9i]

How this compare with the Voight-Schneider drive?

[@3DLivingStudio]

Voith-Schneider has propeller with vertical blades. It is an interesting topic to explore!

[@mm-yt8sf]

what house/dining room...must feel strange to eat there alone..it's much more festive when friends are over 🙂well, as festive as standing still can be i suppose

[@sinisabalentovic9617]

Thug boats are cool!!

[@judasthepious1499]

tug's life

[@overengineer7691]

Why don't they put the azipods In the middle so they don't apply torque around the boat?

[@3DLivingStudio]

There are different designs for tugboat but I haven't seen one where propeller locates right in the middle.

[@polka23dot70]

The "hazar" ropes are called towlines or mainlines. The "bite" is called eye splice.

[@3DLivingStudio]

Good to know there are other terms!

[@wormyboot]

On the drive shafts, where they have U joints, how come those aren't bevel gears set at 45 instead of 90?

[@3DLivingStudio]

I believe, using U-joints gives it more flexibility because not all the time these different shafts have to positioned at 45°.

[@UMBERRRTO1]

Howcome more vessels don’t use nozzles around the propeller ?

[@M.Y_Aviation]

3:50 I think it was designed to drift

[@christiantroy3034]

um the containers are upside down, how do you load and unload these, also isnt the contents damaged? love your videos. personal burden

[@3DLivingStudio]

It was 3d model's error, it would take too much time to fix, so I just left it there, the upside down containers :D

[@lolfraggles]

7:05 All the containers are loaded upside down, someone is getting fired!

[@3DLivingStudio]

You noticed! It would be painful to fix that part in the 3D model, so just let it be 😂

[@CSGATI]

I tryed to stop a docked ship from wobbling with my legs and it moved slowly like I was not there.

[@thatbeme]

😊

[@integr8er66]

You didn't show anything about a thrust bearing transferring the thrust from the prop to the hull. Also what makes the planing hull raise up in your demonstration is the location of the attachment of the tow line. The lower you attach it, the less it will raise up. More accurately the closer to the thrust line the less bow raises

[@3DLivingStudio]

I tried to keep thing in a most possible simple view. In facts there many small components that I didn't show. It will take an extensive amount of time if to make a fully detailed for everything. For the planing hull scene, I want to transfer the main message that it is not designed for towing, and what could possibly happens, not the details of it.

[@yorusuyasoul69420]

Tug life

[@harveysmith100]

Could I recommend not stacking containers on a ship upside down. Just a thought

[@3DLivingStudio]

😅

[@santiagoecheverri5743]

Interesante

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[@randomtransitadventures]

he animated this in blender

[@randomtransitadventures]

it took him 30 years