Jobeth Janoush Launch

Launch of the Jobeth Janoush towboat from Mississippi Marine in Greenville, MS. 7/7/2016

[@737cfm56]

While sliding down the launch ramp she achieved the highest speed that she will ever go. I wish her a long and successful career.

[@otiscleatus]

That's both hysterical and very true.

[@anarchistangler]

It looked rough the way it landed on the propeller shrouds. Are they made of steel? Fat chance of the corrosion inhibitor surviving that abrasion you would reckon. I wonder were they deformed from the impact as well?

[@patrickbass3542]

The bayou bottom is very soft!

[@realvanman]

You can tell that one guy sure loves his Detroit powered tug boat. And so do I!!!

[@elonmust7470]

Why can you tell? You're going to say. Because of how he revs it. & I'm gonna say, he barely came off idle....

[@portnuefflyer]

Good ear! Years ago a friend built a 100' long 2 deck paddle wheel boat, for tourism on Utah's Green River, and it was powered by dual Detroit 3-53's. Quite efficient, (the paddlewheel) as it turned out his cruising fuel consumption was something like 1.5 GPH per engine.

[@morganlefey]

can’t think of any Cajun jokes, but there must be some that fit this most excellent video

[@MonthlyFails]

Hello John Provenza, is it possible to contact you regarding this video (i.e. via email)? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible to discuss? :) Cheers, Felix

[@portnuefflyer]

That's got to be right up there with the first flight of a plane you built, awesome.

[@bradgt5130]

One of the Jantran Boats. They stay in the Arkansas river a good bit.

[@michaelteeple8704]

They were hard on jobeths prop ducts. Looked like they grounded pretty hard.

[@Medionxtr]

I was thinking the same....

[@rorykeanu2740]

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[@carlosbode8830]

@Rory Keanu yea, have been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself =)

[@doughesson]

No, they didn't ground the Kort nozzles sliding down the ramp like that. Someone would have commented if they had.

[@slobama]

@@doughesson The ducts did hit the ground that's obvious.

[@deanlamberth0sbcglob]

I worked for Janoush when he was a big wheel at Mississippi Marine Towboat Corp. In Greenville Mississippi in 1980. He scraped some steel from my eye with a credit card in his office

[@darenalexander7532]

Then what happened weres the rest of the vlogg ??

[@Dirk_Taggesell]

I'm a bit worried about the impeller shrouds which firmly touched the ground ...

[@CommanderStarblaster]

Expertly executed.

[@SnowingNapalm]

what a beautifully restored push/towBoat I'd be a proud owner tell you what. bet she's got more than just a lil horsepower under the hood this lil monster money acheiver definitely is gonna help some of the biggest ships make port safely hauling and pushing unpowered barges too

[@quarlow1215]

Those catch boats sure took their sweet time.

[@teamidris]

Quite a thing to go catch :o) It has no propellers that I can see. Which stops them getting bent at launch. (Common trick) cool to see .

[@K.J.Ray421]

They're ducted propellers. They're inside the round shrouds. But yeah, it rode a little bit on the shrouds, so they did protect the propellers.

[@Rollo905]

Nothing quite like a new vessel launch! Seen a few during my years as Pilot and Captain on our inland Rivers. This vessel reminds me very much of a vessel originally named Wanda B owned and operated by Consol Coal. I rode her for 11 years!

[@larryhullinger4141]

The bigger they are the more interesting the launch

[@Mr91495osh]

Notice that tug boats have horizontal prop shafts for maximum efficiency.

[@dontmissthelittlethings]

Looks like the cowls may have scooped up a bit of river bottom.

[@kennethlittle1875]

I love a Detroit power towboat

[@user-dm8vh8yy4y]

Там снизу ни чего не замяло при спуске?

[@miketee2444]

Can't think of many careers better than cruising all our rivers down south.

[@limbandtreeremoval]

Love the comments Guys, especially the off topic slander/ bantering... But we're all Boat people at heart! It's all LOVE...

[@oat138]

The loadline seems different between the front and back.

[@georgemanthe65]

Maybe they have to pull it to make prop duct,prop and rudder repairs

[@schwenk929]

At the very least there is bearing damage.

[@elonmust7470]

There was no damage sustained. The props didn't hit anything, they came level with the skids and then they went into the sea.

[@felixcat9318]

This vessel looks so very purposeful, purely designed to fulfil it's function. Needless aesthetics need not apply, this is all business, and it looks good for it, too!

[@doughesson]

Function has its own beauty.I always thought that the Oliver Hazard Perry FFGs were some sharp looking frigates.

[@geokrpan7527]

What the hail kind a boat izzat?

[@theantichrist6524]

How in the crap did it get beached in the first place ? .

[@jamesmichael3998]

Looked like the starboard prop guard caught the ramp right before the water. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞

[@james94582]

I was almost thinking both hit as she slid in...

[@rparker069]

I still can't figure out why they didn't have ropes attached to the tugs on the river and just let it go free

[@otiscleatus]

The boat was launched into Lake Ferguson in Greenville, MS. It is an oxbow lake off the Mississippi river and it has very little current. There were three towboats standing by to "catch' the boat after launch. Very little risk of a collision.

[@ksv-river-men]

Он насадки не повредил?

[@user-ei9ks8ek5g]

Насадкам пиздец!!!

[@-joe90]

😍😍😍😍😍

[@pete926]

What is that vessel used for?

[@otiscleatus]

The vessel is used to push flat bottom cargo barges on the Inland river waterways of the US. The flat bottom and straight shaft design allow for maximum forward push with little consideration for waves or other changes in water level.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

It's a cool boat but there were signs of age that made it look like it already saw some service.

[@otiscleatus]

The boat above the waterline is still unpainted. After the boat was launched, it got a fresh coat of white paint before commissioning.

[@brianratts1713]

Can't you afford to paint the thing?

[@steppib.4598]

This would make a good houseboat! 😉

[@limbandtreeremoval]

Yes, But fuel with those BIG engine's are/ would be Crazy! But definitely would love House Boat idea! So much for crossing the Gulf Stream... LoL

[@Skywatchers]

Shipbuilders strong 💪

[@wipatriot510]

That'd be a nice live aboard...

[@timexironman100m]

Big boat

[@elonmust7470]

Dang that thing has some screws on it!!!

[@rickpowell4048]

Looks like Tesla Truck Guy designed it.!

[@wrightflyer7855]

It's a towboat....that's what they look like.

[@rearspeaker6364]

thatwas his last job!

[@kittyztigerz]

0:36 i see hummingbird on right side lol i think every one miss it

[@limbandtreeremoval]

Saw it... LoL

[@gerardmeehan8240]

That didn't look like 8 knots

[@Mr91495osh]

Strictly inland water tug boats.

[@csrtech1116]

Strictly Arkansas and a small portion of the Lower Mississippi River

[@woodennecktie]

and I tought the dutch are crazy launchers

[@engineer8057]

Where’s ole Buckey at!! 😂😂

[@Philc231]

That a big girl

[@limbandtreeremoval]

Love those BIG girls

[@Gans55555]

На толкачах маленьких совсем борта нету

[@josephbesancenot8364]

"Ils jouent comme des enfants..."

[@mr.polemikus4933]

they had money only to change doors and windows, in 5 years they will have money to remove rust and repaint

[@tomthompson7400]

boys those things sit low in the water

[@otiscleatus]

Inland river tow boats don't have to contend with waves or large storms. They have been shallow draft flatbottom boats since the days of the paddle wheelers.

[@tomthompson7400]

Makes sense ... but it looks very strange .. looks like one good side ways pull would sink them ... obviously that's not the case ..

[@doughesson]

@@tomthompson7400 That's been known to happen. There's video of a boat in St Louis almost capsized from hamburgering an attempt to land on the upstream end of a barge fleet.

[@BIBIWCICC]

Ha ha that was like watching a boat yard in Africa. Even the propellor shrouds hot on the way in. Eyeshadow America has become so far behind the rest of the world.

[@symbolsandsystems]

Like a Duck

[@leeoswald9799]

It looks like such a turd I thought they were sinking it in the river to make a reef.

[@skywaypartner4998]

адская посудина)

[@Tribune123]

Another "Birth" with the Midwives and Doctors all around to help.

[@erichaskell]

Purposeful but not elegant.

[@wickedcabinboy]

@Eric haskell - agreed. Nothing at all elegant about it. It's a work boat launched on a river bank.

[@michaelhansen1232]

DAMN. you AMURICANS just cant make beautiful or pretty ships.

[@wrightflyer7855]

Check out the clipper ships designed by Donald McKay, and the liner S.S. United States designed by William Gibbs. FYI, an inland rivers towboat is a boat, not a ship.

[@michaelhansen1232]

@@wrightflyer7855 , so what you are saying is that amuricans aint sailors . just men with small "toyboats"

[@wrightflyer7855]

@@michaelhansen1232 No, read again what I posted. The American-built clippers and ocean liners were beautiful ships. As for the towboat, it's a boat. That's what it's called. Been at sea much? Ever study American naval operations in WWII?

[@michaelhansen1232]

@@wrightflyer7855 ever study Danish naval history...????? your "nation" aint even 250 year old. and OOOPS. where do you US come from.... Europe...?????????????????????

[@wrightflyer7855]

@@michaelhansen1232 I haven't read Danish naval history or the history of any Nordic seafarers in many years because I'm interested in such a wide variety of subjects that I just pick one when the fancy strikes. Life is truly too short to experience it uninformed. Yes, my nation is comparatively young to be so full of itself, to believe that Americans are somehow better than everyone else, which borders on the narcissistic. My own ancestors were English, Welsh, German, Scots and Irish... and I lived in Europe and Asia for three years each. So no, I wasn't born with a Big Mac in my mouth.

[@terrytmac3081]

One of the ugliest craft I’ve seen

[@deanlamberth0sbcglob]

I worked for Janoush when he was a big wheel at Mississippi Marine Towboat Corp. In Greenville Mississippi in 1980. He scraped some steel from my eye with a credit card in his office