Jervis Titan Tug model with a job

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Jervis Titan Tug model with a job

Hello all. This is a scratch built boat from a fiberglass bare hull that I purchased. The purpose of this build is to give me a toy to play with at my cabin at Langdale BC. This is on the ocean and many log tows go past here so there is a scandalous amount of logs in the water that we burn as firewood on beach patio and our fireplace. The tug will be used to push these back to shore where I can reach them with a pipe pole, and hoist them up with my crane. The boat will be very crude in its finishing, and have very little detail, and the "house" will only roughly represent the tug I am modelling it after. in fact I expect to place a handle on it so I can handle it like a suitcase. it is 45" long and single screw (3.75" four blade prop) I am using a steerable Kort nozzle I built and has a rudder on the nozzle as well.
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  1. PikaSteve
    Recruit
    These shots show the gear set that will allow the rudder to articulate at the same time the nozzle swivels, and setting up the nozzle for setting the nozzle post in the boat. This part is super tricky as there is only about a 1/16 of an inch clearance for the propeller.
  2. tugboatguy
    Leading Seaman
    HI scott here wow looks great. Most of by cousins live in gibsons landing and im will be comeing down in the spring to attend a memorial for my uncle. Im hopeing to have my tito nerI and my scratch built fairmount alpine the gavenator named after my first grandson in the water and fully operational. Your the first person on this website I have seen from canada let alone the westcoast. Hope to hear back from you and see some more pics of the jarvis titan.

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Jervis Titan Tug model with a job

Boat has been In the water. Speed seems good, still a bit high In the water, but that run was without the house or rubber bumper an that alone Is 6.5 lbs. overall weight looks to be 60 lbs, but I still have hardware to add to hold the house down and epoxy to put on all the wood, then paint. Not as much steerage In reverse as I had hoped for, plenty In forward.

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