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Índice:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. GENERAL
2.1. Purpose and area of work

3. CONSTRUCTION
3.1. General
3.1.1. Hull form
3.1.2. New design (1)
3.1.3. Aft ship
3.1.4. Towing rails
3.1.5. Aft deck
3.1.6. Whale gang
3.1.7. Rubbing strake
3.1.8. Boarding
3.1.9. Location of deck winches
3.1.10. Stern rollers
3.1.11. New design (2)
3.1.12. Towing pins
3.1.13. Stoppers
3.1.14. Towing bitts
3.1.15. Position of the wheelhouse
3.2. Means of transportation and launching
3.3. Hoisting gear
3.4. Anchors

4. WINCHES
4.1. Towing winches
4.2. Storage winch
4.3. Nylon winch
4.4. Towing hooks and appurtenances
4.4.1. Towing hooks
4.4.2. New design (3)
4.4.3. New design (4)
4.4.4. New design (5)

5. PROPULSION
5.1. Propulsion - motors
5.1.1. Diesel electric propulsion
5.1.2. "Father and son" system
5.2. Propulsion - propellers
5.2.1. Bow thrusters
5.2.2. Vertical axis propellers

6. WORKING CONDITIONS

7. FIRE-FIGHTING CAPACITY

8. TOWING MATERIAL

9. TOWING MATERIAL
9.1. Towing wire
9.2. Pennant wire
9.3. Towing sling
9.4. Towing chain
9.5. Towing shackle
9.6. Triangle plate or monkey face
9.7. Recovery wire
9.8. Towing stretcher/spring line
9.9. Protection sleeves
9.10. Gog rope
9.11. Stoppers
9.12. Control and maintenance

10. PRE-TOWING ARRANGEMENTS

11. EMERGENCY TOWING GEAR
11.1. History
11.2. The system
11.3. Dyneema

12. DEPARTURE
12.1. Voyage planning
12.2. Leaving for sea
12.3. At sea
12.3.1. Example of paying out
12.3.2. Attaching the gog rope
12.3.3. Gog rope hawse pipes
12.3.4. Changing course
12.3.5. Setting the course
12.3.6. Heaving to and drifting
12.3.7. Transfers of the tow
12.3.8. Bunker transfer at sea
12.3.9. Anchoring with the tow
12.3.10. Towing together with multiple tug boats

13. OTHER WAYS OF TOWING
13.1. Escort tugs
13.2. ATB, ITB or TBU

14. ANCHOR CHASING

15. STABILITY
15.1. Ocean going tugs
15.1.1. Introduction
15.1.2. Criteria
15.2. Inland tugs

16. CONTRACTS

ABBREVIATIONS

ANNEX 1
IMO Guidelines for safe ocean towing

ANNEX 2
A proposal for harmonised international regulations for the design and construction of tug boats

ANNEX 3
Carrousel tug design

ANNEX 4
IMC Thrustliner harbour tug design

ANNEX 5
Nozzle design

ANNEX 6
Voith cycloidal rudder

ANNEX 7
Navigation and vessel inspection circular No 12-83
Intact stability of towing and fishing vessels

ANNEX 8
Examples of contracts