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Nordic Tugs are fine for the use intended...coastal cruising. It is, in my
opinion, a mistake to take ANY semi-displacement, semi planing boat offshore
(more than 50 miles). People just don't seem to understand that some of the
worst weather we get is right on the coast. This is where big ocean swells
turn into breaking waves over shoals.
The Nordic tug, with all of it's glass, lack of a portuguese bridge, low
freeboard and light displacement, is not a passagemaking offshore boat.
Look at where the boat is derived from...trawlers are derived from
seaworthy, offshore boats built heavy and intended for some of the worst
conditions in the world. They were designed to stay out weeks at a time and
be self sufficient.
Tugs on the other hand, were harbor craft designed to ferry in larger ships
into their berths by pushing or pulling them. They rarely went out into open
ocean, except to meet a cruise liner outside the breakwater and pull it in.
They were never designed for passages or long stretches at sea.
Regards,
Adam Cultraro
