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Profile of the converted Midwest lobster tug. On the port side of the cockpit is a rack holding various lines. In the floor of the cockpit is a tall double-bitt for towing, just a wee bit aft of the boat's center of lateral resistance. The pilot figure is German, from a large-scale model railroading source; the crew member over the towing bitt is from a 1:12 scale dollhouse family set. The dink on the cabin top is Yet Another Midwest Models kit, the Dory. Note the tubular fenders. They're as per prototype fenders (sometimes known as "camels", at least among several tug skippers of my acquaintance.) The core is a piece of 3-strand masons' line with an eye seized in the middle, around which are bound straight strands of same about the length of the body of the fender. Then a coat of single-strand twine is needle-hitched around the core, the first course hanging just below the eye by passing around some of the strands in the core. |
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The cradle is from the same source as the cradle under the Chapelle work boat