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The New DU. Reply #18: The Tugboat Strategy
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Sat Jun-12-04 01:33 PM
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When a large ship is entering port and needs to be guided/escorted a tug is dispatched for the job. The tug never meets the ship head on as the ship is usually in excess of a thousand tons while the tug is around fifty. What happens is the tug aligns itself alongside the ship headed in the same direction and gradually swings the ship around to the direction the tug wishes for it to take and then guides the ship to port. Kerry is applying this strategy in more ways than one.
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