Take a tour of an ACBL towboat!

Thank you for making this video. My fiance left for the boat last night. We have a 3 year old and she was really upset to see that her daddy was gone..she requested to watch towboat videos. We found this one and she was so excited to see where her dad was working. He's on the Kenny Eads.

Trip down memory lane. The Harry M. Mack was new in 1975 and the first boat that I drew a paycheck on. I was 17 years old and worked my summer break between junior and senior grades in high school. Back then, companies would hire anyone over the phone with just a few questions to answer (age being one of them!) and then send them to catch a boat somewhere. I worked all that summer and have great memories of decking under Capt. Don Crowder. After high school, using my correct birth date, I went back to ACBL, but strived to stay on the Ohio and/or Green Rivers (much closer to home). When I eventually went for my pilot's exam, Marine Superintendent Jack Bullard had to dredge the reason out of me about my 2 different birth dates!

ACBL was so very very good to me and, My family over my entire, 32 years. Retired as Captain 2 years, 9 months & 18 days ago. With an absolutely outstanding retirement package.

I’m surprised how big these boats are! I’ve been curious so this video was extremely informative. Thank you for showing us around.

Thankyou Sir, this is greatly appreciated.

My late husband worked for ACBL. We miss him.

Wanted to see the engine room!!

So pleased to see an ACBL boat featured. Spent many an hour videotaping on various company vessels in the late 80’s and 90’s for their primary lubricant supplier. EMD’s still being used? Three of them is tremendous power. Thank you Captain Pimm for the great tour, especially something I rarely encountered, being in dry dock.

I'm glad to see the comment section open. Along with marquette's comments open beyond me why Ingram has their comment section off

Love the cap. Go Big Blue

Thanks captain for tour. Those boats are so amazing.

Tugs are all about the engines. I'm disappointed that you didn't take us to tour the heart of the vessel.

I was on the il. River for Wolfe Marine, started out cleaning barges for Albert, then deckhand 78 9 and 80 out of the Hennepin fleet.

Very nice. Very accommodating to say the least!

Thanks for the show, very interesting

Captain, great video sir, I absolutely love to watch these kinds of videos, especially how you explained about the props and all the rudders, thanks👍

Very neat video. Love my boat tours. Thank you. Cheers from Sarnia Ontario Canada 🇨🇦.

I miss working the tow boats. This boat is a lot nicer than the ones I worked on in the 90's. I was on the Eastern, Western, Emily Susan.

Man.. I remember sleeping in one of those guest rooms. Took one of my runs on a ACBL T/B. Got on at Tell City to Louisville. I do remember it was a very clean boat. Don't recall they had Sat TV/Internet. Spent most of the trip up on the bridge though. Not sure if the capt was too warm having a Coastie up on the bridge (maybe felt I was spying lol). But was there as part of my "Area Familarzation trip" after being assigned to Coast Guard Ohio River Group when it was in Owensboro Ky. All the radiomen took one of these rides. After a few hours, I think the skipper understood I was a radioman, not an inspector and I was the one he'd talk to if he got into trouble out on the water. I just remember they were some very professional drivers.

Perfektní loď. A jak to tam máte všechno v úžasné čistotě! To se hned pozná pořádná posádka a dobrý kapitán. Tady u nás, když se projedu ve vlacích, tak to tam je samé svinstvo. Tady blízko je řeka Labe, ale tam plují malinké lodičky oproti tomu, co máte vy. Ať se daří a dobrou plavbu!