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CHUG Coal Pusher Tug and Coal Barge

What's that? You want a coal powered tug boat? Have you heard of climate change?


CHUG is a highly manoeuvrable coal-steam powered pusher tug capable of 37 knots unladen and 13 knots when pushing a full barge of 22.5k of coal.



CHUG is powered by a 4-turbine coal-steam system, operating at 9.5 bar with full water conservation using a sea-cooled condenser. CHUG has an operating time of 3 hours on the integrated coal hopper (250 coal).

CHUG comes with an integrated barge which can hold 22,500 coal, simply enable the front connectors on CHUG and drive the tug to the TUG marker on the barge. You can detach any time and use the impressive manoeuvrability of CHUG to nudge the barge whichever way you require.



CHUG also has an autopilot, radar, emergency beacon locator and full suite of equipment.

All microcontrollers and features designed and built by myself.

Instructions:

• Turn the key or press and hold [1].
  
• Switch the display to "engines" mode to see the progress of the startup procedure. It takes about 60 seconds.
  
• Once the boiler has about 3 bar pressure, drive.
  
• [2] on the seat enables the front connectors which you will need to attach to the barge.
  
• To ensure accurate engagement, the right connector enables first. The other connectors will engage after positive connection with the right connector.