Mooring boat
A mooring boat , even bloke boat (Engl. Mooring Tug) is a small, motorized today and very agile boat that a mooring or Schiffsbefestiger or a mooring crew (mooring team), commonly known mooring gear called, used to moor a boat in the harbor, d. H. to be firmly connected to the quay so that the loading and unloading process can be carried out smoothly. The mooring boat is used in order to be able to take over the mooring lines, which have been lowered from the berthing ship, at some distance from the quay and to bring them to the quay wall with the bollards, on which they are then occupied . Mooring boats need their mooring boats when the distance is too great to use a throw line and especially when a ship is not moored directly to the quay wall , but is (temporarily) moored to dolphins .
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Mooring boat, Port of Hamburg
"Makker" boats in Brunsbüttel
