What’s it like to drive a tug boat - some skippers have upto 50 years of tug boat experience working up from deck hand to officer to captain - what’s it like to drive a tug boat - in this case you have two pods 360deg which give huge power but enable the tug to spin around on an axis -. Full control in tight spots and ability to get the tug within inches of a ship - as your see from the pod handles you have the throttle on each pod which work completely separate from the other - different positi