this is a short blog about building a tug from a fleet tender kit that was given to my brother, it was not a complete kit and there were no drawings with it, so he took a look into the box and gave it to me saying go on then make a tug out of that lot then, so here it is, the first thing that I did was to widen the stern by 50mm to enable me to fit two 70mm kort nozzles and props, I did this by cutting the bulwarks off of the hull and then building two boxes from the last of the midship rubbing strake towards the stern and then filling them with filler and fairing them to the hull. the deck was replaced with a wooden one as the superstructure also built from wood was moved forwards,the after bulwarks were the rebuilt again in wood.
after that it was a simple job to make a new funnel and wheelhous ,but I did use the kit wheelhouse.

the next job was to sort out a working towing winch for this I have used a Robbe unit with a geared motor, she Is ftted with two caldercraft 900 size motors and direct drive to 70mm props the motors turn a 3,000 rpm.
the rest of the build and painting followed on with the sea trial run at our lake on the 17th april all went very well.