TOW MOTORBOAT Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: bridge-crossing equipment; towboats. SUBSTANCE: tow motorboat has hull with tunnel-type lines, engine connected with reverse reduction gear and propulsion and steering complex including two propellers arranged in aft tunnels and connected with reverse reduction gear and two rudders. Propellers are arranged in steering nozzles. Propulsion and steering complex is equipped with at least one water jet propeller mounted on bottom in center section of hull; provision is made for change of direction of its thrust vector by 360 deg; water-jet propeller is connected with reverse reduction gear. EFFECT: increased transverse thrust of boat; keeping shuttle ferry against drift by stream both when underway and off-shore in loading and unloading the material. 3 dwg